I'm a big fan of the Improbable Research group and the Ig Nobel Prizes they give out every year. Usually the achievements they recognize are scientific, but if there is any connection at all with the legal field I am always happy to…
Beating Hawaii and Wisconsin to this important milestone.
Here's the problem with trying to maintain a comprehensive list of the dumb things legislatures do: they keep doing them. It was just a few days ago that I posted "Official State Crap: Connecticut," the most recent in the remarkably…
I haven't always been that kind to Justice Scalia (or to Justice Scalia's hats), but I do think he's a very good writer, and so I'm glad to be able to quote him saying something I agree with. If you…
“Is there a competing microbe?” one legislator asked.
Well, I was just wondering the other day what if anything had ever happened with that ridiculous case in Italy where seismologists were charged with manslaughter—manslaughter!— for telling people not to worry too much about an earthquake (which then happened). See…
They have enough trouble as it is.
I'm pleased to note that the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature went to the U.S. Government General Accountability Office for the report it published in May entitled, "Actions Needed to Evaluate the Impact of Efforts to Estimate Costs of…
That’s true, in a way.
He's facing a $500 fine and possible jail time, but this seems like a case where the guy has already been punished enough. Wallace Weatherholt, who owns an airboat, was taking a family on a tour of the Everglades in…