Pregnant woman beaten at baby shower Police are describing it as a "baby shower gone bad." Apparently.
Georgia Woman Gets Fined For “Bushit” Bumper Sticker
As reported here, a woman in Dekalb County was pulled over and given a $100 fine for having a bumper sticker that read "I’m Tired Of All The Bushit". Okay, it’s not a very funny bumper sticker, but it’s not obscene either. Rumor is that the police officer then went into the woods, where he started nailing citations to shittemwood … Read More
SCOTUS Limits Warrantless Searches
One thing that struck me in law school, and to this day, is how often the U.S. Supreme Court visits the issues of searches under the Fourth Amendment. Seriously. Every year they take a couple of these cases, it seems. I don’t even pay attention any more. But this morning, the Court addressed an interesting issue: consent searches. Consent searches … Read More
Is Claude Allen Covering Up For His Evil Twin Brother?
That’s the scuttlebutt/running gag of the day. Yes, Claude Allen has an identical twin, who has had trouble with the law, so while it is still improbable, Josh Marsall applauds the "evil twin" theory for its "sheer neo-Brady Bunch theatricality". UPDATE: But Rep Jean Schmidt (R-Oh), who gained noteriety by calling Vietnam war hero John Murtha (D-Pa) a "coward" on … Read More
Very Funny
The three college students arrested for several Alabama church burnings have explained their behavior as a "joke that got out of hand". This is one of those times when I am rendered speechless with incredulity. To my mind, a "joke that gets out of hand" is a joke or prank that starts off as harmless and funny, and then mushrooms … Read More
Fraud
There’s no doubt in my mind that the GOP’s new fundraising letter is designed to confuse members of the public, particularly the elderly. It looks like an official IRS form, complete with instructions not to destroy the form. It admonishes the recipient to complete the form and return it (and of course, the document contains a place to donate money … Read More
What’s In A Name
Here are a list of murderers with the middle name "Wayne". An asterisk means they are dead. Timothy Wayne Adams (Texas)Shannon Wayne Agofsky (Texas)Thomas Wayne Akers (North Carolina)Stephen Wayne Anderson (California)*Joshua Wayne Andrews (Virginia)David Wayne Arisman (California)Timothy Wayne Barnett (Alabama)Gerald Wayne Bivins (Indiana)Scott Wayne Blystone (Pennsylvania)Elvis Wayne Botley (California)Steven Wayne Bowman (South Carolina)Ricky Wayne Brown (Florida)Michael Wayne Brown (Oklahoma)Dennis Wayne … Read More
“Stand Your Ground” and Bernhard Goetz
The Christian Science Monitor has an article about the spread of "Stand Your Ground" laws throughout the United States. To date, Florida is the only one to enact such a law, but 21 other states are thinking about it. Through statute or common law, most states allow people to use deadly force when intruders enter your home. "Stand Your Ground" … Read More
Sex Offender Map
Go here, type in your address, and get a map of the registered sex offenders in your neighborhood. While it is good to know that I am within a stone’s throw of a couple of perverts, I have misgivings about the sex offender registry in general. Mostly this: any chance there could be mistakes made? Remember, the people who compile … Read More
Serial Killer In North Carolina?
Via Blue NC, this news report: CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Law enforcement officers in North Carolina and South Carolina will investigate the possibility that three women who were killed in the past nine years were victims of a serial killer. Union County North Carolina Sheriff Eddie Cathey said at a news conference Thursday that officers are investigating all possibilities, including … Read More
He Had His Mother’s Eyes
After James Yang, now 30, was arrested for taking a hacksaw to his mother’s face so he could eat her eyes, people assumed he would be locked away forever. But now state psychiatrists in Troy, Michigan think his schizophrenia is in remission and that he should be released from an institution and slowly reintroduced into society. Just thought you might … Read More
Going Postal
Okay. So another postal worker goes ballistic and goes on a killing rampage, with a death toll of six (not including the postal worker herself). "Going postal" isn’t a mere stereotype or coincidence. It can’t be. There has to be an explanation. What is it? Anyone know? Seriously? Is it something about the glue on the stamps?
Fisher and Buttafuoco Reunion
Yup. That’s right. "Long Island Lolita" Amy Fisher (pictured right, from 2004) is going to have a reunion with the Buttafuoco family. The last time they met, way back in 1991 or so, Amy Fisher (then 16, and Joey Buttafuoco’s mistress) shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the face. When all was said and done, Amy spent seven years in jail, … Read More
The “Oddfather” Is Dead
Newsday: Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers, feigning mental illness, died Monday in prison. He was 77. The head of the Genovese crime family, who had suffered from heart disease, died at the federal prison in Springfield, Mo., said prison spokesman Al … Read More