Michigan Law Abuse Watch (MLAW) is an organization tracking how runaway lawsuits is resulting in seriously ridiculous warning labels and signs. Like, after the hot McDonald’s coffee lawsuit, we are now seeing "Caution: coffee is hot" warning labels. They held their annual contest of the dumbest warning labels. This year’s winner cautions us to "avoid death". Someone get me a … Read More
Why I’m Against Megan’s Law
This is why: Convicted rapist Michael A. Dodele had been free just 35 days when sheriff’s deputies found him dead last month in his aging, tan mobile home, his chest and left side punctured with stab wounds. Officers quickly arrested Dodele’s neighbor, 29-year-old construction worker Ivan Garcia Oliver, who made "incriminating comments, essentially admitting to his attacking Dodele," the Lake … Read More
Church Hero Not So Much A Hero
For the past couple of days, the rightwing blogosphere has been touting and lauding the security guard who stopped the church shooter in Colorado. Here’s Instapundit: COLORADO SHOOTING UPDATE: The "security guard" who stopped the shooter was actually a volunteer parishioner who used her own gun, not a rent-a-cop. Much more from David Hardy, who notes that press coverage tends … Read More
Rape Culture
As if the story of the KBR/Halliburton employee rape of an American staffer in Iraq isn’t bad enough… … it’s much worse when you take into account that KBR/Halliburton has tried to cover it up. … it’s much worse when you take into account that a law (passed by the GOP majority) makes any the KBR/Halliburton employees immune for prosecution … Read More
Halliburton Latest Venture In Iraq
Stomach-turning: A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a … Read More
More Guns Make Everything Better
I read this at InstaPundit: I HEARD NEAL BOORTZ holding forth on the Omaha mall shooting this morning on the way to work, and I realized I haven’t posted on it. I don’t really have anything to say that I haven’t said before. But it’s worth noting — since apparently most of the media reports haven’t — that this was … Read More
The Omaha Massacre
Yikes. I was following the story at work, and when I tuned out, it seemed under control. Just found out the guy killed eight people. I was born in Omaha; my father is buried there; many relatives are there as well. It’s why Omaha is on my "Live Webcam" stream on the righthand column. Mom reports all the rels are … Read More
Tweety On The Stand
How come I never get a case like this? Tweety may get a chance to take the witness stand and sing like a canary. An Italian court ordered the animated bird, along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy, to testify in a counterfeiting case. In what lawyers believe was a clerical error worthy of a Looney Tunes … Read More
Um….Why?
Strangeness: Nine months ago …shopping bags, backpacks and purses were left around the subway system, then stealthily watched by undercover officers. They arrested anyone who took the items and walked past a police officer in uniform without reporting the discovery. Now, a new version of the operation has started to catch people in public places outside the subways, and at … Read More
Baaaad Idea
AP: SAN MARCOS, Texas – Mike Guzman and thousands of other students say the best way to prevent campus bloodshed is more guns. Guzman, an economics major at Texas State University-San Marcos, is among 8,000 students nationwide who have joined the nonpartisan Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, arguing that students and faculty already licensed to carry concealed weapons should … Read More
Why You Shouldn’t Go To Low School
Now they tell me. For what it’s worth, I have a hard time placing myself in any of the three categories set out in the above essay. I’m certainly not "the sucker" (the lawyer working long hours in a small firm for little pay), nor "the underpaid do-gooder" (the underpaid public interest lawyer). I’m probably closest to the "corporate serf", … Read More
VERY Important Supreme Court Case
Perhaps the most important Second Amendment case evah, and the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to take the case. I blogged about it back in March, so (if you’re interested) you can get the background. What’s at stake? Theoretically, the whole ball of wax. The central issue is whether we as individuals have the "right to keep and bear arms", … Read More
Don’t They Screen These People?
The chief operating officer of the National Children’s Museum was arrested Tuesday and is charged with distributing child pornography over the Internet, authorities said. Story here.
Yet This Is The Harangue
I’m warming up to the writings of Pastor Swank. First of all, he’s prolific. Second of all, he butchers the English language like no other Renew America columnist (except for, of course, Kaye Grogan). Take, for example, the opening graf in yesterday’s column: It is stupid for supposedly intelligent persons so flippantly to blame parents of children who murder or … Read More