A conservative activist angry about the Supreme Court’s opinion in Kelo vs. City of New London, which allows local governments to condemn private property when that will serve the public interest, has asked the city where Justice Souter’s farmhouse is…
Rarely has someone been less happy to get a raise than Linda Payne, a public defender in Kootenai County, Idaho. PDs there were told by county commissioners on June 5 that their pay would be going up from $45,500 to…
Yet another lesson taught by the internet on what not to write in an email. In 2005, a senior associate at Baker & McKenzie's London office became a bit irritated with a secretary who had allegedly spilled ketchup on his…
Todd the Human Cannonball told reporters Thursday that he is considering a lawsuit for wrongful termination against his employer, the Cottle and Austen Combined Circus. Cannonball claims he was fired after he told his employer that he was afraid to…
Maybe hide the photos of you wrestling an alligator?
I don’t, which is why I have not been commenting on the trial in any way. But with it drawing to a close now, I thought it was interesting that it took CNN until yesterday to ask whether or not…
What would Buddha do?
Neil Armstrong, who some of you may remember was the first human being to walk on the Moon, has threatened to sue a barbershop owner in Lebanon, Ohio, for collecting Armstrong’s hair clippings and selling the hair to a collector. The…
Citing a wave of stabbings in early 2005, a group of British medical experts have called for laws requiring knives to be blunt. Not all knives, of course—that would be stupid—but at least the kind of long, pointy knives often…
I was happy to see that the new Star Wars movie, “Revenge of the Sith,” has caused stupidity to break out all over. Citing British media, E! Online reports that two British fans sustained severe burns on May 22 during a fight…