Authorities in Tennessee said last week that Joyce McKinney, the former beauty queen who stalked, kidnapped and assaulted a Mormon missionary, jumped bail by disguising herself as a member of a deaf-mute theater troupe, and then surfaced three decades later…
Well-meaning Canadians (is there another kind?) reportedly leapt to the defense of an autistic girl recently after a psychic declared that the girl was being abused. “I’m in shock,” said the girl’s mother. “They reported me to Children’s Aid because of…
Some of you may be familiar with "The Secret," an enormous bestseller that encourages people to follow the "law of attraction," which I thought was something that made people hang out near playgrounds but which turns out to be "an…
In which the “burn the witch” scene from Monty Python is actually discussed.
In other civil-rights news, Connecticut’s General Assembly failed again this year to pass a resolution that would have cleared the names of those prosecuted for witchcraft there during the 17th century. This marks the 361st year in a row that…
Good luck serving God with the summons.
Uri Geller’s also trying to bend the law with this one.
The AP reported this week that a New York jury rejected a claim by teacher Lauren Berrios against a school district for wrongful termination. Berrios sought $2 million in damages based on her claim that she was fired for being…
Robert Marsh was arrested last week in Wisconsin and charged with several offenses stemming from an incident early Thursday morning in which he broke down a woman’s door and grabbed her. Two other men in the home stopped Marsh, who…
Those of you who have been closely following the race for school-board seats in the Aleutian Islands know that the two candidates for the open seat in Adak, Alaska, were tied after the October 3 election. (Each woman had nineteen…