Recently I've been keeping up with Lowering the Bar, a legal humor site. Just recently I noticed its Case Law Hall of Fame, and boy there are some nuggets in there. Even lay people can appreciate some of the biting humor here, so I figured I'd share some of the best quotes. Admittedly I was way too amused by some of these. First, there's Bradshaw v. Unity Marine, a case on whether to apply the statute of limitations for Texas or federal maritime law. It's only 4 pages long, so the ...
Updated 04-18-2011 at 05:04 AM by Raistlin
There are no words.
Outside of the Egypt fiasco, which everyone is already talking about. I've had some appalling links piling up and needed to rant about them somewhere. US border agent fired for saying in a casual conversation that legalizing drugs would help stop black market violence. In other words, speaking the truth. People have asked me why I would prefer being a criminal defense attorney to a prosecutor, and they inevitably say that they'd have a terrible moral problem defending a rapist or ...
Updated 02-03-2011 at 04:01 AM by Raistlin
I'm working in my law school's Innocence Project clinic this semester. The Innocence Project is one of my favorite non-profits, whose mission it is to find people wrongly convicted of crimes and work to exonerate them. The clinic basically involves getting law school students to do all the work, as the number of people petitioning the Innocence Project is massive. So I will be working to figure out if the clients given to me are innocent. The most well-known (and easiest) way this is done is by ...
Updated 01-24-2011 at 07:06 AM by Raistlin
I have been neglecting this since finals, so here's some interesting things. My pareidolia website was linked to in this HuffPo article, and we've received an exciting surge in activity. About 6k visits from HuffPo the day of the link, and we're still averaging almost 1k even this far after. It's also been popping up on Facebook and Twitter more. In legal news, a Virginia federal court issued an opinion which ruled the healthcare bill unconstitutional, at least as ...
Updated 12-23-2010 at 09:48 AM by Raistlin
So I'm stuck at the law school for another 90 minutes until my next class and I'm procrastinating finishing my reading for it. So here's a little rant I promised in my last entry about the "choice vs. genetics" dichotomy as to what causes people to be gay. The religious nutjobs say it is entirely a choice. But not only is this entirely baseless (well, based on the mindless bigotry that being gay is "ew"), but what the smurf does that even matter? Even IF being ...
Mind-numbing article about the It Gets Better campaign, focusing on the suicides of Christians who have been "harassed by homosexual activists." It is pointedly mentioned that these incidents were not covered by the mainstream media -- obviously because of that homo agenda which permeates the entire country. Except... the reason the media didn't cover any of these stories is revealed at the end, where it's admitted none of these kids committed suicide. Then wtf was the ...
Updated 10-21-2010 at 10:44 PM by Raistlin
Yes, I know I posted this xkcd comic on Facebook, but it deserves to be spread around. This reminds me of the old truth: What do you call alternative medicine that works? "Medicine." Tim Minchin has also addressed this issue quite humorously in "Storm" and "If you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out." Skepticism, which is basically a critical ...
A while ago, the Insane Clown Posse released a song called "Miracles," which, as far as anyone could tell, was a tribute to being a complete smurfing retard. But now ICP is explaining the song, and also their views of religion and science. No surprise that they are staunch god-believers. When asked whether they anticipated the negative reaction to "Miracles": "No," sighs Violent J. "I figured most people would say, 'Wow, I didn't know ...
Argh, I need sleep, but I just found this so now I need to post/rant about it. After the Obama-supported healthcare bill (obnoxiously referred to as "Obamacare") was passed, immediately organizations across the nation filed suit. Their main complaint is one portion of the bill's is regarding the law's requirement that if you don't get healthcare, you have to pay the government. The government said this penalty/tax/whatever power is justified under the Commerce Clause. ...
Updated 10-08-2010 at 06:12 PM by Raistlin
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