Teacher beats student: Sherri Davis at Jamie’s House Charter School

May 13, 2010

Teacher beats student but gets caught on videotape; Sherri Davis at Jamie’s House Charter School At Jamie’s House Charter School in Houston, teasing another student may cause you to get an ass-kicking.  From the teacher. Science teacher Sherri Davis of Jamie’s House Charter School was recently caught on video beating Isaiah Johnson.  Johnson, age 13, [...]

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Selling feces as art? Sasha Grey interviews artist Terence Koh

May 13, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Feces for sale: Sasha Grey inverviews artist Terence Koh about selling feces and other aspects of being a gay Asian artist. In an interview published on BlackBookMag.com, Sasha Grey conducts an online interview with artist Terence Koh.  Koh is a mixed media artist who apparently sold his feces – plated in gold [...]

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Miley Cyrus lap dance video – stupid news story of the day

May 12, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Miley Cyrus lap dance video – aka, much ado about nothing The website TMZ.com is creating controversy over a video from a year ago showing a then-16-year-old Miley Cyrus giving an alleged lapdance to then-44-year-old Adam Shankman, one of the hosts of “So You Think You Can Dance.”  Shankman is openly gay, [...]

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Black robe disease – why the abuse of power is rampant among judges and the American judiciary

March 17, 2010

Black robe disease (also known as black robe syndrome) is a condition which is not widely known to the general public, but which every trial lawyer in the country could describe in great detail if they were not too afraid to speak out against judges suffering from it.   It afflicts those lawyers who have reached [...]

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There are more dangerous things going on in cars than talking or texting on cell phones

March 10, 2010

Image via Wikipedia One of the latest trends in the criminalization of normal conduct is the enactment of laws banning the use of cell phones and/or texting while driving a car.  Despite the plethora of laws already in existence to regulate the minutia of citizen conduct, many lawmakers as well as Oprah Winfrey have decided [...]

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Study of most dangerous drivers by profession says lawyers are worst drivers in America

March 9, 2010

Image via Wikipedia A new study released by Insurance.com reported the ten most dangerous drivers by profession.  In what is either proof of Karma or of a scam by the insurance industry to screw over lawyers on their car insurance rates, the study ranked lawyers #1 as the profession most likely to be in an [...]

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McCain and Lieberman introduce legislation to free the terrorists and make evidence against them inadmissible in court

March 6, 2010

Image via Wikipedia John McCain and Joe Lieberman have introduced legislation which could force courts to release terrorists who attack the United States by making evidence against those terrorists inadmissible in court.  This outcome is not their goal, but in a fervor of pathetic political pandering they have introduced a bill that specifically prohibits arresting [...]

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Open-carry, Brady campaign, Starbucks, and the gun rights debates at Dunkin Donuts

March 5, 2010

Image via Wikipedia The debate among the open-carry gun rights advocates, Brady campaign supporters, and lovers of Starbucks coffee spilled over onto my Facebook page this morning after an innocent status update about Dunkin’ Donuts.  It became so entertaining I decided it could be converted into a blog post.  How’s that for harvesting the internet [...]

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Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act is not necessarily simple or fair.

March 5, 2010

Image by blmurch via Flickr A new tax bill has been introduced which proposes an odd mix of changes to the tax code while legalizing some things and escalating the criminality of others.  The so-called Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2010 (S. 3018) has been introduced by Senator Wyden (D-Oregon) and co-sponsored by [...]

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The Greatest Lawyer Jokes of All Time still in print

March 4, 2010

Yesterday morning an acquaintance said she wished she knew where to find a good lawyer joke book for her boyfriend, a law school student.  As luck would have it, I knew just the book to recommend. (Note: see FTC Notice). In 2007, I published a small book of lawyer jokes called The Greatest Lawyer Jokes [...]

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