Trimming Troubles
We need to get that willow tree in the back yard trimmed. I’m sure not going to do it. So today a guy came by looking for work trimming trees, and offered a free estimate. I thought, “how serendipitous” and… Continue Reading
Law
Skeptic and Psychic Spoon-Bender Settle Suit
Just over a year ago, Brian Sapient of the Rational Response Squad and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit against spoon-bending Israeli psychic Uri Geller and his corporation, Explorologist. Sapient had prepared and posted a video showing skeptic James… Continue Reading
TL Didn’t Know Rule 3.1324(a) But Still Didn’t Pay The Price
Litigation involves a lot of tricky procedures. Sometimes, even the best at the game don’t know all the tricks out there. I didn’t know one of the hoops I had to jump through for a challenge to one of my… Continue Reading
But It’s Not About The Money, Really
Claiming that they have only filed the lawsuit to redeem the good name of their predecessors, a self-proclaimed successor group to the Knights Templar has filed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Church and more specifically Pope Benedict XVI. They… Continue Reading
It Must Grow On Trees Somewhere
Nearly fifty weeks ago, I wrote about how very, very strange and corrupt it looked when Hillary Clinton received nearly fifty thousand dollars in campaign donations from a single family in Daly City, California that reported an income that barely… Continue Reading
The Candyman Can
Who can help you beat the rap of an obscenely large possession charge? If you live in Redondo Beach, Dr. William S. Eidelman, M.D. can, with some patently astonishing testimony. You know, I say “legalize it,” but if the appellate… Continue Reading
No Hobgoblins Here
It occurs to me that my earlier thoughts about opt-out organ harvesting laws may be, in a significant way, fundamentally incompatible with my thoughts in the same post condemning laws forbidding the sale of one’s own organs. This disturbs me… Continue Reading
You Don’t Own Anything After You’re Dead
Another good idea from our friends up in Canada. If this law passes, there would be no more organ donor lists in Ontario. Instead there would be a “not a donor” list. You would have to opt out of rendering… Continue Reading
Bad Analogy
Plenty of spoilers here, in case you’ve not seen The Dark Knight. But on the other hand, if you read either entertainment or political columns on blogs, you’ve probably seen this stuff already. Here’s my take on it. Somehow, an… Continue Reading
Judicial Ethics Restrain Me…
…from blogging about the only really interesting case I heard today in traffic court. I continued the trial to August 6, so it’s still a pending matter and I’ll not write about it until it’s done. And since I ordered… Continue Reading