Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, is in a controversy over his publicly accessible website, which featured sexually explicit photos and videos. He insists that some of these photos were posted privately as a joke. Kozinski is a long-time friend, who has appeared in my classes in past years. While I never visited the website in question or received such material, I can attest to the fact that Kozinski has a peculiar sense of humor. He is a brilliant jurist and a leading libertarian voice on the Court. Nevertheless, the disclosure is complicating Kozinski’s sitting in a leading pornography case involving Ira Isaacs.
Category: Bizarre
Eurice Rodriguez, a 46-year-old Cuban national living in Hialeah, Florida, has been arrested for marrying four men and divorcing none of them. It may stand as a modern record. She faces three counts of bigamy.
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As an addicted Sudoku player, this one caught my eye. An Australian judge has dismissed a drug conspiracy trial after finding jurors playing Sudoku.
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When a bug flew into the mouth of this reporter covering a death at Augusta High School for Channel 4, the reaction on the video below was rather adverse.
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While she was once known for a near perfect triple lutz in winning two gold medals for Russia, Olympic skater Oksana Grishuk is now being accused of a double lie with a backstab. Grishuk, 36, implicated James R. Halstead of drugging her drink during a lunch at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Hotel in Dana Point, California. He was arrested, but all charges have now been dropped for lack of evidence before his arraignment. Moreover, his counsel says that he supplied police with evidence that Grishuk had lied about their relationship and his client strongly suggested that she set him up.
Courts have been seeing an increase in work rage and work violence cases. However, on May 23rd, one incident of a man snapping was caught on a security camera. The video below shows how intense such rage and how it can be triggered by as little as knocking over a few papers from a desk.
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It appears that after Issei Sagawa murdered and ate a Dutch woman in Paris in 1981, the Japanese public had a curious reaction: they made him a celebrity. He wrote for a Japanese gourmet magazine, wrote a weekly column for a newspaper on fine dining, and wrote four novels. However, it appears that he is yesterday’s news and is finally facing well-deserved destitution.
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A very disturbing free speech case has emerged out of Canada: another example of how the West is abandoning principles of free speech in its widening definitions of hate speech. The Alberta Human Rights Commission has punished Rev. Stephen Boission and the Concerned Christian Coalition for anti-gay speech, not only awarding damages but censuring future speech that the Commission deems inappropriate. Boission’s offense came in the form of a letter containing anti-gay language.
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The Administration has invested heavily in studies to show various health risks of marijuana use. the most recent suggests that heavy marijuana use can increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke. However, the sample group were smokers of between 75 and 350 marijuana cigarettes per week. If you are smoking 350 marijuana cigarettes per week, I expect you will have a variety of “issues,” not the least of which is remembering your name and city of origin.
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Better Lucknow than Lucklater, it seems. In Lucknow, India, the new Sardar Bhagat Singh College of Technology and Management has finally completed its national search for a chairman. It is Hanumen: the Hindu monkey god. To properly appoint the god-chairman, the school has set aside the large Chairman’s incensed office with computer and chairs for the monkey god and friends. However, even before Hanuman appears, the board and all visitors must enter the conference room with bare feet.
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Okay, there’s no Godzilla in this story. But there are Monster Japanese Parents. Japanese educators are reporting the rise of what they call “monster parents” who relentlessly demand recognitions and opportunities of their child. This led recently to a school play with 25 Snow Whites and no other roles after school officials gave into demands that every child have the lead. No dwarfs, no witch, just Snow Whites.
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In the nation’s capitol, the Washington, D.C. police are closing off whole neighborhoods this weekend in a crack down on crimes — and civil liberties. No one will be allowed into areas of the Capitol unless they live their or can show that they are going things like going to church.
In an amazing report, it turns out that the last survivors of Adolf Hitler’s family are living in Long Island, New York. What is even more interesting is the steps that took not only to get on with their lives but to defend the United States and to guarantee that there would be no more Hitlers in the world after their deaths. The story of William and Phllyis Patrick (Hitler) is remarkable.
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Talk about proving a negative. Former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay has said that “Absolutely, no doubt about it” .. . Sen. Barack Obama is a Marxist. In a sign of fairness, DeLay stressed: “hey, I have said publicly, and I will again, that unless he proves me wrong, he is a Marxist.” Of course, this is much like demanding that DeLay prove he is not a money launderer — the burden is usually on the accuser.
For many, it would seen like the political equivalent to a democratic dominatrix contract for a candidate to help pay off the debt of another candidate — money used in relentless campaign attacks largely targeting him for over seventeen months. Yet, for months, aides to Hillary Clinton have been insisting that Obama help pay off the more than $20 million — much of it spent attacking him and his qualifications. To the astonishment of many, Clinton adviser and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has indicated that they may just do that. There is an interesting legal reason, however, why this issue is so pressing for Clinton: if she does not pay herself back the money that she loaned to the campaign by ($11.4 million is money out of her own accounts) by August 28th, she can only be reimbursed for $250,000.
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