This is simply amazing video of the crash of NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Michael McDowell Friday during qualifying races for Sunday’s Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. Continue reading “Crashworthiness: Amazing Video of Texas Motor Speedway Crash”
The Italian mob appears to be getting into the burgeoning wine market with its own off-label vino. The problem is they mafia vintners is that they not only rejected oak-aging, but apparently wine itself. The Italian government has seized over 70 million litres of cheap wine containing acid, manure and fertilizer. It appears that the wine could kill you. This brings a new meaning to the traditional toast to live “one hundred years” or “Per cent’anni.” Continue reading “Good Body But Over Manured: Italian Wine Found to Be Heavily Laden with Many Things But Little Actual Wine”
There is a controversy brewing over at Wikipedia. Someone at the office of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence appears to have edited out an article about Major Alan Rogers, who died serving this country in Iraq. The Pentagon editor apparently objected to the recognition of the fact that Rogers was not only a hero, but gay. Continue reading “Pentagon Accused of Editing Out Wikipedia Reference to Solider’s Sexual Orientation”
The Supreme Court has ruling in the Dilling case where a woman sued the parents of her deceased finance for not disclosing to her that he had AIDS. The “Jane Doe” plaintiff had won $2 million in 2004, but the Supreme Court said that she had reason to question the health of Albert Dilling before they had unprotected sex. Continue reading “Illinois Supreme Court Denies Appeal Against Parents of AIDS Carrier”
The Clintons waited until Friday to finally release their tax returns — a well-known technique in Washington to try to burn out a story over a weekend to reduce public attention. It will not likely work when the papers show that the Clinton, who always complained of being financially strapped, have acquired almost $110 million since leaving the White House. However, they are not releasing their 2007 taxes — instead asking for an extension with only a summary submitted to the IRS. What is known likely to raise some interesting questions about the sources of income used to fund Hillary Clinton’s campaign, particularly from foreign sources. Continue reading “The Arkansas Greenbacks: The Clinton Rake in $109 Million Since Leaving White House”
The video below shows the less known, more seedy aspect of our work.
The West Virginia Supreme Court has again voted 3-2 to support a mining company despite a controversy over the possible bias of some of its members, including one justice who refused to recuse himself despite massive campaign contributions from one of the interested parties. In so ruling, Harman Mining and its owner, Hugh Caperton will not have to pay a $50 million award granted in 2002. Continue reading “West Virginia Supreme Court Sides with Mining Company Amidst Criticism of Bias”
Atlanta Lt. John Oglesby was caught in the video version of a citizen arrest after a resident videotaped him allegedly cruising for sex in a red light district. The resident stated that Oglesby was a regular customer in the area known of its cross dressers and prostitutes. In one video below, Oglesby is allegedly recorded asking when he will be beaten again by a prostitute. He appears to have retired with Internal Affairs on his heels. Continue reading “Atlanta Police Lieutenant Caught in Prostitution Tapes”
Jessica Lang, a South Carolina woman, is suing Victoria’s Secret for a product defect claim involving a bra. Lang claims that the bra in 2005 “malfunctioned,” leaving a 3-inch long, ¼-inch deep laceration on her left breast. The case appears to be brought in negligence rather than strict liability as “negligently and carelessly manufactured” and was “unsafe for its intended use.”. Continue reading “Victoria Secret Sued Over Bra Malfunction”
It seems that everything today is a cheap knock-off, even exorcisms. Officials in Florence believe that Father Saverio Bazzoffi has amassed £3 million by performing staged exorcisms. From a legal perspective, I can understand how one could prove a staged exorcism but how does one prove a fake one? Continue reading “Senior Priest Sued Over “Fraudulent” Exorcisms”
Former Sephardi chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu used the one month anniversary of the massacre at Mercaz Harav rabbinical seminary by offering his own unique take on the value of a human life: insisting that the life of a single Jew should be re-paid by 1000 Arab lives. He clearly explained that this was not just him talking, it was the “revenge” ordained by God. Continue reading “Math Madness: Leading Rabbi Says Every Jewish Life is Worth 1000 Arab Lives”
The tobacco industry won a major appeal today when the Second Circuit threw out an $800 billion class-action lawsuit based on allegedly misleading light cigarettes ads. While light or low-tar cigarettes have proven the most promising area of litigation for plaintiffs, there is a strong trend against massive class actions. Continue reading “$800 Billion Up in Smoke: Court Throws Out Massive Class Action on Light Cigarettes”
Today, I testified in the House Judiciary Committee (Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security), on the new proposed changes to the rules governing federal restitution. They are quite extreme. Continue reading “Testimony on New Federal Restitution Law”
Leslie Hagan, it appears, was a bit too outstanding for the Justice Department. The attorney worked as a liaison between the Justice Department and the U.S. attorneys’ committee on Native American issues and received consistent “outstanding” marks on her evaluations. However, she is also a lesbian as well as a Republican. It was the first part that allegedly bothered people like Monica Goodling, the oft-ridiculed former Justice official involved in the firings of U.S. Attorneys. Continue reading “A Bit Too Outstanding: Inspector General Investigating Whether Justice Fired Successful Because She Is A Lesbian”
Michigan fifth-grader Kenton Stufflebeam can now claim something few academics can muster: finding an error in a Smithsonian display. The 11-year-old spotted the error on the museum’s Tower of Time, a display involving prehistoric time, which refers to the Precambrian as an era. Continue reading “Post-Cambrian Fifth Grader Corrects Smithsonian on Pre-Cambrian Error”