Archive for the 'The Legal Process' Category

Is stripping a form of art?

Posted by Moonage on 28 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: The Legal Process

An interesting case is developing in Iowa. Seems the local sheriff’s niece decided to get naked at an art facility. Problem is she was 17 at the time. So, the director got into a lot of trouble. His defense is that dancing naked in Iowa is not legal. Nevertheless a minor doing it. So, they [...]

Guns, The Constitution, and the election

Posted by Moonage on 26 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: The Legal Process

Today the Supreme Court ruled that a government can not summarily ban personal firearms a person chooses to keep in their house.  Now, to me, I could never understand how someone could interpret the Constitution in such a way that a citizen of the United States could now bear firearms in order to protect their [...]

Those pesky rubber hitch testicles

Posted by Moonage on 16 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Humor, Idiot of the day, The Legal Process, US Regional Politics

Originally, I thought this was going to be the idiot of the day.  Then, I was going to morph into Big Brother run amok.  But, the story reads a lot different than the obvious.

State Del. Lionel Spruill introduced a bill Tuesday to ban displaying replicas of human genitalia on vehicles, calling it a safety issue [...]

Banning saggy pants

Posted by Moonage on 11 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: People, The Legal Process

Here’s the headline:
The Atlanta school board voted unanimously Monday night to ban students from wearing sagging pants that expose underwear — a youthful fashion statement deemed to defy classroom decorum.
Here’s the reality:

Although a fashion “statement” for the last twenty years or so, they look stupid.  They make the wearer look even more stupid.  I mean [...]

McDonalds strip search case

Posted by Moonage on 05 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: The Legal Process

A jury in Shepherdsville just found McDonalds liable for $6.1 million in the case of a worker who was basically raped during work hours.  The whole thing was caught on tape.  It went on for hours.  Basically, a prank caller directed a McDonald’s employee and her fiancee to do things to an employee and the [...]

Tap Tap Tap

Posted by Moonage on 29 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Comments from the Host, Political Correctness, The Legal Process

When I was in college, I had a frat brother who was the queerest human male on this planet.  He wasn’t just gay, he was flaming.  He loved being gay and flaunted it excessively and publicly.  This guy was about six feet four inches and probably in the neighborhood of about three hundred pounds.  Now, [...]

Larry Craig and the homophobe card

Posted by Moonage on 28 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Conspiracy Theories, Ethics, Idiot of the day, Politics, The Legal Process, The Media

I pretty much figured this would happen a lot sooner than I did find it.  Jeff Fecke at Shakesville ponders:
….if Craig had been arrested for public nudity or having sex in a bathroom stall, I could understand this better. If he’d been arrested for soliciting a prostitute, I’d be all in favor of him getting [...]

Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan prove Paris got screwed

Posted by Moonage on 24 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: The Legal Process, The Media

Nicole Richie was released from jail Thursday after serving 82 minutes of a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs.
82 minutes.
 
Lindsay Lohan copped a plea for seven misdemeanor charges and got ten days.  She was busted stoned out of her gourd and carrying drugs while harassing another driver.  She gets ten days.

Paris Hilton [...]

Valerie Plame’s suit dismissed

Posted by Moonage on 20 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Media, The Legal Process

This just in ( sorta ):

Plame’s Suit Against Top Officials Dismissed

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates said that Cheney and the others could not be held liable for the disclosures in the summer of 2003 in the midst of a White House effort to rebut criticism of the Iraq war by her husband, former [...]

Bush commutes Libby for obstructing nothing

Posted by Moonage on 02 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: The Legal Process

I saw this one coming a mile away and about a year ago. It starts with this:
President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case Monday, stepping into a criminal case with heavy political overtones on grounds that the sentence was [...]

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