“Hi, I’m Andrew Speaker and I’m an a-hole”
Why am I not surprised that the man with infected with untreated extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis and who tooled around Europe for 12 days and then flew a series of commercial flights back to the United States is an attorney with a law firm specializing in personal injury cases? […]
This is a true story that was just reported by Reuters:
Lawyers tied a young man to a tree and beat him outside a courts, an official said on Wednesday. They rounded on the victim when he arrived at a court to settle a dispute with one of the lawyers.
TV channels showed the abusive lawyers tearing […]
Sabrina Walker, 37, is a high school counselor and whose job is to help kids navigate the difficult choices they have to make in life. It is hard to imagine a less qualified individual as she possesses the deadly combination of being incredibly stupid and morally corrupt.
In March, due to a clerical error, Walker received […]
Not your typical yearbook
You don’t need to be a Rhodes Scholar to see that this idea wasn’t going to end up well.
“The point of the yearbook entirely is to cover what happens in the year,” Hannah Fredrickson, the senior who served as yearbook editor told KCNC TV. “You’d be surprised at how many children […]
Brilliant this video is:
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)District Judge Elizabeth Halverson
“Vile, angry, degrading to anyone within her path”
We are talking about District Judge Elizabeth Halverson who might be one of the worst sitting judges ever. According to the blog Anything and Everything:
Halverson spent nine years as a fairly lowly law clerk. Was fired. Ran for one judgeship and remarkably won on […]
In today’s Business section, the Los Angeles Times had a technology article wondering if the Nintendo Wii could “prolong it’s winning streak” and whether it was “little more than a fad.” It’s okay, even admirable, for a newspaper to be skeptical even in the face of a runaway hit like the Wii that has sold […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Following up on yesterday’s post about the US/China Trade Talks, the Washington Post reports that there has already been some progress:
The Chinese government agreed to eliminate tariffs, some as high as 16 percent, on the import of energy services and technologies, the U.S. Treasury secretary said yesterday in an interview.
That would not only encourage Chinese […]
Anakin Skywalker, the Star Wars character who became Darth Vader, had borderline personality disorder, psychiatrists report.
The news comes not from a galaxy far, far away, but from San Diego, where the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is holding its 160th annual meeting.
Experts from the psychiatric department at France’s University Hospital of Toulouse told the APA’s annual […]
…that your waitress has been arrested for stealing credit card information from her customers.
April DuBoise was one of the friendlier servers at the westside Hamburger Hamlet that I patronize every week. It was fun to talk to her and she was good at her job. I hope she doesn’t get the crap beaten […]
High level economic talks begin between the US and China today. The US is asking for greater access to markets, particularly in the areas of banking and energy, and a greater trading range for the Yuan agains the US Dollar. The Chinese are attempting to head off protectionist tendencies that have arisen from […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Music company EMI Group PLC has agreed to a 2.4 billion pound ($4.7 billion) takeover by a private equity group Terra Firma Capital Partners. Things are going to be very different.
Once the record guys learn that “distribution” means paying people not selling records, and the new money guys learn that “returns” are nothing to cheer […]
It’s a classic romantic tale…
boy meets (underage) girl, girl shoots boy’s wife in the face, boy and girl go to jail. Girl marries another man and has two kids. Man meets other woman and has kids. Both divorce. Finally boy and girl reunite for a cheesey TV tabloid show and profess love…
Yes Amy Fisher […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Author Nicholas Carr has claimed that virtual inhabitants of the online world Second Life are having a real-world impact.
Carr proposed that, on average, there are about 12,500 active avatars on Second Life at any given point of the day. He reasons that the 4,000 data servers and cooling systems used to support the world, combined […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)File this under Dumbass Mom [Reuters]:
[Daniela Langer] A 36-year-old German mother-of-five drove her son to a jewelry store he wanted to rob because she was afraid he may come to some harm, Bild newspaper reported Wednesday.
While her 17-year-old son and his two accomplices stabbed and robbed a jeweler in the eastern city of Dresden, the […]
