Orly Taitz Lust

My feelings of affection for legendary lawyer/real estate agent/dentist Orly Taitz are well known.
I spend many of my days pining away for the possibility of sitting with the luminous Dr. Taitz exposing the Kenyan heritage of our do-nothing president. The fact that Obama has accomplished nothing (other than a continuation of Bush Era policies on [...]

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King Continues to Stumble

Every once in a while, it’s fun to check in on the antics of the Alabama Attorney General’s office. Even if you don’t care about Alabama or politics or law, the idiocy spurting out Troy King’s office can be fun to follow. This would-be GOP Governor has made headlines recently with the following:
He is being [...]

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Chip, Chip, Chip Away

As if the Fourth Amendment needed to be further brutalized, we’ve got the Roberts Court handing down the Pearson case which is summarized here. Add to this the recent holding in Herring, which deals a major blow to the exclusionary rule, and we have a healthy dose of realism to combat any lingering euphoria you [...]

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The Sad Case of Jimmy Lee Jackson

When I woke up this morning, one of the things on my calendar was “Jimmy Lee Jackson trial.”
If you don’t know who Jimmy Lee Jackson was, you should check it out during the commercial breaks of Monday Night Football (or whatever programming consumes your evening). His Wikipedia entry is here, but a far more revealing [...]

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Say It Ain’t So Bama

For a variety of reasons, I was once considering attending law school at the University of Richmond. After I decided to come closer to home, I heard the news that Richmond was hiring notorious wingnut and personal injury lawsuit plaintiff Robert Bork. My sense of relief was massive. I was so glad that I wouldn’t [...]

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Post Palin Beatdown

Yes, Palin got smoked on national television. No, she didn’t stumble and bumble, nor did she break down in tears. Because of this, people think she did a good job. Many media outlets claim she did a good job because they have an interest in seeing this presidential race remain as close as possible for [...]

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Local Writer Takes Opinions Statewide

Opinion promoted to Internet audience and (presumably) readers of the physical edition of the newspaper too. Alabama virtually certain to respond positively and will begin promptly establishing reforms and repairing the state in accordance with the writer’s views.

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Worse Than Texas

When someone describes your home state as more kill-happy than Texas, you know you are living in dark days. Worse than Texas? Turns out that Phillip Alston, a United Nations Human Rights Council Special Envoy, took time on Monday to issue a blistering report about a trip he took to Alabama where he met with [...]

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The Internets Are Stoopid

The IANA is operated by ICANN and .xxx is a top level domain. Make sense? No? Well if it is weird to you to think about the Internet, including this web page, being run by a bunch of suits in “LA’s only yacht harbor resort,” well, then, you might just be Ted Stevens. Otherwise, get [...]

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Mothers of Crime Invention

Since yesterday was Mother’s Day, it is worth briefly noting that our American version of Mother’s Day was loosely inspired by a British day and was imported by social activist Julia Ward Howe after the Civil War. However, unlike today’s version of a disgusting phone company-inspired tear-jerking holiday commercial or the environmentally-irresponsible mass purchase of [...]

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