Posts tagged “legal”

Misdirection and Contraception: On Hobby Lobby

Imagine yourself in a bar where a pickpocket takes money out of your wallet and with it buys you a glass of chardonnay. Although you would have preferred a pinot noir, you decide not to look that gift horse in the mouth and thank the stranger profusely for the kindness, assuming he paid for it. You might feel differently, of course, if you knew that you actually had paid for it yourself.

#FridayFive: Favorite Legal Dramas

View the Friday Five from August 30th, 2013

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Meeting Aliens

  • What kind of drug are you?
  • If you have an iPhone and a guitar, you simply must get the Gibson Learn & Master Guitar app.
  • James Dean was seriously one badass dude.
  • The Japanese apparently have a game show for every conceivable challenge. I never realized that the old “yank a tablecloth” trick was something you could turn into a competition.
  • “The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that once emails have been received by a third party, no Fourth Amendment protection applies to any copies.” Maybe this will be the first step in getting people to stop adding those absolutely ridiculous and pointless signatures to their messages.
  • Let’s just say that — for whatever reason — you’re the first human ever to make contact with an alien civilization. Are you prepared to handle it? Make sure to read this handy tip sheet so you won’t make us look like idiots.
  • Tons of terrific tales can be found at the Illinois Poison Control Center blog. There’s the story of the woman who accidentally grabbed toothpaste instead of lube when having sex; and don’t miss the episode about the boy who super-glued his fingers into his nose!
2024-09-25: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Terms of Use

I can’t tell if Mike’s Terms of Use are supposed to be serious or if they’re parody. That worries me.

Outrageous Injustice

Genarlow Wilson, honor student and football star, had consensual sex with a fellow teenager. What happened to him next was a crime. When he was a senior in high school, he received oral sex from a 10th grader. He was 17. She was 15. Everyone, including the girl and the prosecution, agreed she initiated the

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Semenchanted Evening

A legal battle over reproduction

The Superior Court of Los Angeles

Time to fulfill my civic duty …

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Hemingway

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