Random Rants and Legal Humor...

Newsflash: CNN's headline this evening reveals sensational news!!! On his deathbed, Pope John Paul asked people to read him the Bible!!! Shocking! I am so glad CNN covered this groundbreaking story!!! The Bible...who would have thought.... I was figuring he'd ask for strippers or 12 year old boys or something.....

ummm... and on a side note, what is going on in this picture? Is he striking a pose, or what? The photographer was like, "Ok, John, I just want to catch a glimpse of the real you...just act natural.... "


This reminds me of the Law Review articles I had to read yesterday. One, by a law professor was entitled "Man and his 5000 year old relationship with the cannibus plant." Can I just say AWSOME???? One section dicussed the merits of weed as a treatment for anorexia.... I mean, that makes so much sense... being a pothead is way less dangerous than being anorexic... If CNN wanted to do something worthwhile they'd investigate that....

another article was entitled "aliens with guns" and was about letting illegal aliens serve in the military and own weapons. The article then went on to say how no federal court had ever even discussed this issue....and some concluded the author was an idiot. My theory is that this author also wrote the cannibus article. He was just sitting around one evening and the idea came to him...."aliens with guns, man....woah... that's heavy...."

another article about the clergy sex abuse litigation of the 80's stated: "they [church officials] failed to warn parishioners of his "tendency to rape children." Hmmm.... his tendency? Like, I have a tendency to get drunk and boottie dance? Don't be alarmed, ladies and genteman, it's only a tendency....

Disturbing...

As a law student, I hear many, many, many disturbing cases. However, this is one of the most disturbing stories I have heard in awhile. Apparently, a mother let a man molest her 7 year old son in exchange for money. People are fucking scum.

This gets me thinking about the death penalty. I may be a bleeding heart liberal when it comes to a lot of things, but punishing scum-bags is not one of them. My theory is that victimless crimes (drugs, theft, etc.) do not warrent outrageous sentences. Here, utilitarian principles of deterrence and societal benefit should drive punishmen. But when someone hurts another person, particularly a child, then all bets are off. Retributive, eye for an eye, the avenging arm of the law kind of reasoning kicks in. Someone rapes and kills a child? Fry that sorry ass son of a bitch up. In fact, as far as I am concerned, the death penalty is too humane for people like that. Too bad torture has been deemed unconstitutional becasue I think a person deserves to have whatever they perpetrated committed agasint them. Why should the guilty be afforded more rights and better treatment than their victims? Life is about conseqences. If you choose to hurt others, then you should deal with the consequences. And in my book, the consequences should be severe.

Oh, and my cure for the legal system when it comes to executing the innocent? Create a higher evidentiary standard for cases in which the prosecuter is seeking the death penalty.

Give you something to cry about....

Well, here I am posting when I should be writing the most important paper of my academic career - my appellate brief on RLUIPA....sigh.....

Apparently, a California lawyer is suing e-harmony for discrimination because the site will not allow him to register and get a date until his divorce is final. He says this violates a California status that prohibits discrimination based on marital status. Did I mention that he is suing for like 12,000 dollars? He was apparently very upset by this whole traumatic ordeal.... Personally, I think he needs to find something real to complain about. How about the fact that when you go to the e-Harmony starter webpage, you can only choose man seeking woman or woman seeking man. This sounds like discrimination based on sexual orientation and I for one have a much bigger problem with this kind of discrimination than with the website trying to respect both parties in a marriage. I wonder if dude's marital problems originated with him screwing around on his wife in the first place??? Men.... *rolling my eyes*.... Worse yet, male lawyers..... Why don't you find some real discrimination to bitch about....

Time to get your head out of your ass, America...

I recently read several very alarming articles on CNN and in The New Yorker (courtesy of Mr. Romanic) about global warming that I urge everyone to read, particularly those of you who are still down-playing the seriousness of the global warming problem.

My only other tyrade for the week: the David and Goliath brand shirt I saw in the mall that said "I'm too pretty to do math." Yes, this is a perfect message to be sending our young girls, who are already bombarded with images of what they should be (dumb, pretty, over-sexed and thin) on television and in magazines. What's more, this isn't like some kid made it herself as an expression of who she is. This is a corporate machine feeding bullshit to our children - selling them an image, giving them a blueprint for who they need to be. You aren't a rebel or a non-conformist if you are just buying your identity from some corporation. The corporate man is telling you who you should be, and you should feel insulted. And, corporate man.... for shame. Filling impressionale teenage minds with garbage just so you can make a buck. I hope you have a teenage daughter one day, who turns out just as slutty and stupid as your t-shirts sound.

Shall We Dance??

Perhaps it's the Sudafed....


But, does this not look like a scene straight out of Bride and Prejudice, or some other fantastic Bolly-wood musical??? They're just about to start the big dance number, I can feel it... spirit fingers!!!!!

"The truth, the truth, there is no truth! These men just make it up as they go along."

Recently, I watched an amazing documentary about 9/11 called Loose Change that I challenge everyone to watch. Personally, I find it very interesting, if nothing else. Please, watch and give me your impression....

On that note, I will let it be known that I am a conspiracy theorist.

"The truth is out there."

"Trust no one."

Fox Molder is my freekin' fantasy/hero.

I don't trust people with lots of money and I don't trust people with lots of power. I don't trust corporations and, I certainly don't trust the govornment. (generally speaking, I don't trust men either, but that's a totally differnt topic. :) )

Think I have trust issues? watch the documentary...

Other facinating conspiracy theories that I half-way think could be plausible:

1) The Man-Made Origin of AIDS ; congress appropriations bill for biological warfare

2) The Best Democracy Moeny Can Buy ; Buy it on Amazon - it's a good read :)