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The Daily Memo - 7/29/08

Posted on July 29, 2008
ATL has posted blurbs from the finalists in the running to be the site's new editor, and please dear god, just don't let it be "Arnie Becker," who sounds square as a fucking Rubik's Cube ... not that any of...

"...I can shoot it if I want."

Posted on July 29, 2008
When the "it" is your lawn mower, it turns out you cannot. Milwaukee's Keith Walendowski has been arrested and charged with illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun and disorderly conduct. It all stems from a morning of drinking after which...

It's like Heath Ledger is still with us

Posted on July 29, 2008
Twenty-year-old Spencer Taylor has been arrested and charged with larceny and malicious destruction of property for trying to steal movie posters and other The Dark Knight-related things from a movie theater while wearing an ever-so-clever disguise:....

If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Don't Say Anything At All

Posted on July 29, 2008
You just stop me when I say something that's not nice: Columnist Robert Novak has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, only days after he ran over a homeless man in his sports car and drove away (a bicyclist flagged...

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Good Luck, Bar Takers

Posted on July 29, 2008
It's a special day for the country's future lawyers -- over the next two to three days, thousands of recent law graduates will take the bar exam. Most will pass, some will not. Somewhere, in some state, at least one...

Oliver Stone: Where Politics and Cinema Intersect

Posted on July 28, 2008
Here's the trailer for Oliver Stone's upcoming flick on George Bush's younger years, W. I'm sure it's full of rumor, innuendo, hyperbole, and all sorts of made up shit. But, I can't wait to see it....

McCain 2008: Like Hope, But Different

Posted on July 28, 2008
The best campaign video in months. Fo shiz....

Here I Go Again On My Own ... Woopsie

Posted on July 28, 2008
If you decide to drive away while your wife is on your car, make sure she's on the hood and wearing a white-see through dress and heels. A Long Island man has been charged with driving from home drunk with...

I Was Gonna Live In a Van Down by the River, but Buying a House was Cheaper

Posted on July 28, 2008
Crazy-ass statistic of the day: Average house prices in Detroit: $19,448. Average price of a car: $22,650. Too bad the houses don't have wheels; if you could move them half an hour away to Ann Arbor, the value would multiply...

The Daily Memo - 7/28/08

Posted on July 28, 2008
Wait -- so a summer associate makes out with a partner and the punishment is that two other summer associates who make out with each other are fired? Law firm life -- gotta love it! (Above the Law) Blawg Review...

Loose, footloose, kick off your Sunday shoes....

Posted on July 28, 2008
An 18-year-old Wisconsin man was recently arrested for dancing. In a roundabout way. Seems that Jeffery G. Holm Jr. was at a local city festival and was getting his groove on. Thing is, Holm's dancing was terrible. A security officer...

Mmmm ... tastes like shitty legislation

Posted on July 28, 2008
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008. This piece of shit was introduced into the Senate last week, and it combines pieces of two prior IP bills, the PRO-IP Act and the...

Fox News = White House Mouthpiece? Shocking!

Posted on July 28, 2008
Actually, as Keith says, even though we all kinda knew this, knowing it is a little shocking anyways....

Mmmm ... tastes like chicken

Posted on July 28, 2008
Ryan Halverson was arrested for public intoxication. He was hauled off to the local clink by police Sgt. Jay Newton. Newton was taking things out of Halverson's pockets to book him, when the clearly still drunk Halverson leaned over and...

The Return of Science Fridays

Posted on July 25, 2008
True, this has nothing to do with the law whatsoever. But I'm going to once again amble into the realm of science because this video is just that fucking cool. Seeing the moon pass over the Earth's sky is nothing...

And By the "Natural State," Of Course They Mean Naturally Racist

Posted on July 25, 2008
Yikes. Arkansas is pulling an entire series of license plates after some dumbass didn't realize that, well, the initials "NGR" have a certain je ne sais quoi about them (or, as we'd say down in Arkansas, "Jean Said Queef? Huh?")...

Autism is "A Brat Who Hasn't Been Told to Cut the Act Out" (Old News, New to Me)

Posted on July 25, 2008
Woah. No. That's where you're wrong, Michael Savage. However, your entire radio shtick sounds like a douchebag that hasn't been told to cut the act out. The tide is turning, though. The advertisers are running. The half-hearted apologies ring...

The Daily Memo - 7/25/08

Posted on July 25, 2008
The Governator is planning to lower some state workers' pay to the federal minimum wage in order to get some money in the state coffers. (LA Metblogs) Oh Sienna, your Millers have been put out there for all the world...

Dude, man, seriously ... don't bogart the Gerbers

Posted on July 25, 2008
Fucking Texas man. Can't the teenagers just shoot off guns like good red-blooded, uhm, other Texans? Not if they're 18-year-old Demetris McCoy, apparently. This wonderful specimen of southern pride has pleaded guilty to two charges of injury to a child...

"All roads lead to Gonzales"

Posted on July 25, 2008
The wonderful Dahlia Lithwich and some of her cohorts over at Slate have put together everyone's favorite diagram -- the venn diagram -- to break down "who in the Bush Administration broke the law, and who could be prosecuted." As...

Touch my monkey. Love my monkey. But don't discriminate against my monkey!

Posted on July 25, 2008
Uhm. Yeah. A southwest Missouri woman has sued Wal-Mart, local health officials and Cox Health Systems, claiming they discriminated against her and her monkey named Richard. Debby Rose of Springfield said in the lawsuit that the 10-year-old bonnet macaque helps...

Worst. Prank. Ever!

Posted on July 24, 2008
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Firecrotch! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Two practical jokers are behind bars for setting their passed-out drinking buddy's crotch ablaze while boozing in Grover Beach. Matthew Craig Pillers and Jack Brent Nicholas Keiffer pleaded no contest to a felony great bodily injury charge...

The Law is the Law. No Excuses!

Posted on July 24, 2008
When is it not OK to leave a parking ticket on a car parked in a restricted zone? When the driver is dead. Sitting in the driver's seat. An elderly man was found dead late Tuesday in a parked car...

Honestly, It Was Probably Worth It

Posted on July 24, 2008
How good is The Dark Knight? Good enough to leave your baby in the car to attend a screening: A dad was booked into jail under suspicion of second-degree child abuse after leaving his son in his car while he...

The Daily Memo - 7/24/08

Posted on July 24, 2008
Sounds like the XM-Sirius merger is going to come down to one FCC commissioner. (Gizmodo) Fiddy Cent is suing Taco Bell. (WSJ Law Blog) The 11th Circuit says that the Florida law requiring students to get parental permission to avoid...

But where does Kaos like to dance?

Posted on July 24, 2008
Down in New Zealand, a family court has ordered a kid to be placed under guardianship of the court solely because of her name. The judge said that the name "makes a fool of the child and sets her up...

If they fired folks for this at my firm, I'd up-and-quit in a fucking heartbeat

Posted on July 24, 2008
This has been a relatively disappointing summer, at least from the perspective of summer associate shenanigans. Usually by this point there's been at least one good summer debacle that's been e-mailed nationwide. But this year, nada. Then comes this story...

Did you know that Obama Quest is underway?

Posted on July 24, 2008
Well it is -- the legend has begun. And his plane apparently farts flowers, don't you know:...

Assault with a Deadly Peanut?

Posted on July 23, 2008
Yeah. That's the headline. Robyn Lee, 23, of Corryville, was charged with aggravated assault after being accused of trying to cram a peanut in the mouth of her allergic neighbor Saturday evening. Lee appeared in court Monday on the peanut...

John Edwards Has a Mistress (Slow News Day)

Posted on July 23, 2008
Man, didn't the Democratic National Convention used to take place the last week of July? If it still were, we wouldn't be forced to resort to tabloids for news for the next few weeks. But, such is the case, and...

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