Category Archives: Law, suits and order

Other people’s legal problems, aside from my own.

“What the world needs now, is…”

Lawyers. Very very smart lawyers. Very very smart lawyers in Congress because, you know, it’s legislators who write the laws to advance policies and seal up holes in our foundation, and the people who know how to do that are … Continue reading

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Is everyone going crazy?

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [L]aw enforcement officers in Massachusetts attempted to rehome a 7-foot-tall puppet. “If this belongs to you—or if you recognize it from your nightmares,” the department wrote, “please contact us.”

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A specific instance of egregious corporate sociopathy in one word: PLASTICS!

Plastics. I don’t remember the character who imparted this career advice — “Plastics” — to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. Someone did, though, and here we are, nearly 60 years later, facing the consequences. “Nearly 60 years later”? A speck in … Continue reading

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