I guess because the bank was on Elm Street, he thought he could dress up as an elm: Police said this morning a tip has led them to an arrest in the leafy robber case. James Coldwell, 49, of 50 Lowell St. has been charged with robbery in connection with a Saturday morning holdup at the Citizens Bank branch at … Read More
I, For One, Welcome Our New Lesbian Overloards
Seriously, this is loony tunes, even for Bill O’Reilly: A "national underground network" of pink pistol-packing lesbians is terrorizing America. "All across the country," they are raping young girls, attacking heterosexual males at random, and forcibly indoctrinating children as young as 10 into the homosexual lifestyle, according to a shocking June 21 segment on the popular Fox News Channel program, … Read More
Everything I Know About Life I Learned From Nathon Tabor
Hard to believe that this guy can’t get elected to the North Carolina legislature, considering his overwhelming mastery of crime and its solutions: If schools, courthouses, and municipal buildings don’t post the command, "Thou Shalt Not Steal," it stands to reason that children would grow up believing that stealing isn’t all that bad. To Nathan, every societal problem can be … Read More
It’s Only A Game, Folks
Chill: An argument over a game of Yahtzee ended with one man dead and another charged with murder, according to reports from Florida.
“Mommy’s In The Rug”
This sounds like the beginning of a horror movie: A pregnant woman vanished from her home, leaving behind broken furniture, a pool of bleach on the floor and just one witness – a 2-year-old son who told police, "Mommy’s crying … Mommy’s in the rug." Nobody knows what the 2 year old means by that.
Criminal or Combatant?: Orin Kerr On The Al-Marri Case
UPDATE: Screenshots of the al-Marri opinion added. Orin Kerr has some thoughtful objections to the recent Fourth Circuit case (Al-Marri v. Wright) holding that the U.S. government cannot hold a lawful visitor to this country in "indefinite military detention" simply by declaring him an "enemy combatant". According to the Fourth Circuit, the government can do many things — including transferring … Read More
I Can’t Stress This Enough, People…
If you are going to commit heinous crimes, don’t present yourself as a freak on MySpace: He calls himself "Jack" and considers himself a "Sweet Troubled Soul" on his MySpace page. His interests include "eating small children and harming small animals." Oooooh. I want to be his MySpace friend, don’t you???? The page appears to belong to Edwin R. Hall, … Read More
Rape By Fraud
This is one of the cases that you get in law school, or even on a law exam: The unusual case dates to a night in January 2005. The woman had been living with her boyfriend, Duane Suliveres, for several years in a furnished room in the basement of his father’s home, according to the defense brief. His brother, Alvin, … Read More
“Everyone In That House Seemed Really Nice, And They Kept To Themselves”
When you read that it a news article, you know it’s about some ugly heinous crime. And it is: A 32-year-old man cut off his mother’s head with a circular saw and then died trying to cut off his own head with the power tool Tuesday, authorities said. The bodies were discovered locked in their rented bedroom. Lovely.
My Bad
That terrible tragedy at Virginia Tech? My fault, it turns out. So says noted "actor" Chuck Norris: Though one can point to Cho’s own psychotic behavior and our graphic slasher media as potential contributors to his deplorable murder spree, we must also hesitate to consider how we as a society are possibly contributing to the growth of these academic killing … Read More
The Blame Game [UPDATE]
From Cynical-C Blog — this has to be the compelte list: It’s the fault of violent video games. It’s the fault of movies. It’s that no other students were armed. It’s the cowardly students who didn’t rush the shooter. It’s the first victim’s fault. It’s secularism’s fault. It’s the Muslims’ and/or foreigners’ fault. It’s the Atheists’ fault. It’s the fault … Read More
Overreaction
In the wake of the Virginia Tech murders, the Dean of Student Affairs at Yale University has banned the use of all stage weapons in theatrical productions: In a speech made before last night’s opening show of “Red Noses,” [student director Sarah] Holdren said that {Dean of Student Affairs Betty] Trachtenberg’s decision to force the production to use wooden swords … Read More
The 32 Victims
Today is the Day of Mourning for the people of V Tech, and to a larger extent, the country — after which (one hopes) all can never forget, but move on. You may want to avoid the maudlin media profiles of the V Tech victims and try to understand more about them by viewing their myspace pages. Mydeathspace has compiled … Read More
The Blame Game
Compiled by Cynical-C Blog: It’s the fault of violent video games. It’s the fault of movies. It’s that no other students were armed. It’s the cowardly students who didn’t rush the shooter. It’s the first victim’s fault. It’s secularism’s fault. It’s the Muslims’ and/or foreigners’ fault. It’s the Atheists’ fault. It’s the fault of the colleges and how they coddle … Read More