The first modern flood-prevention system. When the river rises to certain level, it is poked by the metal arm suspended over it, reminding it to get its act together and settle down.

It’s no good. Cooking, upon further investigation, is also chemistry(!).

I guess in an academic sense that might be true, if you’re talking about Natural Law or something. But in terms of legally enforceable rights within a society of laws, it’s the Supreme Court, not I, who decides where my rights end. Because if I, as the sovereign (although it’s the People, plural, who are sovereign in…

I respectfully disagree. This is exactly how jurisprudence works. The Supreme Court is the final arbiter of the meaning of the constitution. That’s it’s job. As a result, changes in the Court’s composition over the years have resulted in changes in how the court construes the meaning of the constitution. For example,…

But there was no individual constitutional right to bear arms until District of Columbia v. Heller came down in 2008. (It’s important to remember that the constitution means what the Supreme Court, the exclusive authority on the constitution, says it means, and prior to 2008, it didn’t mean anyone had a right to own…

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. In this case, the bad guy with a gun shot a woman and some children, then a good guy with a gun shot the bad guy. The system works!

Problem solved.

“Alright, there appears to be an event happening.”

Come on, she was family. Indoor freezer.

Fire her into space on a column of rocket flame like the Viking queen she was.

In fairness, there are only limited appeals available. If the victims’ families lose in the appellate court, their only recourse is the state supreme court. If they .lose there, that’s the end of the appeal process and the case is over.

From a business perspective, they shouldn’t do this because it will easily produce more than $700,000-worth of negative PR.

Whether I, an enormous corporation, decide to attempt to recoup a relatively piddling $700k in legal fees from the families of people murdered in one of my business locations in a high-profile mass shooting will depend on whether I think that the cost of doing so outweighs the tiny drop of red ink on my balance sheet.…

The lawyer in me feels like their counsel has given them extremely bad advice in advocating for this position. One of the important aspects of corporate representation is remembering that your client is a business and that sometimes it is better, if a litigator is truly considering the corporate client’s best…

Literally, upon reading this story, the first thing I did was try to remember which local theaters are Cinemark so I can avoid giving them my business.

Wait, “political correctness” is “an attempt to limit free thought ‘by intimidation, force and other forms of coercion.’” Whose “freedom of thought” (whatever that means) am I limiting by force through my NOT using the n-word?

It’s truly America’s Story.

I might be wrong, but I don’t think Jean Paul Gaultier is wearing a very patriotic shirt. I think he’s wearing a regular white dress shirt with an insanely wide patriotic necktie/neckerchief. And the reason I think this is that the flag thing is not tucked into his pants, whereas the shirt (visible behind it in his…

Unfortunately, that’s every city. You won’t find a police department anywhere that doesn’t have a story about the phantom pooper they finally caught back in 2000-whatever.

Y? MCA.