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Like Any Client

DoorFrame — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:42:17 +0000

CNN: “From the first elements we have, it would be a man who’s around 50 years old, who was wearing a suit and a Borsalino-style hat, who, like any client, walked inside the jewelry store, held up employees with a handgun, was then given items displayed in the window.”

Yeah, just like any client.

I Am Lee Harvey Oswald

DoorFrame — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:06:19 +0000

Well, in fact I’m the stuffy guy to the left of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Ironic Sex Offender

DoorFrame — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:38:13 +0000

Nancy Haag does not understand the meaning of the word “ironic”:

Alaska has the highest per capita number of rape cases in the United States, according to FBI statistics.

“With a ranking that high, it’s ironic that the person who wins is a convicted sex offender,” Haag added.

Songs About School Shootings

DoorFrame — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:30:46 +0000

A list of songs about school shootings, though it’s missing Strength Through Music by Amanda Palmer.

Tufts Embezzlement Update

DoorFrame — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:00:42 +0000

An update for those people who went to Tufts — a few months ago it was revealed that two employees, Jodie Nealley and another man, embezzled nearly a million dollars from the student activity fund. My brother now provides an update: the school has somehow recaptured the bulk of the money and has handed it back to the students to spend as they see fit.

What should the TCU Senate do with $700,000 in bonus cash? Those of us who are no longer at the school might rightly request that our portion of the stolen funds be returned to us. We never got to benefit from its use at the time, it would be nice to get some use out of it now. A big pool party for graduates, maybe.

Alternatively, I vote for the construction of a massive brick patio.

The Idiot Contest

DoorFrame — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:00:41 +0000

A fantastic story: A fashion designer who dislikes Obama because he think’s Obama is a Muslim sells a t-shirt that reads “Obama is my slave” to a grad student who thinks it’s a good idea to wear this t-shirt out and about in New York City. The grad student is, unsurprisingly, assaulted by a group of angry New York denizens, then sues the fashion designer.

I can’t figure out who I like least in this story, the xenophobic fashion designer, the foolishly short-sighted and litigious grad student, or the violent street people?

Too Weird for The Wire: The Flesh and Blood Defense

DoorFrame — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:37:56 +0000

CrazyMonk points to a great article about “how black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds.”

In the previous year, nearly twenty defendants in other Baltimore cases had begun adopting what lawyers in the federal courthouse came to call “the flesh-and-blood defense.” The defense, such as it is, boils down to this: As officers of the court, all defense lawyers are really on the government’s side, having sworn an oath to uphold a vast, century-old conspiracy to conceal the fact that most aspects of the federal government are illegitimate, including the courts, which have no constitutional authority to bring people to trial. The defendants also believed that a legal distinction could be drawn between their name as written on their indictment and their true identity as a “flesh and blood man.”

It’s long, but good.

You Have to Drive By on Something

DoorFrame — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:24:33 +0000

Evidence that gas prices have gotten out of hand: two shot in bicycle drive by.

Lawyers Bilked

DoorFrame — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:40:30 +0000

Even law firms fall for an audacious version of the Nigerian 419 scam.

Background: Chinese Anti-Terror Segway Cops

DoorFrame — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:53:46 +0000

This is my current background. It can be yours, too.

I posted a link to a lower quality version of this picture last week, but The Big Picture published a fuller series of the amazing anti-terror drills, including this fantastic picture. Get ‘em, boys!