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Obscure Legal Humor?

Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Snyder v. Louisiana where a guy was given the death penalty by an all white jury after the Government struck all five prospective black jurors. (The government and the defense are allowed to strike a certain number of people from the jury panel for any reason so long as they don't do it for racial reasons. A person is struck "for cause" when they are deemed to be unfair by the judge.) The above is an excerpt from the oral argument.

I don't think I've ever looked at judge and said "Are you crazy?"

And Scalia is so funny about death.

Those Canadians Are Crazy

A Public Service Announcement that runs in Canada. Uh, before you watch this cute little video of girls playing soccer, one word: Landmine.

Free Debra Lafave!!

Link

Not All That Exciting . . .

. . . but our High Sheriff is making news over at Channel 8.

Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson Proof. Attaboy!

Now I'm Off To Fort Worth

Anybody else think the bridge construction between Runaway Bay and Jacksboro is a little dangerous? (And I mean dangerous even when not trying to take a pic of it.)

I'm Off To Jacksboro

But if you want to waste some time and shake your head, read this story about Megan Meier and then pray that this blog is fake. Lori Drew is the adult neighbor that posed as a teenage boy - she's had her address and phone number posted all over the Internet as people harass her.

The Today Show has been covering the story and had Drew's attorney on this morning - but I had to leave before he would hopefully talk about the blog above.

Crazy Talk

Dale Hansen's Sports Special did a bit on the Cowboys last night and, to fill space, they threw in an quick interview with Randy Galloway from his ESPN radio gig. For a split second, the camera cut to the computer by Galloway to which was either showing emails or a list of callers. With the magic of TIVO, I was able to go back and stop on the split second.

Two Terms Is Enough

According to the Update, Jana Jones has announced that she won't seek a third term as DA. I don't know her reasons, but I can affirm that two terms will beat you down.

(Yeah, yeah, I turned the comments off.)

Edit: Most people know that County Attorney Greg Lowery intends to run for DA. He can't announce it because of some crazy law that won't let him do it until after the first of the year. I haven't heard any rumors of anyone else wanting to run for DA, but Jana's decision might cause someone to throw their hat in just for the heck of it. The County Attorney position has three candidates right now: Thomas Aaberg, James Stainton, and Marilyn Belew.

Edit: Ok, I'm turning the comments on. But no public official bashing or potential prosecutor winner bashing. I have to work with these guys.

"They Tried To Make Me Go To Rehab . . . . "

Amy Winehouse is getting crazier and crazier. (Click to enlarge. I dare you. (Although I think there is something wrong with Blogger's picture uploader today.))

Is That Two Guys?

Original here.

(Thanks to the emailer.)

"It's Maah Birfdays, Yawl!"

(I completely stole that caption from some other site.)

Flight Plan

I don't care who SMU's new coach is, but somebody noticed that big time alum Gerald Ford's private jet is scheduled to go back and forth from Baltimore today while spending only 1 hour and 10 minutes on the ground. That's where it would go if were picking up Navy's Paul Johnson. That flight tracking stuff is cool.

(Stolen from here.)

And on an unrelated note, Baylor's new coach Art Briles was on Dale Hansen's Sports Special last night and was asked what he thought about LSU and Ohio State being selected for the the championship game. Art said that was the first time he had heard that. Great. I care more about college football than the new coach.

Edit: And one more unrelated note, the folks out in Lubbock are now nervous.

Edit: Someone sent me a pic of Gerald Ford's plane.

Made Me Laugh Yesterday

Craziest Play Of The Weekend

The Washington Redskins decided to honor the deceased Sean Taylor by having only 10 people on the field for its first defensive play. See, that symbolizes that Sean was "still with them in spirit." Get it?

Well, the Buffalo Bills ran a running play that picked up 22 yards. Sorry? Not sorry?

And then I learn this morning that Head Coach Joe Gibbs didn't know his defensive coordinator was going to do that.

Roots

I just completed watching the 1970s mini-series Roots (which took quite a while since I viewed it in 40 minute segments whenever I was on the treadmill.)

For you youngsters in your 30s out there, Roots ran in January of 1977 and the entire nation stopped down to watch. Except me. It's a story of watching generation after generation of a black family from Africa to post Civil War days.

This year while watching the Golden Globes, the cast of the mini-series came out on stage for a 30th anniversary reunion. It dawned on me I had never seen it. So it's stuffed by Netflix queue ever since.

Verdict: Pretty darn good. And observations:

- Anyone who was anyone in the 70s had a role in the series. From a little Todd Bridges to Sandy Duncan to Burl Ives to O.J. Simpson to Robert Reed.
- There was some poor acting every now and then. I could have sworn that John Amos' character would sometimes morph into the the father he played in Good Times.
- The "n word" was thrown around so much that I'm not sure you could show it on regular TV today.
- Chuck Connors and Lloyd Bridges had the most uncomfortable black hating rolls of all. And Conners was great.
- There was no depiction of a plantation with 100s of slaves. Most just showed a nice home with a few acres around it with maybe 10 to 15 slaves.
- While I was watching it, I thought how much history would anger me if I were black man. And then I thought perhaps the series gave rise to some of the gang violence we saw in the 1980s. I mentioned my theory to someone else this weekend who retorted, "Blacks weren't angry before that?" Good point.
- A kind of dumb white guy made an extended appearance at the end. I thought he looked familiar and I was right. It was Brad Davis who I discovered last year in Midnight Express.
- I had more, but can't remember them right now.