News: Legal / Justice / Politics

Do Your Job, People

4 Nov 2008 at 9:54am <From the Current Events and Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> Before today, the last election I took part in was to decide who would lead our fraternity for the next year. Prior to that, I voted for class president in high school. Before that, the... read on »

Freedom of Speech, Sort Of

6 Jul 2007 at 4:25pm <From the Current Events and Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> The American Civil Liberties Union recently published a copy of the once highly-secretive Presidential Advance Manual. This document outlines specific steps and tactics the Secret Service is to follow during any of several types of... read on »

Just Gimme the Facts.

25 Jun 2007 at 9:23pm <From the Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> I think I'm beginning to lose sight of the concept of political parties. After all, in a nation whose citizens so proudly convey a concept of equal rights, proclaiming that nobody will be differentiated by... read on »

Something to Think About

8 Jun 2007 at 5:03pm <From the Current Events and Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> Kidnap an eighteen-year-old girl from a Target, drive her away, then strangle her to death with a ligature, guarunteed 25 years to life, with possibility of lethal injection. Mutilate your husband while he's not looking,... read on »

Steer Clear of Geezers

3 May 2007 at 11:04am <From the Current Events, Cynicism / Rants and Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> I just read an article on CNN that described an upsetting event that happened today: a seventy-year-old man had driven to a Belmont, CA middle school to pick up a child. Instead, he mowed down... read on »

Bostonians are Idiots

1 Feb 2007 at 11:55am <From the Current Events, Legal / Justice / Politics, Morons and Stupidity Departments> Yesterday, the Boston police department, fire department, paramedics and government were on edge. Why? Because several people mistook a Cartoon Network advertisement campaign for a terrorist threat. The advertisements were Lite Brite in nature, depicting... read on »

What's Wrong With Drinking Santa's Ass?

6 Dec 2006 at 1:30pm <From the Current Events, Food & Drinking and Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> The other day, while perusing cnn.com for possibly the thirtieth time that day, a news story caught my eye: "Maine bans boozy Santa beer label". Since the headline was filled with Cory keywords (namely, beer... read on »

My Contingency Plan for Saddam's Death Sentence

6 Nov 2006 at 2:47pm <From the Current Events, Humor (take a joke) and Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> Okay so I've been thinking about this whole Saddam execution. First of all, I doubt it will happen. Since Iraq is now the country that all other countries feel they should have control over, thanks... read on »

Spam This!

8 Sep 2006 at 10:34am <From the Current Events, Legal / Justice / Politics and Web / Technology Departments> Dis spammer be goin' to jail. Finally, somebody's doing something about the millions of spam emails being sent every year. Jeremy Jaynes was just convicted under an anti-spamming law and sentenced to nine years in... read on »