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The Law of Unintended Consequences

April 12, 2010 – 12:46 am

This image came to me via Catallaxy’s Rafe Champion, and it’s so well executed I have a feeling it may have been painted by his late wife, noted illustrator Kilmeny Niland. (If this isn’t the case, Rafe, please advise in the comments). It made me chuckle, anyway, and as I come to the business end [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Art, Funnies | Comments (2)

10 most bizarre legal defences

April 10, 2010 – 7:19 pm

As someone who used to repossess houses for a living, I often saw some pretty odd defences. Many represented mortgagors simply denied or refused to admit almost every allegation (i.e., they did not own the house, they did not sign the mortgage, the bank did not advance them money, they did not default on the [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Law | Comments (24)

Awful Library Books

April 7, 2010 – 9:06 am

I laughed so hard I cried at this one: a blog devoted to Awful Library Books. Basically, the authors find library books which are seriously out of date and need to be chucked out of the library, then write a post on said book, accompanied with excerpts and pictures of the book. Gems include: Out [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Blogging, Books, Funnies | Tagged | Comments (5)

And now, a Thelwell cartoon…

April 5, 2010 – 9:23 pm

… Because I have engaged in far too much good food, and such indulgence puts me in mind of Norman Thelwell‘s cheerfully chubby ponies and equally cheerfully chubby riders. Except when the latter are being thrown, of course.

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Only a ginger…

March 30, 2010 – 5:08 pm

I’ve mentioned before that I used to have that kind of hair I think of as “Scots colour”, which is a mix of red, brown and blonde. My husband has reddish-brown hair too. When I fell pregnant with my daughter, suddenly all the red in my hair vanished. I knew exactly to whom it had [...]

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The only piece of real estate in the ME not floating on oil…

March 28, 2010 – 7:32 am

… And still they keep fighting over it. The graphics were originally produced by ‘Maps of War‘, who do a nice job of this sort of thing. One thing that stands out to me: how late and brief European Colonialism was, which suggests that many of the people now moaning about it may be protesting [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in History | Tagged , | Comments (18)

Ari and Mohammed are now friends

March 7, 2010 – 4:04 am

The Israeli military cancelled a planned raid on a Palestinian village after one of its soldiers posted details of the operation on Facebook. The unnamed soldier revealed the time and place of the raid and the name of his unit on the social networking site. He said on his status update that his unit planned [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Free Speech, Funnies, Internet, Law, Middle east, Politics, Religion | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (12)

Sharing is not always a good thing

February 19, 2010 – 2:16 pm

[Warning, if you are eating, do not continue reading this post.] I just had occasion to shiver all over with horror. You know, when something is so awful that you feel like your skin is crawling off your back? What could be so awful…? The cause of my horror was the article where Tony Abbott [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Media, Politics, Privacy, Society, anthony daniels | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (17)

Investment Wankers

February 4, 2010 – 2:18 am

An Australian banker is in hot water after being filmed looking at semi-nude photos of a model while a colleague was doing a television interview nearby. He could be seen clicking on photos of Miranda Kerr in the background of the Channel 7 interview on Tuesday with an analyst for Macquarie Private Wealth. The footage [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Economics, Feminism, Funnies, Internet, Media, Popular culture | Tagged , , , , | Comments (45)

Lawyers for pets

February 1, 2010 – 9:14 am

Long-time readers of this blog will know I’m fascinated by animals and the law. A while back I wrote a post on the topic of pets who are recipients of bequests, and discussed the possibility of a rich animal being better represented before the law than a poor human being. The dog in that post [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Animals, Human/Civil rights, Law, Society | Tagged , , , | Comments (12)