Category Archives: Fark!

Right to annoy

July 16, 2008 – 7:41 pm

Two protesters have successfully challenged a New South Wales law that prevents people from “annoying” World Youth Day participants. What a farcical law! But it does really exist. Clause 7 of the World Youth Day Regulations 2008 (NSW) provides that:
(1) An authorised person may direct a person within a World Youth Day declared area to [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Free Speech, Human/Civil rights, Law, Personal liberty, Religion | Comments (23)

Thomas the Tank Engine and Hayek

July 15, 2008 – 7:40 pm

Now, you never thought to see those two in the same sentence, did you? Believe it or not, a law professor has analysed Thomas the Tank Engine as “a pro-market show, but a genuine, Hayekian coordination-of-information free-market type of capitalism…”
The poor fellow is recovering from an operation and his two-year-old daughter has commandeered the TV [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Children, Economics, Popular culture | Comments (8)

Iran: ‘We will Photoshop Israel off the Map’

July 12, 2008 – 7:29 am

As everyone probably knows by now, once again Charles Johnson has caught someone out doing dodgy graphics (he has a special talent for this - he can probably claim credit for terminating Dan Rather’s career as a newshound). One thing Iranian propagandists definitively lack is a black belt in Photoshop, as their lame attempt to [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Technology | Comments (8)

Sometimes, it’s good to be a lawyer

July 8, 2008 – 10:46 pm

I’ve been down on being a lawyer lately, particularly after job woes and writing that post on billable hours. However, tonight I was pleased to be a lawyer. Briefly, a friend called me in distress because of a dispute over the completion of construction of her new family home. Her partner was overseas, and the [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Law, Personal | Comments (16)

Exam hand cramp = bouncer on the forearm

July 2, 2008 – 3:26 am

I did my third exam today, and for the first time in my life experienced what I’ve only heard about before - hand cramp. Maybe it’s because Oxford exams are longer than other exams (three or three and a half hours, depending on subject). The longest written exam I’ve ever encountered in the past was [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Academia, Cricket | Comments (14)

Yowch…

June 18, 2008 – 10:07 pm

I pity the poor Cambodian lad in this report:
A Cambodian teenager was recovering in hospital after a puffer fish attacked him in the groin, local media reported on Tuesday.
The Khmer-language Koh Santepheap daily ran a picture of the unnamed 13-year-old in a hospital bed with heavy strapping around his testicles, saying he was lucky to [...]

By Legal Eagle | Comments (1)

Who let the loons out?

June 18, 2008 – 6:43 pm

I’ve always been a bit suspicious of the concerns about leftist academic bias common on the right. The central issue for me is fairness, not politics. As long as academics and teachers mark fairly, I’m not too worried if they believe that we’re all secretly manipulated by a race of purple midgets living on Mars [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Academia, Middle east | Comments (23)

A new way of policing “doof-doof”

June 17, 2008 – 8:20 pm

When my husband and I first moved in together, we lived in a set of terrace houses. We’d lived there about two years when new tenants moved in two doors down. The new tenants were Columbian exchange students, and I don’t think they took their studies seriously. What they did take seriously was partying hard [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in England, Intellectual property, Law, Media, Music, Personal liberty, Society | Comments (4)

“Officer, that lion is a hoon!”

May 30, 2008 – 8:46 pm

I just can’t get over this picture of a lion enjoying himself on a “wall of death” ride in a sidecar. He looks like he’s having so much fun. Apparently this was taken in Massachusetts in 1929. Seriously.

(Via The Stumblng Tumblr)

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Animals | Comments (7)

Much worse than crying “Wolf”…

May 14, 2008 – 10:01 am

What a crazy situation:
In late 2006, Darrell Roberson came home from a late-night card game to find his scantily clad wife with another man in a pickup in the driveway. Tracy Roberson was with her lover but cried rape, and her husband fired four shots into the truck as Devin LaSalle drove off, killing him.
Darrell [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Law | Comments (10)