A week or so ago, we mentioned that sense that we have that somebody’s watching us. As it turns out, that someone may be Facebook. First, there was the bruhaha over the fact that FB keeps track of where you go, even after you leave their site. And now, due to an EU law that…
Back before the SEALS made Osama an ex-terrorist there was a man on a mission. That mission was to kill Osama bin Laden with either his pistol or his Samurai sword, whichever was most handy at the time. And now that intrepid go-getter is in jail. The man is Gary Faulkner and about being in…
Is it a crime to throw a dead mink at someone? What about a dead weasel? Or a dead marten? What about skipping the carcasses and just punching someone in the face? These were the alleged actions of a Seattle-area man: The victim said that a man burst into his apartment. When the victim asked,…
(From BBC News) I am sure that all of us can sympathize with dealing with jury duty. It’s inconveniencing, it can soak up a whole month with you stuck in a room listening to all manner of experts talk about why someone did or didn’t do something. But we all do it, because, well it…
There is a law—a real, actual law—that existed in England until 1823: if a court adjudged a man to have committed suicide, his corpse had to be buried at a crossroads, with a stake through its heart. His family was forbidden to mourn. When the British Parliament finally concluded that this practice was not so…
Tonight’s premiere on TNT’s Mystery Movie Night is another legal thriller, this one by Richard North Patterson, based upon his Tony Lord novel Silent Witness. Dermot Mulroney plays the pricey and dangerous criminal defense attorney Tony Lord, who’s called back to the hometown that accused him and set him on the path of his life.…
Back in May, we talked about how James Sallis’ fabulous book Drive was being made into a movie to star Ryan Gosling. And then, of course, we got busy and forgot to ask you whether you’d seen it and what you thought. Well, one woman’s opinion is making news. Apparently, Sarah Deming of Michigan is…
From the “you can’t make this stuff up” department and the good folks over at The Smoking Gun comes the news that “a judge has issued an arrest warrant for the 23-year-old man accused of the terribly embarrassing theft of a Justin Bieber cutout from a Florida record store.” Back in August when David Dowling…
There’s been conversation, there’s been controversy, there’ve been comments, all on the question of whether Mark Harmon can actually pull off the role of Lucas Davenport, John Sandford’s anti-heroic hero of the Prey series. (Check out the previous posts in this series.) He can do suave and confident, no question about that—Gibbs is plenty smooth…
You’ve seen it in the store a thousand times: the homey-looking container labeled something along the lines of “all-natural maple syrup.” But is it really natural? And, more important to Vermont lawmakers, is it really maple syrup? Acording to an article in the Huffington Post, the two US Senators from Vermont are sponsoring a bill…
