This is probably an obvious statement to make, but if Nancy Grace is the best person that marijuana prohibitionists have to represent their side, they might as well give up now and save their money for a more worthwhile puritanical cause. The former terrible prosecutor and present terrible TV screaming head couldn’t even hold her…
’60 Minutes’ Still Just So Shocked That Weed Is Legal
It’s never a good sign when a documentary on marijuana begins with an ad from Pfizer. But 60 Minutes decided to wade into the issue of recreational weed in Colorado, and they did so with the objectivity and nuance you’d expect for a show that appeals to viewers old enough to have ingested morphine-infused patent…
Attention Alaska Bar Association: Here Are Your Ethical Guidelines About Weed
As the age of marijuana prohibition evaporates before our eyes like a bag of ditch weed belonging to a surly undergraduate art school dropout, lawyers across the country are waking up to find that the rest of society is (for whatever reason) expecting us to explain the extent of weed’s legality. Given that this task…
In Which We Law So Hard About Uber’s Surge Pricing
Yesterday, Daily Beast reporter Olivia Nuzzi decided to engage in some half-assed trolling of the web by defending the awful union-busting car service Uber and their decision to jack up prices in response to an armed stand off in Sydney, Australia. After some taunting from me on Twitter, Nuzzi asked me to explain why I…
Finally A Law School Class Worth Taking: Weed Law
These days law schools are frequently attacked for being expensive diploma mills that exist solely to burden students with heaps non-dischargable debt before sending them off into an already oversaturated professional world. As a result of this negative trend many law schools are engaging in different forms of experimental learning and early job training. But…
Pop Torts: Bill Cosby Versus Human Decency And (Probably) NBC And Viacom And Netflix
Thanks to Hannibal Buress’ troll of the year, you’re probably aware of the recent problems that Bill “respectability politics” Cosby has had in the last two weeks. It turns out that an incredibly wealthy person can (allegedly) carry on a hobby of drugging women and raping women for 30 years or so before he faces…
We Read The Horrible Clay Christensen Interview So You Don’t Have To
“Disruption” is one of those awful MBA shibboleths that have infected the blood stream of normal discourse over the last decade. It’s a largely meaningless term employed by the world’s laziest pseudo-intellectuals to condescendingly explain to the victims of destruction-capitalism why their skills and inherent worthiness as a human are now longer respected. It’s basically…
Pop Torts: Frank Sivero Versus The Simpsons
As you might have heard Frank Sivero, who is most remembered for his iconic role as a frozen corpse in Goodfellas, is suing the creators of the Simpsons. Sivero’s cause of action is based off of the supposed theft of his one-dimensional stereotype in the 1990 Scorsese classic, which Matt Groening et al turned it…
Pop Torts: Don Henley Versus Clothing
Don Henley (who apparently is a recording artist or something)has taken a break from producing music that millennials can’t pretend to like even ironically to line the pockets of his lawyers at Loeb & Loeb, by filing his latest in a series of “bored old man defends his awful legacy with obnoxious lawsuits.” This time…
Pop Torts: J-Law Versus The Internet
Welcome to Pop Torts, our new feature and your new source for celebrity lawsuits both meritorious and otherwise. Jennifer Lawrence commented for the first time about the unauthorized release of her private nude photos in the most recent issue of Vanity Fair. She is understandably pissed about the incident, and (much to the dismay of…