Where things can get pretty igry ...Rick's Cafe Americain

A Taiwanese legislator tried to stop debate on a bill to set up transportation links with China by grabbing the resolution and trying to swallow it.

Wang later spat out the document and tore it up after opposition lawmakers failed to get her to cough it up by pulling her hair.

When pressed for comment, she expressed surprise at how hard it was to chew up a document given how “easily George Bush chewed up and shit out the U.S. Constitution.”

All along I thought I was a 35-year-old from Queens. It turns out that I am an 18-year-old dude from Wyoming.

Did I mention that I’m on MySpace?

Poor kid is probably too young to realize that it is his fate to look like a lesbian in photographs for the rest of his life. 

A man recently sued the Angels for sex discrimination because he was not given a tote bag as part of a Mother’s Day promotion.

Inspired by this litigious douchebaggery, the Altoona Curve (AA - Pittsburgh) are having Frivolous Lawsuit Night. I’m not a big fan of the concept; most notoriously “frivilous” lawsuits are actually meritorious but popularized in deceptive ways by insurance companies that hate paying the judgments. The McDonald’s coffee case is the prime example. (If you ever want a boring lecture from me, bring that up at a party as a symbol of the tort system run amok.)

Still, I like the whimsy behind the Curve’s promotions:

* A Pink Tote Bag Giveaway to the first 137 men in attendance ages 18 and over
* The first 137 women 18 and over will receive lukewarm coffee so they will not burn themselves
* The first 137 kids will be given a beach ball with a warning not to ingest it

Hat tip to Bucs Dugout.

4th Circuit Judge Michael Luttig is stepping down from the bench to take a job at Boeing.

Waaaaaah! George didn’t put me on the Supreme Court! Waaaaaaaaaah! I’m taking my 1700’s legal doctrine and going home!

By the way, how does a judge send around resumes? How does a corporation solicit a judge to work for it without forever conflicting out the judge from future matters?