Well, it has been a horrible few weeks in college football. Yes, Tulane, my alma mater, has another losing season, but I wasn't really thinking about that. The situation at Penn State…
On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 12:00 p.m. CST, Jon E. Lewis and Richard S. Jaffe will begin a Twitter chat called #TweetLaw – (See number 505). The goal of the chat is to allow attorneys and…
I’m passionate about safety and justice. You’d probably expect that from someone who chose to represent injured people for a career. But I’m also passionate about the arts and…
Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was fired by the University Board of Trustees tonight for failing to report the rape of a 10 year old boy in the showers at the Penn State locker room over ten…
On November 7, 2007, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Spin Master, of Toronto, Canada, announced a voluntary recall of Aqua Dots. The toys, manufactured in China,…
Here in Richmond, Virginia, a local lawyer is challenging the Virginia State Bar’s authority to regulate his blog, claiming that such regulation violates his First Amendment free-speech rights. Like…
I recently wrote about the dangers of deer on the highway. Last year, my friend Carson Leach wrote about being hit by a deer while he was bicycling. So when I came across a video of a mountain…
After excessively violent events, shoot ’em up games regularly come under scrutiny. In Norway, several first-person shooter games actually disappeared from the market for a while after the…
We’ve all seen those coin-sized batteries. They’re called “button batteries” and they power all sorts of devices from hearing aids to remote controls. As these little…
The father of two teenagers says that his sons may have been smoking the synthetic drug “spice” before they were killed by a train in Mebane, N.C. It’s a horrible loss for the…
I remember hearing about the problem after Hurricane Floyd and then again after Hurricane Katrina. We’re bound to see it again in the wake of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. The…
You’ve probably heard the old saw, “Offense sells tickets; Defense wins games!” Not in baseball. At least not according to a new analysis by a University of Delaware professor….
