a dog-eared town

Ahh, now you can really see how New Hampshire has become like Massachusetts with this story from the Union Leader. It’s actually a followup from a story from yesterday but the crux of the matter is a judge’s inability to do something about crime.
In court on Monday, David Vitello Jr. of Salem admitted to smashing […]

I don’t normally watch 60 Minutes but it was on, and I happened to watch something that was chilling in it’s disregard for human life. While normally people think of killers and bad people as having no regard for life, the following story shows that it’s not just killers that have no morals, but lawyers […]

The Union Leader had this story about some scumbag drunk off his ass who ended up killing 2 people and there’s this truly stupid quote from the defense lawyer. Look, I know you’re doing your job and all, but it’s questions like the following that really just make lawyers look horrible.
Although his client was strapped […]

I know copyright law is a burning issue on many people’s minds. Here’s a concrete example of how the current copyright system is broken.
A sub shop in Derry is trying to claim a common staple of New England takeout menus as its own.
It seems that just about any restaurant that has a steak and […]

And it’s a joke for many different reasons. The first one is that it utterly attempts to ignore reality. That sort of thing tends to end badly. So here’s the reality on the ground.
Real estate executive Jack Rosen has given Sen. Hillary Clinton $8,800 since last November, nearly double the amount individuals can donate to […]

In my earlier story about the media enabler company, Media Defender, they had set up a fake website hoping to induce people to commit copyright infringement. Well they obviously noticed the traffic from digg and /. because they yanked the website down. They also changed the WhoIs information to hide who own the site. Of […]

If you are terminally stupid, which the MPAA is, you hire a company to “catch” people downloading copyrighted files and keep the information for when you file a lawsuit. The reason the MPAA is terminally stupid is that their contractor committed copyright infringement itself, by illegally offering downloads of copyrighted material.
here’s a taste of the […]