“Let not the weight thou wouldst pull to theyself exceed thine own weight.” – Lyle the guru, Infinite Jest (128)

A good friend will come and bail you out of jail. A true friend will be sitting next to you saying, “Damn! That was fun!”

This, my friends, must be origin, cause, and prize for some sort of public defender contest. Perhaps it should be the new award for the overall best blog in the Rodneys. Perhaps it should be for some monumental feat and contest yet to be devised. Example: Public defender w/the most repeat customers in a year wins the trophy! I just had a great one: Guy gets felony DUI (or for some of you crazies out there, DWI – drunk driving, ok?). We move to suppress for lack of good reason to stop. (MT calls the level of evidence needed to make a traffic stop legal “particularized suspicion” — probable cause was just far too high a standard for the law and order folk in the wild wild west!) State concedes on the motion; stop was stinky, case dismissed! Not two weeks later, same dude is back in jail on a new felony domestic assault charge. I didn’t know whether to scream with rage or cry with sadness, so I did neither and instead just went about my business. That’s what we do. As one of my colleagues says constantly, “The hard work of freedom is never done!” That’s why we need a trophy!

Alrighty then. I’m thinking about it, so you should, too. Let me know if you come up w/anything. I just want a chance to win this or give it to someone.

Yes, I know I need therapy.

What’s the diff btwn a municipal bond & a musician? The bond eventually matures & earns income.

Why does NJ have the most toxic waste sites in the country while CA has the most lawyers? Because NJ had first choice! :-)

Prison guard spelling describing prisoner tattos: “gargoil.” U don’t have to b smart to b a wharehouser of humans.

Is it an honor to be this week’s “attorney of the year” among the population at your local jail? ;-)

Alektorophobia is fear of chickens. Is that for real?

It’s really perverse how hitting the snooze button on the alarm is like a trigger to make me fall immediately and deeply asleep, only to be rudely awakened again 9 minutes later when the alarm goes off again. On some deep psychological level I think this must be ruining my life.

1. Regarding misogyny, it seems true to me that our society has a greater taboo against public denigration based upon race than it does against public denigration of gender. So yeah, perhaps Hillary (two Ls) was stereotyped and gender-bashed in ways that Barack (with a C) was not race bashed. It was subtle, but sometimes that’s the worst kind of critique. I’m sure w/in a year or two there will be a dozen books analyzing this
2. It would be really cool to have an Obama/Clinton ticket, but can you imagine being President Obama w/both Bill and Hill in your White House telling you what to do all the time? I can’t see it working.
3. Lots of things are younger than McCain.

Jane says, “Have u seen my wig around? I feel naked without it!”