In Pursuit of the Trivial
July 30, 2008
No diplomatic immunity for wife of ‘ambassador of soul’
The “Extra-Terrestrial Exposure Law” has nothing to do with pervs from outer space. Rather, it authorizes a quarantine for astronauts who come within the “atmospheric envelope of any other celestial body.”
One of the wives of legendary R&B artist James Brown once tried to beat traffic
charges by claiming she was entitled to diplomatic immunity on the basis of her
marriage to the “ambassador of soul.”
In Baltimore, it’s illegal to take a lion to the movies.
A German woman is suing her doctors after she checked in to have wrinkles removed and woke up with a pair of breast implants. The physicians said the woman should not complain because the best way to tighten the skin and remove the wrinkles was to make her breasts bigger.
The “Twinkie defense” is a myth. When Dan White — charged with murdering San
Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk — asserted a defense of diminished capacity, a doctor testified that White’s junk food habit was a symptom of his depression, not the cause of it.
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