Thank you, see you round!

Very profound, illucio. I don't think we have met. Welcome to the Gulch!

"When a man lies, he murders some part of the World". Power is a drug to be handled carefully, and only in intervals. If it´s use becomes chronic, consciousness is stoned and moral shifted towards decay.

I didn't know that, but somehow it seems right.

Most people don't know this, but Curly was a champion ballroom dancer.

I certainly do love Larry and the Horowitz er, ..Howard brothers Moe and Curly. Although lately, there have been some reality silliness going on in Asian courtrooms that are almost as funny.

Hmm...nobody ever invites me to fight. I still lace up the gloves two or three times a week and I'm 6', 225#. Maybe that has something to do with it.

I f*%^ing hate bullies. A bully in a robe...that's rich. Might as well be a priest. Why not put a crown on his head too?

Judge Murphy was temporarily suspended with pay late yesterday. He is being placed on leave and being told to take anger management classes.

One of my favorite episodes. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

See "Disorder in the Court" by The Three Stooges. At least you'll get a good laugh out of it, unlike this little piece of....nonsense.

Sounds like Stands With a Fist from Dances with Wolves.

lol The sooner you stand up to them (or beat them up) the sooner they'll leave you alone. Perhaps we should try that in our politics. Groin kick and rabbit jabs all around.... we've got out work cut out for us.

When my wife was four, so she tells me, she got in a fight at school. The five-year-old bully who liked to pick on girls picked on her, the smallest girl in her class. When she got home she told her brother. Well, that didn't go over will with brother, who regarded his little sister as his personal punching bag. So he taught her a trick.

Next day at school the bully tried again. She groin-kicked and rabbit-punched him, putting him flat on the floor.

Her parents got a phone call. "Mrs. X, it's about your daughter. No, she's all right. She beat up the school bully. We really don't know what to say."

No one ever bothered her at that school again.

Of course the Bailiff will "see nothing"... after all, they have to work in that courtroom, sure beats jailhouse duty (especially if your up i years and not as physically fit as a 22 year old), and no better and faster way to get
"reassigned" than to piss off a judge.

Welcome to the real world. The judge will walk on this one - by taking it to an area that was known not to have surveillance (rare in a courthouse) there was no separate corroborating witness to the crime. Although the threat itself is prosecutable, if only they had the integrity to uphold the law.

As adults too, some of them.

Great! Maybe I should bring my laptop....

Did it ever occur to anyone that lots of local courts are like that, and that lots of attorneys will flaunt the rules of decorum.
A municipal judge's principle duty has nothing to do with the law these days, they are just black robed tax collectors. All the real law is practiced at the superior and appelet court levels. If that attorney had a problem with that judge, the rules suggest taking your sentence and appealing.

There used to be a legal concept of Mutual Combat and there probably still is in some southern states. That is two people mutually agree to fight then neither can claim the other assaulted them. In Florida the state attorney will charge the one who doesn't get to his office first and fill out a complaint.

I brought a notepad and was working on my next journal article. They thought I was taking notes. LOL!

Yeah. Hollywood. They also make a bunch of shows and movies that are shoot-em-ups. Go figure.

I used to routinely beat the hell out of bullies...which is also ironic, I guess.

I'm proud of you!

LOL...that is funny....

Yeah. It's entertaining but I can't friggin stand jury duty. Want to really piss them off? Bring a newspaper with you...talking from experience...

I will add that in my home area some years ago, a judge was presiding over a case in which a juvenile on probation was accused of kicking her probation officer. He ordered the probation officer to kick the defendant. The probation officer refused. So the judge came down off the bench and kicked the defendant.

No criminal charges resulted, though the judge was "censured" by the Bar Association and retired not long after. The defendant's family filed a civil rights lawsuit which got quite a bit of ink....and quite suddenly dropped out of sight with no word of any form of resolution. What went on behind the scenes, no one knows.

I would like to think that this sort of conduct is a rare exception to the general rule. But we do not have cameras in courtrooms in Minnesota, so in cases like this....we have only the word of witnesses. Witnesses have a way of suddenly clamming up in this neck of the woods. And people have a way of turning up dead in abandoned mine pits now and then. I'm not saying there is a connection, but it is general knowledge here that at least one fellow who was fished out of a pit was murdered by police. No investigation was ever conducted.