Dowbrigade

How does the RIAA pick these guys? Could they possibly have chosen a worse poster boy for their campaign to castigate the larcenous youth of America than a 71-year-old grandfather named Durwood Pickle? Perhaps the message they are trying to send in the latest round of 261 suits (46 against Boston-area users, making us [...]

The authors insist that "if a cat looks overweight, it is."

WASHINGTON (AFP) - One out of every four
dogs and cats in the western world is now obese and needs diet to protect
[...]

On Oct. 9, the greenback will go pink. That’s
the day the new, peach-colored $20 bills will enter into circulation
across the United States.
The new $20 is intended to thwart counterfeiters with an
array [...]

“I didn’t do it, and I don’t feel like I’m responsible. Dadgum it, I got to get a lawyer on this.”
71-year-old Texan Durwood Pickle, explaining that his teen-aged grandchildren must have downloaded songs during visits to his home, then left the sharing features enabled so other Internet users could access them.

“We expect to hear, `It wasn’t me, it was my kid.’ If they would prefer that the lawsuit be amended to name the kid, we’d be happy to do that.”
RIAA president Cary Sherman, maintaining that parents (and grandparents) should be held responsible for the children’s actions.