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browngirl ([personal profile] browngirl) wrote2010-06-18 02:25 pm

A Few Good Things

There has been a great deal of bad news this week in various spheres of my life and my friends' lives. Here are a few things I came across that pleased me.

[livejournal.com profile] marydell linked me to this story about sportsmanship and high school softball.

I can't remember who linked me to Dreamwidth user Happydork's Picspam Thursdays but that's how I found this article about the wedding of Mr. Thom McCaffrey and Lance Corporal James Wharton of the Household Cavalry, and many other wonderfulnesses besides.

[livejournal.com profile] bikergeek told me about this hilarious legal decision and [livejournal.com profile] solvent90 told me more about this wonderfully snarky judge.

ETA Via [livejournal.com profile] valkyrwench's spot-on open letter to Rep Barton, apologist for and apologizer to British Petroleum, Joe Barton would like to apologize to...

[identity profile] janetmiles.livejournal.com 2010-06-18 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Those court decisions are lovely!

Have you seen this one?

[identity profile] browngirl.livejournal.com 2010-06-20 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
That was hilarious! "Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact — complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words — to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats, in the hope that the Court would be so charmed by their child-like efforts that their utter dearth of legal authorities in their briefing would go unnoticed. " *bahahagiggle*