From TheSmokingGun.com, and HT to my GM at the Franchise:

Meet Alex Sawyer and Andrew Wilkins. The North Carolina couple was arrested earlier this month after an apparent case of the munchies led them to break into a Domino’s Pizza branch and bake up a batch of the fast food chain’s new brownies. The pair was nabbed at 5:30 AM on September 7 after a Stallings Police Department officer noticed a suspicious car–with keys in its ignition and a warm engine–parked outside a small strip mall. When Sawyer and Wilkins noticed police on the scene, they fled out the Domino’s front door and were apprehended after a short chase, said Sergeant Mike Kane. Sawyer, a 21-year-old hair stylist, and Wilkins, a 20-year-old carpet cleaner, were arrested and later charged with breaking and entering and larceny, both felonies. Additionally (and not surprisingly), Sawyer was found carrying a marijuana pipe, for which she was hit with a misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia count. Kane told TSG that when he entered the Domino’s, he discovered that the establishment’s ovens were on and a box of brownies had been freshly baked. Investigators determined that Wilkins had previously worked at the Domino’s and was fired for allegedly stealing a cash box. Kane said that Wilkins told him that he went to the closed store to return a set of keys and was not there to steal anything. Though Wilkins did acknowledge the pre-dawn baking: “I was just making food, I was hungry.” Police recovered the brownies, valued at $5, and found no evidence that anything had been taken from the eatery. At the time of the duo’s arrest, Kane had not yet had the opportunity to taste the Domino’s Brownie Squares, which were added to the chain’s menu in late-August. He subsequently tried out the dessert, which boasts a “warm, chocolaty center,” and pronounced them “killer.”

Many of us have MySpace pages. All of us who do, will at some point have a My(Death)Space page.

(Because, see, unless you’re Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod, everyone dies).

(And even MacLeod’s only safe as long as his head stays put).

So I got home from school yesterday and wound up munching oatmeal raisin cookies while drinking milk and watching Boston Legal. Watching the show, I got the strong feeling of deja-vu to a show (or, rather, a series of shows) which share quite a bit in common with Boston Legal. If you read the title of the post, you can probably figure out what series of shows I’m talking about: Star Trek.

* William Shatner (TOS’s Captain Kirk) is a starring member of the show.

* Rene Auberjonois (DS9’s Odo) as a member of the legal firm.

* Armin Shimmerman (Ds9’s Quark) as a judge whose wife’s accused murderer was on trial.

* Ethan Phillips (Voyager’s Neelix) as a dad testifying against his kid.

* Ron Canada, a recurring character on the show, playing a judge in last night’s episode, also portrayed a Klingon attorney in DS9’s “Rules of Engagement.”

Remember my post a few days ago? What do these ten artists have in common? They’re the ten most frequently quoted musicians in legal “opinions and journals”.

Judges, lawyers, legal scholars, they have a particular penchant for dropping musical references into their opinions and journals and not just any music. Alex Long is an associate professor at the Oklahoma City University School of Law and author of the paper, Insert Lyrics Here: The Uses and Misuses of Popular Music Lyrics in Legal Writing. He found that folk and folk-influenced artists from the ’60s and ’70s are the most frequently cited. In fact, his top 10 list reads like the tattered vinyl collection of the Baby Boom. We’re so predictable.

Dylan is largely described as the voice of a generation, and he is the voice of the generation that currently holds a lot of power in the legal profession. And the folk music revival of the early ’60s often gets closely linked to the civil rights movement of the early ’60s. And if you talk to a lot of older attorneys out there, you come to quickly realize that there are a lot of attorneys, and, in fact, a lot of law professors who were inspired by the civil rights movement to become lawyers in the first place. So they’ve carried those memories and those feelings with them throughout their lives. And certainly have been good uses of Dylan’s lyrics.

From NPR On The Media.