Humor is a remarkably effective means of making a point. In the hands of a master craftsman, it’s far more compelling than the most passionate plea of the most sincere advocate. The”why” is easy. We actually want to pay attention to humor, and, when well done, it can be far more incisive than any lecture.
Then there’s Samantha Bee. She has a TV show called “Full Frontal,” because she didn’t want to be too flagrant. There’s only one (with about a million subparts) issue with Sam. She’s kind of a dolt. Granted, who am I to call her a dolt, given that she’s on TV and I’m, well, not, but Alf was a big hit too, so there.
Samantha Bee went after an issue of some importance to criminal defense lawyers. Well, not exactly “an issue,” as she starts by addressing the failure of using a preclusive field drug test as affirmative proof of drugs. But then she couldn’t control her impulse and stay on topic.
There is a theory that anything that promotes sound outcomes is worthy of support, even if it falls a tad short of intelligence and accuracy. Maybe Sam can be forgiven her digression into the racial implications of the system, since they certainly disfavor the poor, and she is apparently of the view that black people are inherently poor.
But do all middle-class white people get a free ride out of the system, even after the horrors of being victimized by stupid cops?
While Sam is no Lenny Bruce. Or George Carlin. Or Richard Pryor. Or any astute comedian ever, is she better than, say, Kim Kardashian? That she promoted the notion that field drug tests are wholly inadequate for the purpose of providing probable cause for possession of drugs, even though she never said so and likely doesn’t quite grasp this nuance, is good. She’s certainly done worse, as dolts are wont to do.
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And the moral of the story is:
If George had a decent tailor he wouldn’t need a guitar while viloating a harmonica in order to get a date with an ADA. And the band plays on….as the cops and the ADA’s boss dine on “don’t give a shit” hors d’oeuvres wrapped in bacon served up and blessed by the bench, taking pleas like peas all snuggled up to the prosciutto in the tortilena cream sauce.
P.S. More ham with the short cakes please.
I love rumaki. I’ll eat pretty much any edible food wrapped in bacon. Except kale.
Worth the price of admission to hear the silky smooth vocal stylings of George Reul.
If it wasn’t so REAL….and for the esteemed one “never giving way”: PAST “lifting”… I might just yield. Who knows what he knows from, his bunker?
Or just the depth of ETC…”anger’ that floats the “boat”
Does he have a “bunker”?
I don’t know, “established” lick (not ilk) it might get funky fun. NOT.
They are here (in these back pages) , my guess is across the retainer spectrum ….
IN FUCKING SPADES!
I wouldn’t even consider selling needed harmonicas, for those that can’t accept the “suck”!
GET over it!
Speak “bitches” !
Hosting is myth and the guy didn’t even mention Bill Hicks.
One judge or eight…is too much?
Bring on the “duty”. DUTY!
Might not germinate, but you “silent” ones can’t eat fools till you put your hands in the soil.
AND, now that that the robed rider and our host are doing their best not to beat each other over the head with blunt instruments.
WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?
Jesus! Neither of them realize they are IN training!
Offices of the court, get out and stand out, say IT.
Ain’t nothing going to change anytime soon thanks to the CDL from Manhattan, our host, and that fucking “hugged” judge from Nebraska who might wave to his neighbor’s but doesn’t cross the “tracks” even when it is the “sunny” afternoon he preaches of.
Fuck it, I don’t “blame” either one of them!
It’s kind of cute, actuality, the two of them looking for an excuse to “swing” in the park.
THEY BOTH HAVE PLENTY OF EXCUSES,
I give them a pass.
It’s knowing, but even better in the “showing” , (for lack of a better word). Teasing “fools”!
It’s a difficult script or it would be in production by now.
I thought you always papered over the script difficulties with hardcore.
Did Barleycorn go off his meds again?
run………..
https://youtu.be/0h2wRKSVdks