By the time you read this Halloween will be over and we’ll be headed toward Thanksgiving. It’s a shame, really. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, a night where the ghouls, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night get a chance to party. Fortunately, there’s always next year, and I’m in a giving mood, so today’s Friday Funny are some tips to enhance your Halloween 2020 experience.

1. First, disregard any “news” article warning parents of adults slipping THC laced candy to kids on Halloween. That stuff is expensive, adults pay good money for it, and odds are if they’ve got it they’re not sharing. Especially not with kids.

2. Another baseless fear is that of teen vandals out to egg cars or roll houses with toilet paper. American teens would much rather spend their time and energy playing Fortnite on their iToys than committing acts of vandalism. If you’re really scared, don’t call the cops. Defend your castle like a fucking adult. I’ve personally found bear traps, motion activated security systems, and a lifelike replica of Pennywise the Clown works for me. Continue reading →

There is nothing to stop you from calling your adversary on the telephone. There is nothing to stop your opposing counsel from not taking your call. There is nothing to stop you from alerting the court that you attempted to contact your adversary but he neither took the call nor returned the call. And whatever flows from this scenario is up to the court.

But what if your adversary has rules?

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Painful as it may be to say this, Alexandra Brodsky isn’t entirely wrong.

The men* mourn due process. Last week, Harvey Weinstein attended a “speakeasy for artists,” where, as he should have expected, a comedian pointed out that #MeToo’s top villain was in the audience. Two other performers directly confronted the Hollywood producer, who awaits a rape trial. Their comments were, a Weinstein rep decried, “an example of how the public is trying to squash due process.” Some of the critics later reported they were escorted out of the club without any kind of process of their own. One, Zoe Stuckless, recalled: “This guy was leading me out the stairs, just repeating ‘due process, due process’ to me.”

While there are some serious doubts any of this happened as Brodsky claims, not because they didn’t happen but because Brodsky lacks the cred to believe her in the absence of better proof, and she is, as one would expect, disingenuous in her spin, as the “due process” connection exists as Weinstein is universally reviled and treated as guilty despite not having been convicted of anything, the point remains. Hating him, even without conviction, isn’t a denial of due process. Continue reading →