On December 7th, 2011, Salvatore Miglino went to his estranged wife's house to pick up his three year old son. Mom and son were out getting pizza, but mother-in-law Cheryl Hepner was there. Salvatore asks to have his son's pillow and some other belongings, yadda yadda yadda, Cherly is calling 911, saying that she shot Salvatore. She told the 911 operator and the police that he pulled the gun on her, she knocked it away, picked it up, and shot him twice.

Salvatore disputes this claims, saying they were having a little bit of an altercation, but that she pulled the gun on him and shot him. This is going to be a tough one for both the prosecution and the jury, right? Who do you prosecute, and is there enough evidence to convict?

Naturally, you prosecute Cheryl for attempted murder. And, it's gonna stick. How? It's just a case of he-said, she-said, right?

Nope. It's he-said, she-said, he-recorded-it-on-his-phone.

Yeup. Expecting some trouble, Miglino turned on his phone's camera about a minute before he was shot.

The best part, Salvatore falls on top of Cheryl after being shot, and you can clearly hear her saying, "get the fuck off me, you son-of-a-bitch."

Yeah, you totally lose your right to complain about someone holding you on the ground once you start shooting them.

"I can't believe you shot me!"

"Get off me."

One of the parties has a slightly more sympathetic grievance.

In a statement from her attorney, Cheryl says she is remorseful that Salvatore got shot. Not remorseful that she shot him, but that he got shot. Classy lady.

(The second best part of all this is that you can hear Chris Rock in the background before the shooting.)

[CNN]

[Rather damning excerpt from the police report]

In a speech at Oral Roberts University, Newt Gingrich had some very harsh criticism of Obama when it comes to national security. Here are a few of the highlights:

Barack Obama is the most dangerous president in modern American history.

The President wants to unilaterally weaken the United States.

Defeating Barack Obama becomes a duty of national security.

Gingrich didn't just say that Obama is incapable of defending us, but that he is willfully weakening our defenses and leaving us vulnerable to attack. There's a term to describe someone who does that, it's called a traitor. And of course, traitors are enemies of our nation. And what does Gingrich think we should do with traitors?

Kill them.

Someone call DHS, Gingrich is threatening to kill the President of the United States.

Want to make your tax hawk friends go all derpy? Show them this:

The table is from an article written a few months by Steven Strauss, the Managing Director of the Center for Economic Transformation at the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

His point is that overall, economic growth has very little to do with the tax rate. More important factors are the performance of competitor nations, technological achievements, and whether we're spending our money on growth or just lighting it on fire.

The simple fact of the matter is that economies are driven by innovation, and innovation is driven by a desire to create, not by a desire to take home 85% of capital gains instead of 65%. Think Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would have changed their mind about pioneering computers and other technology if their tax rates had been a few points higher? Not likely. Think George Lucas would have stopped making movies if all he cared about was the money? Absolutely. When Lucas stopped being an artist and technological innovator, and just started making crap to sell toys and make money, he stopped producing anything of value. People who chase the almighty buck produce nothing but shit, and it's not shit that builds an economy.

Well, it does, but that's an economy of shit.

Doesn't it make sense to have economic policies that focus on empowering those who will make the economy stronger? That's gotta be some sort of tautology.

[Stephen Strauss on Huffington Post]

Law schools really love to talk about the varied careers of alumni and how they've gone on to great success in other fields. Demetri Martin is one such person, an alumnus of NYU. He has gone on to be a writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, was a contributor on the Daily Show, and his own show on Comedy Central, Important Things, has been picked up for a third season.

What law schools don't want you to know is that Demetri Martin dropped out after his second year, hated the law school experience, and it contributed next to nothing to his career other than a quirky little footnote.

Here is Martin talking about his experience at NYU, and how the only thing that got him to study was that it allowed him to take goofing off to new heights: