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Submitted by David on Mon, 2013-10-28 00:49

Another Judge Suffers from Ironic-Cellphone-Disruption Syndrome: "Judge Hugh B. Clarke Jr. ... fined himself $50 after his cellphone went off at a sentencing hearing."
Ex-Israeli Soldier Denounced on US Campus for Not Raping Palestinian Women: Can't say that I've stumbled across this particular line of reasoning before. "in one case, a professor asked me if I knew how many Palestinians have been raped by IDF forces. I answered that as far as I knew, none. She triumphantly responded that I was right, because, she said, 'You IDF soldiers don’t rape Palestinians because Israelis are so racist and disgusted by them that you won’t touch them.'"
Millionaire Men Prefer To Date Women With Less Money: "the vast majority of millionaire men, 79.6 percent, seek out non-millionaire women, while 84.5 percent of the female millionaires would prefer to date another millionaire."
Why it's probably safer if your pilot is asleep than awake: "A survey of 500 commercial pilots has found that one in six has woken up on the flight deck to find their co-pilot snoozing." Yet, at the same time, "No aircraft in the history of aviation has crashed because a pilot has gone to sleep at the controls ... It's never happened. On the other hand, crashes that have resulted from fatigue? There are many, many, many of those."

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Mon, 2013-10-28 16:54

I didn't realize judges could sentence themselves. Is this like doctors treating themselves? Either way, definitely ironic!