Allison Margolin is a 28-year-old, Columbia (woo!) and Harvard-educated criminal defense lawyer based out of Los Angeles. She’s perhaps most famous her assurance that she will work to clear you of anything from “marijuana to murder.” Which we figure...

Venezuelan President and international lady killa Hugo Chavez has signed an “intelligence law” that would encourage citizens to spy on and report one another’s actions to the government. After all, sharing is caring: “It’s a system just like Cuba,”...

The French, who, mind you, invented crêpes and crème fraîche and treachery, have adopted a bill that would outlaw the public endorsement of “extreme thinness:” Fashion industry experts said that, if passed, the law would be the strongest of...

Step away from your meth labs and gather ‘round, kittens! It’s time for another installment of Fun Facts From Florida! Did you know… Floridians can now bring their guns to work? It’s true! But only if they leave them...

Yesterday, Uruguay’s Congress allowed same-sex civil unions, making it the first Latin American country to do so: Under the new law, gay and straight couples will be eligible to form civil unions after living together for five years. They...

A Houston judge has ruled that the city’s new “taco truck” ordinance could go into effect this week, much to the chagrin of mobile food truck vendors and the gordita-crazed masses who love them so: The new ordinance requires...

Milana Dravnel, amateur boxer-cum-cross-dresser photographer is suing Oscar De La Hoya for 100 million buckaroos. She is suing for defamation, fraud, breach of contract, emotional distress, coercion, and god knows what else. Dravnel claims that De La Hoya’s people...

Cuban rafters who find themselves in Mexican waters are discovering that, unlike with Mexican police officers, paying Mexican lawyers a lot of money won’t help problems go away faster: According to one of the Cubans who helps rafters in...