*WARNING* Squeamish much? Then skip this post.

Bill Clinton wondered what the definition of "is" is.

Now a Minnesota lawyer wonders what the definiton of "animal" is.

Bryan James Hathaway, 20, of Superior faces a misdemeanor charge of sexual
gratification with an animal. He is accused of having sex with a dead deer he
saw beside Stinson Avenue on Oct. 11.

A motion filed last week by his attorney, public defender Fredric
Anderson, argued that because the deer was dead, it was not considered an animal
and the charge should be dismissed.

“The statute does not prohibit one from having sex with a carcass,”
Anderson wrote.

Yeah. Let's all take a moment to ICK! and move on to what might actually be a legitimate question.

C'mon. Do I have to spell it out for you? All right I will.

What about salami or pepperoni sticks?

'Cause I'm guessing there are quite a few guilty women in Minnesota if that's the case.

[Gee, thanks for bringing this to my attention, Drudge.]

Aside: The sex of the deer was not mentioned in the article.

You're a grand ol' flag; you're a high-flying flag . . .

. . . which apparently irks the morons in charge of Palm Beach, Florida.

Palm Beach officials cited Trump for hoisting a large American flag atop an 80-foot pole at his lavish Mar-a-Lago estate and club.

Town officials said the real estate mogul has violated zoning codes with a flagpole taller than 42 feet and for erecting it without a building permit and permission from the landmarks board.

Trump has until November 27 to apply for approvals or face a December 21 code enforcement hearing that could result in $250-a-day fines.

The flag; can't burn it, can't fly it. So what do you do with it?

Tag, you're sued.

Mass. school bans playing tag, citing potential legal liability:

Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from
playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess
for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.

Banning dodgeball is bad enough, but TAG? What are kids supposed to do, just stand around outside (but only in the shade because of the sun's deadly cancer rays)?

When I was a kid, I got shoved on the bus by another kid, pushing a sharpened pencil through my bookbag and into my thumb. A piece of carbon (thankfully, it's not really lead) is still lodged in it, which you can sometimes still see through the skin. Perhaps we should ban pencils. Or flimsy bookbags. Or schoolbuses. Or kids.

Just please let me keep my thumbs.

California Suing Car Manufacturers

The state of California is suing auto manufacturers alleging that their perfectly legal product when used in perfectly legal ways caused global warming which in turn caused "significant harm to California’s environment, economy, agriculture and public health." The ultimate irony, California "has more vehicles than any other state." But I guess you can't sue your own taxpayers, so suing out of state companies just works better.

Note that this was a logical outcome of the myriad suits against gun manufacturers and tobacco companies for the consequences of their legal products.

New York Times: California Sues 6 Automakers Over Global Warming

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Would you like fries with that?

Very few people would dispute the one thing McDonald's does right - french fries. Several years back McDonald's stopped using beef fat to fry their fries because of health concerns and developed flavoring to keep the same good flavor. Many people (myself included) consider the current McDonald's french fries the best in the fast food world. As with any good thing these days, enter the trial lawyers:

On Wednesday, Nadia Sugich of Los Angeles sued McDonald's, saying she is a vegan and would not have eaten the fries if she had known they contained dairy products.

McDonald's sued over french fry ingredients

Overlawyered also reports on a class action suit in Cook County (Chicago, Illinois) Circuit Court alleging that McDonald's "falsely advertised that its french fries were milk and gluten free."

Family of Man killed by flying shrimp...sues

The family of Jerry Colaitis is suing Japanese steakhouse Benihana's claiming his death resulted from the chef flipping a shrimp at him during dinner. Anyone who's dined at a Japanese steakhouse knows that this is part of the "show". Part of the fun of this style of dining is the interaction with the chef who prepares the food at the table. Now liberal trial lawyer safety czars are on the warpath ready to protect us from the danger of flying shrimp. It'll be one damn boring world if these guys get all the safety they want.

The family of a 43-year-old Long Island man is seeking $10 million in damages, claiming he died months after ducking a flying shrimp tossed by a hibachi chef at a Japanese steakhouse.