June 12th Humor

“You know you’re getting close to the truth when someone is calling you a racist.”

The County Court I work for had chosen to test a two-year small claims program allowing citizens to file a civil lawsuit for up to $1000. To keep it a true People’s Court, all plaintiffs and defendants represented themselves. Cases were decided rapidly because there were many legal technicalities to debate. In the third week, however, two opposing litigants happen to be attorneys. After the proceedings had dragged on for hours, the judge called a recess and stormed into the court clerk’s office. “All right”, he growled, “who let those lawyers in disguised as real people.”

“Things have gotten very tense between the U.S. and Russia. In fact, during a speech today Vladimir Putin criticized the U.S. for thinking it’s ‘always right.’ Then he went back to organizing an election where you can’t vote ‘No.'”