Here’s a great Slowpoke strip from 2006 that is painfully relevant today.

Here’s an interesting facet of the Russian criminal justice system I wasn’t aware of, gleaned from a recent New Yorker article on the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya (abstract only, unfortunately):

It is an emotionally powerful feature of Russian criminal law that the “side of the victims”—stonora poterpevshykh—is represented on an equal footing with the prosecution and the defense. The counsel for the victims is allowed to call and question witnesses, submit protests to the court, make closing remarks. It’s an ambiguous institution: where the prosecution wants a conviction, and the defense wants an acquittal, the victims want justice—or, as the victims and their lawyers in this case kept saying, “the truth.”

Australian courts pave the way for Facebook statuses like, “Jim is pissed because he just got served on his goddamn WALL!”

Judge orders bickering lawyers to play Rock, Paper, Scissors. It's not quite pistols at dawn, but it's a step in the right direction.