Matt Of All Trades

This Darren Cole of Chicago is a great, law abiding guy. Another Darren Cole, not so much.  This has made the Good Darren Cole's life a living nightmare Photo from Chicago Tribune  There's a fine, upstanding man in Chicago named Darren Cole. He just wants to mind his own business, but police keep confusing him with a not as fine, upstanding other Darren Cole, and it's made Good Darren Cole's life a living hell. He's suing the Chicago Police Department over the matter.  According to Vice: "Thanks to a longstanding case of mistaken identity, Chicago officers have held the 50-year-old at gunpoint, threatened him with violence, punched him in the mouth, and forced him to lie face down in the snow, according to a federal lawsuit he filed against the city." Cole has been detained about 60 times since 2006.  The Good Cole shares an almost identical driver's license number, name, and birthday with someone with an outstanding warrant.  It's not as if the Ba...

Off the rails a usual, the MyPillow guy and Trump fanboy says he's starting a social media site.  Which, for all we know will get him sued for another $1.3 billion.   Oh, Mike Lindell, the "My Pillow" guy.  Just gets further and further off the rails.  You have to admit the guy dreams big.  He's surely lacks the intelligence and power he thinks he has, but you be you Mike!    He has a pretty surreal couple of weeks,  but it seems he always does.  Mediaite tells us Lindell thinks he's practically a Get Out Of Jail Free Card: He's telling people if they're in trouble for taking part in the January 6 insurgency at the Capital, he just might be able to get you a reduced prison sentence.  He doesn't exactly tell you how, but you know, details details.  Maybe his pillows come with magic wands? Lindell seems to be a busy man.  As Mediaite reports , he was on Charlie Kirk's podcast last week, claiming he'll have his own social m...

Paul Davis, who was at the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, has some, um, novel ideas on Donald Trump and who should be running the nation now.   Need a lawyer?   If so, it's probably a bad idea to go with one Paul M. Davis of Texas. Until recently, he was associate counsel for Goosehead Insurance in Texas. That is until January 7. Apparently, Goosehead figures a l awyer who participated in the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capital might not be the best legal presentation for them. Goosehead would be right on this score. As if Goosehead Insurance needed any more assurance they made the right call by firing Davis, Davis himself has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to get rid of Joe Biden as president and, well, it gets pretty convoluted from there.  The whole story on the lawsuit appeared recently in the publication Law and Crime, which gives us all kinds of news about, well, law and crime cases.  If you suspect the Law and Crime article on Pau...