B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for October 21, 2023

It’s like the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. (Note: blame someone else; I’m only quoting.)

yup.

And now your ideology.

Wow!!! Isn’t that the truth!

absolutely. There is another quote that i heard once “If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class”

Living with my friend Cole can be tough sometimes.

He’s got all these really weird rules you have to follow, like whenever you eat cabbage, he insists you have to eat it with mayonnaise.

It’s just Cole’s law.

The mayor in my city just passed law that male best friends have to have lunch together at least once a week.

Well it’s not a law it’s a mandate.

You know Murphy’s Law. It’s “If something can go wrong, it will”, but do you know Cole’s law? It’s…

shredded cabbage, mayonnaise, maybe some carrot.

Have you ever heard of the Crows Law Of Energy Conservation?

It’s also known as the Law of Caws and Effect.

Did you know there’s a law stating no one living within 5 miles of a cemetery can be buried there?

Because they’re living.

This one is painfully true.

Net worth or relation to someone who is in power…

Money and subsequent power almost always mean a different set of rules.

I like the catch phrase ‘inversely proportional’. Just think. If it wasn’t for proportional things being inversely, how many times in day to day ordinary conversation, have you used the word ‘inversely’ in your life?

Sad, but true…

I took an entire class on law when I was studying engineering in college. It was mostly on intellectual property and product liability.

I learned two things: “Always go for the deep pockets.” There is no sense suing poor people. And “The amount of justice you get depends on how much you can afford.”

Every time I see that dictionary draped across a stone, I find myself wondering: what happens when it rains?

Welcome to America!

Or political power…

H-m-m-m-m sounds very familiar. I wonder where . . . Oh yeah, I remember. It’s the US.

And Pogo was right. We are our own worst enemy.

Or your taxes equal your bank account.

Unless you’re a former POTUS

Nice. We must do whatever it takes to keep the hoy polloi from inconveniencing their “betters”. …sigh

It DOESN’T apply to rich Republicans when Democrats control the Department of “Justice”. Rich Republicans get “novel” [BS] felony charges applied from possible misdemeanors. [Especially when the rich Republican is running against the head of a crime family idiots put in the White House.]

Alas, to our misfortune, that is certainly true of our current Prime Minister and his inner circle….

Wow.. right from the dawn of time. Little wonder it is so well entrenched.

Hey, calls to mind the old gem “What do you call a 1,000 lawyers chained at the bottom of the ocean? … A good start.” ;)

Hey, haven’t seen her in the strip for awhile!

That didn’t work for Capone!

In America one is innocent until proven broke.

I’m not sure about that, there seems to be a lot of complaining that judges are soft on crime. At least here in the Seattle area.

If it costs you quite a bit of money to not obey the law, then the rule of law is still kicking in. It’s just that some figure they can afford the price.

For example violating a court order: if it cost you $5,000 means less to a man who has 5 billion dollars than one who only has $500. But also means if you stiff people who act as your lawyer, you get to where you cannot actually hire a good lawyer and you have to suffer the well deserved consequences of your actions.

What is more the Bill of Rights actually provides protection against such things because it forbids excessive fines. So for $5,000 fine if it were excessive to me, I might never have to pay more than 500 but if $5,000 were mere chicken feed to someone else, he might find himself paying $500,000.

Or political position.

The rule of law is a durable system of laws, institutions, norms, and community commitment that delivers four universal principles: accountability, just law, open government, and accessible and impartial justice. I really don’t think we always get what is deserved!

Them what makes the rules don’t have to follow them.

There was a great line in “The IT Crowd”, a BBC sitcom. There was a moment of awkward silence after someone had mentioned “Conrad Black, the first rich person to go to prison in three hundred years”.