WA: chutzpah

Two from the Seattle Weekly:

* Club Pot Med - Livid over the vague voter-enacted state law allowing use of medical marijuana, a crusading lawyer tries to untangle unintended consequences. The law has driven the supply system underground, pot patients are getting busted, and some cops, prosecutors, and judges just don't get it

(Defense lawyer Douglas) Hiatt was speaking with a deputy prosecuting attorney in the Thurston County prosecutor's office. Hiatt was pissed that the prosecution was throwing the book at a sick woman. The conversation became heated.

"Why don't you look at your calendar, find an afternoon when you are free, and go f*** yourself," Hiatt told the prosecutor. Hiatt was forcibly removed from the office...

(I wouldn't emulate this, but I understand the impulse)

* The 'Jewish' Con -
Incarcerated gang members and murderers here and elsewhere are abusing freedom of religion to get special treatment

Jewish chaplain Gary Friedman wasn't surprised when he learned that incarcerated neo-Nazi gang members were claiming to be Jews at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center... In fact, the chairman of the Seattle-based Jewish Prisoner Services International had been expecting the news. Nationwide, "There is this amazing phenomenon of non-Jews claiming to be Jewish," says Friedman...

(years ago I had a client who I suspected of doing this)