Friday, February 7, 2025

Change.org Petitions

Change.org has a whole page of petitions on Family Courts Corruption.  

The corruption is real and it affects everyone. Men, women, children, and tax payers. Indeed corruption in the family courts system is like a cancer which spreads throughout the legal system and into society generally. The realization that crime does not only pay but pays handsomely is the impetus for much if not most criminal behavior. 

Friday, January 31, 2025

Divorce and Family Law Podcast

Attorney Jonathan Jacobs podcasts about divorce issues, especially in Florida, on Amazon. Note that Florida recently reformed its alimony laws so many of the topics are especially interesting to those who live in states where such reforms have not passed. Check it out. 

The Divorce and Family Law Podcast is brought to you by Jacobs Law Firm. Our divorce podcast is about Florida divorce and Florida family law and marital law all throughout the United States. We talk about relationships, alimony reform, modifications of final judgments, property distribution, equitable distribution, paternity, prenuptial agreements, postnuptial agreements, paternity, father's rights, child support, and child custody. Learn from us and with us as the law continues to evolve. Topics of our family law podcast include Florida family matters, Florida case law, alimony reform, child support modification, child custody modifications, uncontested divorce in Florida, relocation with minor children, domestication, and more. Attorney Jonathan Jacobs of Jacobs Family Law Firm is a Clermont divorce attorney and Winter Park divorce attorney who loves to educate and teach.

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Law Firm Advertising

If you think you have seen a lot of advertising for law firms, especially ones involved with litigation, you are correct.  


The nationwide survey shows that trial lawyers and aggregators spend enormous sums of money on television, radio and outdoor advertising to recruit new clients for lawsuits.

“These latest advertising numbers show that plaintiff’s attorneys aren’t slowing down in their relentless pursuit of their next payday,” said American Tort Reform Association President Tiger Joyce. “It is clear that trial lawyers continue to put profits ahead of vulnerable members of our society who are being misled by deceptive ads.”

In 2021, more than 15 million ads for legal services aired on local television broadcast networks in the 210 media markets across the U.S., totaling approximately $971.6 million spent. By comparison, pizza restaurants spent $67.4 million on a mere 845,000 ads while furniture retailers spent $589 million on 4.8 million ads aired on local television broadcast networks. Additionally, trial lawyer groups aired more than 71,000 ads on national cable television at an estimated cost of $97 million.

“Trial lawyer groups spend obscene amounts of money on advertising because they know it’s an effective way to needlessly scare consumers and encourage them to file lawsuits,” Joyce said. “However, these advertisements too often are intentionally misleading and can lead to devastating consequences.”

I recently counted six billboards in a row for personal injury lawyers. Think of the money which drives such ridiculous amounts of advertising. Sadly much of that money is generated via unethical actions and,  often, outright criminal violations. 

Friday, January 17, 2025

British Celtic Women Lived In A Matriarchy (or at least close to it)

For those who think patriarchy is "natural" comes evidence from ancient Briton where Celtic women seen to have lived in a matriarchy. At least in one place. I suspect they will find more. 

In Britain, during the Neolithic Period (characterized by the introduction of agriculture) and the Bronze Age, which dated from about 4000 to 800 BCE, prehistoric human societies tended to be patrilocal. That's "where women move," says Cassidy. "They leave their home upon marriage, and they go join the village, the community of their husbands."

This is why Cassidy and her colleagues were surprised to find remains of a Celtic tribe that lived during the Iron Age in Britain from around 100 BCE to 100 CE where it appeared, after studying their DNA, that women were at the center of their social network. The research is published in Nature.

The Nature study can be found here

Friday, January 10, 2025

Demographics

Not hugely related to this site but I did find this video on by demographer Jennifer Sciubba quite interesting:

Note at 17:00 where Sciubba mentions that one of the main reasons men's life expectancy is so much lower than women's is because dangerous jobs are done predominately by men. In an equal society this would no longer be the case. I wonder how many people understand, or even care, about this. 

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Kanno Sugako

People often assume feminism is contemporary and western. Not so. As proof I give you Kanno Sugako. Sugako, born in 1881. was a Japanese feminist, anarchist, socialist, and (at times) pacifist. She was executed by the Japanese government for  high treason in 1911 at the age of 29. 

Kanno Sugako (管野 須賀子, June 7, 1881 – January 25, 1911), also known as Kanno Suga (管野 スガ), was a Japanese anarcha-feminist journalist. She was the author of a series of articles about gender oppression, and a defender of freedom and equal rights for men and women.

In 1910, she was accused of treason by the Japanese government for her alleged involvement in what became known as the High Treason Incident, aimed at the assassination of Emperor Meiji. Kanno was executed by hanging on January 25, 1911, at the age of 29. She was the first woman with the status of political prisoner to be executed in the history of modern Japan.

Specific to gender equality Sugako wrote:

"In these postwar years there are many tasks facing the nation in politics, economy, industry, education, and so on. But for us women the most urgent task is to develop our own self-awareness. In accordance with long-standing customs, we have seen as a form of material property. Women in Japan are in a state of slavery. Japan has become an advanced, civilized nation, but we women are still denied our freedom by an invisible iron fence. There are women who take pride in their apparel, who are content to eat good food, and who regard going to the theater as the highest form of pleasure. We could ignore for the time being these pitiful women with slavish sentiments and hapless plights, women who give no thought to anything but their own self-interest. But women with some education and some degree of social knowledge must surely be discontented and angry about their status ..."