Dionysus is the god of wine and drunken revelry in Greek mythology. He is a patron of the theater and an agricultural/fertility god. He was sometimes at the heart of frenzied madness. Whereas the Sun God Apollo personifies the cerebral and aspirational aspects of mankind, Dionysus represents the libido, gratification and appreciation for our time of enjoyment here on earth.

COLUMBUS- The Ohio State Highway Patrol reports this Memorial Day holiday weekend was the safest on record for the past 38 years. Six people were killed in six crashes over the holiday weekend on Ohio roads. This is four fewer deaths than during the same period last year. Over the holiday weekend State Troopers arrested 650 impaired drivers and assisted 4,580 motorists.  “We are extremely encouraged by fewer fatalities this Memorial Day weekend. However, Ohioans need to focus on Motorcycle safety due to 33 percent of the fatalities being motorcyclists.” said Patrol superintendent, Colonel Richard H. Collins.

An old woman was at the hospital due to bouts of explosive diarrhea.  While sleeping, she soiled her sheets terribly.  Being embarrassed beyond all rational though, she snatched up the sheets and threw them out of the window.

Below a drunk just happened by that very window.  The soiled sheets fell on his head and he began to thrash and curse and punch at the air.  The sheets landed in a pile at his feet.

Seeing all of this, a security guard approached the drunk.  Barely able to control his laugher, he asks the poor inebriate just what he thought he was doing.  The drunk slurs, "I think I just beat the shit out of a ghost!"

The Greene County Bar Association will meet for a social gathering at "The Pub" at the Greene in Beavercreek, Ohio.  The honorees for the event are Judge Hurley, his staff at the Domestic Relations Court and any attorney and/or parallegal the practices family law.  The festivities begin at 5:30pm.  Please join us.

Find out more about the Greene County Bar Association at: www.greenecountybar.org

Here, in answer to a written question is the high-tier urine, plasma, blood and  refusal statutes.  Thanks to Jeff Meadows at www.OVIlaw.com for the easy-to-use chart.

Offense	Code Section	Basis of Offense
DUI	4511.19 (A)(1)(f)	Blood Test with a concentration equal to or greater than .17 of 1% by weight of alcohol in the whole blood.
DUI	4511.19(A)(1)(g)	The person has a concentration of two hundred four-thousandths (.204) of one per cent or more by weight per unit volume of alcohol in the person's blood serum or plasma
DUI	4511.19 (A)(1)(h)	Breath Test with a concentration equal to or greater than .170 of 1 gram by weight (B.A.C.) per 210 liters of breath.
DUI	4511.19 (A)(1)(i)	Urine Test with concentration equal to or greater than .238 weight of alcohol per 100 milliliters of urine.
DUI	4511.19 (A)(2)	Refusing the chemical test(s) if within 20 years of the new offense, has been previously convicted of division (A)(1) or (B) of this section or a municipal OVI offense.

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Today the United States Supreme Court, in an balanced opinion written by Justice Scalia, upheld a law designed to attack the tsunami of internet sites wherein participants share images of child pornography.  The law proscribes a five-year mandatory prison term for promoting, or pandering, child pornography. It does not require that someone actually possesses child pornography. 

Speaking for the 7-2 majority, Justice Scalia said that do not apply to "offers to provide or requests to obtain child pornography," Scalia said that the First Amendment does not protect "offers to provide or requests to obtain child pornography."  Critics of the narrow decision argue that the law could infringe upon protected speech.

For a great analysis of the decision, see an article by Warren Ritchey at the Christian Science Monitor (available here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080520/ts_csm/aporn)

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

-Richard Dawkins-

Your chances of getting hit by a sober driver rather than a drunk driver are forty to one (40:1), and our roads are getting safer all the time. (Source: Prof. David J. Hanson, Ph.D., Sociology Department, State University of New York, Potsdam, NY). http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/index.html

Today the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage.   In striking down the ban 4 to 3 the justices rules that the limited rights of a domestic partnership would not substitute for the rights afforded by marriage.  "Today the California Supreme Court took a giant leap to ensure that everybody — not just in the state of California, but throughout the country — will have equal treatment under the law," said City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who argued the case for San Francisco. (Quote taken from the AP story by Lisa Leff).  The rights could be taken away swiftly if California voters approve a constitutional amendment being offered by a coalition of conservative forces.   

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