Morning Docket: 09.15.10

* France finally grows a pair, but maybe on the wrong issue in light of the Eiffel Tower bomb scare. [Washington Post]

* K-Rod needs to learn how to be a better stalker if he’s risking jail time to text. 56 texts over 4 weeks? I text more than that in a day. [New York Times]

* Memo to George Michael: Toke it up, before you go-go! Don’t drop the soap in jail, that’s a no-no. [CNN International]

* The Senate’s small business lending bill is supposed to create thousands of jobs. Can I have one? [Los Angeles Times]

* Feds hope that with the help of a judge, Jonathan Lee Riches, the “Patrick Ewing of Suing,” will be stopped from ever gettin’ lucky in Kentucky. [Associated Press]

* More about the new U.S. News law firm rankings, which we wrote about overnight. V16 Sidley Austin is claiming it is ranking “first” nationally, according to U.S. News. Vault’s #1, Wachtell, lags far, far behind. Good thing these new rankings are just “junk science.” [National Law Journal]

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