Morning Docket: 02.22.11

* Something called the “Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act” is moving through the Minnesota Legislature and is described thusly: “If you eat too much and get fat, you can’t sue the food retailer.” The Scales of Justice. [Grand Forks Herald]

* Lat’s alma mater has started an initiative called “Don’t Filter Me, Bro.” [Yale Daily News]

* Qaddafi’s definitely a lunatic war criminal. A lunatic war criminal with serious swag. [New York Times]

* Labor law, the Wisconsin constitution, representative democracy. Sure, sure, that’s all very important. But what about the human angle? Tell me more about these toiletries you speak of. [Chicago Tribune]

* The Supreme Court is set to hear a case that appears to have been taken straight out of one of Sonia’s favorite telenovelas. [Washington Post]

* A New York couple is suing their lawyers because the kid the couple adopted is defective. I’m not a religious man, but maybe God didn’t allow these people to conceive for a reason? [Daily Mail]

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