The funniest blog post I’ve come across today is David French’s account of a trial in Williamson County, Tenn., an affluent suburban/exurban area just south of Nashville, in which prosecutors filed a motion asking the judge to order the defense attorney to stop referring to the prosecution as “the government.” The gist of their argument: “The state believes that such a reference is used in a derogatory way and is meant to make the state’s attorney seem oppressive and to inflame the jury.”

In response, the defense lawyer, a man with the felicitous name of Drew Justice, filed a motion — but I’ll let David French describe the scene: