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He’s the brashest, most generous, most foul-mouthed trial attorney in the country. And at 89, Joe Jamail can still command a courtroom, mother%*!$#@.

“He once took a $675,000 judgment against Sears into the retail chain’s downtown Houston location, commandeered the intercom, and informed employees that he’d just taken over the store.” - John Spong | Texas Monthly

35 years ago William Wade won Homecoming Princess at Florida State University, but prejudice kept him from accepting the award. That finally changed just a few months back.

“A total of 20 students ran for homecoming princess in 1980. Wade spent the least of them all: His entire campaign cost just $3.56, enough for a few dozen photocopies and a roll of scotch tape. ’Billie Dahhling,’ he called himself on his campaign posters. ‘A queen with a difference.’” - Kathleen McGrory | Tampa Bay Times

A group of women working the strip clubs saw themselves as Robin Hoods. The clients saw it differently.

“If the guy at the precinct who answered the phone had a dollar for every time he’d heard a caller say he’d been drugged and his credit card run up at a strip club, he’d be retired already” - Jessica Pressler | The Cut

And you thought your neighbors were disagreeable. The ying and yang of 21st century billionaires clash over two very different takes on paradise.

“The whole thing began over a puddle in a driveway.” - Eric Konigsberg | Vanity Fair