The lawsuit claims the women “combined, associated, agreed, mutually undertook or concerted together for the purpose of developing a Web site on the Internet to be used willfully and maliciously”.

Now, looking over that website, it’s clear that the site has a far broader purpose than to malign Woody, and the site does not have a malicious tone about it. Then again, perhaps I missed the article that accuses him of raping chipmunks.

It is worth noting that there are 4 articles at the blog that come back from a search of the word “woody” but two do not contain the word (which could mean they have been changed since they were indexed) . There are about 100 articles on the site. So 2% of the site is devoted to criticizing Mt. Woody. It’s hard to see how that means the site was created to malign Mr. Woody.

One article (What 189k Buys these days) has some photos of the area, which seems to be much more than some nice dirt. Another (Junk(y) Yard Wars) has what appears to be the main article about Mt. Woody. For me, it is returning a bunch of garbled text that claims to be in gzip format (a unix zip format) that mozilla does not handle well, and IE has trouble with the site too. Eventually I was able to view the article with IE. In that article, the mound of dirt actually does not look all that bad. In neither article is Mr. Woody actually mentioned, although there a few references to Mt. Woody. I have no way of knowing if the articles have been edited. Also, the comments following the articles don’t raise any eyebrows, and one lengthy comment actually defends Mr. Woody.

So, to reiterate, 2% of the website articles show some photos of a mound of dirt they call Mt. Woody, and suggests it’s a eyesore, and should be moved. There is also a suggestion that the town leaders are being somewhat remiss in their duties. If that’s Mr. Woody’s definition of malicious, then he has a very thin skin, indeed. I hope the judge throws this one out.

One interesting comment by the town’s officials in the Roanoke Times article is this one:

“As long as (Woody’s) sites are stabilized,” Terpenny said of the Woody properties, “I don’t know that it’s appropriate to put a time frame on it.”

But then, on another aspect of one of Woody’s projects: “We won’t let him leave it there,” Terpenny said. “Temporary is not permanent.”

So, there’s no time frame, but it’s temporary. Woody has not submitted a plan to develop that property, it is being used as a dumping site for his soil and materials, but it’s not really zoned for that, it is supposed to have homes built on it. But Woody could keep dumping dirt on the site for 100 years and according the the town manager, it would still be ‘temporary’.

I thought it was difficult to get a law degree and bass the bar.”

It’s only difficult to get a law degree if you go to a decent law school. Just like with med school, not all law degrees are equal. As far as the bar goes, you get around a fair bit of stupidity if you spend enough money on test preps, live in a state with an easy bar exam (which would not be VA), or just be really good at tests. Also, being a lawyer doesn’t make you immune to that common trait in humanity where greed and/or desperation makes people ignore any shred of common sense.

I thought it was difficult to get a law degree and bass the bar.

Are they not suppose to weed the bottom third of the law class the first year?