Law Briefs: Fat Tuesday Edition

Happy Fat Tuesday TGS readers. Hope you find a baby in your king cake. Fat Tuesday or "Mardi Gras" is celebrated around the world. It's one heck of a way to kick-off a religious season.

Here's a gratuitous pic from Brazil's Carnival! Not that I mind, but couldn't that dancer on the left even out her tan lines before sporting that "costume". She lives in Brazil. Don't they all sunbathe topless anyway?

Devil Inside Like all women we know, Bridget Moynahan has a serious evil streak. Seeing the writing on the wall regarding her impending break-up with the butt-chinned Tom Brady, she seduced him one last time and she pulled the keeper. I apologize for using a hockey metaphor in a football story but it's a Seinfeld reference - look it up. Didn't Brady learn anything from the Lou Gossett classic "An Officer and a Gentleman"? Despite playing for Boston, knocking up his ex-girlfriend and having a HUGE crevasse in his chin, clearly Brady has some degree of intelligence. (Golden Nugget: the aptly named Gisele Bundchen is from Brazil).

Here's some more of the Brady-Moynahan dirt courstesy of the NY Post:

"Bridget didn't even bother to tell him she was going to go public with this,"
said a friend [of Brady]. Some say that Moynahan, three months expectant with her first child, "may have gotten pregnant on purpose. She is 36, wanted a baby, and Tom was dumping her. It's a little suspicious." But a friend of Moynahan said,
"Please. They dated for three years and they broke up in December - right around
the time he found out she was pregnant and he immediately started dating Gisele
Bundchen. Who's the gross one here?"

Excellent use of the word "gross" by Moynahan's friend. That kind of clever vocabulary in break-up situations like this really transports us back to high school. Ah, the good ol' days... Hope Brady got his varsity jacket back.

Rubbin' is Racin' For the first time EVER , I watched part of a NASCAR race this Sunday (not counting Days of Thunder, which I've seen 14 times). I was on the treadmill at the gym and couldn't find anything else to watch. I've never been much inclined to spend 4 hours watching hillbillies make left turns, but this Daytona 500 delivered the goods. There was good competition, a satisfying number of wrecks and a photo finish. It definitely helped that the photo finish looked exactly like the finish of the final race in Day of Thunder. I'm not saying I'll be watching NASCAR races every Sunday until football starts back up, but I'll admit this race has piqued my interest.

SIRIUS Merger XM and Sirius satellite radio have announced that they will attempt to merge the two companies. As an XM subscriber, I'm tickled by the prospect - I'll get Stern and O&A, MLB and NFL plus all the commercial-free music I can stand. Hope they can sell the Federalis on this merger idea.

And now, some more pics from Carnival... What?!? I'm just showing appreciation for different cultures. Don't be so provincial! (I'm glad they don't parade many dudes around in banana hammocks.)