Category Archives: Opinion

Club Spud: a Baked Potato for Meal

01/19/2026 BowTieLawyer Leave a comment

I do food reviews for most of the restaurants that I dine at.

I take photos, write and post reviews of the food, the service and atmosphere.

They are honest reviews, but I look for positive things to say. These are posted on Google Maps.

When you are looking for a place to eat in your area the google map brings up restaurants and has reviews related thereto.

I recently reviewed a place in Arkansas that served a baked potato that I described as microwaved. They responded it was not microwaved and asked how do I suggest they make it better?

I decided to make a better potato. Introducing the Club Spud…

Scrubbed clean so you can eat the skin if you so desire.

Poked with a fork so they don’t “explode” and will cook faster.

Salted w fresh ground, pink Himalayan salt.

Baked in the air fryer. It’s just a convection oven.

It’s ready. Splitting them for stuffing.

Pats-o-butter. Real Land-o-Lakes butter.

To be Toppings; Colby jack, white American cheeses, smoked, shaved turkey and bacon!

Air-fried until melty and bacon pieces added.

The potato was soft and creamy. The skin was just crisp and salty. The toppings were hot and melty with a bacon crunch.

This was a proper Club Spud.

Enjoy!

Matthew Thompson is a family law attorney and his back up plan if law school didn’t work out was culinary school.

Crime, General Legal, humor, Opinion

Erection Bill…On the Rise?

01/13/2026 BowTieLawyer Leave a comment

It’s back. Senate Bill 2088 – “Contraception Begins at Erection Act.”

It shall be unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an egg.

Upon conviction of a violation of this section, a person shall be fined as follows, and the fine shall be payable to the woman whose egg was fertilized as a result of the act:

One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for a first offense;

Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for a second offense; and

Ten Thousand Dollars (10,000.00) for a third or subsequent offense.

This section shall not apply to the discharge of genetic material:

(a) Donated or sold to a facility for the purpose of future procedures to fertilize an egg; and

(b) Discharged with the use of a contraceptive or contraceptive method intended to prevent fertilization of an egg.

This “Bill” is dead on arrival, but it is thought-provoking.

It makes it illegal to fertilize an egg without the intent to fertilize it. Recreational intercourse is outlawed by this bill! No exceptions for marriage or otherwise. And to guarantee its failure the fine goes to the woman that was impregnated! You know the Government is going to always get their$!

Its ultimately a harmless bill intended to shine some light on perceived gender inequalities

Matthew Thompson is family law attorney and gets a chuckle out of bills such as this.

Crime, Opinion

Bones for Sale…and it’s LEGAL!!

11/06/2025 BowTieLawyer Leave a comment

In what has to be one of the most bizarre stories of 2025 (of many, I know) is the Rankin County Road Rage incident.

The allegations include that an incident that began as a road rage episode on Grants Ferry Road ended with Walter Ainsworth shooting into the occupied vehicle of another.

The victim-driver stated she ducked down behind her door when the suspect fired a single shot into her vehicle. She stated she then sped off to the Reservoir Police Department where she then dialed 911.

Ainsworth was later arrested. Upon law enforcement obtaining search warrants, the following items were reportedly found;

a bulletproof vest,
two gas masks,
a pair of brass knuckles,
a baton,
handcuffs, and
a flamethrower.

A search of Ainsworth’s home also revealed,

a human skull and
a lower jawbone of a human skull.

Bond was denied!

As it turns out it is legal in most states to buy and possess human bones!

The BoneRoom has quite the assortment for sale now. They appear to be For Sale but NOT On $ale…!

Credit to JacksonJambalaya for details of the arrest and video of the bond hearing.

divorce, General Legal, Opinion

Look out WebMD here comes ChatGPT!

10/13/2025 BowTieLawyer Leave a comment

For years Doctors have enjoyed the saying “I’m sure your WebMD is just as good as my actual M.D….

Self-diagnosing running rampant…

Well now ChatGPT has made everyone a lawyer.

Need a brief in response to a summary judgment motion?

In mere seconds a fully typed, cited and “winning” brief is at your fingertips.

Only, there’s just one problem…

It’s fake! The cites are fake. The rulings are made up and the cases and courts may not even exist.

Recently BigLaw and small firms have been swept up in AI legal malfeasance. It’s making the rounds and the news.

A federal judge has even been the target of an inquiry when a ghost ruling appeared with fictitious parties, fake facts and bad law! The order vanished and was replaced with a corrected one.

So be careful out there. We can no longer believe the news, the internet or our own eyes.

Matthew Thompson is a family law attorney that cites Westlaw and text books, such as Mississippi Divorce, Alimony and Child Custody, with forms.

General Legal, Opinion

Attorney Reviews and throwing Stones…

10/06/2025 BowTieLawyer Leave a comment

Attorneys are easy targets for social media/rating review site criticism.

108 Person Throwing Stone Hand Stock Photos - Free & Royalty-Free ...

Sure, we can pay $450.00 dollars and get a plaque that says we are the Top Ten Bestest Attorneys in the Universe, but it’s easy for anyone to put hate out there too.

Yelp reviews, Facebook comments and all the other review/rating websites make it very easy to attack.

Ever wonder why reviews go largely unresponded to, or at best some generic, canned PC response?

It’s because lawyers can get in trouble for telling the truth!!

A recent Mississippi Bar Opinion even opines it an ethical violation to respond to an online complaint.

This, even if the client (now former client) makes the posting and discloses confidential information. They have the right to do that. The attorney in only limited circumstances can respond…

https://www.msbar.org/media/e3tkbi1x/et-op-268.pdf

Click to access et-op-268.pdf

MS Bar Opinion #268

So just because you see a review doesn’t make it true. And, just because it was NOT immediately challenged with “receipts” doesn’t mean there’s something there.

Matthew Thompson is a lawyer that represents other lawyers with accusations of ethical violations.

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Crime, General Legal, Opinion

Hattiesburg’s Most Wanted

06/30/2025 BowTieLawyer 1 Comment

Attorney, Corey Ferraez is being pursued by law enforcement and has a warrant for his arrest for Civil Contempt. This is circulating the blogosphere in Hattiesburg and the Jackson area.

This all stemmed from a wrongful death matter and the corresponding estate matter. See Weatherford, Stephen Ray “Fuzzy” 56CH1:22-pr-00021-SM

Ferraez was the attorney for the estate and settled the wrongful death claim for $450,000.00. These sums were to be held in trust until the Court approved the settlement, attorney fees, disbursement and liens were handled.

Delays for various reasons caused the matter to drag on. Eventually the Court set a hearing and required Ferraez to attend. He did not.

Thereafter, the Court entered a Show Cause Order requiring Ferraez to attend, explain why he should not be held in contempt and to tender all of the $450,000.00 into the registry of the Court.

Ferraez did not attend this hearing and did not pay any sums by the date of the hearing.

In a surprising turn of events however, he did file a response with the Court, indicated he had been ill, and eventually tendered about $215,000.00 of the $450,000.00, claiming the difference in the value was due to attorneys fees and liens (or loans) that the client took out against the settlement. This was surprising because the attorney filed a response with the Court despite not appearing.

It also came to light that he had previously written a $25,000.00 check to the client that bounced for insufficient funds.

Regardless of anything else, this does not end well for Mr. Ferraez.

He will have to answer to the Court for the handling of the proceeds, the Mississippi Bar about concerns of unethical conduct and very likely criminal ramifications…Mr. Ferraez should turn himself in as time is not on his side.

*In criminal courts a defendant enjoys a presumption of innocence. Civil Courts have a differing standard. Refusal to appear, answer, cooperate can and will be used against you.

All lawyers that handle “unearned fees” are required to have Trust accounts with banks. These Trust account records are relatively easy to obtain and determine when monies came in, when they went out, where they went and what is left, if anything…

Matthew Thompson is a family law/civil law attorney in Mississippi and acknowledges unethical and illegal conduct when it needs to be; whether it’s a Judge, a party or a lawyer.

humor, Opinion

The Adventure Begins…Rinker Buck a modern-day “Indiana Jones,” but the trip is the treasure.

05/26/2025 BowTieLawyer Leave a comment

“My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think.”
― Rinker Buck, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

As the trek begins, NYT best seller Rinker Buck is living the “research” for his next book. The yet-to-be-titled selection will be a historical non-fiction tome about little known facts of the Civil War. The beginning of this adventure was not without its obstacles…

A steep climb on day one, along with heavy rain, limited the distance to less than a 10K. But despite the slow beginnings, spirits are high for Rinker and his student intern, Will Thompson.

Narrow, winding, hilly roads were traversed as they departed from an Amish farm outside of Hartsville, TN, just south of the Kentucky border. Joined by friends along the way, Mike Binkley, of Life on the Mississippi acclaim, directed traffic as the mule team of Sox and Boots lumbered up the steep inclines and gingerly descended the other side.

A wagon cannot stop on a dime.

A late afternoon end to the day allowed for a good rest for all, as the rain drop’s patter lulled mule and man to slumber.

“Seeing America slowly was, in a way, like eating slow food-I wasn’t covering much ground in a single day, but I was digesting a lot more.”
― Rinker Buck, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

Next stop Portland, TN or thereabouts. There is no exacting precision with the starts, stops and distances traveled. The terrain, the mules, and Mother Nature will have more to say about that than any itinerary.

#SheepCamp2025

Matthew Thompson is a family law practitioner living vicariously through Rinker & Will’s adventure. Both parts jealousy and relief, that while he can visit and drop-in, he can also go home!

humor, Opinion

Coming Soon: #SheepCamp2025, A Summer like no Other…

05/22/2025 BowTieLawyer Leave a comment

Soon, you can live vicariously through NY Times best selling author Rinker Buck, and his trusted sidekick and student intern, Will Thompson, as they tour Civil War battlefields throughout the South by mule-drawn wagon!

Rinker, acclaimed journalist and author of multiple NY Times best sellers, is researching and gathering information and inspiration for his next, yet-to-be-titled, Historical non-fiction novel on little known facts about the Civil War. Random House Publishing will be the publisher.

Will, a rising Electrical Engineering-major sophomore at Mississippi State University, is serving as a research assistant, navigator, mule-tender and “MacGyver” for any issues that may arise.