"If you protest, you're just inciting the police to shoot you, so what do you expect?" Pretty stupid, huh? How about, "if you don't want people to protest, then don't treat them in a way that they feel like they need to protest." Same shit with drawing Mohammed. If you don't...
[caption id="attachment_19161" align="aligncenter" width="450"] No I wd not cuz I no wut im talking about, LOL thx bai.[/caption] I hate the whole revenge porn thing. Not just that people do it, but I hate talking about it. Why? Because the whole subject just attracts bullshit like tourists with...
[caption id="attachment_18725" align="alignright" width="175"] The offensive statue.Photo Courtesy of Melissa Wall, Ph.D. under a creative commons license. [/caption]Every law firm gets confronted (on a pretty regular basis) with the question: "should I put my name on this?" That soul searching comes into play when you wonder, "is this honorable?" You...
I am both psyched and honored that Marc asked me to contribute to The Legal Satyricon. I am a First Amendment lawyer and president of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Marc and I know each other through the First Amendment Lawyers Association, a group of bad-ass attorneys...
As many long-time readers know, Section 2(a) of the Trademark Act is one of my pet peeves. This is the section of the Trademark Act that gives pretty much unfettered discretion to a trademark examiner to deny a trademark registration on the basis that the mark itself is "immoral"...
Anonymous has now targeted Hunter Moore. In a release published today, Anon writes: Greetings citizens of the world, We are Anonymous. This is a call to all Anonymous worldwide, you have a chance to make a real difference in the lives of hundreds of bullied teenagers and protect them from...
Earlier this month, the State Department’s Chief Diversity Officer, John Robinson, admonished us all to watch what we say because, yet again, somebody somewhere might be offended. Source. (see column entitled “Diversity Notes”, beginning on P. 8) Most people are already familiar with the term “handicap” and why those who...
On the side of kicking him off the air, Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem. On the side of protecting his right to free speech, Marc J. Randazza. This is not the same debate over whether the subject of his diatribe has a valid defamation claim against him. I wrote...
The SPLC is, by most measurements, a noble organization. However, just like the ACLU, it seems to be suffering from mission creep. It recently rounded up a number of male-centric blogs and decided to add them to its blacklist. One of them, so far, "A Voice For Men"...
Apparently, Rush Limbaugh found Sandra Fluke's bullshit slinging on Capitol Hill to be worthy of disrespect. (so did I) He called her a slut (I did not), which of course, brought about the shrill screeching of harpies. Nancy Pelosi had this to say: "When Sandra Fluke testified before...
