News & Media

I wrote a somewhat vituperative screed (who me???) about the Saudi justice system a few days ago. And now, perhaps just to spite me (heh), they’re considering pardoning a blogger that they imprisoned for criticizing Islam. A Swiss newspaper is reporting that imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi could have his sentence of 1,000 lashes suspended, but Amnesty International has yet to confirm

The newly politically correct Canadian government, citing security, will not allow single Syrian men into the country.  Single women are ok though.  Because now even the left is using “terrorism” as its bullshit boogeyman to push its agenda. (source)  Remember when that was just a right-wing thing?  Ah, the good old days.

I’m not going Christian on you. But, looking at the leading nations when it comes to executions, that verse resonated with me.

An attorney representing “War Machine” a.k.a.Jonathan Koppenhaver, in his trial for kicking the living shit out of his girlfriend, adult actress, Christy Mack (a.k.a. Christine Mackinday) raised an interesting line of defense. He reportedly argued that you can’t rape a porn actress, because, she’s a porn actress. In court on Monday, defense attorney Brandon Sua said that Mackinday’s career in adult films

And it is hilarious… as is the fact that the stupid fucking media didn’t notice that they were cocks.  (source)

Massachusetts has given the world its fair share of musical greatness.  From the Dropkick Murphys back to Jonathan Richman, The Cars to the Pixies, Aerosmith to Mission of Burma.  Bim Skala Bim to the Lemonheads.  The Unband to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.  Lets put it this way, your musical life would fucking suck without the 617.  (Fine, we apologize for

A Los Angeles City Councilwoman is pushing for a plan that would use license plate reader technology to log visits to areas that are “known for” prostitution.  She then wants to use that database to send letters to the vehicle’s registrants, explaining that the car was in such an area. Councilwoman Nury Martinez seems to have the typical statist mentality

Last year, Sabrina Erdely wrote an article for Rolling Stone story about a gang rape in a UVA frat house.  It turns out that she made up the story, and that seems to have caused serious harm to the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.   Now the bill is coming due, as Phi Psi sued Rolling Stone for defamation.  (source) The story

In what is reported to be the largest demonstration in Polish history, 170,000 Poles rallied against the “Islamization of Europe.” (source)  (the source is somewhat suspect though).  I don’t need to provide sources to show that there are similar sentiments in the United States. I am both in support of this xenophobia and against it. When it comes to the United

This Australian woman came up with a great way to deal with it — tell the little shits’ mothers! (source)  1) It is effective, 2) the kid is likely to actually learn something from his mother, 3) it doesn’t scream to authority to go and throw someone in jail for his thoughtcrime.

One of two things is going on here: Either A) I am way out of touch with racist jokes, or B) Huffington Post is full of shit. See Fox’s Brian Kilmeade Asks Black Co-host If She Makes Kool-Aid.  In this post, there seems to be manufactured outrage at a FOX News host asking about the shitty drink. A “Fox & Friends”

A German condom manufacturer joked on its packaging that a box of seven condoms could bring as many as 21 orgasms – one for the guy and two for the woman.  Fair Squared GmbH, a competing condom company sued the Berlin based startup, Einhorn Products GmbH for deceptive advertising. Einhorn’s packaging, in addition to the 21 orgasms joke, has a “calories burned” table,

On Friday, Nov. 17, a Saudi Arabian court sentenced the Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh, to death because he renounced his Islamic faith. (source) Fayadh was investigated for blasphemy, spreading atheism and having an illicit relationship with women, based on pictures found on his phone. After initially being sentenced to 800 lashes and four years in prison, he was retried and on

It is stupid, a lie that it is a “timeless tradition,” and it is one of the most incredible acts of senseless cruelty that I’ve ever read about. It’s a sad truth. Because pardoned turkeys are bred to be robust showmen, they often live incredibly short lives. They are stuffed with a mineral-enhanced diet of corn and soybeans, and their

There are just so many angles to this story.  Its got bumbling cops, feisty old Jewish ladies, mahjong, and all of a sudden, one of my oldest publications is relevant!  Condo Casino!  (c’mon, click it and download it, get my SSRN rankings up!) So first the story, then the law stuff. Lee Delnick, Bernice Diamond, Helen Greenspan and Zelda King do what

Someone added fake Black Friday posters to his local Target bulletin board.  (source)

It seems that not all Princeton students are politically correct idiots who can’t string together a coherent sentence. While the victim studies types are whining to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from a building, because he apparently harbored racist views, there are at least a few who paid attention in their high school classes. (source) Academic discourse consists of reasoned arguments.

This is sort of a sad story.  David Mech was once known as “Dave Pounder,” a porn actor.  I do not know him personally, but everything I can find out about him suggests that he is a pretty smart guy.  (example) He has a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University, a master’s degree from Arizona State University, and is enrolled

I have a friend who came to the United States from Chile, fleeing the Pinochet regime.  I see the irony in fleeing Chile to the United States because of Pinochet, but lets set that aside.   On September 12, 2001, he called me to tell me he was going to give up his law practice to join the military, the