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Randazza: You Are Not Going to Resist the Government With Your Guns
I’m not prepared to get rid of our right to keep and bear arms unless we do get rid of the Second Amendment. But, doing that requires tinkering with the Constitution, which makes me nervous. Once you open the hood, you never know what else someone will fuck with. With the state of our idiocracy, opening the Constitution is just
Marc Randazza Popehats on Trump’s Bush Squatting
by Jay Marshall Wolman Though I have my own feelings about how to blog here now that Marco Blanco f/k/a Marc Randazza (what I think his Popehat name should be) has taken up with the competition, I should probably be supportive. His first post there was uncharacteristically Second Amendment focused. But, he has now seen fit to return to his roots.
What to do? What to say?
by Jay Marshall Wolman Now that Marc is off Popehatting, the rest of you can now chime in on what you’d like to see more of in this space. Marc is a First Amendment bad ass, hanging out with his peeps. Me? I think all of the Amendments are important. Here I am on the 7th Amendment. Here I am
Randazza is Hatted
Yes, some of you guessed it, I joined PopeHat. Let the conspiracy theories fly!!!
Things are going to change around here
If you are a regular reader, you know that I have neglected the blog, for the most part, for some time. I’m just busy with other shit. Dad, husband, working… so feeding The Satyricon is just too sporadic. But I do love writing my shit. I just think I need to be in a bigger boat. I do play well
Psalm 107:23-31
I’m not a religious man by any definition of the term, but I’ve always had a place in my heart for Psalm 107:23-31, especially at times like this.
Merry Christmas, South Carolina
South Carolina representative Chris Corley has sent a heartwarming Christmas card to his colleagues urging them to repent for their sins. Specifically, for voting to remove the Confederate flag from the state’s Civil War memorial after a racist lunatic slaughtered 9 people at a church. Corley’s heartwarming missive invites recipients to think of “a happier time when South Carolina’s leaders possessed morals,
The Seventh Amendment Calculator
by Jay Marshall Wolman There is an interesting financial quirk in the Bill of Rights. The Seventh Amendment states: In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States,
The Man in the High Castle in Albany and The First Amendment
The Man in the High Castle is a piece of alternative history fiction. It imagines an alternate future in which fascist forces won World War II. The Nazis occupy the eastern part of the United States, while the Japanese take up residence in the west. The Italians are non-existent in the series. You would think that they would get Rhode
My Precious Erdogan
Bilgin Ciftci is a Turkish Blogger who posted a meme of Gollum (from Lord of the Rings) comparing Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to the fictional character. He stands accused of insulting a public figure, which is a crime in Turkey. The judge reportedly has now called in a team of five experts to determine whether this is, indeed, an insult.
Patriots Bitchcast
I don’t care if you’re a sports fan, Pats fan, or neither… this is fucking genius. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcassBXCkZc]
The Hasmoneans Lost
by Jay M. Wolman Next Sunday night, December 6, marks the beginning of Chanukkah. The tl;dr version of the story is that Judah Maccabee and his brothers beat back the occupying King Antiochus, restored the Temple, and the oil lasted 8 days. And, thus, we eat latkes, spin dreidels, light menorahs, and give presents. Except… Judah and his band
More on Nury Martinez' Surveillance State
This weekend I wrote about how LA Councilwoman Nury Martinez wants to use, promote, and expand the surveillance state – all in the name of discouraging prostitution. (post here) If that wasn’t enough for you, Mimesis law has even more analysis on it, here.
Ivy League Protests Mean Black Lives Won't Matter
Martin Luther King knew that institutional racism was about “them” fucking “us” over, but making sure that “we” split into at least two fragments — fragments that don’t get along with each other. “The Southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow,” King said in 1965. “And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the
I might have to apologize to the Saudi justice system
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
Ask Syrian Refugees About Male Privilege
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.
Whoever keeps company with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.
I’m not going Christian on you. But, looking at the leading nations when it comes to executions, that verse resonated with me.
Well that's an interesting defense argument…
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
A guy made an ISIS flag covered in cocks
And it is hilarious… as is the fact that the stupid fucking media didn’t notice that they were cocks. (source)