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If you are watching other people have fun, while hurting nobody else, and it bothers you, then you are the douchebag
I think that is sorta the definition of a douchebag. Ok, or it is one of the definitions of a douchebag. You know, you look at two people who are totally into each other. They want to be happy and to just go get married or just fuck each other for fun, or whatever. Nobody is getting hurt. Everyone involved
Girls Masturbating While Singing
Its not even porny. Totally G-rated, but fucking awesome. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h37xswCoY0#t=149] If you can watch this and not smile your ass off, then you and me are not much alike. Which is not the same as me saying I don’t like you, but you’re definitely the weird one.
The Star Spangled Banner in Minor Key
This seems much more appropriate than the original. It conveys the fact that everything it once stood for is dead. Especially the “land of the free, home of the brave” line. We are neither. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_PtnvVQhqA]
15 Year old Texan – First Amendment Bad Ass
Mason Michalec is a 15 year old in Needville, Texas. He prefers not to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. His principal decided to take him on and gave him in school suspension for not adhering to the required political orthodoxy. Michalec does not seem to be backing down. That principal is going to get spanked if he pushes this.
Pope Francis, Awesome Again
It really makes it hard to be an Atheist when the Pope is so fucking awesome. Maybe that’s the point. Atheist or not, Pope Francis is one of my top living heroes. Pope Francis called Friday for governments to redistribute wealth and benefits to the poor in a new spirit of generosity to help curb the “economy of exclusion” that
Donald Sterling and Privacy
This article I wrote on CNN.com got a little bit of attention. Much more than I expected.
Section 230 Appeal in The Dirty
It sounds like oral arguments in Dirty World v. Jones went well for Mr. Nik Ritchie. (source) I certainly hope so, as my client was an amicus in that case. (Amicus Brief)
Celebration, Florida: 20 years later
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Celebration, a master-planned community adjacent to Walt Disney World designed by Disney and intended to be a suburban utopia. I remember reading about Celebration when it was announced and being vaguely creeped out by the idea of a suburb engineered by the Magic Kingdom. Photos of the place didn’t help this perception, given that
Adam Steinbaugh – Anti-Involuntary-Porn Bad Ass
Kashmir Hill at Forbes has a great piece on a guy I’m proud to call a friend.
"Female Privilege"
I generally can’t stand critical race / gender theorist types who whine about “privilege.” Yeah, there are advantages to being whatever the fuck you are. There’s a time and a place when being a transgendered Azerbaijani will come in handy (although probably less often than being a white guy in America). Accordingly, I don’t subscribe to the views in this
Strippers at Funerals! (Yay Taiwan!)
In Taiwan, they have strippers at funerals. I want strippers at my funeral. If I don’t get them, I’m coming back to haunt you all.
This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps
This is a pretty familiar story line. A businessman wants to open a strip club. Some members of the local community decide that they do not want that kind of thing in their town. The resistance is usually faith-based (which is where the wheels really come off). I fail to understand how anyone can believe in a supreme being, who
Breaking news(?) Babies intentionally cockblock
Babies cry to make sure their moms aren’t getting any. Yep… little tiny cockblockers. (source) Couldn’t we just assure them that we’re using birth control?
Judge Admonishes Expert Witness – Expert Witness Sues Blogger Who Reported On It
By Marc J. Randazza When a New York Supreme Court Judge told Dr. Michael Katz, the medical expert for the defense in a personal injury case, that he was lying about the medical examination he conducted, Dr. Katz knew the judge was wrong. So, of course, Dr. Katz responded as any aggrieved professional would – he filed a lawsuit. Because
Bloggers are protected as "Media" – Comins v. VanVoorhis (Chapter 2)
It’s an all-too-common scenario: A blogger criticizes someone online, and then gets sued for his statements. But two things make this case unique: First, the plaintiff sued because of the blogger’s characterizations of him shooting two dogs at close range; second, the defendant blogger was in Florida – and thus protected by Fla. Stat. § 770.01. (I am proud
Law Enforcement Priorities
I’ve been involved in the debate over whether we should criminalize “revenge porn.” As much as I despise the practice, I don’t agree with new criminal laws to punish it. In fact, I just spent some time on a panel at Stanford Law School, in the company of three people I greatly admire — one of whom (Attorney Erica Johnstone
Natural Selection in Action!
Once more, with feeling…. I will NOT listen to clergy members (at least if they tell me to let a hyena eat my balls)
I wish I was a good enough person to have thought of this
Great “protest” at Fred Phelps’ funeral. (here)
Revenge Porn Scumbags Spanked With $385,000 Judgment
Founders of the revenge porn site You Got Posted, Eric Chanson and Kevin Bollaert, have been ordered to pay an Ohio woman $385,000, including $75,000 in punitive damages, for distributing child pornography – photos of her when she was underage. (judgment) The plaintiff, represented by Randazza Legal Group, sued You Got Posted’s operators after finding several sexually explicit images of
Was Saint Patrick Really Italian?
Irish is, without a doubt, the dominant immigrant culture in Massachusetts. Growing up there, in a town where Sicilians were the plurality, St. Patrick’s Day was always a little underwhelming. Instead, we celebrated St. Joseph’s day on March 19. Of course, every St. Joseph’s Day, someone would bring up the old story that St. Patrick’s day should be “our” day
