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PSA: Use Caution When You Trim Your Junk
According to the Today Show, “pubic hair grooming injuries jumped five-fold between 2000 and 2010.” Good god, people! Be careful down there!
A "separate prom" to avoid homosexuals – homassholes lose
In Sullivan, Indiana, the local high school declined to ban gays and lesbians from bringing their same-sex dates to the prom. So, a group of “christian” students and their parents decided to have an “alternate prom,” where the queers wouldn’t go fagging up the place. Or something like that. (source) To help “preserve their beliefs,” parents, students, and other homasssholes got together where most homassholes congregate, at a church — the Sullivan First Christian Church. Sidebar — I am not going to use the word “homophobic” anymore. That’s a really stupid term. There’s a quote going around that says “Phobia” has nothing to do with it. You’re not afraid of homosexuals, you’re just an asshole. Accordingly, from this day forward,
Now this is horrible….
USA Today Reports: PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) — A mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in a Papua New Guinea town, police said Friday after one of the highest profile sorcery-related murders in this South Pacific island nation. … Kepari Leniata, a 20-year-old mother, had been accused of sorcery by relatives of a 6-year-old boy who died in the hospital the day before. She was tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused in gasoline, then set alight on a pile of car tires and trash…(source)
Revenge porn is “just entertainment,” says owner of IsAnybodyDown
Ars Technica writes about a CBS interview with the proprietor of revenge porn site IsAnybodyDown and the attorney representing some of the victims of the site, Marc Randazza. Randazza says: I can tell you, there are a number of people ready to file suit as soon as their copyright registration comes in the mail […] I told this guy I was coming for him, and I don’t break my word. Read More…
Viva Hatuey!
On this day in 1512, the Spanish killed Hatuey, the Taíno chief. He led an armed insurrection in Hispaniola for about 10 years, and then in 1511 he and 400 resistance fighters landed in Cuba, hoping to raise an armed insurrection against the Spanish. The Dominican priest Bartolomé de Las Casas documented Hatuey’s motivation: “The intruders worship gold, fight and kill, usurp our land and makes us slaves. For gold, slaves, and land they fight and kill; for these they persecute us and that is why we have to throw them into the sea.” Hatuey’s forces had little chance to get organized, when Spanish troops led by Diego Velásquez landed in Cuba. As well-organized and well armed as they were,
Required Reading – Jordan Rushie on Wisdom
Jordan Rushie writes about what a moron he was as a young associate in, Hubris. I must confess some bias here. I represent Rushie in one little matter. I am co-counsel with him on multiple matters. But, this piece is why I am proud to call him a colleague. Achievements are great. I have had enough of them to know that they sometimes come from perfectly executed plans. But, I also know that achievements are sometimes the result of bad plans, bad decisions, and dumb luck. A lawyer earns my respect more when he tells me about his fuck-ups and what he learned from them. Rushie has my respect. Rushie’s post is a lesson that you can’t learn in law
Social media prohibition held unconstitutional
By Andrew J. Contiguglia The 7th Circuit court of appeals Wednesday declared an outright ban on social media usage by convicted sex offenders to be a violation of the First Amendment. At the crux of the arguments is the public’s right to be protected from convicted sex offenders and the offender’s right to send and receive information – a core, fundamental concept under the First Amendment. The 7th Circuit recognized this conflict, but ruled that an outright ban on such information, even to sex offenders, violates the First Amendment. The court stated, The state initially asserts an interest in “protecting public safety, and specifically in protecting minors from harmful online communications.” Indiana is certainly justified in shielding its children from
Richard Marx takes on small time blogger… Marx wins.
Small time blogger writes something mildly lame about Richard Marx. Richard Marx appears to get overly bent out of shape about it. Marx and blogger go back and forth. And, just when you think you want to root for the little guy, just when you think this is a case of someone being thin-skinned, Richard Marx wins you over… or at least he won me over. Read Richard Marx hates my guts
Drunk Driving Permits
In Ireland, County Kerry Councillor Danny Healy-Rae proposed changing the law to allow drunk driving permits to rural inhabitants. (source) Crazy? Crazier still, it PASSED! Mind you, I don’t really think it is crazy. In fact, I think that Mr. Healy-Rae is brilliant. I don’t know much about Ireland’s drunk driving laws, but I know that ours are a constitutional abomination. Lawrence Taylor’s The DUI Exception to the Constitution is a must read. I think that we should follow Healy-Rae’s move here, in the United States. We should restore sanity to the drunk driving laws. Despite what MADD wants us to believe, drunk driving never was the “carnage” they want us to believe in order to justify their existence and
Mike Masnick Proven Right!
Masnick, over at TechDirt has a philosophy that, if you oversimplify it, boils down to “even if people give your stuff away for free, you can still make money charging for it if you give superior service.” Here is proof that he is right. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJfYAJJYMqg] Well, I dunno… Mike also says stuff like “if you can’t compete with free, [something bad about you].” But, by the way the hippie gets all upset, it looks like the opposite. Free can’t compete with paid! Meh, lets just stick with Masnick proven right.
Morgan Freeman at the Inauguration….
George Stephanopoulos thought this was Morgan Freeman. Idiot… anyone can tell that this is Nelson Mandela and Condoleeza Rice.
Finally, someone writes something worthwhile about the Manti Te’o girlfriend saga
Gail Collins writes in “The Girl of My Dreams.” Right after Christmas, Te’o told his coach that a woman who sounded like the dead girlfriend had called him to say she wasn’t deceased after all. The coach told the higher ups, and Notre Dame hired an outside firm to investigate the case. When an exposé broke on the Web site Deadspin, the school’s athletic director, Jack Swarbrick, held a press conference to tearfully announce that the investigation showed that Te’o was the victim of a “very elaborate, sophisticated hoax perpetrated for reasons we can’t fully understand. But it had a cruelty at its core.” This all occurred a couple of years after the Notre Dame team was involved in a
Carlos Miller – First Amendment Hero
If you don’t already know who Carlos Miller is, you should. You are more free because Miller won’t let newsgathering and photography die under the wheels of a paranoid nation, shrieking with fear at imaginary terrorists, and hiring policies in police departments that seem to favor people with personality disorders that would make Eric Cartman blush. Miller’s crusade began a few years ago, when he photographed some Miami-Dade officers standing around on the street. Arrested for his “crime,” Miller beat the rap. Then, he did it again, and was convicted, but won his case on appeal, despite representing himself. (source). Since then, Miller has refused to back down when challenged by police officers, TSA Agents, and rent-a-cops who think that
North Korea announces "Unicorns are Real!" Who are we to mock them?
You know that “axis of evil” state? The one we’re worried about attacking us? On Thursday, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the North Korea’s government mouthpiece, said scientists “reconfirmed” the location of the burial site of the unicorn ridden by King Dongmyeong, the founding father of the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo (37 BC-668 AD). (source) Of course, we mock it. But who are we to mock the North Koreans for claiming that their ancient king rode a unicorn? Do you remember which country this is? One where Roy Moore got reinstated as an Alabama Supreme Court justice. We live in a country where 46% of the population believes that a magic space man created mankind at some point
Vaginas are icky
Apparently… that’s why some plastic surgeons are offering “corrective” surgery to remove the yucky labia. (source)
Why the lunar landing could not have been faked
Not that any LS readers think it was… but, this is a pretty cool video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sGXTF6bs1IU#!]
His name is C. Dale Petersen
Compared to C. Dale Petersen, even Chuck Norris is a pussy…. Rocky Mountain Grizzly Bear Jackson Hole, Wyoming This bear was taken by world famous hunter and hunting guide C. Dale Petersen of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It is one of only two grizzlies known to have been killed “without” the use of modern weaponry. Verified by game biologists, Mr. Petersen killed this bear with his hands, and oddly enough, his teeth. It is known that this bear had been aggravated by a group of backpackers, shortly thereafter, Petersen, unaware of previous happenings, came upon the bear. A fight-to-the-death ensued. Petersen, having his right hand and arm wedged in the bear’s throat, actually used his own teeth and jaws to pinch
Porn's Most Powerful Players 2013
CNBC recently named attorney Marc J. Randazza one of Porn’s Most Powerful Player for 2013. The post states: Randazza is a first amendment attorney who has frequently defended the adult entertainment industry – especially in copyright infringement cases. Read More…
The Face of Revenge
The Colorado Springs Independent reports on revenge porn site Is Anybody Down. Attorney Marc Randazza has offered to help victims of the site pro bono. The article says of Randazza: As Randazza wrote on his blog, the issue here is consent. What Is Anybody Down? and sites like it profit from, he argues, is the exploitation of a person who has taken a photo of themselves in a sexual manner, to be shared with the person or persons of their choice. They didn’t take that picture for the entire world to see. Read More…
Finally, someone uses "IP Troll" properly
Lee Cheng, Chief Legal Officer of online retailer Newegg, said: “A troll is a type of entity that doesn’t sell a product, or transfer value of any sort. All they offer is the right to not be sued. It’s protection money. To put it bluntly, it’s extortion.” (source) Righthaven produced nothing but lawsuits. The term is properly applied to them. Porn companies, record companies, and other companies trying to stop infringement, or trying to recoup losses from infringement are not properly so-labeled.
