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“Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?” -Judge Clayton Horn in ruling that Allen Ginsburg’s poem, Howl, was not legally obscene.

It seems that Carreon is now on a campaign to unmask the person who created a fake twitter account using his name. See Ars Technica. The person set up a twitter account with the handle “@Charles_Carreon” and then began tweeting “abrasively.” Now it seems that he is on a campaign to unmask that person, and presumably add them in to his lawsuit. The lawsuit itself is still rotten to the core. His theory that the person was “incited by Inman” is absurd. But, if you’re going to satirize someone, you don’t have the right to do it while impersonating them

The undergroundzero cooperative and festival needs your support! The undergroundzero cooperative (www.undergroundzeronyc.org) is a group of independent artists that produce and present an annual festival of contemporary theater, dance and performance in repertory. Created originally as an annual guest artist festival, it has now evolved into a resident coalition of established independent theater companies producing in New York City. They recruit artists to join the festival on an invitation only basis. The festival does not curate or select individual productions – the decision on what to make is the artist’s alone. In addition to the work of the resident artists,

Well, Charles Carreon really did it good this time. Instead of backing away from the dispute, like he should have, he’s filed suit against Matthew Inman and Indiegogo. Carreon v. Inman Complaint. For those of you who didn’t catch the story the first time around, Carreon represents a website called “Funny Junk.” Funny Junk is a “user generated content” site — so they say they don’t post any content of their own, it all gets posted by their users. Inman, publisher of The Oatmeal, kept finding his content up on Funny Junk, and got sick of it. So, he posted

I have, so far, not joined in the pile-on Charles Carreon that resulted when he sent his ill-considered demand letter to The Oatmeal. I did, however, fear that The Oatmeal might not be represented by good counsel who knew how to crush the demand. I stand corrected, as I have discovered that The Oatmeal is represented by none other than Venkat Balasubramani, who will lay a motherfucking smackdown if you make him. While The Oatmeal’s response is funnier, Venkat brings his A-Game here.

Good news. Telling someone “you’re so gay” will no longer get you hit with a defamation suit in New York. (Source).  At the end of May, the Third Department of the New York Appellate Court held that because of changing attitudes about homosexuality, calling someone gay who isn’t is no longer defamation per se. Per se categories of defamation include “statements (i) charging [a] plaintiff with a serious crime; (ii) that tend to injure another in his or her trade, business or profession; (iii) that a plaintiff has a loathsome disease; or (iv) imputing unchastity to a woman.” Id.  According

Reported in Providence Journal.

James Brennan wasn’t anyone that most of you have ever heard of. He was my high school history teacher, and he died in a car accident yesterday. Brennan was a comical figure. Thick coke-bottle glasses. Wild unkempt hair. Always prone to screaming non-sequiturs either at you, or just down the hallway. If you got a question really wrong, he might just look at you and ask “your parents never tell you they love you, do they?” Brennan taught us the “forearm shiver” and would scream CEMENT!!! or BOOM!!!! at us. If you weren’t in his class, I don’t think I

A law firm in Boston is offering the princely sum of $10,000 per year. (source) Well, in all fairness, that is the projected income for the incoming associate. “Compensation is mainly based on percentage of work billed and collected … We expect an associate to earn $10,000 in compensation in the first year.” Still, if you ever were wondering just what a scam your toilet for-profit law school is, this should be a hell of a wake up call. This job was posted to the Boston College career services website, and the firm claims that it got 35 applications. If