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Band Geeks? I think not.
Far be it for me to deem a term to be banned from use, but I can certainly proclaim that “band geek” no longer has any meaning, thanks to the George Mason University Green Machine. BAND BLOW YOUR MIND. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqG4oSfQYIY] H/T: Janelle
You reap what you sow, so eat sand Flori-duh poors
America’s wang just couldn’t deal with those unemployment kings and queens living large on their $275 per week for 26 weeks. The Flori-duh house just passed a bill that would cut state unemployment benefits to 20 weeks for a maximum payout of $5,500. (source) Florida’s unemployment benefits are also among the least generous in the nation. Florida’s maximum weekly check
Around the Intertubes – March 13, 2011
By J. DeVoy Some recent finds that warrant sharing: At the re-vamped In Mala Fide, in which godfather Ferdinand Bardamu has assembled a stable of bloggers for a contribution-based society and political forum, 4chan and Anonymous receive an interesting and in-depth treatment. As the workforce and academy become more feminine, and men participate less in education, the workforce and their
This Just In: Bob Schieffer gets it dead wrong
Dear Bob, I have always been a fan. Therefore, I was very disappointed to read your recent column about the Westboro Baptist Church and the Snyder v. Phelps decision. In it you wrote: I’ve spent most of my life defending the First Amendment. But when the Supreme Court ruled last week that it gave a church group the right to
Live Free or Die! I love the 603
New Hampshire is the safest place to run a porn company. Its State Supreme Court ruled in New Hampshire v. Theriault that applying the prostitution laws to erotic film production was not only a misapplication of the prostitution laws, but it was a violation of the New Hampshire Constitution’s free speech provisions. (post) Meanwhile, a newly-elected state rep in New
Why the Westboro case should be porn’s victory as well
By J. DeVoy Mark Kernes has an insightful piece at AVN about what the Westboro case (Snyder v. Phelps – read Randazza’s commentary here) means to porn – or should have meant, if the Roberts court wasn’t consciously out to limit the Court’s holding to the facts in Snyder. Going beyond the political dimension of public concern, why aren’t matters
TSUNAMI IN SAN DIEGO!!!!!!
Footage of the Great San Diego Tsunami of 2011. [wpvideo zjjh313t]
March 9, 2011 – the point of no return
By J. DeVoy Well, America, it’s been a fun ride, but I think we should be parting ways sooner rather than later. We had a lot of good times together and I like a lot about you – your size and resources, the rule of law and well-defined rights for others – but I just don’t think it’s going to
9th Circuit: Consumer Sophistication is an important determinant for AdWord bidding cases
by Jason Fischer For some time now, it has been a legal gray area whether bidding on a competitor’s trademarks as Google AdWords constituted infringement. Google has taken a neutral stance on the matter, only removing ads that actually make use of the mark in ad copy and directing unhappy trademark owners to take their dispute to a court of
At least something is sacred
With all this talk about budget cuts across the board, at least there is something in the budget that will be kept sacred. Food for the hungry? Nope. Medical care? Nah. Social security? Nopers. Military aid to Israel.
POKEMON WORLD IS THE WORLD OF THE DEMONIC!!!!!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmNb3xJFzkc] h/t: Danny Ledone
Any readers on active duty? Operation Mesoporntamia
I had a good friend who was serving in Iraq. The only thing he wanted in care packages was high quality pornography. He is back now, and I have piles and piles of porn, generously donated by my clients, to give away. This porn is earmarked for active duty service members who are deployed overseas in a place where you
Well that figures
I was just chuckling at myself, for being such a moron that I bought into that HOPE crap. Just to see what was there, I navigated over to HOPE.com. I found a completely appropriate web page there, a pay per click page that was full of links to worthless crap about loan modifications, debt consolidation, foreclosures, and online schools.
Fourth Circuit: You don’t have to choose between girls and booze
By Randazza & DeVoy In this recently released opinion from the Fourth Circuit, Gentlemen’s Clubs have won an important victory in their ability to serve alcohol as well as T’n’A on premises. The decision in Miller (Defendant-Appellant) v. Legend Night Club (Plaintiff-Appellee), Case No. 09-1540, released today, holds that a Maryland Statute that restricts the activities allowed at an alcohol-serving
Stuff you can't do
If you’re a cop, you can’t pretend to be an inmate’s lawyer so that you can gather confidential information from the inmate to use against him in his prosecution. (source) If you’re a lawyer and you omit portions of a quote from a court opinion, you can’t do it without using ellipses to show that you’ve omitted something. This is
Civil Procedure Fun!
For those of you who are not lawyers, you can play too. A plaintiff files a defamation lawsuit. The plaintiff lives in California. The defendant lives in California too — in fact, just a few miles from the plaintiff. Where do you file the suit? A) California B) California, because you are not an imbecile C) California, because you are
Nice article about Judge Roll
I did not know Judge Roll, (the judge who died in the attack on Gabrielle Giffords) but he was the judge who swore me in to the D. Ariz. The few minutes I spent in front of him were memorable, and actually hilarious. There is a nice article about him in this month’s Arizona Attorney.
Probable cause = black guy with a $50 bill
The Flori-duh Department of Transportation has apparently been “illegally detaining” motorists who pay with large bills. The video at this link shows that tollbooth operators recorded the personal information about the people who used $20, $50, or $100 bills along with what made them so suspicious in the first place. Y’know, like being a young black male. (source)
Intellectual Property in Farm Operations?
This just in from the “could Flori-duh get any dumber” department. SB 1246 by Sen. Jim Norman, R-Tampa, would make it a first-degree felony to photograph a farm without first obtaining written permission from the owner. A farm is defined as any land “cultivated for the purpose of agricultural production, the raising and breeding of domestic animals or the storage
Smokers, cut your bitching. Nannies, you do the same.
If there is one group of people that I don’t want to hear whining, it is the cigarette smoker. Imagine any other habit being half as obnoxious, and yet tolerated. Otherwise clean people smell like they slept in a dumpster (sorry guys, you do). They expel carcinogenic chemicals that you couldn’t even bury in a toxic waste dump without a
