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Has Ark Music Factory ruined more teens' lives than sexting?
By J. DeVoy I believe so. H/T: Mike
Free financial tip for law students
By J. DeVoy Before I started law school, I considered getting my student loans in Yen. Japan’s Yen, long a stable currency that reliably stayed around 110-120 Yen-per-US Dollar – however badly we devalued the dollar under the reigns of Bush (weak dollar policy to boost exports) and Obama (“quantitative easing”). This use of the Yen and other stable, low-interest currencies to make other, high-gain investments – which is a stretch when discussing higher education – is referred to as a “carry trade” in financial circles. Well it’s a damn good thing that I couldn’t make this work in 2007,
Maybe Sarah Palin was right – Can you see Russia from your house?
Sarah Palin said that she could see Russia from her house (or was that just Tina Fey playing Sarah Palin?). This video from Alaska makes it seem like perhaps Palin was speaking metaphorically. Heh… as if she knows what that means. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppBZM88mHvQ] I’m certainly no fan of Lyndon LaRouche or the idiotic comparisons of Obama and hitler, but if this crowd had risen up and killed these security guards and cops, and I was on the jury for their murder trial, I wouldn’t have voted to convict. Of course, the way our Federal Government behaves, maybe third reich comparisons are
Retraction
Yesterday, I had a post based on a statement that appeared in the Daily Telegraph (Australia). Today, the Telegraph retracted that statement, saying they got it wrong. (source). Based upon that, I see no reason for the original post to remain up.
Tsunami jokes are approved of on this blog – Post your own!
Just another day in the land of the thin skinned mewling pussies as Gilbert Gottfried is fired from being the duck voice on the Aflac commercials because he posted jokes about the Japan earthquake/tsunami/meltdown/holyfuckingshitmess to his twitter account. (source) This is the same Gilbert Gottfried who spawned the “raped and murdered a girl in 1990” humor genre. This is the same Gilbert Gottfried who made jokes about planes crashing into the Empire State Building 3 weeks after 9/11. This is the same Gilbert Gottfried who delivers The Aristocrats joke like none other. And now Aflac is shocked that the guy
This is how you stop bullying: Casey Heynes FTW!
Bullying. What a great buzzword. Everyone hates a bully. The “fight against bullying” plays into our “be scared of everything” national psyche. Schoolyard bullying. Cyber-bullying. And lets all run out and pass new laws… because that’s how the land of the free deals with its problems. The academic circle jerk mangina crowd loves the concept. It lets them whine into their cheerios, warm over their research gathered at the last international association of crybabies conference, and somehow get a few publications out of the deal. Fuck that. Casey Heynes shows us how you deal with a bully. [wpvideo eljmtD5c] I
tamtampamela got us! D'oh!
The video in yesterday’s post, Do you need more evidence that Marx was right about religion? was apparently not for real. The girl in the video makes “troll videos.” (source) She got us. She got us good. 180. Well played tamtampamela, well played!
More TSA idiocy
A couple of orthodox Jews engaged in a pretty common prayer ritual, where they wrap leather straps on their forearms and lash a little leather box to their foreheads. The cockpit was placed on a security lockdown for the rest of the flight _ meaning the door couldn’t be opened even for pilots to leave briefly. Normal protocol calls for the cockpit to be locked, but on longer flights the pilots will leave and return from the flight deck. FBI and customs agents along with police and a full assignment of fire trucks met the plane at the gate at
Do you need more evidence that Marx was right about religion?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UmotTE-VlY]
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 of $275 ranks 45th among the 50 states and is less than half the amount paid in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey. The bill passed 81 to 38, largely along party lines. Republicans, who have vowed to make
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 communities, Anonymous’ destructive antics are just one manifestation of men dropping out of society. Rather than playing Call of Duty for entertainment, though, they’re DDoS-ing Visa. Speaking of Anonymous, Zero Hedge reports that they’ll (allegedly) be picking up where Julian
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 picket a dead soldier’s funeral with signs that said, “God Hates You” and “Thank God for Dead Soldiers,” I was appalled. Fair enough… so were we all, Bob. (as long as you were appalled by the speech, not by the
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 Hampshire openly advocated in favor of eugenics. (source) Barrington Republican Martin Harty told Sharon Omand, a Strafford resident who manages a community mental health program, that “the world is too populated” and there are “too many defective people,” according to
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 of obvious social interest – measured by ratings, advertising dollars, headlines and column inches – accorded the same level of protection? By any of those metrics, sex is certainly a matter of factual public interest, yet apparently not accorded the
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 work for much longer. America’s debt problem doesn’t require much discussion: there’s a ton of it, Congress and the president aren’t cutting back, and we have little to show for it; all of that borrowing went to consumption, rather than
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 law for resolution. Finally, some of these cases are bubbling up through the federal court system and providing some precedent and guidance. The latest such decision comes out of the 9th Circuit and involves two software developers who sell licenses
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