News & Media
Craig's List yields to pressure?
by Platt & Randazza The “Adult Services” listing on Craiglist was removed late Friday on its U.S.-based sites and replaced with the word “censored.” Story here. Interestingly enough, if you access Craigslist from outside the United States, the “censored” block does not appear, and you are free to access the website’s adult services section. Keep this in mind the next time you think that you live in the “land of the free” and the “home of the brave.” You do not. You live in the land of the mewling cowards and the cowed-by-those-who-profit-from-taking-your-liberty. If a willing woman and a willing man wish to exchange money for a fuck, why in the hell does any government have a right, or a
Numbers that Demonize the American People
A widely quoted Harris poll claims that 57% of sampled Republicans think that Barack Obama is a muslim. This has been a great gift for liberal commentators who are predisposed to fear and loathe the Tea Party and its supposed influence. But did this gift just materialize from dispassionate and objective data, as if by accident?
Student Loan Slavery!
Way back when, they said “go to the best law school you can get into.” I say bullshit. You want a law degree? Go to the CHEAPEST school you can get into. Here’s an infographic on how student loans work. H/T: Above the Law
Textbook beta behavior
By J. DeVoy That’s Some Fuckery found some Beta who really loves Brenda.
Cheers to patriotism and logic!
By Tatiana von Tauber Georgia Republican, Jack Kingston, deserves applause. Why? Because Kingston is exercising logic: he supports lowering the drinking age for military service members. “If you’re 18 years old, you can get married, you can sign a contract, buy a piece of property, you can do just about anything, except buy a beer,” said Kingston. “We’re telling young people, you can fly a BlackHawk helicopter, you can drive an Abram tank, you can squeeze the trigger on an M4 rifle and kill a fellow human being, but when you go back home to the officer’s club or MCO clubs, we’re not going to let you make a decision to a beer with your chicken dinner. I think that’s ridiculous and it’s an insult to
Broken Penises and the Law
By Marc J. Randazza As office workers, few attorneys have the opportunity to contemplate what workplace injuries can mean to their clients. Honestly, what’s the worst injury you can get on the job in a law office? A paper cut? Your panties in a wad? In the porn industry, like any other, workplace injuries are an issue. Normally, it is the female talent that winds up a little sore. I mean, those high platform heels will make a girl’s feet hurt like you wouldn’t believe. But, even for the men on a straight porn set, even one that involves no strap-ons, danger lurks… waiting to pounce upon an unsuspecting victim. Prince Yahshua, CEO of Silverback Entertainment, recently met this unfortunate
Do you need more proof that religion is frigging stupid?
Now, if you want to keep kosher, you have to filter your New York City water, because there are microscopic crustaceans in the water. (source) I fail to understand how Jews and Muslims can believe that an all powerful creator of heaven and earth gives a shit if you eat ham or chop off a piece of a baby boy’s dick — and christians think that the same omniscient and omnipotent dude cares if you jack off. Free yourselves from this mindless mental slavery. Get this through your head: There is no god, and if there is, there’s no way he is this fucking petty… and on the off chance that he does exist, and he is really that small
Washington State comes down against online gambling
By J. DeVoy Today, in a unanimous decision authored by Justice Tom Chambers, the Washington Supreme Court dealt a blow to online gambling. Internet Community & Entertainment Corporation, doing business as Betcha.com (“Betcha”), has been under the scrutiny of the Washington State Gambling Commission since shortly after its 2007 launch. Now, the Supreme Court has ruled that Betcha’s services constitute bookmaking under RCW § 9.46.0213, and thus the site’s operations constitute “professional gambling” as defined by RCW § 9.46.0269(1). The full opinion, Internet Community & Entertainment Corporation v. Washington State Gambling Commission, No. 82845-8, is available here. This entire dispute centers around a unique characteristic of Betcha’s business model — losers are not required to pay their bets. When
Thank you Brent Newton – American Legal Education is Worthless
By Randazza and DeVoy Brent Newton, an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown, wrote a law review article about how professors writing law review articles is a waste of time. The article, Preaching What They Don’t Practice: Why Law Faculties’ Preoccupation with Impractical Scholarship and Devaluation of Practical Competencies Obstruct Reform in the Legal Academy, is actually worth reading … which is rather unusual for a law review article. my thesis is that it will not be possible to implement such proposed curricular and pedagogical reforms if law schools continue their trend of primarily hiring and promoting tenure-track faculty members whose primary mission is to produce theoretical, increasingly interdisciplinary scholarship for law reviews rather than prepare students to practice law. Such “impractical
CNN: Most young christians are actually massive hypocrites
By J. DeVoy CNN has a story about the hollowness of youth spirituality that is not terribly surprising, but affirming in some aspects. The Pros: CNN notes that most young Christians are callow and spineless, claiming to believe in their religion while doing all the drugs, partaking in the materialism, and having all the premarital sex and children that their professed faith forbids. [Ed.’s note — we’re very much in favor of all of these things at the Legal Satyricon, but we’re also not running a cult bent on limiting its followers’ personal freedom.] By latching onto the “we’re all sinners” meme, young Christians use God and fellow fallible believers as a rationalization tool for their choices; additionally, the strength
Fellow Moto Guzzi Enthusiasts
Billy Joel’s favorite ride? Taking his Moto Guzzi around Gloucester, MA. (source) H/T: Mom
The "cami secret" pwned
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tieA5wfcgH4] H/T: Lake
W00t W00t! Return of Blog L00t!
BLOG LOOT IS BACK (& Better than Ever) By Christopher Hayes Blog Loot, as some of you may remember, is a shout out to all of our fellow bloggers fighting the good fight and providing you both useful and useless information on a daily schedule. The following “Loot” is for those who enjoy a little bit of everything. The “Miller Test Strikes Again” Marty Klein at Sexual Intelligence highlights the ridiculousness of the “Miller Test”, which we all know is the legal test for determining the obscenity of sexual material. Our lovely tax dollars, during the biggest recession since 1929, were used to prosecute a case against a guy who merely made some DVD’s for adults to enjoy. (Thank you
Departures Magazine – You may blow me now
By Marc J. Randazza I have a pretty awesome American Express card limit. If I decided to go on the lam, I could probably just buy a plane and worry about it later. I carry no balance on it, but it’s nice to know that if I gotta grab a car in a hurry, I can buy it. I’m not bragging. Any twit with a decent paying job who pays his bills can get that kind of credit. You just start early, never fuck them over, and agree to pay a somewhat outrageous membership fee. But, you see, I love the little privileges that come from getting “status” with companies. For the most part, it just allows me to cut
Now this is a judge who knows how to pound a gavel
heh heh… heh… So he had porn on his work computer. Big fucking deal. Still, gave me the opportunity to use that joke in the headline, so Judge Gibbons, tyft.
There's good reason for why all of my friends are Trekkies…
(granted some of them just don’t know it yet, since they may not have watched enough) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjJN08uqt70]
Welcome to Georgia, USA
By Tatiana von Tauber I found this opinion piece in the local paper today. It was a letter to the editor and it reads: “Don’t vote from list writer says” Editor: I have Democrat friends both black and white. What they tell me is appalling. I have been told by the black friends that when it comes to elections that they go to the NAACP or the Democratic headquarters and get a list of people to vote for. The white friends say they go to the Democrat headquarters and get the list. It is a very sad day in America when a person cannot go to vote for whom they think is the best person for the job. They have to be given
News Flash: L.A. Times Prints Whiney Panic Piece
by Jason Fischer Okay. So it’s not really a news flash – it’s kinda the bread and butter of the L.A. Times to print whiney panic pieces. However, this story hit upon our sweet spot. Reporter David G. Savage writes to warn us all about the dangers of criticizing others on teh interwebs. The advice to bloggers and emailers: “think twice before sending a message.” With all due respect to the attorneys quoted in the piece, the story is a load of shit. It paints the picture that you can and will be sued for posting anything negative about anyone or anything. We understand that there is only so much space available for a story, but this one was so
Support the Iowa Supreme Court
Back in April, the Iowa Supreme Court issued an inspiring ruling, which struck down Iowa’s ban on same sex marriage. (earlier post). Whether you give a shit if gays get married or not, the court’s decision was well-reasoned and upheld the principle that “equal” means “equal.” In response, Bob Vander Plaats, a Republican candidate for Iowa Governor called for an “executive order” overturning the decision. We mocked him in this post. Now Vander Plaats is at it again – trying to organize a campaign to remove the justices from the Iowa Supreme Court in their next retention election. (source) Of course, this is part of the democratic process, and he has a right to campaign to remove the justices from
