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The Passion of the Chris
By J. DeVoy In a recent GChat session about his recent video game post (reprinted with permission), Christopher Harbin – who endorsed Obama just two years ago – saw the light: Christopher: and the whole thing is solved by the market Christopher: let them price the used market into the beginning [price] Christopher: now it’s 90 bucks Jay: and people will be like “lol i’m not buying that shit” Jay: so every game will be awesome to justify the price Jay: nothing short of a ‘Halo’ would be released. Christopher: […] when did I go all libertarian and conservative Christopher: I’m having ridiculous voter’s remorse Jay: everyone is Jay: I’ll be kind and let you off with a “I was right”
Sri Lanka Government – "Only imported porn, please"
Sri Lanka blocked access to 100 porn sites that feature Sri Lankan actors. (source) I suppose that’s not such a terrible thing. They can take the textile manufacturing jobs, and we’ll keep the porn jobs here in the USA!
The Academic Feminist Witch Hunt
By Marc J. Randazza “Feminist Law Professors,” is a blog that throws cyber-tantrums at the notion of anonymous speech on the internet. (more and more) Their comment policy prefers that the authors name themselves, of course. But, when they decide to start an academic lynch mob, these rules go out the window, and on go the masks. They bring us this anonymous criticism of Adam Cohen, a Yale Law professor who published a Time magazine article criticizing Judge Judith Raub Eiler. The author elected to remain anonymous, so lets do two things… lets call the Irony Police, and lets call her “Professor Useless Twat,” because that is about as fair as her criticism of Professor Cohen. Here’s some of Cohen’s
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Paging Captain Obvious!
Ken Mehlman finally came out of the closet. (source) I will give him some credit. At least he came out in a classy way – not in a typical Republican way, like after being caught snorting meth off a pool boy’s dick in a public restroom.
Inappropriate Alertness
By Marc J. Randazza In Elmwood Place, Ohio, a woman was pulled over for having illegally-tinted windows. No wonder she had them tinted so dark, because behind them she had her pants unzipped, and had an un-specified sex toy in her lap. She apparently confessed to the police officer that she was masturbating with the sex toy while watching porn on her passenger’s laptop. The officer cited her for “inappropriate alertness.” (source) And no… she wasn’t hot.
Penny Arcade Turns Traitor: Says Used Game Purchasers "Pirates"
by Christopher Harbin I’m stark raving mad right now. I’ve never been much of a hot head. And over the years my old age has tempered my immediate reactions, but I went from Calmsville to Livid City after reading Penny Arcade’s latest comic without so much as a stopover at Smoldering Anger Junction. The comic was commenting on a new trend in video games. Recently, game publishers have locked more and more content that was traditionally included in a game behind an online pay wall. For example, earlier this year, EA Sports started preventing those purchasing used games from playing online by including a one-time use code inside new packages. Some publishers have even put content included on the physical
Update: Damon exercises no-trade clause, prefers Detroit to feces-filled bee tank.
I just got off the phone with Johnny “Jesus” Damon who informed me that he has exercised the no-trade clause in his contract, nixing the Red Sox’s waiver action. “I love Detroit,” says Damon. He continued: “Although spending my remaining years in a feces- and bee- filled tank in the Red Sox bleachers would be a step up in terms of quality of life over living in Detroit, I find the Mad Max atmosphere of the city too charming to leave.”
Fox News PWNED (again) over the "Terror Mosque"
By Marc J. Randazza Pwned, Pwned, Pwned.
If Dr. Laura sang 'nigga'
by Tatiana von Tauber …she might have gained a new audience and kept her radio show. Aside from her, here’s a fantastic expression of words like “fuck you” and “nigga”. Context is everything. An aquaintence of mine called this ‘clever’. Excellent description. Enjoy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAV0XrbEwNc]
Johnny Damon back to Boston?
By Marc J. Randazza ESPN reports that the Red Sox was claimed on waivers by the Boston Red Sox. (source) I sent Chris Harbin to Boston to interview the Red Sox management about the move. Management issued this statement to Harbin in a Legal Satyricon exclusive interview: Red Sox Nation should not be concerned that Johnny Damon may be playing for the Red Sox in the future. While he may have been instrumental to our 2004 World Series victory, he committed the cardinal sin of going from the Sox to the Yankees, and that can never be forgiven. Our intent in picking up his contract was so that we could bring him to Fenway Park, and place him in a
Third Circuit to Public Colleges: Enough With the Speech Codes
By William Creeley, Special to the Legal Satyricon The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit’s decision in McCauley v. University of the Virgin Islands, issued last Wednesday, is a big win for student speech. For the second time in two years, the Third Circuit has struck down a public university’s speech code on First Amendment grounds — and that’s reason to celebrate for anyone who agrees that the “college classroom with its surrounding environs is ‘peculiarly the marketplace of ideas,’” as the Supreme Court eloquently put it in Healy v. James, 408 U.S. 169, 180 (1972) (quoting Keyishian v. Board of Regents, 385 U.S. 589, 603 (1967)). As Director of Legal and Public Advocacy for the Foundation
New-age book burnings all the rage in Buffalo, New York
By J. DeVoy Buffalo, New York, was in the international headlines a little over a week ago for a shooting that occurred at a downtown bar, the City Grill, that left 4 dead and another 4 wounded. As city residents can attest, this came as a surprise because the City Grill is off Buffalo’s beaten path for violent nightlife, and is a relatively upscale venue dominated by yuppies and their familiars during the week. While a suspect was initially apprehended, he was later released because the highly trained Buffalo Police mistook his identity. The initial headlines indicated that the venue was in use for an anniversary party. As time went on and further investigation occurred, though, the media discovered that
Hell freezes over … I agree with Ann Coulter. No more birthright citizenship for anyone!
By Marc J. Randazza Ann Coulter hates “anchor babies.” She doesn’t think that just being born on U.S. soil should automatically entitle you to citizenship. (source). I agree. But, I would go further than that. I think “birthright citizenship” ought to be done away with altogether. I see no reason why you should be a citizen just because your mom or dad happens to be a citizen — or because you were born on U.S. soil, or frankly, even if all of the above are true. Citizenship ought to be earned, not inherited. This earlier post explains my view.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. -Gandhi Yeah, I love Gandhi as much as the next guy… unless the next guy is Saoud bin Suleiman al-Youssef. Mr. Saoud bla. bla. alphabet is a Saudi judge who is presiding over a battery case in which the victim was rendered paralyzed by spinal damage inflicted by the defendant. He has been asking around to find a hospital that would be willing to snip the defendant’s spinal cord right about the same place that he hacked his victim’s spinal cord apart with a meat cleaver. (source). Apparently, defendants in Saudi Arabia are frequently sentenced to “eye for an eye” punishments. One guy got his teeth pulled out because he
The TARDIS Trademark
This might be old news, but I can’t resist an interesting case about Trademarks – when the TARDIS is involved, I’m hooked. In 1996, the BBC applied to register the TARDIS as a trademark with the UK Intellectual Property Office. (source) The London Metropolitan Police District (LMPD) opposed the registration on the grounds that they owned the mark and despite giving their consent to the BBC to use the iconic Police Phone Box as the TARDIS, they did not give any further permission. (source). The LMPD took the position that if the BBC was granted the mark, it would confuse and deceive the public into thinking that the MPD endorsed the products and services. The UK IPO held that the
What wicked smaht people write about
Magnetic anisotropies of laterally confined structures of epitaxial Fe films on GaAs (001) We have investigated magnetic properties of laterally confined structures of epitaxial Fe films on GaAs (001). Fe films with different thicknesses were grown by molecular-beam epitaxy and patterned into regular arrays of rectangles with varying aspect ratios. In-plane magnetic anisotropy was observed in all of the patterned Fe films both at 15 and 300 K. We have demonstrated that the coercive fields can be tuned by varying the aspect ratios of the structures. The magnitudes of the corresponding anisotropy constants have been determined and the shape anisotropy constant is found to be enhanced as the aspect ratio is increased. (source) I have no idea what any of
The "Mosque at Ground Zero"
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPPxBrtrH1c] Nuff said.
