News & Media
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
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 —
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
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
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.
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
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
The "Mosque at Ground Zero"
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPPxBrtrH1c] Nuff said.
No man is an island, but WIPO is no man.
By J. DeVoy Catching up on the backlog of interesting stuff I couldn’t address during bar prep, Red Bull lost the UDRP proceeding seeking the transfer of domain names that an Austrian court ruled belonged to Red Bull. In 2003, Red Bull held the Taurus Rubens, an air festival/art show that hopefully had more professional participation than its Flugtag events
2,000th Post
It was January 2007, and I was teaching an entertainment law course at Barry University School of Law. I wanted a way to deliver materials and supplemental reading to my students, without having to make photocopies or maintain an email list. So I tried out using the wordpress platform. I put up a few posts with materials for my students
Roger Clemens Indicted
A Washington Grand Jury indicted Roger Clemens for lying to Congress in a deposition and in under-oath testimony before a congressional committee. He falsely denied, while under oath, ever using steroids. Clemens faces 30 years in jail and a $1.5 million fine. (source) And after that, when he finally dies and goes to hell, he will be sentenced to a
Tolerance and the Mosque
by Charles Platt Both sides are claiming tolerance. The Mayor is all in favor of it (actually I assume he is just in favor of saying whatever gets him re-elected). The moslems are in favor of it, seeking merely to “reach out” (actually they are in favor of everyone becoming a moslem, because that’s what their spiritual force tells them).
Atheists Win Roadside Memorial Case – American Atheists v. Duncan
By Marc J. Randazza The Utah Highway Patrol Association (“UHPA”) put up twelve foot high crosses to honor fallen Utah Highway Patrol troopers. The crosses bore the Utah Highway Patrol (“UHP”) symbol and they were on public land. Funny enough, since Mormons don’t use the cross as a religious symbol, the UHPA actually seems to have had an innocent (if
Dr. Laura, Bible Spice, and the First Amendment
By Marc J. Randazza Yesterday’s post about Dr. Laura was not a First Amendment post. It was a post about a cultural issue, not a legal issue. However, I got a persuasive email from a friend who all but demanded that I address the First Amendment “issue” in the story. I just wanted to ignore Dr. Laura’s claim that she
Awesome
Jeb Corliss is working on a plan to skydive and land without a parachute. (source) I initially wrote about Corliss’ case in my article, BASE Jumping and the Law. In that post, I wrote about how Corliss attempted a jump from the Empire State Building, but was apprehended just as he got over the suicide fence. New York then charged
And in related news, it is time for forced sterilization of a lot of people in this retard laden country
One in five Americans think that Obama is a Muslim. (source) Before you bring out the surgery tools, this seems to be a Fox News focus group. So, really the headline should be “one in five abject fucking retards who get their ‘news’ from Fox think that Obama is a muslim.”
Save the word "nigger"
By Marc J. Randazza A few weeks ago, someone who I despise, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, used the taboo “n-word” on her radio show. She didn’t say it to be mean, nasty, or racist. She was quoting someone else. And that turned into a shit storm. Apparently, now the word “nigger” has become so taboo, that even uttering it means that
