News & Media
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 across America. Anticipating that the event would become an annual one, Reinhard Birnhuber registered the domains taurusrubens.com and rubenstaurus.com among others. When Red Bull discovered this, it offered Birnhuber € 500. Birnhuber demanded one million euros. In April 2005, Red
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 to review. Nothing all that interesting happened. 200 visitors in January. 129 in February. 478 in March. Then, I started getting comments from people who were not students. They were asking questions about legal issues. They were suggesting materials and
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 demon shoving a pineapple up his ass every day for all eternity — for the crime of wearing pinstripes after being a member of the Red Sox. Yeah, fuck you too, Johnny Damon.
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). How about opening a Moslem strip club? Call it “The 72 Virgins,” get a guy named Mohammed to run it, subtitle “The closest you can get to paradise without being killed by a suicide bomber.” Now we have a measure
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 slightly ignorant) intent. They did not intend to send a religious message, but rather used the crucifix as what they thought was a “universal” symbol of a memorial to the fallen. The American Atheists sued to block the displays as
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 “wanted her First Amendment rights back.” But Venkat Balasubramani knows how to push my buttons! He sent me this: Dr. Laura isn’t the first one to try and bamboozle us by crying “First Amendment,” when the First Amendment just doesn’t
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 him with reckless endangerment on the theory that had he made the jump, he very well could have hurt people below. This theory was successfully argued by the prosecution in United States v. Carroll, 813 F. Supp. 698 (E.D. Mo.
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.”