News & Media
Police Bust Mahjong Game – and I actually have a relevant publication!
There are just so many angles to this story. Its got bumbling cops, feisty old Jewish ladies, mahjong, and all of a sudden, one of my oldest publications is relevant! Condo
Real Genius
Someone added fake Black Friday posters to his local Target bulletin board. (source)
A breath of fresh air at Princeton
It seems that not all Princeton students are politically correct idiots who can’t string together a coherent sentence. While the victim studies types are whining to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name
Porn Actor Cum Math Tutor Loses First Amendment Case
This is sort of a sad story. David Mech was once known as “Dave Pounder,” a porn actor. I do not know him personally, but everything I can find out
Are you afraid of refugees?
I have a friend who came to the United States from Chile, fleeing the Pinochet regime. I see the irony in fleeing Chile to the United States because of Pinochet,
Alla Mafia, No Grazie
Giovanni Gambino, dalla famiglia Gambino, cioè una famiglia famosa per la sua criminalità, ha offerto aiuto agli stati uniti per risolvere il problema di ISIS. (rif) Forse ha preso l’idea
Professor "Under Investigation" for Using the Word "Nigger"
A Kansas professor is “under investigation” because the word “nigger” touched her lips, and this supposedly left a student “in tears.” (source) The professor was teaching a seminar about how
Yoga is Cultural Appropriation
Are you fucking shitting me? A Yoga class for disabled people has been cancelled – because white people. (source) I think its high time we have a Yoga class, in
Facepalm: Mafia offers to help protect NY from ISIS
Giovanni Gambino claims that ISIS is afraid of the Mafia, and that is why they haven’t set up in Sicily. (source) “The mafia has a bad reputation, but much of
Affirmative Action in Action
This “firefighter” was allowed to graduate from the Academy, despite being woefully unqualified. But, she did have two overwhelming qualifications: She had a vagina and she had a critical mass
Fuck Roanoke
Mayor Bowers of Roanoke, VA is “reminded that President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the threat of harm
UPDATED: I wasn't voting for Hillary anyway
But, you can bet your ass I won’t vote for her, even if Trump is running against her. Comedians made fun of her, so she tried to get the video
Marc Randazza Free Speech Win for Dr. Steven Novella
First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza of Las Vegas has scored a particularly important win in a case involving Steven Novella, MD and Edward Tobinick, MD. Dr. Tobinick sued Dr. Novella
Marc Randazza files brief on behalf of First Amendment Lawyers’ Association in Redskins Case
The First Amendment Lawyers Association (FALA) files an amicus (“friend of the Court”) brief in response to The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s (USPTO) controversial decision to strip the word
A Slanted View of Trademarks and Free Speech
by Jay Marshall Wolman Free speech and the Lanham Act (the federal law dealing with trademarks) has been a hot topic of late. There are two high profile matters in
Wait a Cotton Pickin' Minute: Free Speech and Employment
by Jay Marshall Wolman As an employment lawyer who works for a 1st Amendment firm, I try to keep up with developments in both areas. Sometimes, they overlap, as they
On Broken Wrists and Suing Children
by Jay Marshall Wolman It seems Eric Turkewitz and Jack Marshall are at it again, this time over the aunt (or first-cousin once removed) who sued a boy (now 12, but 8
Those sneaky Chinamen*
*Chinamen is not the preferred nomenclature, Dude.
Watch porn on your lunch break, but no smoking dope
At least in Sicily it is. Good ol’ “Giuseppe Z” was minding his own business, watching a little porn on his lunch break, when some bastone in culo decided that
No First Amendment Right to Military Insubordination
In Wayne v. James, a Mormon airman flipped out that there were gay weddings at West Point’s chapel. In reaction to being reprimanded, he claimed that he had a right