Will Phillips – you are the First Amendment Bad Ass of the month.
Will’s family has a number of gay friends. In recent years, Laura Phillips said, they’ve been trying to be a straight ally to the gay community, going to the pride parades and standing up for the rights of their gay and lesbian [...]
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by Jason Fischer
If you’re a fan of Showtime’s adult series “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” (or even if you aren’t), you may be interested to know that the real-life anonymous author of the blog and book that inspired the series went public earlier this week. (Source)
Dr. Brooke Magnanti, Ph.D. in informatics, epidemiology and forensic [...]
ABA seeks a bailout – we should bail out the legal profession by disbanding the ABA
Nov 17th, 2009 by marcorandazza posted in The Legal Satyricon
The American Bar Association thinks that the U.S. government should give law grads a bailout by letting them convert their private loans into government loans. (source)
The American Bar Association thinks that there is a crisis in the profession caused by too much debt.
Yes, the ABA — that festering slop bucket of do-nothing [...]
n her “book,” Palin throws a little unoriginal wit at prey vegetarians.
“If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?” (source)
I say [...]
Rhode Island Governor Carcieri – You’re a Dick
Nov 16th, 2009 by marcorandazza posted in The Legal Satyricon
So much for me being a smug New Englander who thinks that the Northeast is intellectually superior to the peckerwood hellholes of the Confederacy. Hot on the heels of Maine voters deciding that they don’t want all eight gay couples who live in Maine to have the right to marry who they want, Rhode [...]
Today, I was at the Children’s museum in San Diego, and I scrawled MEEP on the chalkboard. You know why? Because it’s my fucking goddamn right to do so, and because Danvers High School is run by asshats.
Apparently, students at Danvers High, in Massachusetts, have adopted a little meme of using [...]
adies and gentlemen, I have a few questions for you. I’m just asking… no, I’m not just asking, I’m RAISING THE ALARM!!!!!
More terrifying than SARS, Bird Flu, and H1N1 combined. More scarier than a SHOE BOMB wearing SOCIALIST! Its…. THE DAMN DIRTY APES!!!!!
Everyone laughed at Zippy the Chimp, and Clyde from the [...]
I Believe . . . South Carolina Just Got Schooled On the First Amendment
Nov 12th, 2009 by AGhostInTheSnow posted in The Legal Satyricon
By: Zac Papantoniou
“Whatever else the Establishment Clause may mean (and we have held it to mean no official preference even for religion over nonreligion), . . . it certainly means at the very least that government may not demonstrate a preference for one particular sect or creed (including a preference for Christianity over other religions). [...]
he St. Petersburg Times reports:
TAMPA — Mary Wright, 74, was thrilled Sunday night to see her grandson marry his longtime sweetheart in a beautiful, white wedding at the waterfront Rusty Pelican Restaurant.
Thrilled, that is, until she found herself with a stranger’s hands around her neck — amid a sprawling melee involving 30 to 40 wedding [...]
Ike Turner was just trying to teach Tina about critical race theory!
Nov 11th, 2009 by marcorandazza posted in The Legal Satyricon
ionel McIntyre, a black Columbia professor, got drunk and pissed off about “white privilege,” and at a white female colleague who didn’t seem to agree with him. So, what did he do about it? He laid the smack down on the uppity bitch.
That’ll teach her.
But Professor McIntyre wanted to [...]
The USPTO Embraces the Blogosphere, Lobbies for First-to-File
Nov 10th, 2009 by jfischer1975 posted in The Legal Satyricon
Kappos: “Hey Ted, can you show me how these here tubes work?”
The U.S. Government Agency that is responsible for validating which technologies are new and useful has discovered a not so new, yet highly useful tool: web logs.
In an effort to open a line of communication between the USPTO and the practitioners who deal with [...]
Hipcheck16 is no Turk 182 – but Anonymous Political Speech is Sacred
Nov 10th, 2009 by marcorandazza posted in The Legal Satyricon
This one is a little disturbing.
Political Race Gets Nasty
During an election in Buffalo Grove, Ill., an online debate started about a candidate for Village Trustee, Lisa Stone. During that debate, this public official’s 15 year old son, Jed, got a little upset about some harsh statements lobbed at his mother, so he [...]
