Why We Need Fair Use

Because there just ‘aint enough soul-music-hitler-humor these days…

HT: Andrew Sullivan

Lulz over “Lulz”

It is always funny to see kids get the better of a journalist. This Sunday’s New York Times article The Trolls Among Us has at least one hilarious example.

“Lulz” is how trolls keep score. A corruption of “LOL” or “laugh out loud,” “lulz” means the joy of disrupting another’s emotional equilibrium. “Lulz is watching someone lose their mind at their computer 2,000 miles away while you chat with friends and laugh,” said one ex-troll who, like many people I contacted, refused to disclose his legal identity.

Another troll explained the lulz as a quasi-thermodynamic exchange between the sensitive and the cruel: “You look for someone who is full of it, a real blowhard. Then you exploit their insecurities to get an insane amount of drama, laughs and lulz. Rules would be simple: 1. Do whatever it takes to get lulz. 2. Make sure the lulz is widely distributed. This will allow for more lulz to be made. 3. The game is never over until all the lulz have been had.”

Ohhhh…. so THAT is what “lulz” means. What ever happened to fact-checking? What major lulz to see a NYT reporter PWNED like Ted Stevens at a tech convention.

EPIC LOLICOPTERZ!

Is are kids learning?

Hat tip to Wonkette who had this hilariously snarky analysis.

This, presumably, was to explain this secret classified report: If you have to spend more money on one thing, there is less money to spend on another thing. Fox News illegally leaked this homeland security information and, in doing so, spelled “education” as “eductaion.” We hope that this was not meant as satire — which the New Yorker magazine invented only last week and now look, IT’S EVERYWHERE — because a child’s education is no laughing matter. The thought of children being so illiterate that they cannot spell a common, phonetic word… well, just imagine living in a country of adult retards! (source - Wonkette)

Fourth of July Heritage Loaf

Seven Deadly Sins

This was fun, and no surprise. I took the “Seven Deadly Sins Quiz,” and here are my results.

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	High
Wrath:	High
Sloth:	Low
Envy:	Very Low
Lust:	Very High
Pride:	High

Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz

We have to defend family values! The Defense of Marriage Amendment

This just in from the ARE YOU FREAKIN’ SERIOUS? department:

With an election looming, you knew that a few neo-cons would trot out anti-gay measures. Homosexuals are the last minority that you can still pick on and possibly win an election. So, here it is, your bigotry du election cycle, a proposed Constitutional amendment.

`Section 1. This article may be cited as the `Marriage Protection Amendment’.

`Section 2. Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.’.

As we all know, that damn Constitution is just giving out rights willy-nilly. It is about time that we pass the first Constitutional Amendment since Prohibition (and the second in history) to take rights away from the citizenry.

Remember that this amendment comes from the party that cries “states’ rights!” Now that “states’ rights” seems to be trending toward equality (well, at least in non peckerwood states), a few Republicans just can’t seem to stand that little old concept of federalism.

Oh, wow, sponsors. That’s right… here is the list of the guys who want to turn the Constitution into a vehicle of bigotry.

1. Sen Allard, Wayne [CO]
2. Sen Brownback, Sam [KS]
3. Sen Craig, Larry E. [ID]
4. Sen Enzi, Michael B. [WY]
5. Sen Inhofe, James M. [OK]
6. Sen Roberts, Pat [KS]
7. Sen Shelby, Richard C. [AL]
8. Sen Thune, John [SD]
9. Sen Vitter, David [LA]

See anything funny? Yes, the same Larry Craig who was looking for dick in an airport bathroom, and the same David Vitter who can’t keep his pecker out of prostitutes, are on the front lines defending “traditional family values.”

Don’t get me wrong, I think that both men should have the freedom to do both, but didn’t any of the other sponsors have the brains to ask them if they might be willing to, err… umm… sit this one out?

Okay, Sam Brownback is not exactly a brain trust. In fact, he’s so criminally stupid that every person related to him (or who ever has ever cast a vote for him) should be sterilized. But for real… this must be a prank. Seriously.

I can’t even give an ass hat award to these guys. They’d wind up walking around with it on their elbows.

The way Barney should be

A shout out to zabigkahuna, DHAPMNG 4 life, yo.

Lesbian Humor

No, that isn’t an oxymoron. I’m not directing you to Feminist Law Profs (which is the humor equivalent of sucking on a dirty sock full of charcoal ashes), but to Stuff Lesbians Like! No, you won’t find any pr0n there, but you very well might waste like two hours laughing so hard that your dog looks at you funny.

Yeah, I know my blogging has been thin lately. Newly-married, secretary on vacation, baby on the way…

All I can say about the last one is that I’m glad that I dated so many alcoholics in the past. The only difference between a pregnant woman and a raging alcoholic woman is that the pregnant woman smells really good.

Fair Use Friday (On Wednesday!)

With a baby on the way, I’m getting to re-discover all my old childhood joys. Naturally, the world will be a different place in 2008 than it was in 1969 — obviously given the music that the Muppets are performing these days.

Turn up your speakers (not too loud if you are at work), and enjoy. These are priceless.

I can’t freakin wait for my kid to get here (some time in November)… yeah beeeyotches!

WE HAVE A WINNAH!!!!!

To celebrate the Legal Satyricon’s breaking of the 100,000 visit barrier, I offered to give a free copy of America’s War on Sex, by Dr. Marty Klein to the reader who submitted the best picture commemorating the occasion.

One of my most prized students, Kevin Wimberly of Orlando, Florida is now forever tarnished as the recipient of an award from The Legal Satyricon. (That should haunt him during his character and fitness examination)

Ladies and gentlemen… I do not think that anything can possibly top this. Divinely inspired. Here is the winning entry!

Note: I have sadly gotten an “I don’t get it” comment… oh, kids these days. This is so clever because it is a parody of a parody, which led to the case, which led to the film, which inspired me to become a First Amendment attorney.

Second Prize goes to A.L. of Tallahassee, Florida for this dual tribute to the Colbert Report and to the Legal Satyricon. (she gets a copy of America’s War on Sex as well).

And since everyone’s a winner at Nixon Peabody and at the Legal Satyricon, the next eight entries all get an honorable mention.

The remaining entries totally sucked, and they get nothing (and may god have mercy on their souls).

Now don’t lose heart! If you were planning to submit one anyhow, I have decided that I will do this for every “milestone.” So keep them coming you Satyriholics! (not to be confused with “cockaholics“) Just put in a momentous number (please, at least intervals of 25,000 at this point).