Keeping the Evil Hands of the Government Off Your Property
Please donate to the Institute for Justice on June 23, 2008 to mark the third anniversary of the day the Supreme Court upheld the right of the government to take your house. If ever there was a cause that struck close to home, this would be it.
I Believe I Have a Mole
R. Kelly has this thing that wherever he goes, some 9 yr old near him gets pregnant. It’s unfortunate, but I think if he has a good enough argument to support him, he may qualify for disability. Until then though, he has charges against him for a videotape of what could be him having sex with what just might be a thirteen year old girl.
Luckily for R, he has this crazy strange mole on his back and claims it’s been there his whole life. The man in the video has no mole. Only in a kiddie sex case does having a mole come in handy.
Um… did anyone else see that episode from the first season of Nip/Tuck where this guy comes in to get a mole on his genitals removed and then sexy Dr. Christian later sees this de-moled guy on the news as a priest who was just acquitted of child molestation charges because all the boys had said the perpetrator had a distinct mole?
Here’s my theory : R. Kelly’s lawyers spent way too much time watching cable tv this weekend and decided just to get a lil spot drawn on R. Kelly’s back. Presto-chango, the man is innocent!
I Wouldn’t Be Upset If You Made Fun of Jesus
But I guess some people are a little bit more sensitive about their religious figures. Or ridiculously more sensitive.
I’m sure you all recall the infamous Mohammed cartoons from two years which lead to an overreaction in the Islamic world and over fifty people dead in protests. Well, don’t worry, that evil publisher is going to have to pay for his awful sin. That’s right. A publisher who reproduced these cartoons in an independent newspaper is sentenced two three years in jail in Belarus.
Three years for a freaking cartoon. This is why “chill pills” are necessary.
All I know is, if Drew ever gets in legal trouble, I will represent him to the best of my abilities as a first year law student.
One Hundred Billion Dollars
Okay, only one hundred million dollars.
Remember those scandalous photos of Oscar De La Hoya wearing fishnets and other drag fashions that surfaced last year? I would include some here, but unfortunately, some legal maneuvering by his team led to their disappearance. Well, they were released by his stripper girlfriend who sold them to a website for $70,000. His legal team “coerced” her into publicly retracting her statement about having these photos and they all disappeared.
Now she is suing him.
Go figure.
For fraud, defamation, and emotional distress.
How can you sue someone for defamation when you tried releasing private, cross-dressing photos of them for personal financial gain?
And her alleged damages? One hundred million dollars.
That can buy a lot of fishnet.
cry me river. nope, that was the other n*sync member.
Reichen Lehmkuhl is threatening to sue Lance Bass for defamatory comments. Ummm, what did you expect when you dated someone who gave interviews, buddy?
Lance Bass is a former N*Sync member, the one that looked like a hamster. When he publicly came out of the closet last year, he did it with hot boyfriend Reichen Lehmkuhl, who was on The Amazing Race, by his side. They parted ways amidst rumors of Reichen’s infidelity.
So basically Race boy is suing former boybander because comments made in an interview were defamatory. Someone either A) hasn’t moved on (doubtful considering his new boyfriend) or B) needs some publicity. Dare I say it, I might have to go with choice B. I know, I know. A former reality show member doing an act for publicity. The shock! The horror! The insanity!
Suck it up, hot gay man. Not that many people know who you are, and those that do know, it’s because of your ex-boyfriend. You should send him a present everytime he mentions you in an interview. Because that’s the only way you’re getting into magazines, buddy.
Oogachacha
All together now – “what the hell?”
A few months ago a woman uploaded a short clip of her infant son dancing around to a Prince song.
Shocking, right? Apparently so, the woman has been legally threatened by the artist’s recording company for copyright issues.
Seriously, what’s next? The boy who puts “When Doves Cry” on a burnt cd for his crush or the kid listening to “kiss” way too loud on their ipod while walking around so everyone around can hear the song even though they didn’t pay for it? I understand there is some need to protect copyright issues, but there are bigger fish to fry than babies dancing on youtube.
Nobody can even name a Prince song that has been made in the last decade and a half so they should just be thrilled someone likes a song enough to let their kid listen and dance to it, let alone post it on a website and publicly acknowledge that they are a Prince fan.
Is it odd that Prince had sang about partying like it was 1999, and it was that very year all this hubbub with copyright business exploded with Napster. Universal Music Publishing Group should get over it and be thrilled people are still listening to this guy.
Justice by Internet?
America loves justice. And America loves holding people accountable when they have done something wrong. And the internet is a magical place that exposes people for every wrong they have ever done.
Now this post isn’t some sympathy session on every celebrity who had a bad photo taken of them sneezing spread across the internet like wildfire. This is about something more serious. This is about all people being held accountable. By normal people who happen to use the internet, like you and me. This is the magic of the internet here and now.
While the administration of my school has warned me of the dangers of incriminating facebook photos just as much as they have about paying my bills on time, the internet is a place that allows no secrecy and gives no sympathy. For better or for worse.
Let’s be honest here. Paris Hilton spent twenty some odd days in jail this summer for driving on a suspended license. Why? Because the public outcry had expressed its disappointment in the system when she was released only after five days. How? Because of this magical thing called the internet.
Now, before you dismiss this claim, think about it. Before the internet was readily available in all the Western world, OJ got away with murder. Now Paris Hilton was forced to fulfill every day of her full term sentence. That means a lot, and I cannot help but think that every person with a keyboard who is able to express their urges, thoughts, and complaints with a few keystrokes may have something to do with it.
This week a Virginia Immigration Officer resigned from duty after the Governor had become aware of a YouTube video containing his support of jihad.
It’s shocking. Virginia would be the least of all states that you would think would have a jihad supporting immigration commissioner. What’s more shocking to me?
It was all exposed by YouTube, a website that was unknown to most people just two years ago. And now it helps bring justice to someone in a public office supporting an act that is bringing down the objective he is supposed to protect.
And while I hear fellow students whine about what future employers might think of the comment their ex had written on their MySpace profile last night, it is all about a bigger picture. While the internet may make us question what parts of ourselves we want to broadcast to the world, it allows us to hold others accountable for awful things that they may have otherwise gotten away with unnoticed.
