Daily Blend: Saturday, October 06, 2012

Simon Singh

Another bunch of quacks opt for legal thuggery to try and silence debunker Simon Singh ^[pictured]. Let’s hope that libel reform holds up?

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA): “[E]volution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory […] is lies straight from the pit of Hell.” Phil Plait: Get the f@¢k off the House Science Committee.

And finally, Wonkette live-blogs the Jon Stewart vs. Bill O’Reilly “Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium” debate that I can’t see and that had better be released on video soon after it’s over, dangit.

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Daily Blend: Monday, September 17, 2012

Karen Handel

Wait, you mean the Islamic world is mostly pissed off because of all the U.S. bombings and military invasions? And here I thought it was all because of one stupid Internet video.
(via The Agitator)

Karen Handel ^[pictured], former Komen for the Cure VP who orchestrated the short-lived defunding of Planned Parenthood, becomes the latest Right-wing bully to accuse her victim of bullying. (Includes bonus childishly bad book title.)

Dear U.S. secularists: Please stop using these fake Founding Fathers quotes. You really don’t need to be using tricks from the religionist playbook.

Scientology lawyer publishes ineptly outraged letter over a Vanity Fair piece about Tom Cruise. Streisand Effect strikes again, baby.
(via @ebertchicago)

On the other hand, a Jack Daniel’s lawyer sets an example with the friendliest cease-and-desist letter ever.
(via @the_yamen)

And finally, Denmark gives us the most epic public transportation promotion ever:
(via Joe. My. God.)

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: Muslims • Islam • protests • riots • anti-Americanism • Innocence of Muslims • drone attacks • Karen Handel • Planned Parenthood • Planned Bullyhood • Susan G. Komen for the Cure • conservatives • wingnuts • Founding Fathers • secularists • atheists • fake quotes • Thomas Jefferson • John Adams • Abraham Lincoln • Christianity • Church of Scientology • Scientology • Vanity Fair • Tom Cruise • Maureen Orth • Jeffrey Riffer • Jack Daniel's • Jack Daniel's Properties • cease and desist • lawyers • Patrick Wensink • Denmark • buses • mass transit • public transportation • Midttrafik • The Bus

Daily Blend: Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Dr. Marty Klein

UK court: Someone actually has to mention you in order to commit defamation. (Davy Vara, take note.)

Therapist Marty Klein ^[pictured] at The Humanist thoroughly debunks the myth of “sex addiction”.
(via The Agitator)

Boy Scouts of America reaffirm their homophobia.
(via Joe. My. God.)

Finally, Clint Eastwood’s dog wants you to get off his lawn:
(via @DannyDutch)

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If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: Robin Tolbrook • Stuart Parr • defamation • libel • English Democrats • Britain • Bloggers4UKIP • Marty Klein • sex addiction • sex addicts • sex • Boy Scouts of America • homophobia • gay bans • dogs • Clint Eastwood

Daily Blend: Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Daniel Tosh

Phew! How’s that for a day of blogging? Now, if only the Internet would send me this many interesting stories every day … (On second thought, please don’t, Internet. I’d surely die.)

Survey: 5-10% of Canadians are LGBT. (You can count on the 18-34 age group being the most accurate, given the increasingly accepting climate they grew up in.)
(via Joe. My. God.)

“Comedian” Daniel Tosh ^[pictured] goes from terminally unfunny to straight-up asshole. (He has since apologized on Twitter.)

The Oatmeal’s final message to Charles Carreon.
(via @radleybalko)

Obama administration lays out rules for proper accommodations for temporary agricultural workers. Conservatives wingnuts: “Nanny State”!!!

Vox Day: Richard Dawkins criticized fellow evolutionary scientist over notoriously poor research, ergo, he’s a “deeply unpleasant individual”, and academic disagreement on a single detail means the entire Theory shouldn’t be taught in schools.

This totally unbiased, super-credible, WorldNetDaily-promoted Daily Caller report claims that 83% of U.S. doctors might quit over ObamaCare.
(via Joe. My. God.)

I spy with my little eye a new xkcd Q&A project! Go check it out. (It includes nuclear baseball.)

“I was raised to believe in god and now someone says they don’t believe in god so I don’t like it.”

And finally, PZ Myers posts his own (first-ever) vlog about the FtB/Thunderf00t kerfuffle:

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: Canada • homosexuality • Forum Research • National Post • Daniel Tosh • rape jokes • rape • The Oatmeal • Matthew Inman • Charles Carreon • FunnyJunk • Obama administration • Barack Obama • Human Events • U.S. Department of Labor • Diane Katz • Heritage Foundation • conservatives • wingnuts • Theodore Beale • Vox Day • Richard Dawkins • E.O. Wilson • Theory of Evolution • group selection • ObamaCare • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act • WorldNetDaily • WND • The Daily Caller • Doctor Patient Medical Association • DPMA • what if? • xkcd • baseball • speed of light • relativity • Omaha, NE • Omaha Coalition of Reason • atheist billboards • Emlyn Forsuh • PZ Myers • Thunderf00t • misogyny • Freethought Blogs • freethought

Daily Blend: Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Charles Carreon

A case study in bad science (or, why the argument for circumcision’s “health benefits” is still complete bullshit.)
(via Pharyngula)

150 fed-up Mormons quit the Church en masse. Good on them.

About time: Charles “someone criticized me on the Internet, so I’m gonna sue animal and cancer charities!” Carreon ^[pictured] finally reaches bedrock.

Six famous symbols that originally meant something totally different. (Or, why your Jesus Fish and heart-laden Hallmark cards suddenly turned weird.)

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: circumcision • infant circumcision • Mormons • Mormonism • Mormon Church • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • LDS Church • Charles Carreon • The Oatmeal • Matthew Inman • FunnyJunk • Cezary Jan Strusiewicz • Cracked.com • Jesus Fish • heart symbol • peace sign • barber pole • rabbit's foot • mistletoe

Gene Burmington | An Open Letter To Dave Vara

The following is a guest post by Gene Burmington.

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Davy Vara [source]

I'm noticing a great deal of drama on this blog due to your misunderstanding of very elementary materials. What makes your claims illegitimate is that Mr. McKen has been running the blog the same way for years, and it can be argued that he is ultimately doing a good job with it, as he hasn't received any other complaints from others that he quoted from.

Given the grand cosmological odds of the internet, you'd think that if Joé were doing something wrong or dishonest, he would have been caught by now, but no. Perhaps you think blogs must follow the scholarly edict that requires a great deal more citation for a work, but for such strictly casual purposes as these, no serious authentication is required.

In McKen's second response to your further threats of litigation, he is more than reasonable to elaborate all that he has done to outline fair use and give an author all credit needed as per the free use statutes of the internet. Despite your bold claims and those of your legal representative, McKen is not "stealing" any of your work. Quoted in context, it is very clear that he didn't write or take responsibility as the originator of those words. Imagine for a second, sir, how tedious it would become if Joé had to place your name right under every single quotation, as is required of other, more formal works.

I do not know what the typical traffic is that your articles receive on average, but I'm sure it's more than a fair assumption that some of views your article received came from the reference in Joé's post. I personally went to read your article after I found it referenced on this blog. People following Joé often follow the hyperlinks he provides so that they may see the author's original words for themselves.

In regards to your accusation of libel, you present a contradiction. How can there be libel against you if you claim not to be represented in the article? That is a fair bit absurd. Sir, you cannot have it both ways. Either there is clear indication that you are being directly targeted with false accusations, or there is no such mention. Furthermore, exactly how are you being libeled, seeing as Joé makes no mention of you in his post? All he expressed was his remarkable distaste for the behavior of the police officers mentioned in your article, not yourself.

Lastly, I am fairly in agreement with Mr. McKen with regards to your legal help. As in, they aren't. Whatever silly ideas your paralegal representative has filled you with, he is either ignorant of common-use laws, or he is simply arrogant, if he thinks he can find a loophole in that mess that is your plagiarism fantasy.

Tags: Davy Vara • cease and desist • copyright law • Fair Use • Fair Dealing • Mick the Attorney • libel • plagiarism

Davy Vara (and his lawyer) still don’t understand Fair Use

Davy Vara [source]

Here we go again. Barely a day after I wrote about an egregiously dumb copyright claim sent to me by Davy Vara, a contributor at police monitoring site Cop Block and who’s apparently quite peeved that I dared to quote from his article for my own post, the man appears and responds thus:

Email from my attorney regarding people copying and pasting my work and passing it off as their own.

Davy, if your work is copywritten, and it is, then you and only you as the original author of said work, has the right to go forward with a notice to cease and desist any and all work which you see someone use and, as is the case here, the person(s) who have copied your work have failed to give you proper credit and/or acknowledgement to you as the original author.

Let me know how you wish to proceed and make sure that whereever you see your work being used in a way where your name has been intentionally excluded, then write down the name of whoever posted it and the website where you saw it and we will proceed accordingly with litigation against those individuals... not only the person who posted it but the website they posted it on.

Mick

Followed by this:

Again, you copied and pasted my exact article, yet intentionally left out my name so as to pass article off as yours. You can say what you want. And your refusal to either give me credit for the article that I wrote and you copied and pasted, or take the article down. Your intentions have been documented and forwarded to my attorney. In the future, so you can avoid litigation, write your own pieces, or have the respect to acknowledge that it is someone else's article and not yours.

Should I be questioning my ability to explain myself at this point? No, really, I mean it. (Or almost.) I made it beyond clear how and why A) I have done nothing wrong, B) I fully attributed his post to him via a hyperlink, as is required under the U.S. Fair Use/Canadian Fair Dealing doctrines (I even made sure to check them both, not knowing which might be applicable given my being a Canuck), and C) he has absolutely no credible legal basis for any of his claims against me (which even included that I had committed “libel actions” against him, despite not mentioning him at all in my original post). I provided several links, even taking the time to deliberately choose the pages that best explained the issue in the most straightforward way possible.

In which I am vaguely threatened with a bogus copyright claim

Davy Vara [source]

I’m a nobody. I’m talking in the grand scheme of things – or even as specifically as in the Canadian atheistic blogosphere. There’s no shame to it; it just is. This here blog gets just over a hundred individual visitors (or 200 pageviews) per day on average, which may sound minimally impressive until one realizes that even moderately popular bloggers like Hemant Mehta or Ed Brayton rack up as much traffic in less than an hour (and let’s not even mention the juggernaut that is PZ Myers). Frankly, I consider myself fortuitous that enough people even notice this place to validate its inclusion in Google’s database.

So, all things considered, you can imagine my surprise when I received this email earlier today:

Personally identifying information uncensored because he doesn’t deserve the courtesy or effort.

Miami Heat owner about to appreciate the Streisand Effect

Raanan Katz is the minority owner of the Miami Heat. He’s also a bit of a thin-skinned litigious bully. Here’s the “unflattering” shot of him that’s got him suing Google and bloggers all over to try and flush it down the memory hole:

The photo that Raanan Katz doesn’t want you to see

I believe Mr. Katz is about to find out that the Internet can be far more embarrassing for him than any tepid candid picture could ever be. Let’s all educate him in the matters of the Streisand Effect. Consider it a public service.

(via @radleybalko)

Tags: Raanan Katz • Miami Heat • Streisand Effect

Daily Blend: Monday, June 18, 2012

Charles Carreon

Attorney General Eric Holder lies baldfaced lies to Congress about the Obama administration’s crackdown on medicinal marijuana dispensaries.
(via The Agitator)

In which hack lawyer Charles Carreon ^[pictured] sues wildlife and cancer charities, officially turns his name into the latest Internet meme. The ever-thorough TechDirt has more.

Vox Day @ WorldNetDaily: Pixar’s decision to feature a valiant female lead in new film Brave is “cultural propaganda” to brainwash women into ignoring tradition and something or other.

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: Eric Holder • Obama administration • medicinal marijuana • medical marijuana • The Oatmeal • Charles Carreon • lawyers • Matthew Inman • IndieGoGo • National Wildlife Federation • American Cancer Society • Vox Day • Theodore Beale • Pixar • Disney • Brave • Merinda • misogyny

Daily Blend: Thursday, June 14, 2012

From the file of awesome surprises: Comcast ^[pictured] takes a stand for its clients’ privacy, refuses to cooperate in BitTorrent “shakedown” lawsuit.
(via The Agitator)

Two Alabama public TV managers fired after protesting Republican official’s demands to air revisionist Christian-nationalist program from pseudo-historian David Barton.

“He is not the pastor of the United States, he is the President of the United States.”

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Tags: Comcast • ISPs • Internet Service Providers • BitTorrent • filesharing • David Barton • Alabama Educational Television Commission • Alabama Public Television • Allan Pizzato • Pauline Howland • Rodney Herring • Frederick Haynes III • Friendship-West Baptist Church • Barack Obama • gay marriage • same-sex marriage • marriage equality

Daily Blend: Monday, June 11, 2012

Zachery Swezey

Washington faith-healing parents who let their son ^[pictured] die from a ruptured appendix rather than call a doctor agree to a plea deal to avoid jail time.
(via Joe. My. God.)

Another U.S. Republican Congressman wants to cram his ideological penis^[SFW] where it doesn’t belong.

On the bogus threat of Shariah Law.
(via The Agitator)

Pentagon suspends program equipping domestic law enforcement with military hardware because police grow more militarized keep losing it.

Pregnant Chicago woman tased, arrested and bullied after allegedly ripping up cop’s parking ticket.
(via The Agitator)

Analysis: Google data indicates that racism cost President Obama around 3-5% of the popular vote in ’08.
(via @jennifurret)

The Oatmeal shows how FunnyJunk hosts hundreds of stolen Oatmeal comics. FunnyJunk replies by trying to bully Oatmeal out of $20,000. Oatmeal eviscerates them.

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: JaLea Swezey • Greg Swezey • Zachery Swezey • faith healing • Church of the First Born • U.S. House of Representatives • school boards • Timothy Walberg • HR 662 • prayer • Christians • Steve Chapman • Shariah Law • Islam • laws • Pentagon • U.S. Military • 1033 Program • Taser • Chicago Police Department • police brutality • Tiffany Rent • Google • racism • racists • Barack Obama • The Oatmeal • FunnyJunk • Charles Carreon

Daily Blend: Monday, November 28, 2011

Kevin Lorenzo Brooks

• U.S. Government hijacks yet another bunch of websites accused of online piracy.
  (via @normative)

• Florida cop shoots at unarmed & non-violent man ^[pictured] – who’s then charged with “aggravated assault with a deadly weapon”.
  (via @JoeKa1)

• Five-year-old with ADHD arrested and charged with battery on a police officer. Let’s be thankful he didn’t spit, too!
  (via @radleybalko)

• Streisand Effect, cont’d: Burzynski Clinic flack threatens another skeptical blogger, 17-year-old Rhys Morgan, with legal action.
  (via @jennifurret)

• MORE: Phil Plait, PZ Myers and Jen McCreight all weigh in on the Burzynski Clinic quackery/legal thuggery affair.

• FOLLOW-UP: Kansas Gov. Brownback (R) apologizes that his office “over-reacted” to high-schooler’s insulting tweet.
  (via @PersonalFailure)

• Ever suspect that crosswalk controls and office thermostats don’t work, or that even hospital weight scales are off? Eight everyday gadgets that lie to you.

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: filesharing • counterfeit • Homeland Security • copyright infringement • civil forfeiture • Orlando, FL • Kevin Brooks • false charges • Michael Davis • Stockton, CA • Rio Calaveras Elementary • Frank Gordo • Burzynski Clinic • Rhys Morgan • Stanislaw Burzynski • Marc Stephens • anti-neoplastons • Phil Plait • PZ Myers • Jennifer McCreight • Emma Sullivan • Sam Brownback • Twitter • Shawnee Mission East High School • fuel gauges • crosswalks • elevators • weight scales • hospitals • thermostats • HVAC • GPS • speedometers • blood pressure • cellphones

Daily Blend: Friday, November 25, 2011

The Quack Oath: “First, peddle horseshit to sick people for their money …”

• FDA: There’s a nationwide Adderall shortage and people with ADHD are suffering. DEA: No there ain’t, shudduppayoface. *whistles*
  (via @radleybalko)

• Another outrageous attack on religious freedom: English churches given the choice – which they can perfectly refuse – to voluntarily register same-sex civil unions!
  (via @furrfu)

• Streisand Effect FTW: Another quack group ^[pictured] employs legal thuggery to try and silence another skeptical blogger.
  (via Respectful Insolence)

• Cracked.com writer John Cheese has a powerful article about his (victorious) fight against alcoholism. The transformation is amazing.

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: FDA • DEA • Adderall • ADHD • England • House of Lords • Alli amendment • civil partnerships • civil unions • religious liberty • Burzynski Clinic • Stanislaw Burzynski • Andy Lewis • Quackometer • anti-neoplastons • Streisand Effect • John Cheese • Cracked.com • alcoholism

WB demands deletion of files they’ve never seen and don’t own

Here’s a rather disturbing preview of the sort of arrogant malfeasance we can expect if lawmakers succeed in granting major studios the right to demand that websites delete any content that allegedly violates copyright without any burden of proof:

In a Monday court filing, Warner Brothers admitted that it has issued takedown notices for files without looking at them first. The studio also acknowledged that it issued takedown notices for a number of URLs that its adversary, the locker site Hotfile, says were obviously not Warner Brothers' content.

Hotfile has been locked in a legal battle with Hollywood studios since February; the studios accuse the site of facilitating copyright infringement on a massive scale. Hotfile counters that it is immune from liability for the infringements of its users because it complies with the notice-and-takedown procedures established by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. But Hotfile has also tried to turn the tables by arguing that one of the studios, Warner Brothers, has itself violated the DMCA by issuing bogus takedown requests.

[…]

Warner Brothers also tacitly acknowledged removing the free software title, which it characterized as "software that had been posted alongside infringing Warner content in order to facilitate the rapid downloading of the infringing Warner content." The studio also requested removal of some gaming software, though it insists it did so with the permission of the relevant copyright owners.

Oh, well, as long as they insist they have the right to force sites to remove content that doesn’t belong to them. Also, I insist I really, really do have the right to paint the White House a shade of lilac. (Would break up the monotony a bit.)

And then come the usual ad laziness excuses:

The studio also "admits that it did not (and did not need to) download every file it believed to be infringing prior to submitting the file's URL" to the Hotfile takedown tool. That's because "given the volume and pace of new infringements on Hotfile, Warner could not practically download and view the contents of each file prior to requesting that it be taken down."

This is interesting because the DMCA requires a copyright holder issuing a takedown notice to state that it has a "good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law." It's hard to see how anyone at Warner Brothers could have formed any beliefs—good faith or otherwise—about files it admits that no human being at Warner had even looked at.

Daily Blend: Friday, October 14, 2011

Rep. Brad Drake (R-FL)

• Rep. Brad Drake (R-FL) ^[pictured] is “so tired of being humane” to inmates and wants to bring back electric chairs and firing squads (or else “just throw them off the Sunshine Skyway bridge and be done with it”). Oh, my.

• Doggycide in Arlington, TX: Cop shoots non-aggressive dog five times as owners and children watch.
  (via The Agitator)

• Today in anti-medicinal marijuana thuggery: Obama administration censors the press and Los Angeles officials force think tank to remove study debunking link between medical pot and crime.
  (via The Agitator)

• More Vox Day classiness. (Original article here.)

• Redux: I agree that familial courts (and courts in general) need a revamping, but blaming them for the actions of rampaging madmen is a tad idiotic, now.

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: Brad Drake • capital punishment • electric chair • firing squad • lethal injection • Arlington, TX • Buck Yandle • Bucky • Natalie Yandle • Obama administration • medicinal marijuana • medical marijuana • free press • First Amendment • Department of Justice • DoJ • RAND • Los Angeles, CA • Vox Day • Marisol García • Mexico • Praxedis G Guerrero • Scott Dekraai • Michelle Dekraai • child custody

Daily Blend: August 17, 2011

• Sir, I’m arresting and threatening you with my taser to inform you that riding your bike at night without reflectors is dangerous.
  (via @radleybalko)

• Homeopathy giant ^[pictured] sues lone Italian blogger for exposing their quackery.
  (via @bengoldacre)

• No, Vox Day, the American Psychological Association’s decision to declassify pedophilia as a mental disorder (which I agree with^*) is not a “normalization” of “aberrant” behavior like homosexuality that announces the death of society (or something).

• NewsBusters finally gets one right, catches MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Breitbarting a Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) quote to sound racist.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• You might be a conservative if (you fit into any of these simplistic but undeniably accurate stereotypes) …
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Oh my, Dépardieu.

• Clothes retailer Abercrombie & Fitch offers large bribe to get Jersey Shore cast to stop wearing their brand.
  (via @radleybalko)

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

* I am increasingly of the opinion that pedophilia, as with all other —philias, is simply a (relatively) rare yet ingrained sexual orientation/preference and does not, in itself, constitute a psychological handicap. Details vary, of course.

Tags: George Christopher • Jerome Harrison • bicycles • Boiron • homeopathy • Samuel • Vox Day • American Psychological Association • homosexuality • NewsBusters • MSNBC • Ed Schultz • Rick Perry • Barack Obama • racism • conservatives • Gérard Dépardieu • Abercrombie & Fitch • Jersey Shore • Mike Sorrentino

Florida sheriff’s outrageous persecution of atheist activist

EllenBeth Wachs

If these events transpired as reported, then this is beyond outrageous and well into criminal [original emphasis and links]:

Religious freedom is under attack in this country. Nowhere is this attack more defined than the malicious persecution of EllenBeth Wachs by Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd.

EllenBeth, an activist for the separation of church and state, had, earlier this year, challenged Sheriff Judd, an outspoken evangelical Christian, over the illegal transfer of taxpayer property to local churches, which he had orchestrated in a politically motivated public relations stunt.

Additionally, she discovered, through her Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to Sheriff Judd, that Judd had illegally used his sheriff department’s credit card and other taxpayer resources for this purpose.

In retaliation over a dozen of Sheriff Judd’s deputies, in SWAT tactical gear, descended on EllenBeth’s home in March. She was arrested on felony charges, jailed, her home searched and personal items and documents seized. Why? Because EllenBeth, a retired attorney, had used the letters “Esq.” (an honorific used by both practicing and retired attorneys) after her name on those FOIA requests to the sheriff.

Sheriff Grady Judd

Among the items that deputies took in the search were incriminating documents sent by a sheriff’s department employee in response to EllenBeth’s FOIA requests. Moreover, the search included rummaging through areas that had nothing to do with the practice of law: searching her underwear drawer, her medical supplies, turning over her bed mattress, looking under chair cushions, probing into her cars as well as into her employees’ cars and purses, while holding them at gunpoint.

Then again in May, she was dragged from her home, arrested and jailed, including a week of solitary confinement, on another trumped up felony charge based on a neighbor’s alleged report that he had heard a sexual sound coming from the privacy of her home 48 days prior.

EllenBeth currently faces the possibility of years in prison. Most incredulously, no one has ever been arrested, charged, let alone convicted on the allegations that have been leveled at her in these charges.

Clearly, EllenBeth has been maliciously persecuted for standing up against the sheriff in her campaign to secure her -- and our -- religious freedoms.

WorldNetDaily sues Esquire over Birther parody

Joseph Farah

Some people really are too stupid to mock. Worse still, some might even sue you over it:

As threatened, WorldNetDaily has filed a defamation suit against Esquire magazine over a satirical article mocking WND editor and CEO Joseph Farah for publishing Joseph Corsi’s birther book.

In the article by Esquire political editor Mark Warren, a fake Joseph Farah claims the book, “Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Hussein Obama is Not Eligible to be President,” will be recalled as a result of the president having revealed his long-form birth certificate.

“We are reacting to one of the most egregious abuses of freedom of the press I have witnessed in my 30-plus year career in journalism,” said Farah in a statement announcing tomorrow’s news conference on the suit. “We are taking this action not because we desire to restrict First Amendment-guaranteed protections, but because we want to police them and guard them.”

These kooks really will believe anything. Such as the hilarious idea that they have even the ghost of a chance of winning by suing a major magazine over a piece of satire.

There are days where the jokes really just seem to write themselves.

(via Right Wing Watch)

Tags: Joseph Farah • WorldNetDaily • Esquire

Daily Blend: Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Illegal even when legal

• Obama administration breaks another promise, now threatening to prosecute state officials who regulate legalized medicinal marijuana [pictured].

• FBI admits: We refuse to reveal which electronic service providers we’re forcing to feed us private user info because if their clients knew, they’d sue (and we’d look like a bunch of asses).

• Proposed Orwellianly-named PROTECT IP Act would allow both government and private parties to use legal thuggery against alleged piracy and “rogue” sites.

• Liberty Counsel outraged over bus drivers being ordered to take people to wherever they wanna be dropped, even if they don’t like it.

• A depressingly (yet unsurprisingly) high number of woman would rather be depressed, blind, alcoholic or herpetic than be overweight.

• Top ten reasons (of countless more) why Newt Gingrich would make a perfect Republican presidential candidate.

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Supplemental tags: Courts/Lawsuits • Feminism • Sad • Social Issues • Newt Gingrich