Ya know, I should probably pretend this was a surprise…but no.
Stolen from Metro, who stole it from Nag on the Lake.
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pic o’ the day: Giant Jellyfish invasion
I wasn’t kidding when I said that Japan is being surrounded by hostile Giant Jellyfish. Check out this pic, from Pink Tentacle‘s coverage of the invasion; suddenly it makes more sense that the Japanese would strike back, powdering the slimy buggers. Of course, it still wouldn’t occur to a sane person (nor to a person who’d seen Attack of the Mushroom People) to make that powder into cookies and put it in her mouth, but there you go; we are talking about the Japanese, after all. They may be more plausible than the Romanians, but they’re just as wingnutty under those navy suits.
UCLA protest over tasering
Today at high noon, UCLA students staged a protest of the November 14th tasering of fellow student Mostafa Tabatabainejad by University Campus Police officers. As reported by pretty much every media outlet in the world, Tabatabainejad was using a library computer and failed to produce his student card for police, whereupon they tasered him repeatedly, an event which was captured on video.
As he was dragged away, he was heard to cry, “I’m not fighting you” and “I said I would leave.”
Let’s remind ourselves that one is under no legal obligation whatsoever to identify one’s self to police officers if one is not under arrest.
None.
There’s a large serving of “Blame the Victim” going on around the blogosphere, but let’s reduce this to the key issues:
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Tabatabainejad was a bit of a jerkoff
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that is not illegal
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Tabatabainejad was within his rights to refuse to produce his ID
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no crime was being committed, nor did the police have any reason to believe a crime was being committed or was going to be committed
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the function of the police, in the absence of an actual crime, is to maintain the peace and public order
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these particular officers could not be said to have done so in anything like an effective manner
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unquestioning obedience to the arbitrary demands of armed authority is the hallmark of a police state and contrary to the goals of the Founding Fathers of the United States; it is inherently and perfectly un-American.
the Reverend Ted speaks! to sexiest man alive George Clooney
Yes, Reverend Ted is still kicking, and he’s never one to begrudge a fellow celeb’s good fortune, as you can see by this full-page ad he took out in Variety today, and which I stole from Defamer.
Let us pause for a moment to give thanks for Defamer; now that Gawker is run by the kind of characterless swots your parents always wanted you to turn out like, there is a rapidly-shrinking pool of sources for good blog post swipitation. All hail the theft-worthy posts of Defamer!
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the return of Mad V
It’s pretty much unheard-of that I post a video before I even load it up to watch, but, ladies and gentlemen (and Metro) Mad V is back (from the ashes of corporate sponsorship), with a call to arms!
Or hands, as the case may be!
This is an invitation, to make a stand, to make a statement, to make a difference.
Write something, anything, on your hand and share it with the world.
What will you choose to write?Join in
Be part of something
Post your response now-Closing date 4th Dec 06
