Congratulations to everyone who regularly posts at this blog. Our blog has made the top 100 legal blogs in the annual survey by the ABA Journal. [OK, there is no trophy but I figured we needed something] The Journal is now taking votes on various categories from professor/legal theory blog (including this blog) and various other categories like crime and technology. This blog is in the top ten for professor/legal theory blogs and you can vote on the ranking by click vote now here.
The journal describes our blog as
Jonathan Turley
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley keeps his posts short, light and entertaining while focusing on outrageous criminal justice and tort stories in the mainstream media (“bizarre” is this blog’s most populated topic). But be sure to click the “continue reading” links to get this constitutional scholar’s take on how these stories will end.
For the full 100 list and the other categories (and a chance to vote on your favorite blogs in each category), click here.
Per the request of Rafflaw, I have added the Stanley Cup below for making both the top 100 and top ten.
JT, who the Hell is ‘Matt’?
p.s. Matt, FYI, I am one of JT’s ‘originals’…
I don’t know why my posts are not showing up properly or in order, however, Michael Spindell and FFLEO, even though I am not your age by a decade, I am quite familiar with ‘The Classics’ from ’60’s and earlier!
My brother owns a radio station and worked at the one at Fordham when he was in college and then at MetroMedias’s WNEW (when Imus was there) and then transferred to WASH in DC for a number of years and after that associated with others, including Reagan Henry, before he eventually got enough investors together, partly through his involvement with ‘est'(which I hate), to buy out a group, improve their ratings, and sell off the majority of the debt in a deal which still left him and his partner with the one station they still own in San Diego – near where they both live, now.
Unfortunately, what they didn’t figure on is the state of radio today…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_iTNdIcfs&feature=related
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Mike S.
Sad to say, if I were ever tortured in war (or by Mukasey) all that would be needed was streaming Manilow elavator music through my cage.
Sterner stuff nor ‘the right stuff’ could survive Manilow singing Minnie Riperton’s ‘Lovin’ You’ La, la,la, la la, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, and then that high falsetto screech……………
Now, I thought I was the old man here, but you are talking about my favorite songs…Teen Angel, Patches, Tell Laura I Love Her, Last Kiss, Runnin’ Bear…..
Michael, I’m surprised at you – JT is ‘The Leader of the Pack’
‘vroom-vroom, vroom…’
The cruel and unusual punishment of Manilow lyrics prompts me to rethink my votes thus far. Admittedly it was prompted by FFLeo’s Conservative reticence, but one can go too far. Then too being forced to remember Tom Jones, even with doctored lyrics, raises the pain level, only to then be tortured by the verse from MacArthur Park. How much is a human being supposed to take before coming to the realization that there is sadism lurking at this site, under the guise of legal discourse. My only comfort is to draw down the bittersweet feelings engendered in my chest by the classic song of my youth Teen Angel and gain some measure of retribution by inflicting it upon you closet sadists.
Just sweet 16 and now your gone,
They’ve taken you away,
I’ll never kiss your rich red lips,
They buried you today.
Teen Angel can you hear me?
Teen Angel can you see me?
Are you somewhere up above?
And are you still my own true love?
They don’t make songs like that any more and I hope it serves to have you all eschew you lack of lyrical taste and the Professor’s amoral blackmail, in his quest for shiny objects. FFLeo I thought you were made of sterner stuff.
Your Grand Prix award:
http://www.jag-lovers.org/saloons/mk1_50/Jaguar%2050th%20041.jpg
JT:
The FB coach in me says you’ve sold young Jack short. His wrong way Reigels impersonation only netted a safety and thus two points. You may have actually won this one without knowing it should your team have managed almost any other scoring event. [Insert Chicago Bear joke here]. To put it another way “you made it through the rain, and found yourself respected by the others, who, got rained on too, and made it through.”
Former Fed,
I don’t think Manilow could be any worse than the job Richard Harris did in the movie singing MacArthur’s Park.
“Being from the Chicago area I have to take that as a hate crime.”
Now rafflaw, that was funny!
BIL,
Making a Buddha rofl is a first for me…
Jill,
Ma’am, please stop. I done voted.
The worst possible cover song imaginable would be Manilow singing MacArthur’s Park…and I bet that he has recorded it.
Prof. Turley,
It is time for the “nuclear option” for this vote because for some reason the system would not let me vote again today!! Being from the Chicago area I have to take that as a hate crime. I will keep trying.
In a true exhibition of the Philadelphia lawyer that you are, whilst displaying unconscionable malice aforethought and fraught with extortion outside all the known boundaries of fair play, I dejectedly concede.
I yield not to your legalistic superiority, but rather to my altruistic sensibilities for the other poor souls of your BlogSpot. To subject them to more Manilow earworms would exceed even the limits of water boarding torture.
You got my doggone vote, (#44) but I will only vote once, as *any* Republican would do.
Sir:
You have gone too far.
All I can say is:
“MacArthur Park is melting in the dark.
All the sweet green for icing flowing down.
Someone left a cake out in the rain.
I don’t think that I can take it ’cause it took so long to bake it and I’ll never have that recepie again, oh, no”
FFLEO:
Once an academic makes it through tenure, it is practically impossible to increase their ego. I do, however, agree that voting for a favorite blog is much more important than voting for president. However, consider the alternative danger of a crest-fallen, disgruntled, morose ivory-towered academician.
As for the Turley Turkey bowl this thanksgiving, my team (always named the Bears) again lost to the Redskins. However, the only touchdown was scored by my eight-year-old Jack who was on my team and ran the wrong way and scored for the other team. Consequently, I have no immediate plans for a “prominent blinkin’ n’ flashin’ Turley Bowl” Trophy — until I can keep my team running in the same direction (a certain problem not unfamiliar to this blog).
Finally, give me your vote damn it or I will fill these pages with the lyrics of Barry Manilow songs.
You know I can’t smile without you
I can’t smile without you
I can’t laugh and I can’t sing
I’m finding it hard to do anything
You see I feel sad when you’re sad
I feel glad when you’re glad
If you only knew what I’m going through
I just can’t smile without you.
Had enough? Don’t push me to call in the lyrics from Looks Like We Made It.
rofl
That’s good stuff, FFLEO.
I tried; however, given my strongly ingrained conservative Republican heritage, I just could not bear to vote for a liberal Ivory-towered academician and legally entrenched blogmaster.
You understand. Submitting a reasoned vote for a liberal Democrat for President of the United States—perhaps—but voting for a liberal Democratic lawyer who is also an over-tenured college professor of law, at GWU to boot, and for a liberally biased legal blog, no less! No Way!
One thing always leads to another with lawyers—in particular—and liberals—in general. If Mr T. gets too many votes, which always leads to inflated egos, he will soon be soliciting entry fee “contributions” via a ‘no pro bono’ PayPal button displayed in the ‘Buff & Blue’ GWU school colors as a prominent blinkin’ n’ flashin’ Turley Bowl Blog Trophy thumbnail next to his distinguished, Jeffersonian-esque portrait.
I sincerely trust that my honesty and full disclosure—in accordance with my well-established Constitutional Rights within the 1st Amendment—will not incur my blacklisting from posting on this fine—and currently free of legal fees—blog.
Oh, and in the spirit of quashing that last braggadocios post, I respectfully submit my arguments against the trivializations of one’s precious freedom to vote…
Good day Counselor.
Congratulations Mr. Turley and staff. 😉
If you actually took my class, you would know that the answer is clearly yes. Vanity Oh Vanity Thy Name is Academia. Now get back to studying (after you vote of course).
Torts finals are tomorrow at GWU, do we get an automatic A if we vote for your blog and confess to reading it everyday?
I expect no, especially for those of us who aren’t in your class 🙁
Let us join our ‘virtual’ hands together in solidarity towards presenting JT with yet another deservedly prestigious award
– ‘Le Mans Grand Prix’!
(Hope this works – ie 3rd ‘jag’ lover photo from the left…)
‘Le Mans Grand prix trophy photo’
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=Le+Mans+trophy+photo&btnG=Search
p.s. mespo, yours is the ‘shiniest’, by far!
Bravo!
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*Well, he’s all you’d ever want
He’s the kind I like to flaunt and take to dinner
But he always knows his place
He’s got style, he’s got grace–he’s a winner
He’s a lawyer
Oh, whoa, whoa, he’s a lawyer
Talkin’ about that lively lawyer
And the lawyer is mine
Well, he’s never in the way
Always something nice to say, and what a blessin’
I can leave him on his own
Knowin’ he’s OK alone and there’s no messin’
He’s a lawyer
Oh, whoa, whoa, he’s a lawyer
Talkin’ about that lively lawyer
And the lawyer is mine
Well, he never asks very much
And I don’t refuse him
Always treat him with respect
I never would abuse him
What he’s got is hard to find
And I don’t want to lose him
Help me build a mountain
From a little pile of clay, hey hey hey
Well, he knows what I’m about
He can take what I dish out, and that’s not easy
But he knows me through and through
And he knows just what to do and how to please me
He’s a lawyer
Oh, whoa, whoa, he’s a lawyer
Talkin’ about that lively lawyer
And the lawyer is mine
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he’s a lawyer
Oh, whoa, whoa, he’s a lawyer
Talkin’ about that lively lawyer
And the lawyer is mine
(fade out)
*the song – adapted from Tom Jone’s LV hit…
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that’s the 1st. time i’ve ever voted for a law blog. felt good.