Well, the results are in and weeks of defamatory attacks on our opposing bloggers and the unrestrained use of the politics of personal destruction have paid off: the Turley blog was voted the Number One law professor blog and legal theory blog in the annual survey of the American Bar Association’s survey. Earlier, it was selected as one of the top 100 legal blogs overall. That is not bad for a blog that is only roughly a year old and it is entirely due to our regulars at the cyber bar we called the Turley blog. Your overindulgence, obsessive compulsiveness, and general lack of restraint have made us what we are today, a group of dysfunctional miscreants. But we are now the Number One dysfunctional miscreants in our category. Well done Team Turley (if I may be so bold). Not to overplay the victory, but this is the first key step to total blogosphere domination and eventual control of the time space continuum.
Here is the finishing line up:
1. JonathanTurley.org
2. Mirror of Justice
3. TaxProf Blog
4. Professor Bainbridge
5. The Faculty Blog (University of Chicago)
6. The Feminist Law Professors
7. The Becker-Posner Blog
8. Balkinization
9. Concurring Opinions
10. ACS Blog
10. PrawfsBlog
12. The Conglomerate
13. The Lessig Blog
14. Law School Innovation
15. Empirical Legal Studies
Now for my victory speech:
“Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the [the survey]. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in [teaching for over] seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.
“Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I’m lucky. Who wouldn’t consider it an honor to have known Mespo? Rafflaw, Patty C, Mike Spindell, FFLEO, Jill, Buddha is Laughing, WayneBro, Bob, Vince, Sally, Seamus, Sherry, RCampbell, Gyges, Mojo, MASkeptic, jonolan, BuelahMan, C.Everett Kook, LindyLou, Mike Appleton, . . . Sure, I’m lucky.
“When the Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift – that’s something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies – that’s something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter – that’s something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body – it’s a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed – that’s the finest I know.
“So I close in saying that I may have had a tough [blog], but I have an awful lot to live for.”
>This is an insult to every Israeli alive & dead!
Got hyberole? Imagine the nerve of al Jazeera being there with cameras rolling to show that what Ms McKinney claimed to have happened actually happened.
I accept mespo.
rafflaw,
Alchemy will force geometry to do your bidding! Use it wisely!!
JT,
Here’s my vote for your costume–from one of my favorite magazines, Ornament;
http://www.ornamentmagazine.com/back_2007.html
“We Lived to Tell the Story: Lebanon Rescued Us: Cynthia McKinney”
My personal, and I know the group’s, thanks must go to Al Jazeera, that allowed three of their reporters to be onboard with us on our voyage. As a result, Al Jazeera carried the story of the Dignity live, from castoff in Cyprus when our spirits were high, right up through the manacing maneuvers of the huge, super fast Israeli ships before they rammed us, ………… Al Jazeera carried our story as “breaking news” and performed a real service to its audience and to us.
opednews.com/articles/We-Lived-to-Tell-the-Story-by-Cynthia-McKinney-090101-305.html
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What a total farce! McKinney had THREE Al Jazeera “reporters” on the vessel when they tried to run the Israeli blockaide! Unbelievable that Mr. Turley would put this on his blog without the little details like Al Jazeera being the ones doing the reporting of the incident along with the likes of Cynthia McKinney! This is an insult to every Israeli alive & dead!
Prof. Turley,
Congrats on the achievement. It has been fun being part of the assault on the time/space continuum. Don’t fret, we will defeat the T/S Continuum crowd before too long. As to the rumored imminent attack from the evil Empirical Legal Studies regime, we have nothing to fear, unless they use Geometry based weapons. I hate Geometry!
Jill:
Stand ready and do not shred until you see the whites of their pages. I nominate you for Defender of the Faith.
I hope you are asking Karl to design your overlord costume? Great news, and well deserved!
mespo,
I’ve got a shredder moat waiting for those spreadsheets. They won’t get far.
It was the MSNBC nutter crowd that voted for Turley.
And as just one word of caution, I have it on good authority that Empirical Legal Studies will not take this lying down. They are even now amassing their spreadsheets on the borders.
Well I had a vision last night and was able to copy it to the net. In it our famous parliamentarian gave both congratulations and a challenge. I consign it to us all!
http://www.ww2poster.co.uk/posters/imagebank/images/DeserveVictoryChurchill.jpg
Viva Pax Turley!!
Hot Dog!
Congrats!
And I am blushing that my name was mentioned.
via para-time space/time continuum communicator:
Congrats, Prof!
You are a big hero here, and a relief from basic cable.
D.B. Cooper
truly cool. congrats!!!!
Also it’s off topic but related to entropy, the NYT has a nice summary piece of the President Elect’ first big challenge, the al-Marri case, at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/washington/03scotus.html?_r=1&hp
Thank you! I think I can work with Mr. Cruise as long as he stays off the furniture.
Buddha, entropy is yours. However, the Generalissimo of Gravity has been claimed by Tom Cruise.
Warmest congrats to you, JT. A very well deserved recognition.
Congratulations, Prof.
When mastery of the space/time continuum is achieved, I’d like to placed in charge of entropy. Just a request. If it doesn’t come together, hey, I understand sometimes things just fall apart. It occurs to me that with someone else in charge of entropy, life wouldn’t have to be this way. If you already have someone in mind for Secretary of Entropy, I’d be interested in the Generalissimo of Gravity position too. Who needs the illusion of political power when you can wield that basic forces of the universe, muahahahahaha!
Excuse me if I get a little teary here, but I’m quite moved.
” … this is the first key step to total blogosphere domination and eventual control of the time space continuum.”
And I think I speak for all of us when I say, that’s pretty much been our goal this whole time.
Three cheers for JT!