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.”
I am confused. Why DID god let a godless, pro-abortion, terrorist loving group win this award? He appears to have sided with some of the same people during the Rose Bowl as well.
Congrats ‘fesser T!
Now this is the kind of stuff I live for. Not only do I get to live vicariously, but I get to do it for someone I’ve never met.
…or was that wackoff instructions?
Sorry, it’s a little hazy after she applies the brain-absorber device.
brandon 1, January 3, 2009 at 5:53 pm
“The win represents a bit more than 400 of the small MSNBC audience wackos doing what they were told by Rachael Maddow & Keith Olbermann. I would be ashamed of winning in such a manner.”
Yes, Rachael appears to me in my room every evening with wacko instructions and brainwashing devices.
…only in these visits, she’s mysteriously hetero.. temporarily.
Right on, Congratulations Professor Turley
The win represents a bit more than 400 of the small MSNBC audience wackos doing what they were told by Rachael Maddow & Keith Olbermann. I would be ashamed of winning in such a manner.
Big Fella 1, January 3, 2009 at 4:31 pm
“Turley, you and the regular commenter’s here should all be justifiably proud to be acclaimed the the “Number One Dysfunctional Miscreants” in any category. I can only hope some of that dysfunctionalism will rub off on me for hanging around here.”
I was already pretty much a dysfunctional miscreant when I got here.
But even pro’s need practice once in a while.
For BigFella:
“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars
enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. The conqueror rode
in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before
him. And a slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and
whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.”
–From the movie Patton.
The heck with that. Let the cyber party begin!!
Turley, you and the regular commenter’s here should all be justifiably proud to be acclaimed the the “Number One Dysfunctional Miscreants” in any category. I can only hope some of that dysfunctionalism will rub off on me for hanging around here.
Big Fella:
Trust me, we have corrupted the very best.
JT
As the accolades pour in worldwide, let me add my praise for your contributions to the new field of canisprudence, and please consider a submission for the forthcoming Canine Law Review, to be published by the law students at Rover Veternary Law School.
“No one knows your dog is on the internet.”
Hey since we’re so powerful now and omnipotent and all can we look into this new “Travel Tax” thing the state of Oregon is trying to pull?
It seems the State feels that not enough taxes are collected on fuel for the new more fuel efficient vehicles so they want to start taxing how much a person drives. And here’s the rub.
You’d think they’d do it by simply counting your odometer every year at some sort of vehicle inspection station but noooooooo. They want to install some sort of GPS TRACKING DEVICE in all new cars!!! This tracking device won’t (supposedly) be like a TomTom or something and track you street by street, but it will tell them when you are in certain “ZONES” and it will tell them WHEN you are driving the car!!!
This seems to me to be a milestone in the path towards a police state. I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine anyone allowing this in a free country but apparently its on the board in the state of Oregon and several other states as well.
Can’t we do something to stop this? This is unconstitutional.
What wonderful news! Yes, the Constitution needed a strong spokesperson, and we cheer at this house when we hear you on the TeeVee. This blog is addicting! Where else can we learn the real story behind things like the doctor’s fatmobile! I’m still laughing. And the extra second–I would never have known if not for this blog.
Thank you for allowing me to float on your cosmic balloon, it’s an honor. Knowing you’re such a family guy, let’s talk a little Steven Hawking.
“The universe could be seen as a kind of huge, rapidly inflating balloon, with the stars and galaxies moving around the surface like points….
As far as Hawking was concerned, the essential thing was the probability that our furiously vibrating cosmic balloon would have developed somewhere, at some time, a bulge in its side similar to an aneurysm. This “aneurysm” could billow forth and, expanding indefinitely, create an entirely new universe. Hawking called this new entity a baby universe.
‘The field of baby universes is in its infancy,’ Hawking joked once at a seminar, then he typed into his computer, ‘but growing fast.'”
From Masters of Time by John Boslough.
I appreciate your ambition regarding the time-space continuum, but please don’t think of me when looking for a nanny for infant universes. I’m strictly an Earth mother.
Oops-
More like : You are All so good everyday it is always a highlight spending time with you!
You Bet’cha!
(such as some people can’t afford maps; such as in the Iraq…)
Anyhow-
Congratulations!
Congratulations JT and All on The Turley Team!
Victory Deserved Indeed!
As the great Willie Mays once said:
“It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports.
What’s tough is being good every day.”
It is highlight to spend time with as you all are good every day!
670 to 256?
That’s not a win; that’s a juristic spanking (so to speak)
Congratulations Professor Turley.
You truly deserve the honors; if only as karmic payback for refraining from screaming profanities while attempting to help Olberman on Countdown alert the nation on Countdown how the Bush Administration was shredding the Constitution.
Congrats,
Bob
Wow.
I think I’m gonna start ballin.
How warmly I bask this morning in vicarious glory. Yes there is a small voice in the back of my brain saying “today the ABA award tomorrow the universe,” but our collective patience is infinite as we bide our time. Most importantly the Professor has received his precious and knowing his intestinal fortitude we can be assured it will only be used for good. I would request for all of us a picture of it, no doubt residing on his mantel, so that we can further exult in our labors to honor his continuing fight for legal justice and sanity.
I noticed that Balkinization lists dozens of links to other sites, but there is no mention of Jonathan Turley dot org.
Why do they fear the Turley site?
Rcampbel: I am just happy that it was a complaint about Al jazerra. I thought the Turley blog coming in first was viewed as an insult to every Israeli alive & dead.
Michele: I resent that. I have plenty of nutters from other channels.
Jill: Indeed, Karl is making me a Mussolini-like uniform made out of baby chinchillas.