The moment has come. For the last twelve months, we have basked in the glory as the Top Law Professor and Legal Theory Blog. Now, the ABA has started the Third Annual Competition. The good news is that we once again made the top 100 blogs. However, the ABA has mixed things up a bit with new categories. We have been moved to the Opinion category (IMHO- in my humble opinion slot). The ABA editors, however, have put us up against one of the oldest and most popular legal sites, Althouse. To vote, click here.
Here is the description of the site:
Jonathan Turley is a law professor at George Washington University known for his work as counsel in cases involving military and national security issues. But Turley uses his blog as a way to lighten and liven things up. Under the banner of res ipsa loquitur, his posts focus on the oddities of the legal system within the criminal justice and tort arena.
Another site on the list is The Legal Satyricon, which is also a large and respected blog. The Legal Satyricon is notably threatening to off some kittens unless it wins the top spot.
Althouse was one of the first legal blogs and is consistently ranked by AVVO in the top three most visited legal sites. (We are ranked 9th).
The editors appear to have intentionally pitted top AVVO sites against each other this year with two a category. However, we are up against one of the top three and best recognized sites. It is, therefore, the ultimate Dave and Goliath moment. The Cinderella Man moment. The Crossing of the Delaware moment. The Hail Mary moment. Yes, it is your moment. Think of the children, the unborn, the undead. Think of your pets, your country. Think of me for God’s sake.
Here is an inspiring scene to send you off:
Update, 55 to 93. Come on folks, these people use the most vile and disgusting of all meme genres… those from the internet.
From their site:
“GAMIC: /facepalm”
Reading that kind of stuff is a gateway to saying “ROFL” out loud (I’ve seen it happen more then once).
Prof –
I was looking for information about a piece of a book that I heard on the radio this weekend and typed in Jonathan (to be followed by Goldstein) and your last name is the first one that popped up on Google Suggest! (Read more about funny Google Suggestions here: http://www.slate.com/id/2234738/). Congrats! Google likes you.
I think we’re going to have to go negative, I’ll start
Satyricon pushed me down and stole my lunch money
We followers of “The Grand High Lord” of constitutional law–and law blogs–live to serve our barristerista of the bar. No pretentious Pooh-Bahs of lawyerdom will steal away our allegiance. We have already catnapped the kittens that others have threatened with a premature death…should they lose the competition. Said kitties are now being held in an undisclosed location…not far from the bunker where Dick Cheney hid during most of the last administration. Even Google Earth won’t be able to find the baby felines!
50 something to 90 something. I’m afraid I’ll have to make good on my threat. Grow pod people for the Gipper.
However, you gotta admit with topics like this, a scant bit of blawg infidelity seems appropriate.
‘Raisins, Orgasms…What’s the difference?’
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/12/here-s-another-big-nyt-magazine-article.html
http://www.mail.com
Cloning takes too long. I suggest going the route of pod people a la Invasion of the Body Snatchers. We replace existing human beings likely to vote for other legal blawgs with perfect physical duplicates grown in plantlike pods who will vote for the Turley blawg this year…and every year henceforth.
Brilliant, Elaine! It is even eco-friendly. As Jean Luk Picard would say, “make it so.”
JT:
“I assume that you properly disguised yourself … ”
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It’s that internet morphing cloak I have patented. Everyone over there thinks I’m either Buddha, Keith Olbermann or, occasionally, Glenn Beck. The crying thing is still a little tricky, but it works like a charm. (Well, it is one, after all). No sacrifice is too great for the fatherland! Ein Volk. Ein Blog. Ein Professor!
I am sorry professor, fraud yes but with the downturn in the market I cant afford the charge for another email account.
The other 5 or 6 from Verizon have been exhausted as well. I haven’t gotten the wife to vote yet, but Toby, Frank and KK have for the first time in their lives enjoyed the franchise.
In our secret lab in the base of an undisclosed mountain, we are working on cloning humans in time for the competition. We will then feed the clones to the new clones after they have voted in a self-sustaining vote machine.
does anyone know where you can get additional email accounts for free? I have exhausted, yahoo, google and hotmail.
Well, done Mespo (or should I say Frodo). I assume that you properly disguised yourself to mingle with the orcs of Mordor. Fear not, we will prevail through faith, courage, and computer fraud.
mespo,
I smell a revolution coming up. How about you break out the lantern, dust it off and get it ready for use. Now is it still the same signal? One by land, two if my sea? How do we signify the internet usage?
Well, a little stroll over to the Althouse blog caused me to happen across this little “bulletin board” comment:
“Wow. Professor Turley is really trying to kick my ass.”
Now we all know I never wander to other so-called blawgs without good reason, but a little in-country recon never hurts and we invested here should also know that some of the Althouse commenters seem a tad over-exuberant. Here’s one:
“section9 said…
Kick his scrawny little ass, Ann. Then send in Titus to finish him off, with cutting remarks about the inadequacy of his “hog”.
Turley, you know NOT what you have taken on.
See you in HELL!”
With apologies to Robert Duval, I love the smell of fear in the morning. Vote, vote, vote:
I voted twice, once using my work e-mail address and once for my home e-mail address, #46. I feel so ashamed.
There, it’s passed.
Judging by the exit polling bribery may just be our first gambit. Can one vote while pinned inside an iron maiden?
JT,
Sorry, I’ll keep my hunter\gatherer switch set firmly to gatherer for the duration of the vote.
Have you considered bribery? We can see which is really the more effective, the carrot or the stick.
Gures:
I am surprised at you. I have always embraced bribery as an efficient system of exchange. Subject to state and contractual limitations to be established at a later date, I am offering a car, kitten, or kudos to anyone voting for this blog. In addition, I am offering eternal life regardless of any barriers stated by any church due to your sexual orientation, sexual history or past criminality.
JT,
So, it’s o.k. if we threaten to kill an elephant?
Gyges:
You are making it difficult for me to openly pander to the PETA block.
BIL, My kitties had a total freakout experience whenever I wore similarly constructed gorilla slippers. Cats have no fashion sense.
I want to emphasize that this blog has threatened no pets or small animals — a key distinction with the competition.
lotta,
That’s just neat. I’d love to have that puppet. It’s beautiful. But I know from a previous bad experience involving Scooby Doo house shoes with little Scooby heads on them that the cats would probably freak.