bmovievillain
74 Karma Points
legal content writer by day, lots of other stuff by night
My Groups:
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Sex in Depth: When Freak-Deaky Equals Hari-Kiri view story
8 votes- Submitted by bmovievillain
- 6 months ago
- (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japa...)
The population of Japan is in decline, the birthrate is plummeting, and the consequences look grim. Some studies put the blame on Japanese men whose appetite for masturbation, sex toys and virtual tete-a-tetes is turning them off the real thing.
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Patients' ability to sue at risk view story
6 votes- Submitted by bmovievillain
- 6 months ago
- (http://www.latimes.com/business/l...)
Justices could shield FDA-backed drugs from suits, as they did for devices. Critics say the agency is fallible.
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Arithmetic on Mortgage Bailouts view story
8 votes- Submitted by bmovievillain
- 6 months ago
- (http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blog...)
Economic press watchdog Dean Baker gives us the scoop on how mortgage bailout plans in current circulation will actually help families. The answer? Not good.
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The Hippocratic Oath Dies in Gitmo view story
9 votes- Submitted by bmovievillain
- 6 months ago
- (http://www.inthesetimes.com/artic...)
First person account from a Chicago civil rights attorney about her experience working for prisoners in Guantánamo Bay
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Woman Gets Maximum Prison Term After Laughing About Murder Victim's Death - Local News | News Articles | National view story
10 votes- Submitted by bmovievillain
- 7 months ago
- (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,29...)
A judge sentenced a woman to nearly the maximum prison term for negligent homicide after hearing a recorded jail conversation in which she made light of the bicyclist she killed.
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Language Log: Yale sluts and Princeton philosophers view story
5 votes- Submitted by bmovievillain
- 7 months ago
- (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/la...)
Insane over-interpretation of laws against such things as "hate speech", sexually harassing speech, and defamation will not be disappearing any time soon, it seems. Recently there appeared on Facebook a picture of a group of Zeta Psi fraternity pledges in
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$1.7M Verdict Overturned in Spanking at Work Case view story
18 votes- Submitted by bmovievillain
- 7 months ago
- (http://www.totalinjury.com/articl...)
A woman who sued and won $1.7 million because she and her co-workers were spanked and humiliated at work may walk away with nothing.
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Judge Silences Blogger Divorcee view story
16 votes- Submitted by bmovievillain
- 7 months ago
- (http://www.totaldivorce.com/divor...)
A Vermont judge has ordered William Krasnansky to stop blogging about his ongoing divorce, and free speech experts are surprised and concerned about the possibilities.
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Congress moving forward with plan to tie college funding to support for RIAA measures view story
6 votes- Submitted by bmovievillain
- 7 months ago
- (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01...)
Advocates of the bill stress that the language stops short of demanding implementation -- that it only requires universities to "plan" -- but this argument misses the point entirely. The passage of this bill will unambiguously lead universities down the w
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Toyota Commercials Encourage Insurance Fraud view story
4 votes- Submitted by bmovievillain
- 7 months ago
- (http://www.totallawyers.com/legal...)
Insurance officials have urged Toyota to stop running commercials depicting people destroying their cars because it promotes insurance fraud.

