If ya don't know, you do now. http://donotcall.gov It keeps the telemarketers away for five years.

I am truely intrigued by Mel Gibson's The Passion. Due in part because of all the controversy that is brewing, also because Gibson makes good movies regardless and doesn't listen to the studios. I don't know if I'll see the film since I've never been a fan of seeing any adaptation of the New Testament except maybe Jesus Christ, Superstar, but who knows.
Anyway, here's a review of a rough cut of the movie, link courtesy of aintitcool.

So it wasn't a stretch. Predictably, Thomas and Scalia dissented in a decision by the Supreme Court overturning the Texas sodomy law. It was a 6-3 decision, and though it would be wishful thinking to ask for a unanimous decision, I'm so glad this law was struck down.

Beware the wrath of the RIAA. No, really. Now they're really going to sue individual file-swappers. Can we say stupid? In the first place, they can sue, but these people don't have money. Sure, it may stop them, but more will show up in their place. If the industry wants to raise sales again, they need start with the root of the problem. Lower the price of cds, find better quality of music and don't just market it to teenyboppers because, hello, we're all not mindless airheads having emotional breakdowns because the boy next door looked at us the wrong way, and stop treating all file-sharers like criminals. Many people, myself included, like to sample music, have to sample music before we decide whether we do want to pay 20 bucks for a cd. It's a bit tiring let alone expensive having to pay for a cd that only has one worthy song. It's just not going to happen.
If the RIAA does begin suing, then I think there should be a boycott. Let the greedy bastards bleed.

My little Spike story becomes a threesome. I'm actually glad Mr. Jones Jr. has stepped foward to say something because this whole thing has just gotten ridiculous. More so since the appellate judge actually refused to overturn the injunction. Why don't people just see how absurd this is getting?

::sob:: I know who dies. It's so not fair. I'm such a spoiler whore. I just had to know, and I'm not happy it had to be that person. Poor Harry Potter. I guess I'll know the details in August.

SCOTUS rules that libraries must put anti-porn filters on computers if they expect to receive federal money.
Though the need to protect a child is important, there has to be another way of going about it. Filters are censors. They censor legitimate sites. Why not create specific accounts for children and filter those. Is there some unwritten law that libraries are just for children? Where are the parents in all of this?
I expected a different decision, and I'm surprised that this was the result.
I'm taking bets on the sodomy case. I know how Scalia and Clarence are going to vote, but anyone want to guess on how that one will be decided if at all this term.

Universities can use race as a factor for admittance. In a 5 to 4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that the U of Michigan's law school policy was constitutional for being narrowly tailored (geek!!!!), and basically it didn't violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
This is significant. It's significant because affirmative action will be around for a while longer, and frankly I'm glad because it's still needed. Too many people are under the impression that affirmative action gives minorities a free ride into these institutions, and frankly that's just not true. Look at Texas. The state has no affirmative action policy and enrollment of minorities is at an all time low. Not because the students aren't qualified. It's because the schools are no longer looking to become diversified, and not only is that detrimental to the student body, but it's hurtful to the minorities who are in need of that education.
I could go on and on.

There's tons of news, so I'll be playing catch up because I really, really need to comment. It's just going to take me a while because I do need to put in more hours, or rather I feel like I should since our group is suddenly becoming rather competitive, and I do want to pass the bar on the first try and become licensed in November. Of course, if the reader knows anything about me, he/she knows that I'm a procrastinator at heart, so don't count me as gone just yet. Besides, post have been known to appear at the middle of the night even if they have been slightly less coherent and layered with the odd number of legal terms here and there.
I tell you, we would be lawyers have cramming down to an art form!
But this message is to any interested party, but mostly to my friends regarding the private journal. I need it. I'll be using it again, I think. I should never have stopped!! The mailing list is dead (at least until I find the time to fix it), so do you want me to email you with each new entry, or do you just want to try your luck at it. I can always just leave a little notice here. Jonni, this includes you too. 😉

Here ye, here ye. Accept thy lord Jeezus and ye shall no longer be gay. So sayeth the Southern Baptists at their yearly convention.
These poor delusional fools!
It's rather infuriating to see that so many people believe the misconception that to be homesexual is by choice rather than by genetics. It's not something to 'fix.' It's something to accept and to move on already.