Me too! Since renouncing the Hobby Lobby, I have hopped on both Joann's and Michaels coupon programs and have worked those like crazy. Haven't missed HL at all.

Yeah, except for that unfortunate time when I was raped and got pregnant. Seriously. You do realize that at least 5% of rapes result in a pregnancy, right? And that rapists attempt to go after custody of children that result from their rapes, right?

No, actually. Using a parody to sell a product isn't really addressed as specifically in case law as you are saying. Really.

Plywood buried and covered over with dirt and leaves? It has an odd rectangular shaped bounce that makes me wonder if it's not a covered hunting trap of some sort.

After they were threatened with a lawsuit and told to take down the video until the legality of use was sorted out by the Beastie Boys. They didn't fire first. They just happened to get to court before the Beasties did. I know they're claiming "we just asked why our music was being used" but that's a bit of a gloss on…

1) Parodies are almost always commercial in nature. Weird Al is selling his songs, and an album and merchandise. So is the Onion, and Saturday Night Live, and practically every comedian on state today doing parody work. People aren't writing parodies for not for profits. That's a silly argument. 2) Weird Al does NOT…

And yet, if you decide you want to yank your uterus out to make you autonomous and not susceptible to being treated as a human incubator, good luck finding a doctor who will do it.

These are the trials that I'm really going to enjoy reading the news reports about. I can't wait to see the details about the cover-up spill out, finally.

You could try reading that article, maybe. It's making fun of the town for their "poor, poor widdle me" public reaction after the conviction.

You could try reading that article, maybe. It's making fun of the town for their "poor, poor widdle me" public reaction after the conviction.

I could go to the drawer of my nightstand and pull out an object and hold it up to that photo and match it exactly. It is a beautiful building, no doubt. But it also looks like a sex toy.

My gay male friends comment on phallic shaped buildings (and art, and food...) all the time. And they occasionally sketch Perez Hilton-style captions on them and email them to each other, because they are all mentally 7 years old. I have the best friends.

Um, I think that whole second sentence might have been tongue-in-cheek, guys. #literalists

Eh. I'm a regular jezebel reader and avoid gawker like the plague, and even I thought that article was a pretty crap example of jezebel work product. If you look through the comments you'll see huge Jezebel fans crapping all over that article. So it's not the best case for avoiding Jezebel that you could be making.

Except that they don't need to file a lawsuit or call up the press to just license the song when they heard it. All they need to do is make a phone call to the company and make arrangements. But it doesn't appear that they did that, did they?

Nope. They stole it at the time. The language of the laws were more loose on sampling back when they wrote it, but it was tightened up specifically because of several of these first Beastie Boys albums and the extensive sampling that they did of other people's work, which are still the subject of lawsuits for…

Why couldn't they? They could just license the song for this specific use for this specific product and be done with it. And don't say "but Yaunch's will states" because the copyright piece of his will is probably not legal anyway.

You would think then, given what GoldieBlox is trying to do, that they would get behind the parody and allow it without making a fuss. That would go along way to fix their bad karma over the original song. Apologies and mea culpas are nice, but they don't cover the same viral ground that the original video did.…

She did talk about FemShep at length in that video, and she made some of the points you are making. She also pointed out that while the option of playing as FemShep is front and center at the beginning of the game (unlike female player options in many other games) the marketing of Mass Effect exclusively featured…

Hitler painted stuff too. They should form a damn club or something.