It also teaches us that in the future, we will know that our esteemed officials really do put their pants on one leg at a time... because we've seen the photos.

With that midget furry hentai cosplay masturbatrix

Any day now the McCain campaign will be accusing Obama of intending to appoint this --er, person, to the highest bench.

It's probably time for vulnerable public figures over 40 to admit that most of them are naive bordering on STOOOOOPID concerning using the Internet, texting and e-mail even remotely discreetly.

(The kids don't use these things discreetly, either, but that's on purpose.)

A judge's job is to interpret the law and ensure it is properly administered. What he does on his own time is his own business. That this judge claims he did not know about how accessible his postings are on the Internet suggest either he is a) very naive (in which case he should not be a judge) or b) a very bad liar (most likely).

He could have saved himself some embarassement by just admitting to it and embracing the fact that Internet is an open forum.

By the way, do you have the link to that "tutorial"?

I'd like to judge it. lol

This guy is an idiot. I don’t care about his sex life – but I do care that the inter-webs confuse him.

It might be a little difficult to pin this guy on Obama--he's a Reagan appointee.

But then, attention to facts has never been their strong suit.

I don't claim to have an encyclopedic knowledge of all of the fetishes out there, but the women-painted-as-cows thing is a new one to me.

Please don't highlight that women as cows idea too much.

I'm afraid Mayor Daley will get wind of it and start a public arts project!

If you can think of it, there is a fetish or kink for it.

If you can't think of it, some one else will and there will be a fetish or kink.

Gynobovinophilia.

If have absolute no idea about Judge Alex taste in animal and Cirque du Blowlay, then nobody ever know how decision is bias.

Wish Svutlana that all public figure remain ignorant and no read Internet for Dummy.

This guy is a JUDGE?

How the hell did that happen - and apparently the youngest-ever appointed to that particular position(35)?

There's no possible way he doesn't get $hit-canned, right? Right?

This is becoming absurd. When are we going to learn that this an immutable law of human nature?

If People [Men, Women, Grandparents, Judges, Children, Politicians, Plumbers, Scholars, Clergy Members, Quadriplegics, Retail Clerks, Horse Trainers, Ballet Teachers] Have Access To The Internet, They WILL Watch Porn.

Like any law, there are exceptions --- and those prove the rule. There are several variations on this Immutable Law Of Internet Access And Porn Viewing; these include:

1. People with cameras WILL take naked pictures of themselves.

2. People with video cameras WILL take videos of themselves having sex.

3. People with cellphone cameras WILL take pictures that could threaten their careers, and furthermore these WILL end up in the wrong hands.

Everyone does it. Disney stars do it. Mom and Dad are doing it. All our elected officials are doing it. Everyone in the world besides the rare exceptions are doing it, so why exactly is it a big deal?

Everyone loves to chastize public figures for doing the exact thing that everyone does, but is scared of getting caught doing.

Well, he should be right at home there. As I recall from his confirmation hearings, Justice Thomas is quite the accectionado for Porn as well.

They would make a fine team!

Forget the porn. As long as he's not into children or (real) farm animals, that is. What bothers me is that he named his kid Yale. Oh, and that he threw Yale under the bus.

I lolled. LOUDLY.

Larry Lessig explains fully here, but the long and the short of it is that the judge did NOT post anything "to the web." As Lessig explains:

"Here are the facts as I've been able to tell: For at least a month, a disgruntled litigant, angry at Judge Kozinski (and the Ninth Circuit) has been talking to the media to try to smear Kozinski. Kozinski had sent a link to a file (unrelated to the stuff being reported about) that was stored on a file server maintained by Kozinski's son, Yale. From that link (and a mistake in how the server was configured), it was possible to determine the directory structure for the server. From that directory structure, it was possible to see likely interesting places to peer. The disgruntled sort did that, and shopped some of what he found to the news sources that are now spreading it.

Cyberspace is weird and obscure to many people. So let's translate all this a bit: Imagine the Kozinski's have a den in their house. In the den is a bunch of stuff deposited by anyone in the family -- pictures, books, videos, whatever. And imagine the den has a window, with a lock. But imagine finally the lock is badly installed, so anyone with 30 seconds of jiggling could open the window, climb into the den, and see what the judge keeps in his house. Now imagine finally some disgruntled litigant jiggers the lock, climbs into the window, and starts going through the family's stuff. He finds some stuff that he knows the local puritans won't like. He takes it, and then starts shopping it around to newspapers and the like: "Hey look," he says, "look at the sort of stuff the judge keeps in his house."

I take it anyone would agree that it would outrageous for someone to publish the stuff this disgruntled sort produced."

This is an absurdity on many levels, but especially because so many allegedly internet-savvy people have spread the misinformation that the judge "posted" this information. He didn't, and as Lessig says, this is outrageous.

oops, no tags - link here: http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/the_kozinski_mess.html