Right Thinking From The Left Coast
"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Monday, June 30, 2008

The Name of the Game
by Lee

Some people are just fucking retards.

A New Mexico appeals court on Friday ruled against a Los Alamos man who wanted to change his name to a phrase containing a popular four-letter obscenity.

The man appealed after a state district judge in Bernalillo County refused his request to change his name to “F--- Censorship!”

Judge Nan Nash ruled that the proposed name change was “obscene, offensive and would not comport with common decency.”

Okay, here’s the funny part.

The man—whose current legal name is Variable—argued on appeal that it was improper government censorship to deny him the name change.

That’s right, his current legal name is “Variable.” Okay, here’s the really funny part.

That law was clarified in a 2004 case in the same court that apparently involved the same petitioner. In that case, an Albuquerque man whose name was Snaphappy Fishsuit Mokiligon got the go-ahead from the appeals court to change his name to Variable.

Seriously, can you imagine a bigger waste of a court’s time than dealing with idiots like this?

Posted by Lee on 06/30/08 at 11:51 PM in Decline of Western Civilization  • (4) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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