Tag Archives: schadenfreude

Plot thickens in “Payne v. Anonymous Blogger(s)” case

June 6, 2011 – 3:36 pm

The attorney representing Jake Payne Watch, an anonymously run blog critical of “local media personality” Jacob Payne, has filed a motion to quash Payne’s subpoena, claiming that it represents an “attempt to silence a dissenting voice” and runs counter to First Amendment law. Ben Carter, counsel to the anonymous blogger(s), wrote on his own blog: … [...]

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DBCC senior minister rebukes Mohler

April 26, 2011 – 4:14 pm

After criticizing the Highlands-based Douglas Boulevard Christian Church’s (DBCC) equality-minded decision to end the practice of issuing civil marriage licences so long as non-heterosexuals are prohibited from marrying, ridiculous 19th century man and Southern Theological Baptist Seminary President Albert “God thinks torture is OK” Moheler has been rebuked by the DBCC’s  senior minister, Rev. Derek Penwell. Writing [...]

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Local blogger files lawsuit against blog

April 15, 2011 – 10:03 am

Jacob Payne, the blogger behind The Ville Voice and Page One Kentucky websites, has filed a lawsuit in Jefferson Circuit Court against the “anonymous blogger(s)” responsible for a website, dubbed “Watching Jake,” that is critical of Payne, which in turn prompted a bonafide Courier-Journal article on the matter, jettisoning the story into the real world. The [...]

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Councilwoman Green issues statement on LEO fake issue letter

April 1, 2011 – 1:55 pm

It was only a matter of time before the fabricated content of LEO’s third annual fake issue would solicit a too real response from some corner of this city, but we didn’t expect that embattled Metro Councilwoman Judy Green, D-1, would actually be the one to respond to a fake letter to the editor written [...]

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Notes from the Jefferson County GOP’s Lincoln Day Dinner (UPDATE)

February 14, 2011 – 4:43 pm

Despite LEO Weekly’s last appearance at the Jefferson County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner being something of a bust, we decided that we’d brave it once more in the interest of parroting the speeches of rich white people to ye, the sweaty huddled Internet-having masses. And what did we find? About 350 state GOP foot [...]

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What’s up with Todd Lally’s website?

January 24, 2011 – 1:36 pm

Nearly two months after an election that retained incumbent Democrat John Yarmuth as Louisville’s 3rd District representative, the campaign of Yarmuth’s failed GOP challenger, UPS pilot Todd Lally, has issued a death rattle via Facebook and Twitter, and in so doing revealed a campaign website that has been taken over by what appears to be [...]

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Happy MLK Jr. Day from Sarah Palin’s Facebook page

January 17, 2011 – 12:05 pm

Just moments ago, failed Alaskan Governor, reality-TV star and constant political victim Sarah Palin posted a note on her Facebook page imploring people to follow the example of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Just minutes later, the note received its first comment, shown below before agents within Palin’s Ministry of Truth sanitized it for history’s [...]

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Ain’t no party like an LMPD party…

November 29, 2010 – 8:26 pm

… ’cause an LMPD party don’t stop until you’re thrown in your own drunk tank. Behold as Louisville Metro Police Officer Lauren Fanning, 24, plays Harvey Keitel to her 23-year-old sister Kathryn’s Nic Cage in “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: Molly Malone’s“: Louisville Police commanders expect to decide later this week whether Lauren Fanning will remain [...]

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Lally ♥ corporations, poles

October 13, 2010 – 11:18 am

Last night at the University of Louisville’s Bigelow Hall, incumbent U.S. Congressman John Yarmuth, D-3, debated Republican challenger Todd Lally, a former military serviceman and UPS pilot. The hour-long debate, broadcast by WHAS11, had both candidates’ blood pressure levels running high as they traded barbs over government spending, the success of the Affordable Care Act, [...]

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Mongiardo to sell MTR site-topping estate

October 1, 2010 – 1:08 pm

It appears that your Lt. Governor, Daniel Mongiardo — who lost a bitter Democratic senate primary battle against Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway — has decided to sell his sprawling Franklin County digs for reasons that are not immediately clear (debt? ennui? neighbors bearing torches and pitchforks?), but which nonetheless engender plenty of schadenfreude. Via [...]

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