Very well done rip off of Will! Have you heard back from any of the participants?

Craig, how about a follow-up for the rest of the musical definition alphabet as it looks like you only covered it up to the letter C? How about O for Open Form as in Indeterminate contemporary in which some details of a composition are clearly indicated, but the overall structure is left to choice or chance.

Very funny! Craig, any response from one of the three? Quite a story on many levels. Physical, emotional, sexual, public, arrogance, stupid. Calls into question some other issues also. One, the $54m pair of pants story, and two, if Olson thinks his reputation is worth a cool million and a half dollars, then he’s by definition a public persona who has no protection for libel. If Olson wants to claim he is not a public persona then how does he as retired high school teacher who lived his whole career on a tiny boat in Sausalito and now lives in a trailer in Novato have a million and a half in damages? Olson is a legend in his own mind. Never mind his CD persona, WHO CARES, there's Olson’s admissions' issues, a whole different level of absolute defense for Alexandra. Another Catch-22 for Olson along with his Reno homeowners insurance and his forging Alexandra’s married Olson name. Is this justice? Smells of the unreasonable Judge Pearson with his $54 million dollar pair of pants! Olson has successfully taken advantage of his default court order to unleash a bevy of legal punitive action against Alexandra, that Alexandra is virtually torted into bankruptcy. Olson, in a move reminiscent of Ghengis Khan at the dinner table, has upped his legal harassment. Olson should take nothing from Alexandra, Olson's case should be dismissed and she should be awarded the costs of this action against her by him. Where do they find these people like Olson and can we send them back like right now?

Great humor. I wish'd I thought of it first.

Here’s a written take-off of Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World in tribute to Craig's cool rip-off of Will Harper. I’m not an illustrator, but it would also be fun to illustrate it. I think it would also be fun to illustrate Craig's article. Maybe some day Broowaha will have the techno ability for its articles to have illustrations. Here I go. The World According to Jim Jim’s Sheer Chutzpah Why are you even reading this? Morgan’s just recently made it all up for revenge ‘cause I dumped her 6 years ago. Makes perfect sense to me (although no one else) Jim’s Condescending Tirade Reno is just a bunch of redneck hicks unlike us perfect beautiful educated sophisticated people here in the most affluent county on the planet Marin in which these sorts of things are unheard of (or at least only whispered at.) That’s why I kept Morgan away from Marin these last 11 years. How could I explain to my Marin life why I divorced and reconciled with Morgan four times? (Marin would think I’m a wacko after I made up all that extreme stuff about her in each divorce.) Jim’s Fear Mongering Morgan is a danger to my Marin marriage. Get it? So I got that restraining order against Morgan. (Lucy was on my case) Get it? Morgan lives in Reno 200 plus miles away. 200 miles is just not enough distance for this kind of danger. (never mind Morgan has a driving disability and I had to drive us for any trips out of Reno) So I got a default restraining order against Morgan. Get it? I got that restraining order against Morgan. Get it? Morgan is a danger to my Marin marriage. Get it? (Of course, it was a low blow I had her served in Reno without enough time for her to get a Marin attorney to show up in the Marin court for her) So it turned I didn’t have to lie. But just in case, I had said those damning two $10k checks Morgan sent me last Oct arrived voided although I wrote in that damn Oct letter Lucy had me write that I was voiding them and sending them back to Morgan. So it was a good thing my attorney and I planned to serve Morgan too late and the result would be the default restraining order. Morgan’s a danger to my Marin marriage. Once I was caught, hey, it’s a no-brainer, Marin over Reno. Jim’s Selective Contempt Morgan is delusional; she has it all wrong. Morgan’s four witnesses who testified are also delusional, they got it all wrong. (- except ummm, in Morgan’s story) Morgan's attorneys are also delusional. The judges are also delusional. Everyone's delusional but me and my attorneys. Jim’s Specious Rebuttals I have a right to legally harass Morgan. (It’s the only way I got Lucy off my case after I was caught) Jim’s False Equivalency My attorneys are not the same as those three thugs Burt Pagich hired to throw lye in Linda’s face after she found out he was married and dumped him. My suing Morgan for $1.5m and change is not the same as her filing to divorce me in Reno when she found out about my double life. Jim’s Free Market Triumphalism How convenient to have a court just down the street so I can easily rush down and file a lawsuit every time I have a little marital spat with Morgan. But what can I do for the big stuff? Oh yeah, I sue Morgan for $1.5m and change. Thank God for the neighborhood convenience of the Marin court house. Jim’s Facile Juxtaposition I’m not doing legal terrorism when compared to the $54m pants lawsuit. After all, I’m only suing Morgan for a $1.5m, and change. I could have sued her for more. After all, I’m a very important wealthy person here in Marin. (Just ignore that the statements I claim Morgan made in my court papers are true, I have no damages, I lived in a very old small yacht for 20 plus years, and now live in a trailer park in Novato, but hey it's still Marin - barely) Jim’s Wishful Thinking Lucy will understand. Morgan will understand. Life will go back to before I was caught. I'll again have the court papers sealed. Jim, Guilty As Charged Damn those damming papers Morgan put into the courts’ records. Damn her four witnesses’ testimonies. Damn that court records are public. What was I thinking during those six years getting Reno homeowners insurance on the Reno properties? What was I thinking when I signed Morgan’s name when I bought CreamPuff in San Rafael? What was I thinking when I told everyone in Reno Morgan’s my wife? (that she was and is) I don’t even have plausible deniability.

Craig & Anon's funny silliness doesn't even begin to approach the silliness this guy has made himself into. He's got a lot of explaining to do.

This guy's been caught with a whole lot more than his hand in the cookie jar. It's amazing what he's put into the court records. Doesn't he know they're public records? One would think so after his previous four divorce filings. He had the fourth one sealed so he has to know. What he himself put in the court papers put him in a very embarrassing situation for something no one would have given a damn about until he added all the color and spicy details. Now he’s trying to blame his way out by sueing for an astonishing million and a half dollars! The story just keeps getting better and funnier all the time. There's no explaining for him to do. That's obvious from the court papers. They clearly explain what he's been doing. No, he's got a lot of backpedaling to do.

I'm still laughing. First from Craig's very cool rip-off of Will, then the comments, then the Anonymous rip-off of Tom Tomorrow. What would have been just another who gives a damn Reno divorce nobody would have known about he instantly turns into a very public circus freak show.

A circus freak show starring him as the crossdresser, her as the dominatrix, another wife, and if he's not married to her, his fraud with the insurance he got on the Reno houses and his forgery with that car bought in Marin. No wonder the comics are relentlessly skewering him. He's as much of a wack/legal terrorist as the wacko/legal terrorist with the 25 million dollar pair of pants.

I read this first on Cindy's article Now you call it madness (but I call it love). That article is funny, Craig B.'s spoof hilarious, and then I read Anon's TT spoof and the comment "Olson, in a move reminiscent of Ghengis Khan at the dinner table, has upped his legal harassment," well, after King George's speech this am, I needed a lot of belly laughs, and this Olson guy delivers. I'm still laughing. Living Out Loud at its finest.

Alice in Wonderland aka Jim in Marin. There's plenty here in this great California love story to poke fun at. There's no "plausible deniablity" here. He's transparent. The comments are just as great as the article. Loved "Olson, in a move reminiscent of Ghengis Khan at the dinner table, has upped his legal harassment." What else was he to do after he was caught? Of yeah, implement terorism and sue her for a whopping million and a half buckeroos. Of course. That's what normal people do. Right? Do normal people live in trailers? I guess they do if the trailers in Marin County, wealthiest of the wealthiest of the wealthiest on the planet. This is so typical of Marin. Grace Slick lived there for years and I better understand where Jeferson Airplane's song White Rabbit came from. This guy obviously makes it a habit of believing several impossible things before breakfast. What's funny is his trying to get others to believe and we just aren't buying it. I'm looking forward to reading the other spoofs certain to show up on this story. Its too inviting to ignore the opportunity for more skewering.

Keep poking the fun - this story just keeps getting beter and better!

He lives in a trailer in Novato. That's too much.

CDs are NOT freaks. See Cindy's very well done article in this San Francisco Broowaha Now You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love). This guy is one smirking boner. Don't judge other CDs by him. Loved Anon's TT (Tom Tomorrow) spoof! The Ghengis Khan analogy is way cool. This Broowaha format is very interesting. The comments definately add to the articles. It's color hair, not dye it.

"Power is the inflicting of pain and humiliation. Power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating?" - George Orwell, 1984 This spoof of Cindy's story is another example of America's cultural shift to violence in sex and torture porn and terrorist lawyers in their escalating demonization of the victim. It's a deliberate, conscious choice by the perpetuator. Here the Reno wife, and probably the Marin wife, are obviously the victims. Cindy's article is amazing on many levels where improbabilities abound. Although the story is far from light and irreverent it is rather wordy and needed editing. I would like to see someone like Ed do the followup. David Edelstein in New York Magazine wrote "Fear supplants empathy and makes us all potential torturers, doesn't it? Post 9-11, we've engaged in anational debate about the morality of torture." In Orwells' 1984, the "thought criminal" Winston Smith's torturer syas "Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a picture of a boot stamping on a human face forever." Once Upon A Time in America the Geneva Convention guranteed that "no physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatsoever." This story is a tragic example of mental torture via legal terorism to secure information and, incidently, to shut down a whistle blower. Keep up the spoofs. keep poking the fun, it's still America dammit, and humor is our only defense to the torturer's boot in the face.

Kent J, his wives are not victims. Especially the Reno one. She knew years ago what kind of guy he is and chose over and over to stay with him for 25 years. Cindy nailed it - they're just another example of Crazy Love.

Where can I sign up to meet a woman who will let me get away with what she has him? Both wives are the victims. Keep the jokes coming! One Condescending Tirade deserves another.

Torture Porn? Hmmm. An angle that actually makes a lot of sense. I am not a professional writer. I just have in interest in Mr. Olson. An interest in his issues that I felt should be exposed to the public due to his public educator status. The humor take-offs are priceless. I especially loved the Tom Tommorrow cover.

Jimmy Olson huh? Superman's buddy Jimmy Olsen certainly had quite a few adventures over the years, including masqerading as a girl more than a few times. He kept a stash of women's clothes with a few different outfits, and he passes as a girl so well that he gets hit on by guys. If the high heel fits... check it out at http://www.tgfa.org/comics/jimmy_olsen/jimmy_olsen.htm

This wacko theme seems to be prevalent with those Marin school employees.

Very good use of humor!! Couldn't be happening to a more deserving guy! I heard about this story in the San Francisco Broowaha from the ballroom dance community. I want to add my comments from a different perspective. I first met Jim and Morgan Olson in September 1995 in Reno. I met them through ballroom dancing. Over the next 11 years I often saw them at various dances and dance events in Nevada, California and Oregon. I saw them a few times at the Metronome when Jim was crossdressed. Jim’s crossdressing was common knowledge but considered no big deal. Morgan seemed not thrilled with it, but tolerant. Jim always represented himself as Morgan’s husband, wore a wedding ring, and bragged about all the houses they owned in Reno. Although he always made it a point to let us know that they also had a home in Marin County, California that Morgan would be moving back to when she decided to retire, leaving what he repeatedly portrayed as little old Reno for much more desirable Marin. Morgan, well Morgan, is a gracious lady that I, and every guy dancer I know, has a crush on. She is an excellent ballroom dancer, an above average country-western dancer, a classy dresser, smart, giving of her time in dance practice, and remarkably, solidly in love with Jim. She built a dance floor and train room for him in their Reno home. A dance floor that many of us practiced on. Jim is a legend in his own mind, not being the dancer he thinks he is. The talk among the lady dancers is that they don’t like dancing with him as he dances to the mirror to watch himself rather than for the pleasure of dancing with them. A cardinal sin in ballroom dancing as the man is the frame and the lady is the picture. It is the man’s job to show off the lady, not himself. The part of the story about the separate personalities made a lot of sense as I saw that in Jim many times. So does the narcissism, that I and others, especially the ladies, also saw in Jim. The last time I saw Jim and Morgan was in September 2006 doing what I’d always seen them do, ballroom dancing together. Since then, I have seen neither one of them. So this story saddened me when it was recently brought to my attention. He sure took her for a ride. A ride for her now into hell and from I now hear, her bankruptcy and her failing health. A very sad ending for a lady guilty only of love. Why hasn’t Jim been arrested for homeowners insurance fraud and forging Morgan’s signature since he now claims they weren’t and aren’t married?

Why isn't he arrested? Isn't it obvious? He's is upscale Marin and she's in low-life, by Marin's standards, Reno. There's no way the Marin Sheriff, or any police in Marin or the Marin DA, will lock him up. They'd have to lock the whole damn county up then for the same reasons. It's not only the Marin educators who Can't Keep Their Pants Up, it's the rest of the whole damn overly liberal self-absorbed county with its plethora of sexual predators. No wonder she left.

Where's the comments from ladies? Boxers, briefs or panties?! I know Jim and Morgan from ballroom dancing. I also first met them in September 1995 in Reno. I saw them out and about in Reno a least a half a dozen times a month. Jim always presented himself as Morgan's husband. They wore wedding rings, lived together, Jim talked about the various Reno and Marin properties they owned, they were very much in love for the 11 years I knew them as a couple in Reno. They celebrated several of their Valentine's Day anniversaries at the Reno ballrooms. I remember Jim liked to joke how it took him 9 years to get Morgan to marry him during a visit to The Lake February 1991. They also celebrated most Christmas' and New Years' at the Reno ballrooms. Jim organized private Reno dance parties for their birthdays. I haven't seen either of them for a year now. I'd heard about all this legal and her failing health stuff from other dancers. I also find it all very sad for Morgan. Jim' outing of his double life doesn't surprise me. I always felt he is a sexual predator. He crossdressed in the Bay Area but not Reno. He always represented he had two lives. His Marin life he was so proud of and his Reno life he tolerated solely for Morgan I remember when Jim bought that car for Morgan in Marin and brought it to Reno as a surprise for her as he showed it off to everyone. He mentioned signing her name to buy the car as Morgan rarely drove after the auto accident she was so severely injured in. Jim' crossdresing at the San Francisco Bay Area ballrooms was common knowledge but since Morgan tolerated it we did also. Same for the common knowledge about Jim's leather and vinyl fetishes and the bondage. I never saw him crossdresed at the Reno ballrooms. I never enjoyed dancing with him. The author's (Cindy) comments about the narcisism and mirror obession is exactly what I experienced with Jim. I disliked dancing with him as he danced to watch himself in the mirror rather than for the pleasure of dancing with me. Jim is very self-centered. As well as immature. Other lady dancers had repeatedly made these same observation of Jim. He is very look down his nose at us Reno dancers and Jim always made it a point to let us Reno dancers know how much better the Bay Area dancing is and dancers are to his opinion of us as low-life Reno dancers and Reno ballrooms. He is snooty about his living in Marin and how he only barely tolerated Reno because Morgan had built them a home here. Morgan thrived in the lower key Reno world. I felt she was relieved to be away from the San Francisco Bay Area extremes, and she only tolerated Jim's fetishes due to her abiding love for him. She not only built Jim a large dance floor and large train room here, their Reno home looks like a late 1930's Hollywood movie set in San Francisco. Elegant, sensuous and very sexual; with glass block wall, black gloss cabinets and bar, black marble counters, black glass sinks, very large mirrors, black gloss furniture, mirrored wardrobe doors - one wall to wall, walnut floor, brushed nickel hardware, dark green/black tile, pavered patios. That is why it is so funny that it turn out Jim was all along living on a Marin boat and then a Marin trailer. Funny 'cause Jim sure touted his living in Marin County, California, wealthiest county on the planet. He had to repeatedly rub our Reno noses in that fact he was so proud of. A boat and then a trailer! Now Jim claims he and Morgan aren't married!? How does he explain his saying to us he was, the homeowners insurance in his name on the Reno properties and his forging Morgan's name when he bought that car for her? What a dangerous hypocrite Jim turned out to be! Although I disliked dancing with Jim, I understood Jim and Morgan's relationship. I had hot for and in love with from the moment my husband and I met to the day he died. It was the most bizarre, crazy, irrational, all consuming lust obsession in my life and I would not have have missed a moment of any of it. My husband felt the same way. We repeatedly separated and reconciled. I divorced him. We both married others. They divorced us when the caught us with each other. We then remarried each other. We continued to repeatedly separate and reconcile. I miss all of it. Very few people allow themselves to go that far into their emotions and the physical pleasures of sex with an adult consenting partner that you can take each other into realms of pleasure that you spend every moment afterwards thinking how much you want to be back into. It is an addictive drug.

To understand the reason the Repugnants in Marin; their courts, police, DA, etc., have not arrested Jim for the home insurance fraud, forging her name when he bought that car in Marin and the bigamy are not only about Marin's snooty attitude over Reno but also the “live boy, dead girl” rule. For the Marin courts, police and Marin DA it's not about consistency and it's not about integrity. Although I don't like Jim, on the plus side, Jim can now write two books — one about his public life and how he repeatedly screwed it up. And second, the porn version of his now outed secret double life. He should make a fortune. Let me be clear. The more I read and learn about Jim Olson, the more troubling the situation with Morgan becomes. It offends my sensibilities. He threw her under the wheels of the bus.

boxers or briefs or panties these sorts of things are unheard of (or at least only whispered at caught with a whole lot more than his hand in the cookie jar Olson, in a move reminiscent of Ghengis Khan at the dinner table, has upped his legal harassment I'm still laughing. However, on a more sober note, Morgan is not a real Dominatrix. She just tried so hard for so many years to Stand By Her Man and give him want he wanted not realizing she would never be able to meet his expectations of her.

Morgan always mixed leather and vinyl and looked damn good doing it. Never understood why she loved Jim.

This parody, the Tom Tomorrow rip off and the comments are just too funny. Jim’s behavior since caught in his double life has raised many questions about his credibility and integrity. It’s been plain throughout this tempest since then, that something’s askew in River City. I read the public records in both Nevada and California. Let’s begin with the obvious. Jim’s paperwork is self-serving without accepting responsibility for his own complicity. That is simply not how courts should be doing business. It’s not fair or just to Morgan. Go back and read Section One of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. It’s simply astonishing to me what Jim has put into the public records and gotten away with perjury in his condescending tirades. And that Jim, to date, a year after his double-life outing, remains an equal co-trustee and 100% beneficiary of his Nevada Living Trust with Morgan. He has not revoked it. THAT ONE OMMISSION ALONE SCREAMS SO LOUD HIS CONTINUING INVOLVEMENT WITH MORGAN THAT IT DROWNS OUT ALL HIS OUTLANDISH CLAIMS (LIES). Morgan dies today, he inherits everything under it. That more than suggests it’s pretty clear he’s continuing to play everyone to his benefit. That he wants it both ways. It’s his actions that count not the fictitious version he’s put into the public records all without ever proving his case with specific verifiable facts. Myth created by repetition. NO MATTER HOW BRUTAL JIM HAS REPEATEDLY POSTURED IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS, VIA THAT TRUST, JIM’S STILL WITH MORGAN EVEN THROUGH TODAY. No wonder Jim became and remains so controversial. He is a firebrand and master at repetition in the service of falsehood in his attempts, with a vengeance, to re-write his 25-year history with Morgan. Morgan who has again taken the high road in Jim’s latest drama by exercising her right to remain silent. Her love for him may not be practical, but how she has handled it always has been.

I didn't know until I read Bill's comment about Superman's buddy Jimmy Olsen that Jimmy was a cd. Brett M's comment is on point.

Oh my God, what a dirt-bag Jim Olson turned out to be. Isn’t he something?! Hard to be to the right of Ghenkis Khan but he managed. And he’s proud of it! Wow. Touchdown by default.

This guy deserves every bit of this ribbing and more.

hmmmm - another local music school teacher caper I received a message about - Capuchino music teacher arrested on 35 sex charges Police say crimes happened over a six-month period By Mark Abramson / Staff Police arrested a Capuchino High School music teacher Thursday night on charges that he had sexual relations with a 17-year-old student. Adam Glen Albrecht, 28, was arrested about 8 p.m. at his residence on the 400 block of A Street in Broadmoor without incident, police Lt. Dave Parenti said. Investigators searched his residence and seized evidence. Albrecht was booked into the San Mateo County Jail on 35 felony charges of oral sex and unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and four misdemeanor charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Police said they are recommending that many charges because there were 35 incidents involving Albrecht and the student. All of the crimes happened at his residence, inside a vehicle and at two other residences, Parenti said. Police would not disclose where the other residences are. "It happened between December (2006) and June (2007), and she was in one of his classes," Parenti said. San Mateo Union High School District officials could not be reached for comment. Albrecht was arrested after someone reported him to San Bruno police, who notified authorities in Broadmoor, the lieutenant said. San Bruno police declined to comment. Albrecht is being held on $500,000 bail, and he could be arraigned Monday, Parenti said.

Craig B and I were talking as it turns out I knew Jim and Morgan Olson. But not the ones Craig satirized. They were a pleasant couple to socialize with. Both could carry on intelligent conversations which can sometimes be too rare to have in Reno. It was always stimulating conversations covering art to real estate, music to science fiction, culture to war, color to texture, quantum physics to flowers. I don’t want to go into the details of their private life as that’s been pretty well covered from what I’ve read in the public records and elsewhere. I do like Craig’s article where he poked some fun at them. Jim’s $1.5m lawsuit and his ugly claims against her in the court’s public records really did beg for Craig’s article and its subsequent comments. A real shame because the Olsons brought a sense of class, sophistication and grace to everything they did when I knew them as a couple for 11 or so years in Reno. There’s a hole in our Reno cultural life with them gone. But that’s not really what I wanted to comment on. It’s their Reno homes I wanted to comment on. Among the other great legacies they left us, their homes deserve more comment although Joan, bless her, and Kyle, who I watched grow from an arrogant ignorant boy to a cultured man under Morgan’s tutelage, did nicely comment already about their Reno homes. Few homes in Reno, even in Somersett, St James Village, Arrowcreek, Montreau, etc., have the character of an Olson Reno home. The closest would be some of the homes in Southwest Reno or Incline Village. Each Fountainhead, their name for each property, had all the modern conveniences of a newly built home with the added benefit of mature landscaping. Their gardens, backyards and patio areas, front, side and back, were designed for entertaining and for private moments, with sheltered and open spaces doubling as an outdoor dining room, cigar lounge and wine tasting depending on where you chose to sit and what you wanted to do. Their great rooms were just amazing. Their ballrooms made me want to put on a gown and dance with a tuxedoed gentleman. Dozens of small, individually important touches made their homes one that I just didn’t want to leave they were so comfortable and elegant. Jim and Morgan Olson did see a World in a Grain of Sand, Heaven in a Wild Flower, Held Infinity in the palms of their hands and Eternity in an hour. I don’t know the Jim written about here or the Morgan he has accused her of being in the court’s public records. My best wishes go out to all the parties involved.

Trish, thanks for gently reminding us of another Mrs. Alexandra lesson: "When in doubt always take the high road and give them the benefit of the doubt." Craig's article is way funny tho!

Oh gag me, I want to throw up - stick to the humor! This huy's dumber than dumb and deserves all the skewering.

Keep the humor coming. I think he and both his wives deserve every bit of poking fun at them we can come up with.

The Dubious Space Between A Justaposeur’s Addiction and Control I'm a Reno neighbor of this character. What he worked hard at is addiction and control. He does get off throwing her into a volcano. Like filing for a divorce 30 days after their marriage?! Like filing for four grotesque divorces! Like his smirking suing her for a million and a half smakeroos for being a legend in his own mind. To appease his outing, lyrical transgressions sure are his specialty. Writing in the L.A. Times, Rosa Brooks bemoaned the fact that there are “fewer persistent, noisy people with a mandate to wander around the world asking questions.” Good for you Cindy in writing this article. Good for you Craig in this brillant skewering. Investigative reporter as hero. Journalism that makes a difference. He is a Justaposeur. It’s clear he’s been too high and mighty, too far outside and beyond. He’d now be wise to have a more down-to-earth story as HE’S BEEN CAUGHT. He bent the rules. He circumvented the conventions. He needs to climb down off that high and mighty sanctimonious pedestal he’s put himself on as he has generated some mighty bad karma. This guy needs to read and listen to some Leonard Cohen. Shake it up, baby as this guy has borrowed a lot from Republican rendition politics! I have a haunting tremolo - I want to bend him over my knee and spank him.

Sassy, Sassy, Sassy, girlfriend, bending him over your knee and spanking him would just excite him rather than punish him. I'm not surprised about the beautiful home comments. I am about the Grade Couch. That's unusual for a cd. A favorite cd saying: If the high heel fits, wear it. Of course Jimmy Olsen is a cd. Hello. What do you expect from a guy who hangs around with a macho guy who wears spandex and a cape? About what you'd expect from a guy who himself wears leather and vinyl.

- also, mixing leather and vinyl is quite acceptable - and we cds are no diffrent than every other living creature, we always appreciate being given the benefit of the doubt.

I was loving the humor - let's have more humor. Less of that namby-pamby touchy-feely, more grit. Less compassion, more skewering. What is it with these teachers and especially these music teachers? What the hell is wrong with their school districts?! "Police arrested a Capuchino High School music teacher Thursday night on charges that he had sexual relations with a 17-year-old student. Albrecht was booked into the San Mateo County Jail on 35 felony charges of oral sex and unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and four misdemeanor charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor." So many women so little times and these sickos have to dress up as a woman or do it with kids instead of helping out all those willing adult women.

I agree, stick to the humor. We know he's a scum-bag. Now let's get on with the fun of pointng out what a scum-bag he is.

Jen and Tonic had a great comment I just read elsewhere in Broowaha that fits here: "What good is having an intelligent sense of humor if you can't mock other people with it?"

I also like the humor and mockery, however, the dark side is that it is a myth that cross-dressers are totally harmless. On the contrary . . .

You want More Skewering! That’s The Mocker’s Call to Action. Ya got it. You’re about to meet some of the Mockers of Mock The Fool. I heard that the reason no police in the wealthiest county in the known universe, that Verrry Special Marin County, have arrested him is that soooo many of them are also closeted cds with leather & bondage fetishes. Oh those Marin boys & their shiny smoooooth leather verrry high-heeled boots and conveniently sanctioned bondage accouterments. I nominate him for The Mock The Fool of The Year 2007 Award. All in favor, write aye. Savvy mate?

I heard on Fox News his Cinderella nincompoop lawyers are also closeted cds with bondage fetishes as they’ve been spotted in full Bettie Page drag doing the Waltz. I also heard on Fox News they are really ugly as women! AYE. Savvy mate?

Oh I’m sure he & his dolt lawyers are doing some more dancing after they read Mock The Fool’s Ridicule Served On A Skewer. I heard on Fox News his ninny lawyers saw the high heel fit so they sure quickly Stepped Into It. What are his insipid lawyer’s names anyway? I nominate them for The Mock The Fool Runner Up of The Year 2007 Award. I also heard on Fox News why he went to live in Marin County & work at a Marin County school or two or three or four or five . . . more opportunity to Teach Troll – meet the desperately seeking husband women like the school sec, & young girls. Then I heard on Fox News his attorneys are uuuuuugly as men also. Typical lawyers. Aye. Savvy mate?

I heard on Fox News why he teaches ballroom dancing for the City of Novato . . . all that makeup & glitter – on him. Aye. I also heard from Fox News this Wholey Story: his Marin lawyer is Hotter Than A Pepper Sprout as a Short Sister of Perpetual Indulgence repeatedly spotted at church repeatedly asking forgiveness for his repeated sin of GASP lying. Savvy mate?

Oh those DQs. I heard why he plays trumpet . . . it’s sooo smooth, long & shiny. I heard from Fox News his Reno lawyer aka, Short Attack Dog In That Really Pretty Glitter Harness, is kissing cousin of our cd Prez candidate Rudy G/Judy G whose latest wife gave him the harness. Aye. Savvy mate?

Oh those Drag Queens. I heard on Fox News he teaches ballroom dancing for the City of Novato because of the more opportunities to Dance Troll - meet the old & rich desperately seeking husband women, & young naive girls. My instrument’s smoother, longer & shinier than his. AYE. Savvy mate?

The Troll doing the Troll. Another ballroom dance he’s teaching at the Novato Recreation Department? I’m gonna sign up for THAT class right now. The Ayes have it. I’ll check on RuPaul’s availablity for delivering The Mock The Fool of The Year 2007 Award to his home. I suspect RuPaul gonna charge Mock The Fool extra for RuPaul’s ignominy of going out to TrailerLand. Savvy mate?

DQ = Drag Queens Drama Queens no distinction. I heard on Fox News the greatly Senator Wide-Stance “I am not gay, I have never been gay, I love my wife,” Larry Craig is a cousin of his. Ergo, his Wholey Story: “I am not a cross-dresser. I have never been a cross-dresser. I love my wives.” Savvy mate?

I heard on Fox news ANY instrument’s smoother, longer & shinier than his. Savvy mate?

I heard on Fox News we’d already nominated the Marin police for The Mock The Fool Runner Up of The Year 2007 Award. Savvy mate?

Amazing, Fox News knew what we are doing before we did! I heard from Fox News The Mock The Fool Runner Up of The Year 2007 Award is to be a tie, in order to please their bondage fetishes we will tie them all, between his esteemed lawyers and the esteemed Marin police. Savvy mate?

Mocking at six times the speed of sound! Very well done bit of mocking.

Those Mockers are good. Savvy mate?

Hey dudes you mockers rock.

I knew this story had long legs the first time I read it.

I heard on Fox News he is an Alley Cat Values proponent. Savvy mate?

I heard on Fox News his response to his position on Alley Cat Values was Me?YEOW! Savvy mate?

I'm starting a Mock The Fools chapter at my college. Over a Little Caesar's pizza and a liter of Pepsi, I came up with: I heard on Fox News some James K. Olson Fun Facts For Added Entertainment Value: 1. he’s a Lame Dick Husband, 2. he only does bottom, 3. he was raised on Carnation Instant Bitch, 4. he is All Delusional, 5. he is a Family Value’s Republican, 6. his California wife is Just Another Startled Republican Wife Staring Glassy-eyed In Shock At Her Husband As He Proclaims “I am not a bigamist. I have never been a bigamist. I love my wives.” 7. his Nevada wife is Just Another Startled Republican Wife Staring Glassy-eyed In Shock At Her Husband As He Proclaims “I am not a bigamist. I have never been a bigamist. I love my wives.” 8. His Evil Twin Uncle Chuckles has Lost His Groove. Savvy mate?

I love stories. Stories interest me more than beliefs. I'd rather read you regale me with your tales than listen to you recite your dogma. That came off a Rob Brezsny horoscope. And funny enough, Ken Burns told the San Francisco Chroncile that "We are all so opinionated that we don't actully submit to narrative anymore. That's the essence of YouTube: Abbreviate everything into a digestable capsule that then becomes the conventional wisdom, which belies the experience of art." I like reading stories not opinions, so please spout fewer opinions and more stories. Thank you.

This knuckle-dragging Neanderthal is not only disingenuous but downright lame. As Bill wrote in a comment “What would have been just another who gives a damn Reno divorce nobody would have known about he instantly turns into a very public circus freak show.”

I agree with Ken Burns concerns about the rise of conjecture over the reporting of real stories.

Those Mockers are LOL x 6

I heard on Fox News James K Olson has been out striking up the band for Mitt Romney (likes those multiple wives) with a few rhapsodies. Savvy mate?

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." - William James There is some bithin humor here.

I heard on Fox News that it’s Rudy Guiliani Jim Olson’s now supporting. They have that heterodoxy in common. Rudy, the cross-dressing, nonchurch-going, closet elitist, patriotic, pro-military, pro-choice, several times married, double-lifer, feeding at the public trough, New York Republican tying himself up has much in common with James, the cross-dressing, nonchurch-going, closet elitist, patriotic, pro-military, pro-choice, several times married, double-lifer, feeding at the public trough, Marin County Republican tying himself up. Both have urban cowboy (those high-heels again) Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy masks and costumes, are tough-talking liars, have moral unclarity in their rhetoric, have spectacularly rocky personal and professional lives, and have special vulnerabilities aka Secrets. In other words, nothing new under the sun here, the gun-slinging sheriff archetype, just with different ZIP codes. Savvy Mate? Kris, those Little Caesar’s pizza and Pepsi specials have also gotten us through many a starving time. Now if we just can get them to add A Hot & Willing Female Topping with it . . . Keep on Mocking!

I heard on Fox News that "Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption" John Stuart Mill. Savvy Mate?

HIlarious.  What I don't understand is the default order against the Reno Mrs. Olson. Service must be made within 10 days of the hearing. The reason is that this sort of travesty does not happen. Yet, service on the Reno Mrs. Olson was on a Thursday evening in Reno while she was teaching at TMCC for a first thing the following Monday morning hearing that of course she was not able to scamble on a Friday to get a California attorney for. Jim Olson and his attorney Schoonover must have falsified the date on the service for it to have been accepted by the court.

Edward, you bring up an important point that I had previously missed.

http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3630

Wow, I know this guy.  Are you sure about this?

100%.  http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3630

That's quite a double-life you've got documented here.  When does the film come out?

I also thought this story would be a great film.  Earlier I had written I like segue and elliptical so I’m looking forward to the art movie of it all as the poignancy of the profound insights into this labyrinthine relationship has not escaped me.  Jerry Goldsmith, who scored the music for the films Chinatown and LA Confidential, would have been the one for its musical score.  I think of its musical score with its themes, a concept derived from Richard Wagner’s use of leitmotifs in his operas.  Something along the lines of the musical themes in the James Bond and Pink Panther films. 

Satire is a centuries-old type of literature that uses humor and imitation to attack and ridicule individuals’ moral and character flaws, such as vice, unfairness, stupidity or vanity.

A parody is also an attack on folly, but it takes the form of a contemptuous imitation of an existing artistic production — usually a serious work of literature, music, artwork or film — for satirical or humorous purposes.

Satire and parody have served for generations as a means of criticizing public figures, exposing political injustice, communicating social ideologies, and pursuing such artistic ends as literary criticism. Satirists usually find themselves subjected in turn to criticism, contempt and, sometimes, lawsuits.

The First Amendment protects satire and parody as a form of free speech and expression. Questions that have arisen in case law concerning libel, emotional distress and copyright infringement are discussed in the relevant cases below.

Hustler Magazine, Inc. et al. v. Jerry Falwell
In this case from the 1980s, a well-known minister, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, sued Hustler for an advertisement parody that portrayed him as having had a drunken sexual encounter with his mother in an outhouse. The parody was a spoof on a series of ads for Campari Liqueur. In small print at the bottom of the ad were the words, “ad parody — not to be taken seriously.” The table of contents for that issue of the magazine listed the ad as “Fiction; Ad and Personality Parody.” Falwell sued for libel, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Issuing a directed verdict in favor of Hustler on the issue of invasion of privacy, a federal district court also ruled against Falwell on his libel claim because, the court said, no reasonable person would believe the situation depicted in the ad to be true. The court did award damages for emotional distress, however.

On appeal, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court’s judgment, declaring that the issue was whether the ad’s publication was sufficiently outrageous to constitute intentional infliction of emotional distress.

However, the U.S. Supreme Court found to the contrary. The high court held in its 1988 decision that public figures and public officials could not recover damages for the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress without an additional showing that “the publication contains a false statement of fact which was made with ‘actual malice,’ i.e., with knowledge that the statement was false or with reckless disregard as to whether or not it was true.”

The Court recognized the importance of allowing the free flow of ideas despite a possible negative emotional impact on the target of ridicule. Although the Court said not all speech enjoys the same protection under the First Amendment (for instance, “fighting words” aren't protected), it affirmed that “the sort of expression in [the Hustler] case does not seem to us to be governed by any exception” to general First Amendment protection.

Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.
Creators of parody may be faced with questions of copyright infringement. In this 1994 decision, the Supreme Court held that a commercial parody may be a “fair use” in accordance with Section 107 of the Copyright Act, as a defense against an accusation of copyright infringement.

In this case, rap group 2 Live Crew's song “Pretty Woman,” a parody of Roy Orbison’s rock ballad, “Oh Pretty Woman,” was challenged by Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. as an infringement on the company’s copyright on the Orbison tune. The publishing company contended that Campbell had not made fair use of Orbison’s song. They pointed out that Campbell’s version used the original work for commercial purposes and that he had taken too much of the original work.

Campbell countered that his parody was fair use. The U.S. Supreme Court took the case to determine whether 2 Live Crew’s commercial parody was indeed a fair use.

A fair-use analysis, according to the Court, involves four factors: “1) purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is commercially motivated or instead is for nonprofit educational purposes; 2) nature of the copyrighted work; 3) amount and substantiality of the portion used in the newly created work in relation to the copyrighted work; and 4) effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.”

A court must take all of these factors into account, none being sufficient alone.

The Supreme Court ruled that a lower federal appeals court had “inflated the significance” of the commercial nature of 2 Live Crew’s song. “The language of the statute makes clear that the commercial or nonprofit educational purpose of a work is only one element of the first factor enquiry into its purpose and character,” the Court wrote.

The Court reasoned that the copyright statute’s listed examples of fair use — news reporting, comment, criticism, teaching, etc. — are generally carried out for profit. Law professor Bruce Rogow, who argued the case for Luther Campbell before the Supreme Court, told the First Amendment Center Online that “the case stands for the principle that there must be breathing room for artists to create new works.”

Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corporation
Paramount did a teaser ad for the film, “Naked Gun: The Final Insult 33 1/3.” The ad spoofed a 1991 cover of Vanity Fair,which featured a photo of a pregnant, nude Demi Moore. Paramount got another model, who was also pregnant, to pose nude. The head of Leslie Nielsen, the star of the film, was superimposed onto the body of the model. A federal district court and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the parody ad was a fair use.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises v. Penguin Books USA
Penguin Books published a poetic account of the O.J. Simpson trial in a book titled, The Cat NOT in the Hat! A Parody by Dr. Juice. The 9th Circuit held that the book did not parody The Cat in the Hat, but simply retold the Simpson story. Therefore, there was no fair-use defense, and the book was deemed a copyright infringement.

The Wind Done Gone
A 2001 copyright-infringement/parody case involved Alice Randall’s novel, The Wind Done Gone, a parody of Margaret Mitchell’s American classic, Gone With the Wind. Released in 2001, Randall’s book used characters and scenes from Mitchell’s original novel as a satirical critique of Mitchell’s primitive depiction of African-Americans.

Mitchell’s estate argued that Randall’s novel borrowed too liberally from the original and was in essence a sequel, not a parody. A federal judge ordered an injunction against the publication of the book two months before it was to be released, but the injunction was lifted by the 11th Circuit on May 25 (SunTrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Co.).

In removing the injunction against The Wind Done Gone, the three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit at court did not declare whether the novel was a parody or not. But it said the Mitchell estate had failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success in pressing its claims against Randall.

The 11th Circuit explained its earlier order in its Oct. 10 opinion. The 11th Circuit determined that Houghton Mifflin, at least at this early stage of the litigation, had adequately shown that Randall’s book was protected as fair use.

Applying the elements of fair use, the appeals court recognized that Randall’s work was made for a commercial purpose. However, the court said that this factor was “strongly overshadowed and outweighed in view of its highly transformative use” of Gone With the Wind.

“Randall’s literary goal is to explode the romantic, idealized portrait of the antebellum South during and after the Civil War,” the appeals court wrote.

The appeals court also determined that the Mitchell estate had failed to show evidence that Randall’s book would harm the market value of Gone With the Wind’s derivative works or take away market demand for Mitchell’s book.

A concurring judge even pointed out that Randall’s book may “act as complement to, rather than a substitute for Gone With the Wind and its potential derivatives. The judge reasoned that readers of The Wind Done Gone “may want to refresh their recollections of the original.”

The 11th Circuit also reiterated that copyright law tries to preserve a balance with the First Amendment through the idea/expression dichotomy and the fair-use doctrine.

Fair use: An elusive doctrine
Even though 2 Live Crew and Alice Randall (at the preliminary injunction stage) prevailed in the federal courts, both cases required extensive litigation. Courts will decide the application of the fair-use doctrine on a case-by-case basis. The concept of fair use is flexible and hard to define. “Although the courts have considered and ruled upon the fair use doctrine over and over again, no real definition of the concept has ever emerged,” said the 11th Circuit opinion in The Wind Done Gone case.

For this reason, Professor Jessica Litman, in the Dayton Law Review article “Reforming Information Law in Copyright’s Image,” calls fair use “a troublesome safe harbor for First Amendment rights.”

Stephen Fraser writes in his Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal article “The Conflict Between the First Amendment and Copyright Laws and its Impact on the Internet”: “It is precisely because the line is unclear, whether it be idea/expression, infringement/noninfringement, or fair use, that conflicts arise and exist between copyright and the First Amendment.”

Courts have determined that the fair-use defense provides ample First Amendment protections in the copyright arena. A 2000 federal court decision explains: “To the extent there is any tension between free speech and the protection of copyright, the Court has found it to be accommodated fully by traditional fair use doctrine, with expression prohibited by the Copyright Act and not within the fair use exception considered unprotected by the First Amendment” (Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes).