Vote for the funniest law blog.....now.

It's time to vote for the funniest law blog.  The top 10 blogs submitted are listed in the poll below.  Voting will close at 10 pm EST on June 25th.

And guess what?  The winner gets a prize!  The Billable Hour, which provides clever gifts and greeting cards for legal professionals, is sponsoring this contest. The prize will be the winner's choice of any single item sold by The Billable Hour (luxury watch line and sets excluded). 

UPDATE:  There are now prizes for the second and third place blogs. 

The blog that comes in second place will receive three signed copies of Saira Rao's newly released novel Chambermaid, which is about a young attorney's eventful year as a clerk for a Federal Court Judge.

The blog that places third will receive two signed copies of Martha Kimes' debut novel, Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Nuerotic Law Student, a humorous memoir about a naïve small-town Wisconsin girl who goes off to New York to attend Columbia Law School.

Please, only one vote per person.  (It appears that a number of you are voting far more than one time for a certain blog.  And, those of you doing so are quite proud of that fact and have advertised your minor league "voter fraud" elsewhere.  This will not be a repeat of the 2004 presidential elections.  I may very well choose to reduce the votes of a certain blog if those of you voting can't adhere to the simple rule of one vote per person--not per computer--not per scrambled IP address--not per anonymous identity.  One.Vote.Per.Person.  'Nuff said.)

Which of the following is the funniest law blog?
	Above the Law
	Anonymous Lawyer
	Buffalo Wings and Vodka
	Legal Antics
	Legal Reader
	Lowering the Bar
	Overlawyered
	Phila Lawyer
	Quizlaw
	Say What?
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Comments

[Anony]

By looking at the results, it appears someone at ATL has nothing better to do than "vote early and vote often." Just how pathetic is that?

[John Lopresti]

This life is too serious to laugh away on comedic blogs of legal persuasion. However, discovering your contest today, pitting an array of blogs all of which I have yet to visit even fleetingly, against one another, in the spirit of refreshing ones legal ken, I offer the following three links, one to a respected appellate attorney's article posted on a national law news site, the other two items products of a terse academic's insight at Yale, an institution known more for a somber and sober worldview than for professorial levity in words.

Hopefully, I will find time to visit here again for some humorous renewal.

The links:

Bashman on how long a jurist needs to be deceased before his voting privileges in critical cases become null and void: or, as Howard B phrases it, "Dead Judges Voting: When Does Life Tenure End?".

The academic blurbs by professor Jack Balkin:
his article during the furor over the immigration last year when congress failed to make new law, casting a glance at the hopes and aspirations of Jewish emigrees in eastern US sixty years back Oy vey! Der Star spengld bener! which is a translation of the US anthem into Yiddish language.

Lastly, the academic again, this time a little satirical, and by waxing political, diluting somewhat the impact of an otherwise airy rendering of the current president and his conduct of foreign policy, in which he writes with mock seriousness.
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Footnote: In preview, this website seems to prevent embedded tags, so the 3 above are typed out below:
Judges: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1140170716316

Anthem: http://balkin.blogspot.com/2006/04/oy-vey-der-star-spengld-bener.html

Satire: http://balkin.blogspot.com/2006/06/tales-of-horror-from-dr-distracto.html