Public defender?

Um. I don’t much want to promote Jonathan Choe, who is a Discovery Institute honcho of some kind, but I can’t just ignore this…eccentric public defender.

I don’t understand why it’s allowed. Courts wouldn’t allow a guy in a fuzzy bear costume to do the public defender thing would they? Or, more parallel to this guy’s prank, courts wouldn’t allow someone dressed up like Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer to play public defender would they?

I’m baffled.

Comments

10 responses to “Public defender?”

  1. Nullius in Verba Avatar
    Nullius in Verba

    You’re just being transphobic and racist, doncha know. I mean, I joke, but …

    Having cultural norms is somehow bad nowadays.

  2. twiliter Avatar

    Don’t call it mental illness, don’t even think it. They is just trying to fit in. Seattle knows what’s what. :P

  3. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    Well at least he’s not teaching a shop class.

    Why is it that so many people’s “authentic selves” look so grotesquely artificial?

  4. maddog1129 Avatar

    The court should tell him to go home and dress appropriately for court.

  5. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Or the court should just tell him to go away until he can act like an adult in court. Just changing his clothes wouldn’t even fix the problem, because the grotesque makeup, the hair, the fake breasts.

    I didn’t think of it while posting this but he actually looks more like “Barbie Kardashian” than like the shop class guy.

  6. twiliter Avatar

    Why is it that so many people’s “authentic selves” look so grotesquely artificial?

    They could really be preening assclowns. It’s all in the “performativity.”

  7. James Garnett Avatar
    James Garnett

    Not at all a fetishist getting a sexual thrill out of public performance. Nope, not at all.

  8. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Every kink is sacred.

  9. Papito Avatar

    Umm… Chewbacca defense?

  10. Holms Avatar

    I wonder what would happen if a woman – an actual one – attended court wearing attire better suited to a night of clubbing.