Bloke of the week: Alex Kozinski

He's a Reagan-appointed conservative and he likes his internet - a lot. You be the judge, is this guy just too much:

A closely watched obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court was suspended Wednesday after the judge acknowledged maintaining his own publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos
Videos like what?
a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows
so?
and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal.
Mmmmm, a bit provincial, a bit niche... that's a picture of him there, by the way - doing something to the chickens.
He defended some of the adult content as "funny"
Which it was, like Benny Hill if it was set on a farm and people didn't have any clothes. Everyone does it - ask his mates.
a New York University law professor who specializes in legal ethics and has known Kozinski for years, called him "a treasure of the federal judiciary."
See, he's a treasure, and he's always been keen to stick up for laughs at the office - always, that's The Koz, mate, that's just The Koz doing what he does.
after learning that appeals court administrators had placed filters on computers that denied access to pornography and other materials, Kozinski led a successful effort to have the filters removed.
And God bless him! Porn is up there with Apple Pie and let's not pretend that ain't true.
"I think it's odd and interesting. It's part of life."
You know it, man. You know it.
The sexually explicit material on the site was extensive, including images of masturbation, public sex and contortionist sex. There was a slide show striptease featuring a transsexual, and a folder that contained a series of photos of women's crotches in snug-fitting clothing or underwear.
It shows a healthy variety of interests that span the different sexual and gender communities, and that he appreciates a wide array of artistic genre, and anyway...
"People send me stuff like this all the time," he said.
and then...?
In turn, he said, he occasionally passes on items he finds interesting or funny to others.
like jurors, witnesses, attorneys... or colleagues which is good, communication and levity in the stuffy corridors of justice, nothing wrong with that, as long as no-one in the media gets hold of it and twists it and graphically describes it. Because then it might sound... slightly dodgy.
Among the sexually explicit material on his site that he defended as humorous were two photos. In one, a young man is bent over in a chair and performing fellatio on himself. In the other, two women are sitting in what appears to be a cafe with their skirts hiked up to reveal their pubic hair and genitalia. Behind them is a sign reading "Bush for President."
"That is a funny joke," Kozinski said.
The judge said he planned to delete some of the most objectionable material from his site, including the photo depicting women as cows, which he said was "degrading . . . and just gross." He also said he planned to get rid of a graphic step-by-step pictorial in which a woman is seen shaving her pubic hair.
But that was the best one! Don't pike on us, man.
That's "the Koz" (left). He reminds me a lot of this guy actually, uncle Vito: