Mailbag v2.0 - The Gormogons

Now with more Gormogon operative G.D.!

G.D. was also smitten with ‘Puter’s post of yesterday concerning the New York times and privacy issues. G.D. writes:

Except for otherwise privileged communications (e.g.: between lawyer and client), right? Wasn’t there a Supreme Court case in the last year saying that privileged communication was protected from both government and employer review?

‘Puter spent all of about 10 seconds Googling for this case. He found this matter from the New Jersey Supreme Court that held employees communicating with counsel using an outside, password protected email account accessed from an employee’s work computer remain private. The case did not address whether communications on a work computer from an employee’s work email account are protected. ‘Puter’s betting not, as the employee has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his work account. It is similar to discussion otherwise privileged matters in front of an unrelated third party: the privilege is vitiated.

‘Puter would have held differently. ‘Puter would have ruled that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in any personal business conducted from the work computer. ‘Puter would have held in favor of the employer. The employee could have communicated via other methods rather than employer-owned property and protected the privilege. ‘Puter’s especially hardcore about government employees (read union members) using government equipment to further union aims.

But ‘Puter’s happy to be proven wrong on this issue, and any help with a cite to the relevant case would be appreciated.

'Puter

Always right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims to be an in-law of the Volgi, although no one really believes this.

’Puter carefully follows economic and financial trends, legal affairs, and serves as the Gormogons’ financial and legal advisor. He successfully defended us against a lawsuit from a liquor distributor worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid deliveries of bootleg shandies.

The Geep has an IQ so high it is untestable and attempts to measure it have resulted in dangerously unstable results as well as injuries to researchers. Coincidentally, he publishes intelligence tests as a side gig.

His sarcasm is so highly developed it borders on the psychic, and he is often able to insult a person even before meeting them. ’Puter enjoys hunting small game with 000 slugs and punt guns, correcting homilies in real time at Mass, and undermining unions. ’Puter likes to wear a hockey mask and carry an axe into public campgrounds, where he bursts into people’s tents and screams. As you might expect, he has been shot several times but remains completely undeterred.

He assures us that his obsessive fawning over news stories involving women teachers sleeping with young students is not Freudian in any way, although he admits something similar once happened to him. Uniquely, ’Puter is unable to speak, read, or write Russian, but he is able to sing it fluently.

Geep joined the order in the mid-1980s. He arrived at the Castle door with dozens of steamer trunks and an inarticulate hissing creature of astonishingly low intelligence he calls “Sleestak.” Ghettoputer appears to make his wishes known to Sleestak, although no one is sure whether this is the result of complex sign language, expert body posture reading, or simply beating Sleestak with a rubber mallet.

‘Puter suggests the Czar suck it.