Month: July 2005
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Return of the Prodigal Blogger
Before I begin, happy Independence Day! We sure gave those Brits hell, didn’t we boys? Wouldn’t you know that just when Eric goes on vacation and we’re loosed from the task master’s shackles I have to drive to Michigan for a wedding, and spend the weeked in Indiana getting fattened up on good old-fashioned heartland…
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Vacation at last!
Can it be? Starting this afternoon I’m taking a two week vacation (a much-needed one, too). Justin and Dennis will be left in charge of all official Classical Values blogging. My official return will be July 15, so until then, don’t expect any regular activity from me. Irregular or intermittent — if that — will…
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A new protected category for bloggers?
As I was painfully laboring over stuff I’ve written in the past about whether the First Amendment is influenced by such things as importance or monetary value, I remembered an always important, always valuable consideration, which is now emerging as a major factor in blogging: Sex appeal! That’s right; according to a headline in the…
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Holding hostages and influencing people
Speculation over whether the newly “elected” Iranian president might be the same Iranian student hostage taker (photographed repeatedly during the 444 day seige) made it into yesterday’s and today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, and is raging its way through the blogosphere. (See InstaPundit, Gateway Pundit, Little Green Footballs, Rusty Shackleford, Captain Ed for starters.) The evidence presented…
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Free speech is expensive!
What McCain-Feingold hasn’t regulated, the copyright laws soon will. What happened to Google last year has just happened to Amazon. It seems search engines are now being routinely sued for copyright infringement. The plaintiff (which I will not name, lest I too get sued for infringement) has been described as “an unsuccessful California pornography business…
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“No law” means no law to respect
I get really discouraged sometimes, and it’s almost always over intractable human stupidity. McCain Feingold is the worst disaster that ever befell the First Amendment, and yet the damned fools who passed it illegally sit idly by while the mischief grows. The idea of assigning a monetary value to speech so that it can be…