MJ’s back with thenewforum.ca. News in technicolor. Daily.
Archives for October 2002
Prof. Lawrence Lessig
argued Eldred v Ashcroft before the Supreme Court today. As reported on Boing Boing, the oral arguments have already been summarized on a weblog by the fine people of LawMeme: Live From Eldred v. Ashcroft. Check it out.
On the one hand
I’m happy that I’m not the only one. On the other, I’m ashamed because, well, it’s a little ridiculous. My feelings about the demise of Lingua Franca and Arts and Letters Daily are not far from those expressed by Caterina the other day at caterina.net: “And so it happens that we are depressed that both Lingua Franca and the Arts and Letters Daily have gone under, because they were our own personal musk; with them goes the seduction strategies of eggheads everywhere. ‘Dear Lingua Franca, thank you for helping us get laid…’ Snf.”
Even better, though, is that I no longer require strategies for attracting new people with whom I will share such base urges, having been safely put out to pasture with my one true love.
The big news of the day
is that John Manley, Deputy Prime Minister, blames honesty for the monarchy furor that’s going on at the moment. Wow it’s tough to live in Canada sometimes. This whole story is ridiculous – Manley was chided into giving his opinion on the monarchy last week and now is being called upon by monarchists to step aside and NOT host the Queen when she visits Ottawa because he said that he wasn’t a huge monarchist, essentially. Of all the things to worry about, this isn’t even in the top 1000. I think some people in this country must be living in a really nice cozy fantasy land if they feel this is an important issue.
If you read here
there’s a pretty good chance you also read MJ Milloy’s The New Forum. MJ wrote to let me know that domain name problems have booted him off the air for a day or two, but his site will be available again soon. Just thought I’d pass that along.
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