March 31, 2007
Now one of the reasons I love Ed is that he makes no bones about the fact that he loves and is devoted to his wife, the "First Mate". And as regular readers know, she has major health issues, and has been awaiting a kidney transplant.
To both of them I send my best wishes and most fervent prayers for her continued recovery.
And my thanks.
As we've struggled in our household with the illnesses my dear wife (AKA he Loyal Opposition) is dealing with and the impact of them upon our life together, the Morrissey's have have inspired me and provided an example of how to make the best of a situation which adds an additional degree of difficult to the delicate balancing act that is the care and feeding of a good marriage to someone you adore. Your influence in that regard is more important to me than anything else that Ed puts on his blog.
UPDATE: FM's recovery continues to go well.
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, March 26, 2007
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March 21, 2007
Sign the online memorial petition.
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March 20, 2007
Prayers for Cathy Seipp and her family at this sad time.
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March 12, 2007
Could it be my posts on the oppression of Chinese Christians?
My support for Taiwanese Independence?
Or my comments on a Dallas politician's ex-hooker Chinese wife?
I don't know.
I don't care.
I'm just glad that I'm not considered politically acceptable by the Red Chinese Oppressors in Beijing.
Check here to find out if you are banned in China!
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March 07, 2007
He is being cast by some journalists as a young champion of the First Amendment, jailed for taking a lonely stand against heavy-handed federal prosecutors.Josh Wolf, a 24-year-old blogger, has spent more than six months behind bars in California -- the longest contempt-of-court term ever served by someone in the media -- for refusing to turn over a videotape he shot of a violent San Francisco demonstration against a Group of Eight summit meeting. Unless a mediation session today can break the impasse, he will likely remain imprisoned at least until the current grand jury's term expires in July.
"Even in high school, he was standing up for things that weren't considered popular," says his mother, Liz Wolf-Spada.
But Wolf's rationale for withholding the video, and refusing to testify, is less than crystal clear. There are no confidential sources involved in the case. He sold part of the tape to local television stations and posted another portion on his blog. Why, then, is he willing to give up his freedom over the remaining footage?
"It's one thing to say journalists must respect promises of confidentiality they made to their sources," says Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. "It would be quite another to say journalists have a right to refuse to testify even about non-confidential sources. When something is videotaped in a public place, it's hard to see even an implied agreement of confidentiality."
In an interview with PBS's "Frontline," Wolf says: "There was a trust established between people involved in the organization that I was covering and myself . . . that what I chose to release was what I chose to release, and that I wasn't an investigator for the state."
This is rather cut and dried for me. When a citizen -- regardless of profession -- has evidence of a crime and is ordered to turn it over by a court, he or she has to comply. "I'm a journalist/reporter/blogger" is not a magic shield to exempt one from the basic citizenship obligations we all have. period.
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March 03, 2007
1) How can my PayPerPost.Com really be seen as debasing this site, given that I've had AdSense up for a very long time, as well as Amazon. Heck, I used to have the LinkShare ads on the site, and didn't get a single penny in six months! I don't see the advertising posts, which are clearly labeled as such, to be any different.
2) My involvement in writing the ads doesn't raise an integrity question, any more than the practice of radio hosts doing ads on their own shows constitutes an integrity problem. Heck, I do more to make my advertising posts clearly an advertisement than some on-air personalities do, so does this really raise an integrity issue at all? I don't think so.
3) Will my paid writing impact my other posts? I do not believe so. I write what I believe, and only take offers I believe are appropriate. I've got one opportunity I've been looking at for some time, but I'm just not sure that I can endorse the product in question in the way they are asking. And if I won't prostitute myself for cash, why would I do so on posts I'm not being paid for?
Lastly, some of you want to know why I'm doing this at all. Blogging is a hobby, after all, right? Yeah, it is -- but the reality is that there are medical bills to pay, plus a mortgage and car payment, among other stuff. My wife can't work due to her health. If I can make a bit of money doing something I love in an ethical manner, why not?
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