One of the most important contributors to this blog will be laid to rest this morning, and I am absolutely gutted. For more than one decade, Kurt Wimmer was this blog and this blogger’s First Amendment defender and counsel. It was only with Kurt’s pro bono help and that of Jason Criss, and their colleagues…
Category: Misc
How do you talk about consent with your kids?
How you talk about “consent” with your kids will depend on a number of factors, including what the laws of your country are. Or should your talk focus on non-legal aspects of “consent?” Caitlin Fitzsimmons has an Explainer on The Age that regardless of what country or laws apply in your area, you may wish…
So this site has been 404 a bit….
If you are a regular reader, you likely noticed that since yesterday, my sites have been 404 at times. At first, I thought I broke something, because I am truly quite capable of breaking things. But then the sites came back… and stayed up.. until today, when they went down again. Firewall logs show a…
Disappointing revelations about ACLU
Full disclosure at the top of this: I was a supporter of ACLU. I stopped supporting them years ago over concerns that they were sharing donor lists. Eventually, they convinced me to come back. I stopped supporting them again. And after reading Ashkan’s thread, I doubt I will ever donate to them again. Ashkan Soltani…