Comments on: Althouse v. Alterman http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/28/althouse-v-alterman/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:51:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: lex http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/28/althouse-v-alterman/comment-page-1/#comment-52350 lex Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:16:36 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/28/althouse-v-alterman/#comment-52350 And if you could find a way to expand that incisive paragraph into a 300-page polemic, Ron, then you could write a book that no one will read too! On the other hand, the fact that you could explain in two sentences what took Alterman a book to explain means that maybe there is a future in it for you ;-) And if you could find a way to expand that incisive paragraph into a 300-page polemic, Ron, then you could write a book that no one will read too!

On the other hand, the fact that you could explain in two sentences what took Alterman a book to explain means that maybe there is a future in it for you ;-)

]]> By: RonF http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/28/althouse-v-alterman/comment-page-1/#comment-52349 RonF Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:16:26 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/28/althouse-v-alterman/#comment-52349 Having read Alterman's posting, I'll say "Sure. Go ahead and set up your group that passes judgements on whether or not a given blog can be trusted." And then everyone will be free to refer to it and trust it's judgements or discard them as they please. It's a free country (so far). Now, if Alterman goes the next step and proposes that there be some kind of externally applied consequences to blogs based on what this self-appointed group of judges thinks of them, then I would part ways. Having read Alterman’s posting, I’ll say “Sure. Go ahead and set up your group that passes judgements on whether or not a given blog can be trusted.” And then everyone will be free to refer to it and trust it’s judgements or discard them as they please. It’s a free country (so far).

Now, if Alterman goes the next step and proposes that there be some kind of externally applied consequences to blogs based on what this self-appointed group of judges thinks of them, then I would part ways.

]]> By: RonF http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/28/althouse-v-alterman/comment-page-1/#comment-52347 RonF Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:12:20 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/28/althouse-v-alterman/#comment-52347 <i>A democracy of hundreds of millions of people is functionally impossible for reasons it requires an entire book to explain.</i> Correct. Which is why we are not a pure democracy. We are a democratic republic, which alleviates some of the issues that a 300 million member pure democracy would face. A democracy of hundreds of millions of people is functionally impossible for reasons it requires an entire book to explain.

Correct. Which is why we are not a pure democracy. We are a democratic republic, which alleviates some of the issues that a 300 million member pure democracy would face.

]]> By: Justthisguy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/28/althouse-v-alterman/comment-page-1/#comment-52173 Justthisguy Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:59:12 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/28/althouse-v-alterman/#comment-52173 Tongue in cheek for previous remark of course, except for the bit about Skippy-San. Snork. Tongue in cheek for previous remark of course, except for the bit about Skippy-San.

Snork.

]]> By: Justthisguy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/28/althouse-v-alterman/comment-page-1/#comment-52169 Justthisguy Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:50:19 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/28/althouse-v-alterman/#comment-52169 Where the hell is everybody? It's not *that* late at night, 'specially out in the PRK. I *know* that lotsa you folks are smarter than I, and know more, so why aintcha writin' here? Have y'all gone off to do stupid real-world job-and-family stuff, or what? Couldn't Skippy-San, at least, show up and make some smart-ass remarks? Where the hell is everybody? It’s not *that* late at night, ’specially out in the PRK. I *know* that lotsa you folks are smarter than I, and know more, so why aintcha writin’ here? Have y’all gone off to do stupid real-world job-and-family stuff, or what?

Couldn’t Skippy-San, at least, show up and make some smart-ass remarks?

]]> By: Justthisguy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/28/althouse-v-alterman/comment-page-1/#comment-52145 Justthisguy Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:18:58 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/28/althouse-v-alterman/#comment-52145 Well, I couldn't be a smart-@ss over there even if I wanted to. Miss Althouse is using New (Spit!) Blogger, which ain't backward-compatible with Wetscrape 4.77. God, I hate Google! Well, I couldn’t be a smart-@ss over there even if I wanted to. Miss Althouse is using New (Spit!) Blogger, which ain’t backward-compatible with Wetscrape 4.77.

God, I hate Google!

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