Frank's forward-thinking format

Frank J. is angry about sneaky attempts to insert amendments into new federal gun legislation intended to stop frivolous lawsuits from shutting down the gun industry. So am I. Here's Frank:

....[T]he Democrats are trying to ruin a perfectly good bill stopping useless lawsuits against gun manufacturers.

I hate Democrats!

Anyway, there are like these people trying to sue gun manufacturers out of business, and then they'll destroy our Second Amendment rights because it doesn't matter if you have a right to guns if you can't buy any. It's just like people ruining the First Amendment by stopping the manufacture of... uh... speech.

I previously noted that Frank J.'s blog (along with many other great blogs) is being blocked by new "content filtering" software which many public libraries have installed.

Blogs are the essence of speech manufacturing, too!

And if people can't read your blog, what's the point of writing it? So that only some select group of insiders can manage to open it and read it on certain unfiltered computers? What guarantee have we that the federal government (whether as part of the war to "protect the infrastructure" or if the FCC decides to "clean up the Internet" as they're busily doing with radio) will not decide that Comcast, Verizon, and other ISPs should install content filters everywhere -- in some sort of "voluntary compliance" to "avoid liability" and make everything easier?

Wouldn't it be a safer, cleaner world?

While I'm at it, I want to thank Frank for his very kind words about me, and for an excellent interview with G. Gordon Liddy.

Now what I'd really like to see is Frank J. taking over the entire radio industry. The nitwits who run things there aren't creative enough to realize that guys like G. Gordon Liddy and Howard Stern (both of whom were targeted by government officials, and lost stations soon afterwards) should have their shows syndicated together. That way, the right-leaning Liddy could follow the left-leaning Stern, increasing their audiences (and generating wonderfully exciting calls) dynamically. They used to do this in the old days, when Stern and Liddy were both on at WJFK. (It was always exciting; check out the bizarre accusations of mental torture by this irate listener!)

Well, that's just me ranting, but I still think united beats divided, and again my hat's off to Frank.

Today the blogosphere. Tomorrow, who knows?


FAST FORWARD (to something I never knew): Glenn Reynolds now says that he "always thought Frank J. was G. Gordon Liddy." This is one of the problems with the Blogosphere. There's really no way to know who's who. (Only Don Watkins could decipher this puzzle all the way to the the end!)

posted by Eric on 03.01.04 at 04:09 PM





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Cheers to you, Eric! "United beats divided." A phrase and philosophy I've not seen much of lately.

Beth   ·  March 2, 2004 12:21 AM

I also read "our mutual friend Eric Scheie". That was an interesting interview with G. Gordon Liddy, and I'm so glad he reads my favorite blog. That's at least two of us. I liked that picture of you that Frank J. has on his blog. I'd always wondered what you look like, and I must say: what a MAN you are! Makes me wish I was a man's man. And, no, I'm not gonna show any pictures of me because I'd very likely make you wish you weren't. And if any women saw my face on a blog it would reduce my chances of getting a date even further, ha! ha!

S'funny. I got up in the middle of the night (I live on the West Coast), wrote that, and then went back to bed. Had a dream about you. Not _that_ kind of dream, don't remember what it was, but you were some kind of hero.



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