John Lott has responded via Instapundit to the most recent set of charges posted over on Tim Lambert’s site.

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Two websites—Savage Stupidity and MichaelSavageSucks—which heap much deserved ridicule upon loathesome, hateful talk-jock Michael Savage have gotten legal nastygrams. The legal theory here would appear to be that Mikey owns the word “savage,” even when not coupled with his first name, and that, furthermore, there’s a reasonable risk of consumers being confused and thinking that […]

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Ken Layne and Mac Diva both have posts on the tension between a journalistic career and a bloggerly avocation. Unlike Layne, I am not convinced that this is a particularly bad thing. First, for better or worse, it’s not altogether irrational for organizations like CNN or Time or what have you to be concerned about […]

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This TechCentralStation piece muddles an interesting discussion of strategic behavior by suggesting that behavior that’s strategically random—as when an agent plays a Nash equilibrium “mixed strategy”—is “irreducibly uncertain,” which is to say, an exercise of “free will.” First, it’s worth noting that even genuinely “irreducibly uncertain” behavior would not be the same as “free will”—certain […]

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I’m delighted to see that even Stan Kurtz opposes sodomy laws, but he does seem to have misread Sen. Santorum’s comments. Kurtz writes: For starters, Sullivan chastises me for ignoring the fact that Santorum equates homosexuality to child abuse and bestiality. But in his interview, Santorum explicitly said that homosexuality is not child abuse and […]

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The blogospheric population keeps on growing: Andrew Chamberlain is the newest member of the Cato Blog Mafia*, the Future of Freedom Foundation‘s president Bumper Hornberger has got himself a blog, and (now for something completely different) alt-rocker Beck is also on the bandwagon. *Standard disclaimer: nobody described as part of the “Cato Blog Mafia” is […]

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Congrats to Brink on winning a 2003 Fisher Award for his excellent book Against the Dead Hand.

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Slate’s Will Saletan reminds us of some of the unsavory features of incest laws: According to the court’s statement of facts, the appellant, Ami Smith, “was involved in an incestuous relationship with her paternal uncle,” which “began while [she] was still a minor.” She “was eighteen years old when charged,” “entered a guilty plea to […]

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Tacitus writes that the anti-war side shouldn’t feel vindicated by this ABC News story, which quotes administration officials acknowledging that they didn’t particularly think Iraq was such a threat, but the WMD rationale was played up in order to get allies (and the domestic population) to play along with a bit of “muscle flexing.” (Link […]

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No idea how long it’ll take them to fix this, but the front page at NRO currently reads: Hacked by DarkHunter … Freedom for palestian and Iraq … gr33tz to #USG and #teso channels

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