Final Protective Fire
Links to some interesting places:
R.J.Rummel's blog
Junk Science Blog and debunking discussion forum.
Pirate Ballerina
Dave Kopel's Home Page
Volokh Conspiracy
Glenn Reynolds' Instapundit
Prof Bainbridge Blog
Clayton Cramer
David Friedman's homepage
Overlawyered.com
Vodka Pundit
Tiki Lounge
Jim Dunnigan's site
Cold Fury
Karl's blog
email to finalprotfire at comcast.net
Note that there is someone sending the KLEZ ( and now SOBIG.F ) virus with forged blogger emails.
I will never send you email with attachments - delete any immediately.
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Thursday, January 16, 2003
Speaking of Glenn Reynolds, the recent link from Glenn evidently surged my traffic five-fold ( meaning from 2 to 10 - ed Stop that. ). Among my visitors was one who decided to send me a long, bizarre and incoherent screed which I will not copy here both because of my policy of not posting emails without permission and because of its incoherence. Said person made several weird accusations; one of which was a rant about right-wing conspiracies that supposedly included Prof. Reynolds and myself. Evidence that Prof. Reynolds and I were in league with the famous "VRWC"? That I never criticized him, so I must agree with everything he posts. ( I think the term "dittohead" got reused for some bizarre reason ).
Knowing that Glenn and I are really not in a conspiracy, and that I'm probably much more conservative than he, I thought back to the times that there was a disagreement between the professor and myself and wondered why I didn't blog it. The answer was simply that those disagreements were not very interesting. As an example, my impression is that Glenn Reynolds is more likely to support drug decriminalization than I would. But since I don't want to talk about drug policy, I haven't blogged a comment when he's made such a reference.
Similarly my email correspondant made some references to sucking up to the Instapundit for links. This one actually brought up some annoyance in me. I've seen a lot of people who chose to attack Glenn Reynolds not for his opinions but for things he's not even said. Others, the example that comes to mind I refuse to link to at all, seem to want to insult him just to collect hits. There are weird threads where people pick through his traffic to try to cheer themselves up with every dip. Through all that, I've seen Glenn Reynolds still link to those people, throwing traffic their way far more generously than I would, despite their pettiness. Why does the professor do this? Evidently because he's a nicer guy than them - not to mention a much nicer guy than I. I appreciate the links that Glenn Reynolds has put my way but those say more about him than me.
Robin 7:40 PM