If you arrive here and still find this in a premature state that is because Modulator’s new home is still under construction and time is not permitting me to complete Phase 1 quite as quick as I had hoped. Modulator’s other home is here. I won’t be doing much posting until I get things up on this new site.
Blogging is pretty much on hold for a while as I move off Blogspot to a new host and migrate from Blogger to Movable Type. This is taking me longer than it might for someone with more time available and/or more experience installing applications in a Linux/Apache environment.
I still have a bit I need to finish:
Move all posts to new site
Compete rev 1 of my new tempate
Experiement with some of the Movable Type configuration options
When I get this done (maybe by this weekend) I’ll leave a pointer here to the new site.
In case you missed this when Spade Hammer posted it back in February here is George II’s view of the world. There is more interesting artwork by Dave Cohen here.
Eric Alterman points us toward this NY Times article (free registration) which reports on Justice Scalia receiving the Citadel of Free Speach award in Cleveland. You will love the headline. But the Justice’s views on individual rights scare me:
He talked mostly about the constitutional protection of religions, but also said that government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution.
“The Constitution just sets minimums,” Scalia said. “Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.”
And I thought that the rights I enjoy were clearly stated in the US Constitution. I wonder if he has been reading a draft of something new being prepared by Ashcroft’s minions.
This historical review by Thom Hartman is posted at The Smirking Chimp. It is not comforting reading.