IN RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER POST ON THE ACLU, a reader emails:

From your website:
regarding the ACLU — “I’ve worked with them in the past, on the New Orleans rave case for example, and will probably do so again.”

Well, You lost another reader. Just now disappeared from my Bookmarks.

That’s okay — there are plenty of blogs out there, and this guy would clearly be happier somewhere else. Eric Scheie, on the other hand, takes a somewhat more nuanced approach. As, for that matter, does Allen Thorpe.