Tuesday, September 13, 2011

The Johnny Northside decision, covered online by the Citizen Media Law Project.

This link. Read it there. It is fairly short, tightly and well written, and interesting.

That is a good website, if you agree with its strong First Amendment biases - that free speech has to be strongly protected by the law, without any back door ways to undermine it, or we lose much as a nation.

Hon. Denise Reilly (this link)
While this may be an oversimplification, while reading that item and its quite clear analysis, I thought again of my own state of mind, incredulity, when reading Judge Reilly's final order-memorandum. Then, and I am not clear of the synaptic detail, my mind reached back somewhat far into the past, a recollection from Joseph Heller's "Catch 22" where one character was described as "having lots of intelligence and no brains."

Heller foresaw Judge Reilly's analysis? Amazing.