… you really should be now, since I’ll be editing its daily news service in my spare time for a few days (through Saturday, to be precise) while editors Wendy McElroy and Brad Rodriguez are away on vacation.
Check in sometime tomorrow for a new batch of stories hand-picked by yours truly. Find out more about ifeminism, aka libertarian feminism or equity feminism.
Oh, how I recall those simpler days (back in March) when I first suggested to Karen that she start her own blog at LiveJournal. I thought she would enjoy how easy it is, and thought she’d get a kick out of the neat little features like moods, user icons, communities and the like.
And she did. But it wasn’t enough. Soon she hit the harder stuff, nabbing a domain name and now using Blogger, which she plans to only use for a transitional period before moving on to Movable Type.
Which explains why she’s barely looked up from her laptop for the last two nights while setting everything up. So this is what it’s like …
I have so much strength in me, you have no idea. I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.
— Barry Egan
Just saw “Punch-Drunk Love” again on DVD over the weekend. What a great movie.
Go rent it, buy it, steal it — now!
So here’s another place Karen and I can’t hang out anymore. Skokie, a Chicago suburb, has banned smoking in:
OK, so the last one’s a joke, but you definitely get the idea. The original proposal would have banned smoking in bars, but then the village’s trustees came to their senses.
It’s not enough for crusading Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen, though:
To those who have sought a complete ban of smoking in all public places, I challenge you to continue your crusade. Your work has only begun this evening. I challenge you to persuade the Illinois General Assembly …
What’s especially alarming is that these smoking bans are becoming viewed as a stamp of progressivity. Once that happens, they’ll get passed out of a kind of jurisdictional peer pressure rather than on their dubious merits. To wit:
“I’m really proud of Skokie today,” said Village Trustee Randall Roberts, who voted for the law. “It’s a giant leap forward for our village.”
Ugh.
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