Mostly a discussion of Shapiro’s 1599–topicality in Shakespeare–and laying the groundwork for subsequent classes. Please join the conversation on AIM at 8:00 EST if you’re able. I’ll make it available elsewhere for those who can’t attend. I’m vermontaigne. Please email me whether or not you’ll be able to attend tonight. There will be discussion of material, but much of this will be focused on organizational matters.

I just don’t know how to please you. The idea that Michigan can’t create enough garbage for its own needs is ludicrous. Patterico on Neiwert on the Bernard Goldberg murders.

Boy, that seemed like some kind of bizarre exoticism, didn’t it? You know, like a message in a bottle from a cargo culture, or something. Unfortunately, we now realize just how widespread this mentality is: Christians committing stonings and beheadings? The reason such perversions of reality can be aired is that the entertainment industry knows that any horror, no matter how ludicrously false and offensive, can be attributed to Christians

It can’t surprise anyone, really, but according to this RedState piece, the Fairness Doctrine is rearing its head again, insisting on “diversity” of messages on the airwaves, and now, it would appear, online as well.  The new news is that the administration may be farming out the task of what constitutes acceptable diversity to . . . MoveOn.org, which has been compiling a large database of unacceptable outlets. Strangely enough,