Musings from Brian J. Noggle: Steinberg, Condensed

Steinberg, Condensed

For those of you who don't want to read Neil Steinberg's columns, allow me to summarize today's:

Blackberry users are rude, and the law should outlaw rudeness.

Of course, Some of us live outside the urban media world and its satellites in Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., and California and can't think of a single person who uses Blackberry rudely or otherwise. We can at the issue abstractly and recognize the dangers inherent in the patent process as made concrete through this case and realize that its precedent and example of government intrusion into industry and our lives far exceeds our own pet peeves.
Thrivent for Lutherans is whacky in conception, but cool.

As I (your host, Brian J.) am married to a card-carrying Lutheran, I hope it's also lucrative.
Illegal immigrants aren't as bad as people who think illegal immigrants are bad.

To quote the maestro:
It's not international law. It's United States law, which is more important. Also, we who oppose illegal immigration often think prevention of unchecked border crossing is more important than the legislation slathered on by protectionists who care about limiting the import of Canadian wood or the environmentalists who care to limit the import of shelled pets from Costa Rica. But some of us conservatarians are bothered by the hobgoblins of foolish, consistent prioritization.

If you, gentle reader, will read on, you'll see I've posted thrice this evening; why should I not deserve a column in a daily?

Crikey, how ungrateful can one man be? After all, Steinberg once called the author of MfBJN as a "genuis", or at least might have said something I posted was "genuis" once. Ungrateful, perhaps, but I prefer to consider myself the sole remaining paladin of Bob Greene, whom Steinberg routinely snarks in his columns.

- posted by Brian J. @ 8:12 PM