Bad News Waiting

Gee, you spend a weekend on the road (insight: gambling on horse races is much more profitable when you actually purchase the racing form. Who knew? It’s always nice to make a profit at the Bellagio Sportsbook that doesn’t rely solely on the value of the free drinks…) and you come back to find that Ted Barlow is abandoning the blogosphere. We’ve always had a special affection for Ted because he was the first Big-time Blogger (TM) to link to something we wrote, but he’s always been a marvelous writer, and he will be sorely missed. Henry convieniently links to some of Ted’s greatest hits. I’d like to add a couple of my favorites: “Since the Beginning of Time Liberals have Yearned to Destroy the Sun” and his untitled reminiscing about the short-lived MSNBC show “Andrea Dworkin is Making Sense.” He will be much missed, and we wish him well.

(By the way, although I didn’t know this at the time of her premature death, I think it should be noted for the record that Dworkin opposed and correctly predicted the counterproductive results of the Canadian government’s attempt to criminalize pornography in formally feminist terms.)