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3.9.2004

To fight with Irish Law, or not to fight with Irish Law

Moderatio, whose blog name was deceptive,1 is missing from the web, but I suspect s/he2 is somewhere collecting donations from NewsMax or Town Hall or the Heritage Foundation or Jerry Falwell or something ready to relaunch with some more blather about "Hanoi Kerry."

Unfortunately we have not been altogether ridden of conservative idealogues. They still walk amongst us. IrishLaw has a wonderful reason to vote for W today, and that reason is: Annoy France. Putting aside the fact that France fought with us in our effort to gain independence, and without them we'd still have to wear wigs when we graduate from this law school, annoying a fellow NATO and Security Council member is probably not your best reason to pick amongst Presidential Candidates. And also, but more personally, I like France. I liked visiting there, I like the way they don't assume that GOD put them on Earth to rule other peoples (or spread manifestly across a continent) , I like their language, I like the whole thing.

And then we get the tort reform post, in which she jokes that only mean-Republicans would say we have too many rights,3 and then concludes that we have too many rights!4 Why would anyone in law school besmirch the availability of persons to gain redress of their injuries in a court of law?

Now obviously this is all very silly. And all I'm doing is publicizing her silliness. But I just disagree with it so much I can't help but post about it. So there you go, the question of the week, to fight with IrishLaw or to not fight with IrishLaw.


1 "Moderatio" confused Geidner into postulating that s/he was in fact politically-moderate. In a comment to Geidner's post, s/he explained that s/he was merely against political "EXTREMES," then in one post s/he declared John Kerry to be a traitor to his country.
2 Shout-out to all NON-ANONYMOUS Moritz Bloggers who don't make me pronoun-guess. Stevie Podraza, Mr. Mike Shecket, Chris Geidner, et moi.
3 "Who, after all, would be in favor of restricting rights? (Only those mean Republicans ;)"
4 "Obviously I take issue with the current expansiveness of the "right" to sue (our culture conceives of far too many "rights" these days)." 
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