Lex Anteinternet: Twitter Twits

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Monday, August 12, 2019

So, if in terms of combating Russian influence in the election cycle, there's one simple thing you can do. . .

which is not getting your news from Twitter, Facebook or any sort of social media.

Just don't.

Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, whatever. The news there is junk.

Want news? Get it from a local newspaper or a respected national one. And by that, I mean the print edition, not the online edition that has a zillion screaming comments. Or get it from a respected radio source. Get it from television, if you must (the least best alternative) but don't get it from the net.

That's the source that's easy to manipulate, which has been manipulated, and which is going to be manipulated.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

No. 10 Cat's new house guest is. . .

Boris Johnson.

Larry, No. 10 Cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, with former Prime Minister David Cameron and former President Barrack Obama.

And that's not the end of the world, contrary to the gloom and doom on Twitter.

I don't know anything about Johnson. A review of his Wikipedia bio reveals a man who has an excessively interesting personal history and pretty bad hair. An immediate calling to mind of Donald Trump occurs for more than one reason, which is why the left side of Twitter, which is the loudest part of the Twitterverse, as well as some of the press, is declaring his ascension to Prime Minister the end of British democracy.

Nah.

Good or bad, it isn't like the British have had a uniform set of excellent PM's before. And the fact that they haven't, and that the United Kingdom's democracy has survived, is oddly reassuring. The fact that its not credibly possible to imagine a Prime Minister causing the UK to end should mean, by extension, that those who feel the current American era of democracy is at a terminal low point would be wrong

Sure, you can pick up a lot of the zeitgeist based upon Johnson's rise. There's something in the political air of the western world right now which is causing governments to go in a certain direction even at the same time that those who claim an allegiance to perpetual "progress" to apoplexy. But no matter what one things one way or another, things keep on keeping on and are more durable than a person might suppose.

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This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

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