I m a huge fan of Professor Glenn Reynolds and his Instapundit.com site. I discovered his blog in the dark days of post- 9/11, just a month after he started up, and have logged on every day, many times a day, since then for his links to the worlds of libertarian philosophy, legal analysis, digital photography, 2nd Amendment issues and everything else that catches his brilliant mind. It was his eclecticism, in fact, that encouraged me to post whatever the hell caught my own interest: as I learned from the professor, if a reader isn’t interested in a particular subset of a blogger’s world, he or she can always just move on.
But recently, InstaPundit has struck a deal with Amazon to plug its products. Fully disclosed, so there’s no subterfuge involved, but those plugs are coming with increasing frequency – two, three times a day, and even more. I realize that law professors don’t make what they might make in the private sector and bloggers make even less (okay, zero), but these are becoming intrusive, at least to my eyes, and annoying. I’d prefer that Reynolds return to posting his tip jar so I can toss an occasional ten or fifteen bucks his way, rather than have to wade through Amazon’s latest, greatest bargains every hour.
Just saying.
Check this link to a piece in Insta-pundit, and then read the comments.
I thought I had Brian Williams pegged correctly, and it turns out lots of others think so, too.
(Hey, even black sheep like me need company.)
woops, here’s the link:
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/brian-williams-to-the-troops.htm