News Release: AndrewSullivan.Com (aka The Daily Dish) announced today that it will repossess by eminent domain a hitherto unknown Jewish blog, Quicksilver כספית. After a vote of 24-7 among the top political blogs, it was determined that one-month old Quicksilver כספית served an ill-defined purpose (somewhere between Talmud and technology policy). Mr. Sullivan argued that Quicksilver and its URL (kaspit.typepad.com) could be easily put to better "Public Use", as defined recently by the Supreme Court in Kelo v. New London.
According to the DailyKos, Technorati predicts that it would take Quicksilver approx. 395 months at its current rate of growth to dish out the Public Use already offered by AndrewSullivan.Com today.
"This eminent domain takeover is an act of Poetic Justice," said Ed B. of Dispatches from the Culture Wars, "because Kaspit (aka Quicksilver כספית) so far has put out an ambiguous take on the Kelo decision."
At the advice of legal counsel, the Institute for Justice, Mr. Kaspit of Quicksilver declined to comment on the political blogs' eminent domain vote.
Welcome and let me know if you'll be supporting my legal defense fund!
Kaspit
Posted by: kaspit | June 28, 2005 at 10:21 PM
well, is an appeal planned? some states forbid public takings for private use -- are you located in one of them or would you be if you changed hosts or moved offshore? the daf comments were/are nice, but my knowledge is very limited. is there actually a good english translation of the whole talmid? in a way, the whole page a day deal makes no sense at all (at least for any in depth study). but on the other hand, i do try to go through the torah every year. your joint daf blog be understandable if i knew more.
Posted by: eliyahu | June 28, 2005 at 10:27 PM
Eliyahu, terrific idea about moving my site offshore! But then, would we lose a chance at a precedent in both intellectual property and constitutional law? Do libertarians run or fight?
Kol tuv,
Kaspit
PS For English translation, Soncino link on the side -->
and, in print, the Artscroll series is a bestseller and I use it.
Posted by: kaspit | June 28, 2005 at 10:33 PM