It’s live, the first episode of Make No Law. Lend Ken your ear and learn about the First Amendment. The first podcast is on Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, the “fighting words” exception that has confused so many and caused so much harm of late. What does it really say? What does it mean today?
And because he knows lots of stuff, Episode Two is already live as well.
Learn at the knee of the master. I will.
I must end this first line with Tinker,
For reasons quite clear to a thinker.
My kudos for both.
But to follow my oath
For rhyming, Chaplinsky’s a stinker!
Rhyming is sometimes difficult, it’s true.
But, Fubar — that’s what you do!
Chaplinsky concerns public address;
Lewinsky, a pubic blue dress.
Though this one you missed, you’re still my guru.
Dear Patrick,
Your comments delight me. Your poetry, though, it affrights me! With candor, no stalling, the meter’s appalling. And as for the rhymes, they incite me. It’s fortunate, then, that the notion of “fighting words” is in remotion. If it were still current, you’d pay. Though it weren’t, I’d hate you still.
Yours in devotion.
Dave
That’s quite an interesting sermon,
though exactly how you determine
your own standards for poetry
is completely beyond me;
it must have been better in the original German.
Dear David,
Disguise duly noted. Transmogrification you’ve floated. I’ll try it some day. But for now, I’ll just say, “Consider your missive up-voted!”
Fubar
White space not in place.
No Python programmer he.
Maybe PHP?
It’s Perl before swine.
As a statement, this may be true.
But original? Not with you.
Language puns are stock in trade.
This one, many times was made;
As prose or poem, it’s nothing new.
Great podcasts. No doubt Popehat would have the intellectual chops, but the production quality was also top notch.