{"id":2824,"date":"2010-06-09T22:07:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T05:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=2824"},"modified":"2010-06-09T22:13:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T05:13:11","slug":"commenting-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/06\/09\/commenting-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Commenting around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, I&#8217;ve busied myself with comments on various blogs. Today, I&#8217;m taking the easy way out (of blogging) by posting links to those other entries.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I&#8217;ll sort them a bit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First, while I&#8217;m trying to wean myself off a certain local political situation, I find myself provoked into the occasional loquacious fit. Hence, a comment on Vincent Gornall&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/vincentsvictoria.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/08\/blue-bridge-road-diet-test-the-idea\/\">Blue Bridge \u201cRoad Diet\u201d \u2013 Test the Idea<\/a>, where I respond to an especially blow-hard comment by John Luton, lately a City of Victoria councilor. And in a similar (local politics) vein, a comment on Bernard von Schulmann&#8217;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/victoriavision.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/first-candidate-for-city-council-barry.html\">First Candidate for City Council &#8211; Barry Hobbis<\/a>: my comment is about whether or not former Victoria City manager Don Roughley&#8217;s endorsement of the by-election candidate carries negative freight or not.<\/p>\n<p>Second, a couple of other comments on more far-ranging topics: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/doc\/\">Doc Searls<\/a>&#8216;s May 26 entry, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/doc\/2010\/05\/26\/what-if-they-cant-plug-the-well\/\">What if they can\u2019t plug the well?<\/a>, prompted me to post several comments. My comments comprise just a few of the twenty-five generated by Doc&#8217;s post so far &#8211; it&#8217;s a good thread. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/index.html\">David Weinberger<\/a> found my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/06\/07\/making-the-obscene-seen\/\">Making the obscene seen<\/a> post interesting enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/2010\/06\/09\/obscene-but-not-heard\/\">post a response<\/a>, which in turn made me post a comment, wondering if what David termed my optimism wasn&#8217;t the (obscene) indicator of my deeper (off-scene\/ un-seen) depression.<\/p>\n<p>Between the Scylla and Charybdis of local politics and worldwide despoliation, depression would not be a surprise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/11\/26\/scylla-and-a-fighting-chance\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 4px solid white\" title=\"Flaxman: Scylla\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2423\/3621604357_9426735e2c_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"167\" \/>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">But then again, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=kbo\">KBO<\/a> (much better).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, I&#8217;ve busied myself with comments on various blogs. 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