Sunday, January 26, 2003

Sloppy Instapunditry

I never claimed Instapundit wrote a regular column for the Washington Times or that he has received "great income thereby". I just know that he has written for them because it is on his faculty information page:


Reynolds is one of the most prolific scholars on the UT faculty. His special interests are law and technology and constitutional law issues, and his work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the Columbia Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Wisconsin Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Law and Policy in International Business, Jurimetrics, and the High Technology Law Journal. Professor Reynolds has also written in the New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal, as well as other popular publications. He is also a contributing editor to the TechCentralStation.Com website, and writes a regular column for the FoxNews website. He is the co-author of Outer Space: Problems of Law and Policy and The Appearance of Impropriety: How the Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Government, Business, and Society. Professor Reynolds has testified before Congressional committees on space law, international trade, and domestic terrorism. He has been executive chairman of the National Space Society and a member of the White House Advisory Panel on Space Policy. A member of the UT faculty since 1989, Professor Reynolds received the Harold C. Warner Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award in 1991, and the W. Allen Separk Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award, 1998.


Whatever the content of Reynold's contributions to the Times was, the presence of a well-respected member of the UT faculty on their pages grants Moon's agenda legitimacy, no? Isn't that the argument?

As for referring to objections to the activities of the Reverend Moon, which include well documented serious abuse of his followers, as "religious prejudice"...well, I think I've won that one. For the record, I'm against anyone pushing a theocratic agenda, particularly anyone who has influence with those currently governing my country.

As for trolling? Sheesh.