I like Ron Paul and I’m happy he raised a boatload of money yesterday. I wish he didn’t attract so many crazy supporters, though. Confidential to Thomas DiLorenzo: Insinuating that Wired‘s coverage was driven by political bias only makes you look like a nutjob.
Incidentally, if the Paul campaign hasn’t specifically condemned the pro-Paul spam campaign, they should do so posthaste. I’m sure they’re telling the truth when they say they had nothing to do with it, but spamming is a sufficiently scummy activity that they should be explicitly repudiating it.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.