I like to end each year with a review of some of the things I’ve been posting about. I don’t know if any of you care, but it’s always interesting to me to see where I’ve been. This year I expected the pickings to be pretty slim because of all the turmoil surrounding and following my parents’ passing, but it turns out I wrote quite a bit.
In fact, here at Windypundit, 2009 was the year in which
- I asked my hosting provider to move this blog to a new server.
- I explained four ways to answer the question “Have you got something to hide?” Be sure to read the comments for Pete Guither’s awesome fifth answer, and few more from Jdog.
- I explained the hedge from hell.
- I explored my love-hate relationship with 24.
- I uncovered the Shanghai Chooke domain name scam…er, well, linked to someone who uncovered it.
- I got peeved at some of the bad tech in 24.
- I started using Amazon Cloudfront to serve the blog design elements.
- I slammed a stupid anti-legalization argument.
- The Obama presidency had its high point.
- I explained how to think about the problem of innocent people in jail.
- The Nazi Zombie uprising reached Austin, Texas.
- I invited people to make my dream of being a published author come true. It didn’t work.
- I explained the difference between armed robbery and civil forfeiture.
- The war on drugs reached the century mark.
- I shredded a really stupid argument about evolution.
- I explored Apple’s vision of the future…from 1987.
- A cop wrote a silly blog post about Ryan Frederick’s conviction.
- A prosecutor wrote a silly blog post about my response to the cop’s post.
- A cop tuned up a 15-year-old girl for hitting him with a kicked-off shoe.
- I explained how to keep people from walking off with your pens.
- A minor genius took on Google and won.
- I accepted the loss of Pluto as a planet. But I will Never Forget.
- I fought with my computer.
- I tried to bring back Friday catblogging.
- I explained how The Stimulus could go wrong.
- I gave my wife some tips for a gunfight.
- I welcomed Jennifer to the blogroll.
- My mother got very sick and I moved in with my dad.
- My mother died.
- My wife posted about my mom.
- I smacked around Robert J. Samuelson for his absurd attack on Obama’s cap-and-trade plan.
- I discovered that Melrose Park was not Mayberry.
- I tried another video blog. And it also sucked.
- I decided to enter the legal education market.
- My dad told us it was time to put him in a nursing home.
- I explained how much government is enough.
- I evaluated Obama at 100 days.
- The Supreme Court once again showed how much it trusted police.
- USLaw.com didn’t bother me as much as it bothered Scott Greenfield, but then they turned psychotic.
- I posted some random thoughts about my mother’s passing.
- I fired an open volley in my healthcare blogging, elaborated on it later, and then again some more.
- I put my dad in a nursing home and got to go back to my home at last.
- I commented on a shocking incident of police thuggery.
- I tried to apply logic to the testimony of a gang expert.
- I discovered that Justice Thomas may be a little crazy.
- Lori Drew was acquitted…which was almost certainly a good thing.
- I finally managed to work Lincoln’s 1838 address to the Young Men’s Lyceum into a blog post.
- I posted some pictures of fireworks.
- I claimed the title of greatest criminal defense blogger in Chicago and no one has risen up to dispute me.
- I decided to try Chitika.
- I got the story behind a slightly controversial photo.
- I had a depressing vision of how the ubiquitous surveillance in 1984 could actually be possible.
- I speculated about crossing the border with an encrypted hard drive, and then I got a few real answers from a Customs lawyer.
- I started to explain why identity on the web is complicated, and got some puzzling responses. I’ll have to finish that someday.
- I explored some of the mysteries of minimum wage.
- I learned that Avvo Answers really was as bad as everyone says it is.
- My father died.
- I explained the evil of coupon settlements.
- The Ninth Circuit tried to clean up the mess that is computer search and seizure law.
- I questioned the ethics of force catheterization, and got a less-than-awesome response from the AMA.
- Norman Borlaug died.
- I found some truth in rock and roll.
- I noticed that a lot of children are being charged as sex offenders.
- The feds came after bloggers who get free stuff.
- Photography was still treated like a crime.
- I questioned the level of happiness in the kingdom of Bhutan.
- I thought about the economics of the death penalty.
- The Minnesota Supreme Court reminded me that sometimes the law is really stupid.
- I gave the world a glimpse of the complex technology of my everyday life.
- Mary Beth Buchanen’s reign of terror finally ended.
- A woman who supplied Eliot Spitzer with hookers had a few questions about his ethics.
- Meep.
- I spoke truth to zombie alarmism.
- I explained why the public option and healthcare reform are redundant.
- I complained that juries are kept in the dark.
- I was thankful for my friends.
- Muvico screwed over its customers.
- The Warlord of Maricopa took crazy just a little bit further…
- I explained why people on the internet seem so rude.
See you all in the new year!