I went to the Agitator meet-up tonight and finally got to meet Radley Balko. I’ve been reading his stuff for a while, and I really admire the work he did on the Cory Maye case.
The meetup wasn’t exactly huge. Only a handful of people showed, and only two of us weren’t already friends of Radley’s, proving that just because someone is a star in libertarian circles doesn’t mean he’s going to draw a crowd in the real world.
There might also be another reason a libertarian star like Radley doesn’t draw a crowd in Chicago, and it’s the subject of one of his upcoming stories. He didn’t exactly swear me to secrecy, but I dare not say more.
I didn’t want to irritate too many people so I held off on my usual paparazzo-like-frenzy of photography, getting only one picture. Naturally I managed to position myself in front of one of the few reflective objects on the walls and caught my own flash.
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That’s Radley Balko on the right. The nice-looking couple in the middle are friends from his attempt at law school. The gentleman on the left is the other non-friend who showed up. He’s a local blogger with an interesting-sounding music blog that had a name I couldn’t possibly forget. I gave him my card, so maybe he’ll see this and remind me what it was.
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