In keeping with tradition, I wanted my blog to have the most severe and over-the-top Terms & Conditions possible, with robust protection against spammers, lawsuits, and intellectual property theft.I could have engaged a lawyer to write them for me, or I could have researched it on the web and tried to write my own, but those options seemed to be too expensive and too … [Read more...] about New Terms and Conditions
Operations
In Which I Decline a Prospective Content Partnership
The Popehat folks are far better at this sort of thing, but let me give it a try. I got this email with the subject "Content Partnership": Hey there Mark,My name is Sladen West and I wanted to discuss the possibility of some sort of content partnership with you and windypundit.com. I do a lot of writing in the automotive space and thought my articles could be a great fit … [Read more...] about In Which I Decline a Prospective Content Partnership
No April Fools For Me
I've decided that running April Fools Day prank posts is not a good idea for me. I let Eric Turkewitz talk me into it last year, and the only people I fooled were my loyal readers. That's not the relationship I want to have with them. I don't expect readers to agree with me or even like me, but (except for obvious sarcasm or hyperbole) I want them to know I believe what I say … [Read more...] about No April Fools For Me
2012 in Review
Here at Windypundit, 2012 was the year in which:The inevitable drug war deaths remained inevitable. I spoke up for sex workers, although, really, it was just a bunch of links. I became a friend of whores. I explained why criminal violence against the police is not the best response to criminal violence by the police. I showed what it looks like when police are … [Read more...] about 2012 in Review
Windypundit On WordPress
This is it, the new Wordpress version of Windypundit. There are lots of tweaks and changes still to come, but I think I can go ahead and make the switch now and worry about the details later.Some of you may have noticed that Windypundit was off the air for a while. Yeah, well, it turns out the switchover didn't go quite the way I planned.About a week and a half ago, the … [Read more...] about Windypundit On WordPress