About Me. About the name.

I've been meaning to start a new blog for a while now. I used to blog at a site called FritzFeds with other members of the Federalist Society at the University of Minnesota Law School. We had a good thing going for a while, before the pressures of 2L year overwhelmed us and we got out of the habit of posting.

After I graduated I decided to get started again, and it hit me. What would I name this thing? I had a lot of really lame ideas, and then I remembered an Althouse post from a year and a half ago, that had stuck in my mind for some reason:

Banning YouTube in Turkey... and you probably know why.

Somebody's making fun of Ataturk!

The court was acting on the recommendation of a prosecutor, who was himself apparently prompted by an escalating war of homemade YouTube videos created by ethnic Greeks and Turks, who antagonized one another with clips featuring images of Ataturk as hero or fool, the flinging of insults, and spurious incantations like “Ataturk is gay."(I think this is a TimesSelect link.)

ADDED: "Spurious Incantations" would be a good name for a blog. "Ataturk Is Gay," not so much.

Of course, for a while I wanted to name the blog "Ataturk is Gay" just to prove her wrong, but decided "Spurious Incantations" would probably be better, even if I hope not to write too terribly spuriously, or do much incanting.

Af FritzFeds we wrote primarily about legal topics, with some culture and social issues thrown in, and avoided partisan politics as much as possible. It was fun, but now I can write about whatever I feel like writing about, which will probably include law, politics, social issues, that sort of thing, with some pop culture thrown in as well.