Orrin has proposed a remedy to Congress:
I think the answer is to add a statutory suppression remedy for violations of the statutory Internet surveillance laws. I explain the details in [this] article .... Will it happen? Maybe not this year. But some day, I think it will.
In other Volokh news, Prof. David Bernstein is going on blogging hiatus for the summer. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
I like blogging a lot. Probably too much. So, even when I have a lot of work to get done, I find myself blogging, then responding to emails and other bloggers, then blogging followups, etc. It seems the only way to restrain myself is to swear off blogging.
One more Volokh item, because I agree with it so much: Randy Barnett hates Microsoft Word.
...have I ever mentioned how much I detest Microsoft Word? Word reformats paragraphs and everything else as it wishes and it is sometimes next to impossible to trick it into keeping it to the format you prefer. I assume that someone somewhere knows how to make all this work, but I have been word processing since I paid $4500 for an NBI standalone word processor in 1981, and word processing programs are simply not supposed to be that hard to figure out and control.
In contrast, WordPerfect is an amazingly elegant and transparent way to write.
I would go back to pen and paper if I couldn't have WordPerfect. My first wordprocessor was a CTS, that like Randy, I got around 1981. It cost more than Randy's but I bought it on an installment contract. I went to school for a week, 6 hours a day, to learn Wordperfect on it. The result is I type as fast as I think. There's one secretary at our law office who refuses to use anything but the DOS version of WP 5.1. I'm not that bad, I'm up to WP 12, now. But I'll never switch.
Like Randy, I don't want tips on how to better use Word. And I'm not going back to school to learn a new typing program.
Do not bother to write with ways to learn how to make Word work properly. I know from experience that a word-processing program should not require any more time than I already have invested over the years to do simple document creation and formatting.
And if WordPerfect goes under? That's why I have saved the disks from versions 8 and above.
Unlike Randy, I'm no Adobe PDF fan. It's so slow and scrolling through a document is incredibly cumbersome. I'm sure it's going to lead to early arthritis of my index finger.
If I were a dictator, I'd make the whole world use WordPerfect. Right after I repealed the Patriot Act.
Update: Instapundit says, "I'LL GIVE UP WORDPERFECT when they pry it from my cold, dead hard drive."
