You Know It's Time to Go Diving When...

1.  The Obama regime wants to seize more businesses in the name of "economic security."

2.  The Fed is printing another trillion or so dollars to cover this month's national Visa bill.

3.  LCMS, Inc. still hasn't apologized for sicking their legal pit bulls on Todd & Co over the Issues, Etc. trademark.

4.  My friends are arguing over wearing pink in Lent.

Time for some serious bottom time.*

*Time at depth underwater in diver parlance, so that there's no misunderstanding.

Issues, Etc. One Year Later

Scott "Stand Firm" Diekmann is running a great one-year retrospective on the Issues, Etc. debacle this week complete with art, audio sound bytes, video clips, and guest bloggers including yours truly.  He's really done a great job bringing together the whole Issues, Etc. story.

Check it out:  Stand Firm

It's All Over But the Finger Pointing

Well, it looks like our little pre-Lent Issues, Etc. flare-up has successfully been put down thanks to the efforts of attorney Henry B. Madsen, the legal beagle who sent the snarling pack of synodical pit bulls scurrying in retreat.  Mr. Madsen has a great analysis of what transpired over at the John the Steadfast site.  Take some time to admire the craft.

The aftermath of the legal scrum seems to be a case of finger-pointing and whether anyone actually "threatened" anyone with legal action, the dialogue running something like this:

"Did."

"Didn't."

"Yes, you did."

"No, I didn't."

Not exactly Tom Clancy reading material, if you ask me.  I graciously provided the face-saving way out of this in my last blog post.  Just say, "Ours lawyers did it," and apologize for sicking the corporate pit bulls.  Simple.

My favorite quote from Mr. Madsen's summary is this one:  "Counsel is a 'mouthpiece' not a 'brainpiece.'"

Doesn't it remind you of Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz?