I Blame Instapundit for This Debacle!

So yesterday in an act of almost sublime screwing around, instapundit bragged that he was the first person to search for the term “international cat speculators.”

And here’s an interesting thing about Blogger.  One of the thing it tells me is what someone else searched for in order to get to my site.  So if you searched on Google for “facepalm” and my blog came up and you clicked on the link, I would know it.  Mind you, I wouldn’t know who searched for it.  You are still safely anonymous in that respect, but still I couldn’t help but chuckle when I saw this.

That means someone searched for “international cat speculators” and then somehow my blog came up (maybe because of the blogroll on the side?), and this made someone click on my blog.

As a great man once said: heh.

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Disclaimer:

I have accused some people, particularly Brett Kimberlin, of reprehensible conduct.  In some cases, the conduct is even criminal.  In all cases, the only justice I want is through the appropriate legal process—such as the criminal justice system.  I do not want to see vigilante violence against any person or any threat of such violence.  This kind of conduct is not only morally wrong, but it is counter-productive.

In the particular case of Brett Kimberlin, I do not want you to even contact him.  Do not call him.  Do not write him a letter.  Do not write him an email.  Do not text-message him.  Do not engage in any kind of directed communication.  I say this in part because under Maryland law, that can quickly become harassment and I don’t want that to happen to him.

And for that matter, don’t go on his property.  Don’t sneak around and try to photograph him.  Frankly try not to even be within his field of vision.  Your behavior could quickly cross the line into harassment in that way too (not to mention trespass and other concerns).

And do not contact his organizations, either.  And most of all, leave his family alone.

The only exception to all that is that if you are reporting on this, there is of course nothing wrong with contacting him for things like his official response to any stories you might report.  And even then if he tells you to stop contacting him, obey that request.  That this is a key element in making out a harassment claim under Maryland law—that a person asks you to stop and you refuse.

And let me say something else.  In my heart of hearts, I don’t believe that any person supporting me has done any of the above.  But if any of you have, stop it, and if you haven’t don’t start.