If you care at all about the First Amendment, read this article about Howard Stern (subscription required) from Salon. (I know it costs money, and no, I don't work for Salon.) It's important. I promise. If someone knows how to legally reprint someone else's work in its entirety, please let me know asap and I'll be glad to do it here.

It's an article worthy of Salon and one I would have loved to have written if someone paid me to be doing that for a living. Unfortunately, I only have time for brief blog posts -- deeper analysis and research time give way to a paycheck and paying my mortgage. But let me know if you think I'm way off base. Scroll over to April 12 and note my back-to-back posts before reading Savage's article. Timing is everything, they say. I should get some kind of recognition, don't you think?

And my apologies for not noticing this article sooner.