Presidential candidate Howard Dean has been guest-blogging on Lawrence Lessig's blog. Well, he's putting things on Lessig's blog.
Most of what Dean (or Dean's handler) has posted is insubstantial platitudes–talking about his fundraising success, and sliding from his position on the war in Iraq to his position on needle exchange in the space of a three sentences:
I opposed the war not because I'm a pacifistI'm notbut because the evidence presented did not justify preemptive war. I opposed needle exchanges for drug addicts until I saw the empirical evidence that showed how such exchanges reduce the spread of disease. I changed my position, and I'm proud of that. Facts are a better basis for decisions than ideas.
Dean's comments on media deregulation showed some promise. But everything else sort of has a “hey look, ma, I'm blogging!” feel to it with no real exposition.
I, on the other hand, am writing haiku about rats. Now, that's exposition.