Thursday, April 26, 2007

Judge Alex Kozinski hates blogs

ERIC GOLDMAN: So but what about blogs? . . .

JUDGE ALEX KOZINSKI: I hate them, hateful things.

ERIC GOLDMAN: Why do you hate blogs? . . . .

JUDGE ALEX KOZINSKI: I just think it's so self-indulgent, you know. "Oh, I'm so proud of what I'm saying, I think the world instantly wants to know what I'm thinking today." People wake up thinking, . . . . "I wonder what great thoughts have come into his mind this morning that I can feel myself edified by. I can't really have breakfast -- really enjoy my day -- until I hear the great thoughts of Howard Bashman!"
I don't think so. I go for months without ever knowing what Howard has to say. So I don't know. I find it sort of self-indulgent. And I find it grandiloquent. And I find it annoying, particularly if I'm in an audience and people are sitting there typing in their computers.
Whats funny about this is the fact that I wrote a chapter in a book about Judge Kozinski. That and it is ironic comment coming from a man who personally lobbied to get himself named, "sexist" judge on the U.S. bench.

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