I hope that at least a few of the subscribers and occasional visitors to this blog will be disappointed that I will be shutting this blog down.
Well, I am forced to end it is the correct way to describe it.
Over the last couple of days, I have received cease-and-desist emails from three publishing outfits claiming that the manner in which I excerpt from their reports, provide hyperlinks, and include graphics, violates copyright laws.
I do not understand the legalese in those emails, nor do I have the legal smarts or support to respond to them, leave alone fighting them in court.
I am left with no option other than to shut this blog down, while I figure out avenues to continue to think and write about whatever interests me.
These are some strange times in which we live, when big time crooks get away with all kinds of crimes because they have teams of lawyers to defend them and their crimes, while I am being compelled by some people with JD behind their names to stop blogging!
To borrow from Charles Dickens, the law is an ass. But then the ass is kicking me hard in the rear!
So, off I go. I will figure out how to blog without irritating highly-paid lawyers sitting in their comfy offices.
We shall meet again. Soon, I hope.
Disappointed indeed! I always look forward to finding out what's been on your mind. Thank you for taking the time to share. Perhaps you tease us? It is April first after all? Then again, it sounds sadly plausible, which is a discouraging commentary on the reality we live with. I shall wait curiously to see how/when/where you resurface.
So sad. I've really enjoyed my relatively short time reading your blog! D.... the lawyers! They deserve very joke every told about them!