All Things Are Ready, If Our Minds Be So

Being a bad (lapsed) Catholic, it took somebody else to remind me that today is St. Crispian's/St. Crispin's Day.  (Crispian and Crispin are different saints, but according to an encyclopedia of saints they were canonized on the same date, are patrons of the same causes, and share the same feast day.  Certainly cuts down on confusion, at least.)  Not that that really means much to me, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to post this clip, probably the best two and a half minutes of Kenneth Branagh's career:

There are people who claim the Lawrence Oliver version is better, but I've never seen it and can't find a copy anywhere on the 'net at the moment.

198?-2007

I could say a lot of things here, but they all boil down to one point.

I miss my kitty.

Commentary On Apologies

By now, most people who read this have probably seen Cory Doctorow's apology to Ursula K. LeGuin.  I'm not going to weigh in heavily on the merits of his arguments (save to say that I don't consider 44 words, of which 27 are a quote, to be "commentary"), nor how sincere I feel his apology is.  That said, my opinions on Doctorow have never been a secret, so most can probably already guess where I fall.

Instead, I'm going to assume for a moment that his legal justifications are in fact correct, as I think it raises an interesting point that often could be discussed with regards to free speech issues, but often seems to be ignored.  So here's something to think on:

Just because you can do/say something, does it mean that you should?