A Time of Magic

‘Tis the time of year that you need to get looking around for New York Yankees tickets if you want to see the play right from spring break on through to the regular season.

As always they’re promoted very heavily online and you’ll find loads of outlets looking for your custom this year. If one outlet doesn’t have availability for the specific tickets that you’re looking for then check out some of the others as the allocation of tickets available to each outlet varies.

Most of us are fortunate in needing to know diddly about asbestosis but if you find that it’s Mesothelioma then you need to be looking up Mesothelioma lawyers pronto.

Sadly, as with, I gather, all forms of disease that flow from asbestos exposure, Mesothelioma isn’t curable and results in a pretty horrible lingering death for all concerned. That being the case you need to move quickly while you’re still mentally capable of doing so in order to gain the maximum compensation from whoever inflicted this upon you as you won’t be around to look after your family as you would wish and you’ll need some serious looking after yourself too.

Normally I’d label legal teams like this “ambulance chasers” in a bad sense of the term but, frankly, you need lawyers specialising in this kind of work and therefore don’t let any tag associated with them put you off.

Most of the time I’m sure that you don’t really think about where a particular blog that you might be reading is actually published.

Why would you? After all, for a general article the main difference that you’d notice would be that a British/Irish/Australian/New Zealand blog would say “colour”, an American/Canadian one “color” and other related differences. Aside from that there would be differences in the sports talked about and the news agencies referred to. However, by and large in a general post you would barely notice where it had been written so long as the author was a native English speaker.

However, there is one major difference that we experienced (“we” being me and Wendy) late last week when we received a call from the police telling us that we were in contempt of court. That particular concept doesn’t exist in the American legal lexicon thanks to the First Amendment but basically means that you’re not allowed to “publish” details of an ongoing court case where there are “reporting restrictions” in effect.

But what does “publish” actually mean? Up to now there’s been something of an ongoing debate about whether or not bloggers could be counted as journalists. Aside from anything else, if they weren’t journalists then legally they couldn’t be publishing anything, could they? Well, apparently we ARE journalists now or at least are being treated by the courts as though we were part of “the media”.

Curious as to the case that triggered this? Well, since this particular blog is published in London I can’t tell you about it…