{"id":189,"date":"2005-04-30T17:27:52","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T21:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=189"},"modified":"2005-04-30T17:27:52","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T21:27:52","slug":"lubos-leashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Lubos Leashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lubos Motl has taken to signing some of his postings with <A href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/stringy-baby-universes.html\">&#8220;leashed&#8221;<\/A>, and <A href=\"http:\/\/capitalistimperialistpig.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/lumo-leashed.html\">Capitalist Imperialist Pig<\/A> has speculated that &#8220;My dark suspicion is that he might have gotten caught in a PC violation in the Summers Affair, forcing him to do a T reversal to save his Lorentz invariant m ass&#8221;.  Lubos wrote in to tell him &#8220;Unfortunately your intuition is perfectly correct, but I am not sure whether your imagination is big enough to imagine the scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea who is responsible for the leashing of Lubos or what the reason for it is, but I figured this meant his blog would stop featuring the right-wing ideological political commentary he&#8217;s fond of. But today he has a <A href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/filibustering.html\">posting<\/A> about the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/blog\/archives\/000188.html\">Frist Center &#8220;filibustering&#8221;<\/A> in which he says &#8220;I currently do not enjoy the freedom to tell you what I think about these things.&#8221;  Actually he manages to make it pretty clear what he thinks about these things.<\/p>\n<p>This leashing of Lubos is too bad, especially since I was finding myself more and more in agreement with his postings (not the ones about politics, but we seem to agree about the Landscape), and generally think the First amendment gives everyone the right to make a fool of themselves with crazed political rants if they feel like it.  Lubos&#8217;s blog has also played another important role for me.  Whenever people won&#8217;t believe me that string theorists can be smart and well-informed, but still crazed ideologues, all I&#8217;ve had to do is point them his way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lubos Motl has taken to signing some of his postings with &#8220;leashed&#8221;, and Capitalist Imperialist Pig has speculated that &#8220;My dark suspicion is that he might have gotten caught in a PC violation in the Summers Affair, forcing him to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}