Welcome to Essential Liberties, formerly known as The Daily Rant. There are several reasons for the change, not the least of which being that my contract with 50megs.com runs out Dec. 31st, and they just don't allow hosting user cgi scripts, which means no blogs, for one.
The new name is derived from several factors:
1. The Daily Rant is an incredibly popular name for Blogs. Do a search and you'll see what I mean.
2. One of my friends and I had an abortive attempt at writing a book on Civil Rights in the United States that would have been called "Essential Liberties".
3. Essentialliberties.com was available.
4. Benjamin Franklin. It's one of the most overused, least understood, hackneyed, cliched phrases in our political dialogue since Septembet 11, 2001, but here goes, ""They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759
More of why "Essential Liberties" tomorrow.
Posted by Chris at December 22, 2002 10:57 PM