Congratulations to John on his new career as a staff writer for Human Events. Any of us who’ve enjoyed John’s writings knew it would only be a matter of time before his talent was recognized and appropriately compensated.

I dropped a line to Doc asking him what he’d like me to do with podcasting his essays. Unfortunately, he’s a little swamped and hasn’t had an opportunity to figure out all of the intricate dealings of “rights of first publication” and other copyright issues. So we’re kind of playing it by ear.

No matter what, I’m going to simplify my life performing the podcasts. I’m adding to my list of authors I’m reading for, so I’m going to start to combine all of my performances in one location. From this point forward you can find Doc’s podcasted-performances over at Joe Koday Podcasts. If you’re subscribing via iTunes or an RSS reader, the link is: http://joekodaypodcasts.wordpress.com/feed.

I won’t be updating this site any more after this posting. All of John’s podcasts will be at the Joe Koday Podcast site. If contractual problems arise that John isn’t permitted to have his essays turned into podcasts, I’ll remove them, naturally, rather than see John suffer any negative consequences.

Finally, as a preemptive move, based on other “first publishing right” items I’ve seen so far, I’ll not publish any podcast until at least 48 hours after it’s been posted to Human Events.

Congratulations again, John!

Ray Owens