I’m getting a number of e-mails about a post earlier today where I quoted from an e-mail from a friend in London. Eugene Volokh evidently cites from the same e-mail on his blogsite today, too. (Which Instapundit then picked up….) This does not shock me. Said friend sent quoted observations to a bunch of bcced folks and I’m delighted to be in EV’s company. When I read the e-mail, I replied, “hey, that’s useful, mind if I Corner it?” or somesuch and said friend said sure. Maybe I should have forseen the possibility that another recipient might have done precisely the same thing…but, well, I don’t think it is big deal anyway. Just be assured there’s no big conspiracy.