The College Politico

I follow a guy on twitter who writes in a blog called The College Politico. He’s a fair conservative and I enjoy hearing what he has to say. Well recently he was contacted by the news website POLITICO’s lawyers and told to give up his domain and never use the name “the college politico” again.

Here’s an excerpt from his post:

Just to explain, in case anybody was wondering, when I created my blog I had no intention to draw any relation to POLITICO. I was simply trying to find a snappy way to describe myself, hence The College Politico. And apparently, at least according to POLITICO’s attorney’s, I was too dumb to realize that the noun politico (originating in 1630 according to Websters) wasn’t a word which describes somebody in politics but rather a piece of property owned by a news conglomerate.

So out of support for another little guy like us (well, actually he’s much more well-known than we are, but he’s not a huge corporation either), we’ve removed our link to Politico and replaced it with a link to The College Politico.