It’s nice to see that Cato has its very own blog going these days. I used to stop by Cato’s site all the time, but over the years my stops have been less frequent — taking in a daily commentary here and there, but rarely reading more than the abstracts of longer studies unless it’s a topic I’m particularly interested in. I guess my time has increased in value, but I may have a light case of ADD, too. At any rate, Cato staffers have been blogging on their own for years, but an official, central bloggy organ is a good idea. Quick entry points, with links to the nitty gritty details for those who want more.

I can’t imagine, though, how they came up with the ill-advised name, Cato@Liberty, which is housed at the URL cato-at-liberty.org. Spoken, that sounds like an email address, cato@liberty.org — an address that will assuredly bounce, since liberty.org directs to a shady search engine. It’s fine to want to associate the word “liberty” with the blog, but why stick an “at” in there? It just seems needlessly cumbersome and confusing, and entirely puzzling, since the almost sole role of the word “at” in Internet-ese is to separate user and domain in email addresses. Why would anyone think that was a good choice, to make the URL sound like an email address that doesn’t work? And spelling out the “at” and adding hyphens so it’s more difficult to find the actual site if somebody tells you about it, rendering the URL vocally? I just don’t get it.

I’m sure it’ll be an excellent source of bite-sized political wisdom, though . . .