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And thank you everyone who decided that Biden wasn't pure enough for you and stayed home: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/incoming-trump-team-is-asking-white-house-national-security-council-civil-servants-about-their-loyalty Incompetent NSC means…
_Railsea_ by China Mieville has ampersands as part of the story-- both text and symbolism. A genuinely weird surrealist novel.
Nobody, LOL! I honestly haven't run into that factoid before.
Gar, thanks! Any sharing is good sharing! My URL is on the image itself on the left border, so anyone…
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Category Archives: Free speech, censorship, copyright law, etc.
South Carolina “Fun Home” Censorship Update
(To listen to the best bit, I’d recommend advancing to the 17 minute mark.) After the South Carolina House passed a bill cutting $52,000 from the College of Charleston for including Alison Bechdel’s memoir Fun Home in a campus reading … Continue reading
Why Aren’t Opponents of SSM Expected To Support Free Speech?
I didn’t link to Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent: Why We Must Have Both when it came out because I have mixed feelings about it. The statement, signed by about fifty prominent supporters of marriage equality, calls for the … Continue reading
South Carolina Conservatives Want To Punish University For Assigning Critically-Acclaimed Lesbian Graphic Novel
From the New York Times: Although the troubles have intensified this semester, they began when the college announced “Fun Home,” a memoir with themes that include sexual orientation, as the selection for a voluntary book experience last fall. For $52,000, … Continue reading
Commmunity College professor suspended over ‘Game of Thrones’ T-shirt Photo Posted On Google Plus
Bergen Commmunity College professor suspended over 'Game of Thrones' T-shirt.. Francis Schmidt […] posted a picture of his young daughter doing yoga in a T-shirt with the new “Game of Thrones” season tagline in January, upon release of the trailer. … Continue reading
Opposing Same-Sex Marriage Is A Lot Like Opposing Interracial Marriage
Conor Friedersdorf and I both oppose economically punishing people for opposition to same-sex marriage, or for having donated to the prop 8 campaign. But Conor’s argument is, partly, that SSM opponents are morally superior to those who favored anti-miscegenation laws, … Continue reading
A Comment Posted On The “Boycott Moreland Farmers Pantry” Page
So some Portlanders are organizing a boycott of Moreland Farmers Pantry, a not-yet-open grocery specializing in GMO-free foods, because it has been discovered that the owners of the story are anti-marriage-equality and have said so in Facebook postings. (A secondary … Continue reading
Boycott Firefox! says both sides of the Marriage Equality debate, and to hell with free speech
Well, certain members of both sides, at least. OKCupid is taking a surprisingly strong stance against Mozilla. Right now, those who visit the hipster/nerdy dating site using Firefox see this message (full text here): Hello there, Mozilla Firefox user. Pardon … Continue reading
Government And Social Suppression of Free Speech
Set off by the genuinely appalling theft of a huge anti-abortion sign (one of those signs with gross photos of allegedly abortion-age fetuses) by a feminist Professor at UC Santa Barbara, Freddie deBoer has a pair of posts arguing that … Continue reading
The Sleepwalker Statue and Freedom of Speech
On the Wellesley campus, the Davis Museum is showing an exhibit of sculptor Tony Matelli’s work, including the above statue set up outside the museum. A student objected to this, on the grounds that the statue could potentially be “triggering,” … Continue reading
I apologize for my last comment. Trump's election is the fault of Trump voters and no one else (well, Putin,…