Monthly Archives: January 2015
On Freedom From Speech
This is an update to the post I finally decided to promote yesterday. Sometimes you know things aren’t good for you, and apparently daring to say that what’s racist is racist is one of them…when people decide that racism is okay. An overstatement? Yes, obviously. The point I set out to make is one that
There’s No Such Thing As Free Speech
Like many others, I’ve spent the last week and a half trying to wrap my head around the traumatic events that unfolded in Paris, when gunmen slew a dozen journalists and cartoonists in the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. I also watched as, predictably, a heated debate exploded online within mere hours following
Jaundiced Scenes from January in New York
Vignette 1 The setting is of a cold January night in New York City, where a lonely critic sits hunched over his chickenscratch notes when begins to shake in disturbing fashion the cracked rectangle of obsidian black glass at his elbow, simultaneously emitting a tinny sad trill of bell-like tinkling. Pick it up he does,