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Jesus Castillo, Supreme Court, And Free Speech
I've been following the Jesus Castillo case for a while. The case itself is an obscenity charge for selling an adult comic to an adult undercover police officer in Dallas. Recently, the US Supreme Court denied his appeal, with the notion that obscenity is a state-level affair, despite the First Amendment being a Federal law. There's also an interview with the head of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and some good ruminations from Neil Gaiman on the subject. Bad precedents for free speech - the CBDLF donations and giving to the EFF are Good Things.
...but it is an offense and an affront to everything our founding fathers stood for, and it is categorically unamerican. Which shouldn't surprise anyone, with the grandson of a traitor residing in the White House on the coattails of a stolen election and folks like Aschcroft running their withchunts virtually unfettered.
Your right to extend your fist ends when it hits my nose
Yeah, and not a moment before. Your right to tell me what I can and cannot say ends at your ear. Plug it if it offends thee, but don't think for a moment you're going to tell me what I can say, write, printer, or sell. If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, but do not tell another what they can and cannot do merely on the basis that it offends you.
Texas is an emberrassment to the US, the US is an emberrassment to the world, and it would not surprise me in the least to learn that humanity is an emberrassment to other sapient species throughout the comsos.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
DING DING! He compares smoking to rape and murder. One is a lifestyle choice, the others are felonious crimes. Apples and oranges, my friend. C'mon, try harder next time, fool.
I disagree. It's not up to the government to propose/ban smoking.
The public can choose whether or not to frequent a restaurant that offers no smoking/smoking.
Survival of the fittest you know.