Mind-Reading, Canadian Hate Speech Criminals Protest Ann Coulter Hate Speech Before She Speaks It, and Threaten Injury and Mayhem

By: Beaglescout (Diary)  |  March 24th at 12:52 AM  | 

Canadians are so polite it’s just amazing. For example, the other day Ann Coulter received a letter from a mind-reading provost at the University of Ottawa warning her to watch her mouth or she might be arrested and thrown in the hoosegow. The interesting part went like this. Canadian law puts reasonable limits on the freedom of expression. For example, promoting hatred against any identifiable | Read More »

The Great Lie of Partisan Tolerance

By: Beaglescout (Diary)  |  January 28th at 10:01 AM  | 

The Free Dictionary defines ‘tolerance‘ as follows. tol·er·ance 1. The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others. That’s what tolerance used to mean, before Orwellian progressives performed their cunning linguistic tricks on it. Now the class-obsessed left has divided tolerance into two classes: partisan (good) and repressive (bad). The dirty secret is that both their meanings are | Read More »

Toward a New Ethics of Journalism

By: Beaglescout (Diary)  |  July 6th at 06:00 AM  | 

Newspaper Press The Code of Ethics of The Society of Professional Journalists is a flawed document because it holds journalists to inhuman and contradictory standards. No intelligent journalist with an ounce of empathy who learns about the facts of a situation can ever be non-biased and free of attachments to people in the community in the way that the code demands. Can a journalist who | Read More »

Sweet Lord, When will this Insanity End?

By: Beaglescout (Diary)  |  April 2nd at 11:54 PM  | 

Erick Erickson wonders what will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. What will it take for Americans to rise up in righteous indignation at the rampant abuses of government? First, when codeine works perfectly to control coughs and colds, classify it as a dangerous drug on the same level as heroin because some people abuse it. When sudafed falls out of patent and | Read More »

Google Eyed Magritte: Google’s Holiday Logos and the Culture War

By: Beaglescout (Diary)  |  November 22nd at 09:54 AM  | 

Google’s oddball choices of “holiday” logos have reached a new height of surreality. Though they famously almost never memorialize Easter or Columbus Day (the last Easter was in 2000, the last Columbus Day never), they did celebrate the birthdays of Marc Chagall, Diego Velazquez, Walter Gropius, Alexander Graham Bell, and the LEGO brick this year. And every year they celebrate the Persian New Year, Earth | Read More »