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Emotion rules over reason in Rolling Stone controversy

Sadly, my post yesterday about the number of Americans who think the First Amendment goes too far in protecting freedom was all too timely. We now have people across the country throwing conniption fits over the cover photo Rolling Stone used for its story on accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Evidently some people believe […]

Who needs government action for people to give up their rights?

To say I am flummoxed by the results of a new poll by the First Amendment Center would be an understatement. Some 34 percent of Americans say the First Amendment goes too far in protecting freedom, according to an annual survey by the First Amendment Center.

Imagine, a third of our population believes that the […]

Birth of a behemoth

Who would have thought a book called Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought” would have been the beginning of an online revolution. Yet 18 years ago today that was the first item sold on a website called Amazon. Today is a behemoth, not only in the world of […]

Weekend Edition: 6-13 plus 1

This is delayed due to travel (and coming within minutes of spending last night in the Denver airport).

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

In praise of cynicism (“If there’s one thing that makes me cynical, it’s optimists.”)

Weird Shit of the Week

An Ohio man was indicted for having sex with a rubber raft. […]

Sources of abandonment

I can honestly say I never gave up on any of the top five “most abandoned” books at Goodreads or even the top five abandoned classics. Of course, that’s because in each case I read two of the five and never started the other three.

The top five most unfinished books I’ve read are Wicked […]