ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX have all indicated they won’t break their planned programming to cover Obama’s 8 p.m. ET speech. CNN’s Brian Stelter first reported that ABC, NBC and CBS were opting out, and an official with FOX confirmed the same with The Hill.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘free speech’
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Of Porn and Pew .. the connection
A Study of Google searches for porn shows a high correlation between the bible, or at least folks who belong to churches, and porn from websites similar to fucked gay. The Bible Belt is the Porn Belt. Smut in Jesusland: Why Red-State Conservatives Are the Biggest Porn Hounds As usual, South Carolina[...]
October 30th, 2014 - 7:06 pm § in America
Newspaper Fires Editorial Writer For Racist Remarks In Private Blog
The Charleston Daily Mail, a 100-year-old newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia, fired a 30-year employee this week for posting racist comments in his personal blog. Don Surber, who was employed as an editorial columnist, wrote in his blog: “This summer I had an epiphany as I watched packs of[...]
October 26th, 2014 - 11:32 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Privacy and free speech at the UW.
This post is based on a letter I recently wrote as editor of THE-Ave.US to a UW Prof who was upset that a post on TA had referred to a conversation the Prof had posted on the AAUP listserv. My letter, written as gmail, raises two important points. First, unlike most other large universities[...]
October 16th, 2014 - 10:59 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Why the angst over academic administrators?
Over at the UW LISTSERV, Sarah Nash Gates commented on a controversy about administrators The controversy was a (false) accusation that our current Provost and President had not been or were not now academics. The truth is that both Dr. Cauci and Dr. Young are superb scholars, the knd of folk[...]
October 15th, 2014 - 8:27 am § in China
CHINA: “A political protest tradition is now alive and well in Hong Kong”
BERKELEY BLOG: Hong Kong’s Protest Tradition [Part 2] Suzanne Scoggins, Ph.D. student, political science | 10/9/14 | As student protesters in Hong Kong dig in their heels, China watchers are trying to make sense of the events over the past few weeks. One thing is certain: the days when locals joke[...]
October 14th, 2014 - 7:18 pm § in Uncategorized
Cop Union Official Calls Ferguson Protesters ‘Agitators’
A St. Louis County police union official has labeled people protesting the Michael Brown shooting as “agitators.” “We saw in the wake of the Michael Brown Ferguson shooting that there was a public outcry fueled largely by agitators,” Jeff Roorda, business manager for the St. [...]
CHINA; Hong Kong Update
While the media loses interest![...]
Keeping America safe from foreign poets
Washington Post: “Poetry can be dangerous,” Rumi said, and U.S. Homeland Security isn’t taking any chances. The Jordanian-British poet Amjad Nasser had been invited to speak at New York University this fall, but on Sept. 27, he was questioned for two hours at London’s Heathrow airport and t[...]
October 5th, 2014 - 2:50 pm § in China
CHINA: Is Hong Kong About to Do Something Historic?
Xinhua: Some protesters in Hong Kong decide to withdraw, classes to resume Voice of America: Pro-democracy protesters remained in a tense stalemate with the Hong Kong government early Monday after authorities warned they were determined to get the Asian financial hub back to work after more than a w[...]