Monthly Archives: January 2015
Wednesday Links: SWAT Raids on Poker Games, Sex is Rape, and Childless Deadbeat Dads
– The City of Seattle is enforcing a new law requiring food to be separated from other trash so that it can be composted. Since the law just took effect this month, the city is currently only handing out warnings … Continue reading
Charlie Hebdo and Free Speech Hypocrites
In the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, freedom of speech seems to be having a moment. As the rallies in Paris and elsewhere last weekend demonstrated, freedom of speech has strong support in the West. It is the one value that … Continue reading
This is the New Charlie Hebdo Cover
Buzzfeed has a list of who is and isn’t publishing the new cover. Notably, The New York Times, NBC, NPR, BBC and The Daily Mail are among the publications opting not to show the image. Cowards.
The Attack on Charlie Hebdo is an Attack on Free Speech
Yesterday, Islamist militants attacked the Paris offices of left-wing satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people, including the paper’s editor and four of its cartoonists. The gunmen were almost certainly motivated by the paper’s publication of cartoons satirizing the Prophet … Continue reading
Lucifer the Light-Bearer 