I was pretty damned conservative twenty years ago. I was also pretty damned pro-censorship. I was willing to debate that books that I hadn't read should be restricted. I was a teenager. Like most teenagers,

I am reading about early humans. It seems the essential elements of this holiday, while conjoined in American history and myth, have roots that stretch back to the beginning of our time on this planet.

"Here's what you gotta know. If the horizon is at the bottom, it's interesting. If the horizon is at the top, it's interesting. If the horizon is in the middle, it's boring as shit. Now get the fuck

This isn't the easiest movie to review. I know that the performances are spot on across the board, including an unrecognizable David Gordon Green in a cameo. Mark Rylance showed once again that he's a

When that happens, there can be confusion if you're not careful. One issue is clearly that most people still don't understand free speech as a moral concept. The moment that you take a break from defending

The article mentions European worker layoff protections and implies it isn’t the case in the USA. All the Facebook and Twitter layoffs were under WARN, which requires 60 days. Workers were mostly given

Hakeem Jeffers is hardly alone, as a politician of either political party, in employing intemperate language and in sometimes making outright false accusations against office-holders from the other party.

If somebody is hounded into silence by a mob, so long as it's a woke mob, they defend that and say that it's not a free speech issue. Social media censorship, to their minds, isn't really censorship because

Day One. The staff at my local ticket office can no longer sell me train tickets on the day of travel, which was their primary function and saved me about five dollars a day. All tickets for day of travel

So, like everybody else, Human Rights Watch wrote a blog post the other day wringing their hands about how Elon Musk fired half of Twitter's employees and as a result currently does not have a "human

Brassicas are my favorite vegetables, and they are all varieties of the same species. The gene selection mimicked natural selection, just accentuating the expression of Nature's genes. Viruses and bacteria

Gordon Willis was famously known as "The Prince of Darkness" among cinematographers. Willis also famously hated the nickname. He would often retort, "It's not dark. It's proper exposure."

It makes sense until you put two seconds of thought into it. First of all, most people don't actually have a problem with drag shows in general. I went to a drag show in New Orleans a few years ago and

I hate beauty pageants in general. At least, this is one involving presumably consenting adults; but, I mean, when Kaepernick made the bullshit comparison between the NFL Combine and the auction block,

There are certain policies that people passionately support that I have to believe that they haven't thought about for two seconds. Like...okay...we agree that we don't like homophobes; so, we should pass

There's a lot being said about the Colts hiring Jeff Saturday as their interim head coach, what it says about the NFL in general, and what are the Colts actually doing. The thing is, I think that the answers

Abrams made no attempt at all to reach out to the newly-re-elected governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who will serve in that position for the next four years. Electoral opponents don’t have to fight with

The thing that really gets to me with this Covid amnesty plea is a subject that the Covid lemmings glossed over -- the lab leak theory. Now, perhaps the original author for the Atlantic didn't specifically

I should warn, however, that the polls in many key races are close enough that these predictions aren't really worth much. A completely "normal" polling error of 2-3 points could make an enormous

When I criticize social media companies for engaging in censorship, I'm not saying that the government should force social media companies to abide by the parameters set for the government by the First