Tag: know your freedoms
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The Bill of Rights c.1791
The general rule is that no sign exists until after someone does what the sign instructs not to do (thus my favorite sign is “Do not lick the C-4”). You should consider the Bill of Rights to the American Constitution much like a sign. The reason why those 10 items were enumerated? Because they happened.…
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It’s a Start
Thanks to Ted Cross and Liz Poole for pointing out that it wasn’t just people not being able to find comments but that comments weren’t working. Seems there was a change in Blogger’s comment form since this template was made that prevented comments from working. That has been fixed. What hasn’t been fixed is adding…
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One of the Two Books
Did you watch the HBO mini-series “The Pacific?” I don’t think it was written as well as “Band of Brothers,” but then it had the unfortunate luck to come out after that huge hit, so it had to make sure it was decidedly something else. The special features are damn cool and the show is…
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“You have a right…”
So the whole Amazon pedophile thing has stirred up an argument I absolutely hate. It begins when someone says “You have a right…” and trails off into some moronic thing you don’t actually have a right to. So for all you American readers/writers (as a number of modernized countries don’t offer a right to free…
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I Voted X
Along with telling me early on that her attitude toward minorities was incorrect, one of the other (few) appropriate lessons my mother taught me was the importance of voting. It was 1980 or 1982 when she took me to our local polling station (which also happened to be my pre-school). I got to watch while…
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Reformed Conservative in a Liberal World
Conservative blowhard commentators often accuse this or that media of being liberal (depending on which media they want to accuse at that particular moment). While I feel the following is true about any medium, I am speaking today about print publishing so will keep this opinion only there. I don’t think publishing is liberal. I…
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I Love My Company
The formula I always say for meeting colleagues in the publishing industry is to take the decade of a person’s age (I’m 33, so 3), subtract 1, and that’s the number of publishers that person has worked for. It’s amazing how accurate that formula is. Publishing is incredibly incestuous in its hiring practices, we list…
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You Gotta Fight for Your Right…to Read?
I’ve offered tacit support of SPEAK during the flair-up against the comments made in Springfield last week. I didn’t hop on the bandwagon and speak out against it for a couple reasons. First, I’m fat, and doubt I could hop on a bandwagon if I wanted to. Second, I don’t think my message would reach…