Tag: freedom of speech

  • Baen Books

    Baen Books

      Anyone who has read my blog or who knows me, knows of my deep and abiding affection for Baen’s Bar, which led me to Baen Books. This week, a ham-handed and libelous attack was made on the forum. I’m including Toni Weisskopf’s response below.  To Whom It May Concern: What is it we do…

  • Quotes On Liberty

    Quotes On Liberty

      Continuing with my reading of great thinkers through the ages, on the topics of liberty, freedom, and the innate rights of Man, I have been very much enjoying John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty.  Although some of his arguments and persuasions are more targeted to freedom of speech and thought in religious settings, they apply…

  • Back Burner

    Back Burner

      I’ve been thinking about the idiom ‘back-burnering,’ because I’m having to do a lot of that at work. I’m coming up on a week now, working solo, in a lab which usually takes a team of five. I am not actually doing the job of five — there are things I’m not trained to…

  • Join Arms and March

    I am echoing the words of many bloggers today, as we all speak out in defense of free speech. Join us, in a virtual march, to show that you, too, defend the right to speak freely. Tell the Truth Using the idea that if you offend anyone, you’ve committed a hate crime, you can silence…

  • The Right to Speak Freely

    Never, it seems, has the freedom to speak been under more attack than in these days following the tragic murders of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. “President Francois Hollande said there was no doubt it had been a terrorist attack “of exceptional barbarity”.  Twelve people slaughtered in the name of terrorism, and their blood was not…