I used to know a man who worked for a drug company, in a fairly senior position. Within the ambit of Alcoholics Anonymous he told me and another woman how he first started to kill.
It began with a kitten that arrived in the family when he was a little boy in Ireland. He didn't like the way all the people's attention had gone from him and was fastening on the kitten. So he waited till everyone was out and put it in the range, where it was soon… Continue
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"...is commercial speech entitled to reduced First Amendment protection or noncommercial speech entitled to traditional free-speech protection." (California... "free speech" vs.… Continue
Mustn't say this and mustn't say that,
thinking of doing a disappearing act
like the girl who fell through the floor.
There is no-one here on the road.
In the houses the lonely dogs bark.
For a moment outside there were silent men
shovelling snow.
I went out my gate and smiled,
there was barely a note of recognition
in my neighbours of ten years, more, twenty some of them,
twenty years side by side and not one hello or anything but a blank… Continue
Time Magazine's Joe Klein is having an allergic reaction to free speech and public debate. The title of his latest column says it all: The Left's Idiocy on Health Reform. It's an ex cathedra pronouncement from a made man at one of the nation's oldest media… Continue