Life, death and free speech . . .

I'm haven't been keeping up as I should, and I'm running late in my posts, email, and everything... But I've noticed the rest of the world does not stop. A cruel white curtain of snow has descended over the East Coast while I enjoy balmy 60 degree weather! Naturally, I feel extremely guilty, and doubtless for my escapist thought crimes I deserve the severest possible shaming.

But meanwhile, the blogosphere goes on, epitomized by this week's mind-bloggling collection of posts at the Carnval of the Vanities. Northstar (that's Jack Cluth) at the People's Republic of Seabrook does a truly fantastic job with all of them.

Here are a few which stood out for me.

  • Michael Demmons, blogging at Dean's World, has some good questions about oversensitivity:
    Why do people think the most innocent things can be immediately called racism, homophobic, sexist, etc? And more importantly, why do rational people allow them to get away with it?
    To which I'd add another question: Why is it that real hate speech (such as calling for the death of Jews) is excused by the same people who hurl these accusations?
  • Along similar lines, Ian Michael Hamet makes the case that for intolerant Islamic terrorists, becoming gay can be a gas. (No, really!)
  • La Shawn Barber is not endorsing Newt Gingrich for president.
  • But surely there's something worse than Newt Gingrich? Yes! Michael Moore has been allowed to enter the Carnival. Hmmmmm.... Must be a pretty big tent....
  • Not to worry though! Ann Coulter squeezed him out with a post about Moore's fellow Bush hater Bill Burkett.
  • Whatever happened to Sandy Berger, last accused of stocking stuffing before Christmas? McDonalds has immortalized him -- and Nikita Demosthenes has the scoop.
  • Beck at INCITE has a sickening account explaining why children orphaned by the tsunami must live in poverty for "cultural" reasons rather than be adopted by people from other cultures. The Culture War trumps humanitarianism, compassion, even getting enough to eat!
  • Meryl Yourish has more on the anti-Semitic outrages I filmed the other day. (I'm still amazed by the notion that calling for the death of Jews must not be considered hate speech!)
  • Power Line has more on the gruesome underreported story of a Coptic Christian family stabbed to death -- allegedly by Muslims -- in New Jersey. The crime was in apparent retaliation for disagreeing with Muslims on the Internet! I'm glad we have the Second Amendment in this country (although if it's been seriously undermined in New Jersey.) I wonder whether Michael Moore and the rest of the unholy alliance will defend the murderers. (That's a rhetorical question, folks. Of course they will.) I'm sure there are those who'd consider mere criticism of the killers to be "hate speech."
  • No wonder Uncle Sam tried to committ suicide (Good job of saving him, Solomon!)
  • So go read the Carnival, and keep free speech alive!

    posted by Eric on 01.19.05 at 12:12 PM





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    Interesting stuff. I sure liked Michael Demmons's essay in Dean's World. As for that "gay gas", maybe I need it. Make me a man's man. A real he-man. I've often thought about that. Then I'd be straight instead of constantly being lured into the encircling sinuous paths of sin.

    La Shawn Barber's position on Gingrich is consistently Conservative, demanding character and upholding the sanctity of marriage. I'm glad Gingrich was keeping Clinton in check back then, but I can't see him as President. At least Clinton still stays married to his wife. Moore and Coulter (if I were a man's man, I'd go for Hannity!) and Sandy Burglar? Interesting....

    Those last three items were just too excruciatingly infuriating. I have had it with Political Correctness, terrorists, Jew-haters, Christian-haters, America-haters, the destroyers of our Western high culture. I'm proud to be a Politically Incorrect, Zionist, American Chauvinist, Western Imperialist Warmonger. I'm glad I voted for Bush, I'm glad he and his party are in control of our government or else this mess would be even worse.

    No, it's a thought but I'll stick with what I am. I prefer the encircling sinuous paths of sin. I admire men's men, but I'll continue to worship Lesbians, Lesbianism, the holy embrace of Tribadism....

    Michael Moore in a COTV...

    I wonder if that was self-submitted, or if someone else "nominated" him for things.

    Were I hosting a COTV, I'm afraid Mr. Moore's submission would get "lost." Though, really, to simply see Michael Moore in my inbox might be more than I could handle. Have to get a new email address then, as the old one would have become unclean.

    Beck   ·  January 20, 2005 08:47 AM


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