Let’s imagine that the protest outside the Prairieland detention facility in Alvarado, Texas on July 4, 2025, occurred exactly as it did, with all parties still responsible for what they did and said– but the word “terrorism” was never used to describe it. Would the protestors still have received a combined sentence of 450 years in prison? … Read more
Apparently in the uproar over beheadings committed by ISIS, some have noticed that America’s ally Saudi Arabia has committed quite a few of them as well: The escalation of the war against the Islamic State was triggered by widespread revulsion at the gruesome beheading of two American journalists, relayed on YouTube. Since then, two British aid … Read more
In France, individual citizens run a satirical magazine, the Charlie Hebdo, which publishes cartoons making fun of Muhammad among countless other current world leaders and historical figures. In retaliation, terrorists storm the office and murder 12 people at that office, as well as five more at a kosher market. As far away as Sudan, angry … Read more
So, two things to mention here. First, hey look! New blog design. I’ve been wanting to change it for quite some time to something more clean and minimalist, and am pretty happy with how things are now. Though I do talk about personal issues from time to time, this isn’t Livejournal and I wanted to … Read more
Doxing (from dox, abbreviation of documents), alternatively spelled doxxing, is the Internet-based practice of researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual. — Wikipedia In some cases, this “research” involves simply looking at the email address from which a message came, and including it rather than expunging it when you publish (“broadcast”) the content … Read more
Update: I’m now selling freeze peaches at my Etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Rillion I haven’t been writing much lately, I know. That’s due to a lot of factors, but one of them is something I have the opportunity to now write about and show you. I’ve been learning how to make things with epoxy resin. Epoxy resin is … Read more
So, you want me to explain how I can tell that your Facebook page entitled “Should Miri Mogilevsky be murdered?” is not “an exercise in Free Speech”? Okay, I can do that. 1. First of all, Facebook is a privately owned space on the internet, a web site. It’s not a public space, like a … Read more
KS governor Sam Brownback. Photo credit: Brent Wistrom, The Wichita Eagle Fearing terms is odd. But in terms of terms to fear I’d suggest “public square” and “public sphere.”When it comes to church and state separationthese words are oft used for equivocationof an individual’s right to express a thoughtand a government’s ideological onslaught,to swap the … Read more
Stephanie Zvan at Almost Diamonds came up with an excellent t-shirt idea: an image of a peach, half-frozen in a block of ice, with the slogan “Freeze Peach! Not sure what it is, but it’s mine.” This is in reference to the continual shouting of “free speech” in order to defend speech which is not … Read more
You do not get to operate a hate group without being called a hate group. Sorry. Yes, when your group says that homosexuals are “destructive to society” and should be “exported from the U.S.,” it’s a hate group. When it says that we should return to having criminal sanctions for homosexuals, it’s a hate group. … Read more