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1. 4 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   That’s what I was saying. People suppress each other’s speech, as in your example, all the time; it’s only government that’s (theoretically) not allowed to.

2. 5 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   No. Claiming “free speech is violated” because someone disagrees with one is strictly a right-wing thing.

3. 5 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Apologies. I was respoding to someone else.

4. 6 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   You are incorrect. Government is expressly forbidden from regulating speech. Citizens can do as much of it as they can get away with. And they do. Especially right-wingers, by constantly claiming that everyone who disagrees with them is violating their free speech.

5. 7 days ago on Ted Rall

   Agreed; maybe more so.

6. 8 days ago on Ted Rall

   Yeah, Butler was writing in the wake of WWI: it’s hardly a new observation.

7. 19 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   Incredible. People are still talking about “republicans” and “democrats?”

8. 24 days ago on Prickly City

   ALL US politicians love the poorly educated. They’re easier to fool and it’s child play to rip them off. That’s why the two factions of the republicratic party have cooperated with each other for generations to make sure the US education system is the worst in the ‘developed’ world (and some third-world countries are better).

9. 27 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   … song lyrics, contortedly set up with made-up words or names to fit the syllables thereof. I have said so many times. They are certainly not puns. Yes, on Sundays, I can usually see the gag (there’s my pun) coming and skip as well.

   Most Americans dislike puns; I figured out decades ago that that’s because Americans are so bad at punning, and-or have distorted ideas of what a pun is. People from other English-speaking places are much better at it, and the puns in, say, Ireland, are sometimes worth hearing.

10. 28 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    What are you talking about?