Free Speech

By Norman Rockwell

I would like to believe that part of the appeal of this blog is that it stands up for free speech ... and doesn’t squelch dissenters in the comments section. I would guess about 90% of the comments here disagree with my post’s arguments ... usually responded to by my counter-thoughts. This is what keeps things free and interesting ... and eventually can iterate to truth.

Much of the internet today does not permit such free-wheeling dialog. Twitter, reddit, Facebook, etc. are becoming increasingly restrictive in the degree of woke dissent they will permit. What good is that after all? These social media sites become echo chambers and not sounding boards. Worthless! And, in my opinion, sadly anti-American.


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Dialog

Vegetarian: “Do you realize that the meat in your ham sandwich there was once the flesh on the leg of a barnyard pig?”

Carnivore: “Yes, I can picture that ... but it doesn’t make it any less delicious ...”

The Pope's Hot Potato

On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, DC claimed that Pope Francis was merely trying to start a debate or a dialog on global warming with his recent Encyclical. However, it appears that, at his recent climate summit at the Vatican, global warming doubters were not invited ... see: Washington Post Story.

So much for opening a dialog on this political hot potato.