Originally posted by obstinatrix at To UK Flisties
Originally posted by de_nugis at To UK Flisties
(Taken most recently from amber1960, slightly adapted.)

You lot know I never normally go in for chain posts but this is important:

If you're from the UK and you believe in freedom of speech and an uncensored interenet, you really need to sign this petition. There are others ( Read more... )

Normally, comments on online newspaper articles make me wish I could disown 2/3 of the human race but this is a little gem of an exception:

A Jewish newspaper in NJ decides not to print same-sex wedding announcements anymore and MANY people comment, mostly very eloquently indeed, about how cowardly and unethical this is. There is one solitary ( Read more... )

So the Lockerbie bomber is being released on compassionate grounds so he can die at home with his family. This will no doubt cause considerable consternation to some, such as Hilary Clinton, while others doubt he was ever guilty in the first placeI don't know whether he was responsible for all those deaths or not, what I do know is that compassion ( Read more... )

For all the wrong heads (*grin*) around here who do not read Neil Gaiman's blog on a regular basis, here is an excellant post he has written about how defending freedom of speech sometimes means we have to defend things we find icky. His example is to do with child porn in comics but his argument applies across the board.

Looks like Prop 8 is going to pass, banning same-sex marriage in California.

*sigh*

So as of today, a black man is president-elect of the USA. Even if he completely fails to live up to expectations (although I really hope he doesn't, for all our sakes), nothing will change the fact that there are black people in America who remember being 2nd class citizens and not having the right to vote, and now one of their own is going to run ( Read more... )