I think it is wonderful to see two Republicans working together, don't you?
Obama-Clinton Briefing: Former President Endorses Tax Cut Deal (VIDEO)
In one sense, it amazes me that reactionaries are/were so hard on these two.
They really are continuations of the corporatist policies initiated by Carter,
and brought to fruit by Regan.
I would like to say I am surprised, but not. This seems to be the only
kind of Democratic president our system can produce. It almost
makes me believe in conspiracy theories about "the man."
Friday, December 10, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
No one has the right to live without being shocked.
I just stumbled across Phillp Pullman: "No One Has The Right To Live Without Being Shocked" , recently. You may already have read this, but I hadn't.
The statements were made by Pullman made on March 28 at Oxford in the defense of free speech after being challenged about the title of his novel The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
It was one of those things I really wish I had said.
Questioner: Mr Pullman, the title of the novel seems to an ordinary christian to be offensive.
To call the son of god a scoundrel is an awful thing to say.
Pullman: It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a
shocking thing to say.
But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No
one has the right to spend their life without being
offended.
Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it
up. Nobody has to open it. And if you open it and read it,
you don't have to like it.
And if you read it and you dislike it, you don't have to
remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can
complain about it, you can write to the publisher, you can
write to the papers, you can write your own book.
You can do all those things, but there your rights
stop. No one has the right to stop me writing this
book. No one has the right to stop it being published, <
or bought, or sold or read. That's all I have to say on
that subject.
The statements were made by Pullman made on March 28 at Oxford in the defense of free speech after being challenged about the title of his novel The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
It was one of those things I really wish I had said.
Questioner: Mr Pullman, the title of the novel seems to an ordinary christian to be offensive.
To call the son of god a scoundrel is an awful thing to say.
Pullman: It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a
shocking thing to say.
But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No
one has the right to spend their life without being
offended.
Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it
up. Nobody has to open it. And if you open it and read it,
you don't have to like it.
And if you read it and you dislike it, you don't have to
remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can
complain about it, you can write to the publisher, you can
write to the papers, you can write your own book.
You can do all those things, but there your rights
stop. No one has the right to stop me writing this
book. No one has the right to stop it being published, <
or bought, or sold or read. That's all I have to say on
that subject.
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