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Grizzlies 111 Golden State 101

Good game tonight. I think Houston matches up well against LA. Looking forward to a good series.

No someone usually e-mails them to me.

Slate seems to think Americans should be limited to owning just two firearms: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/10/a_two_guns_per_person_limit_would_protect_americans_lives_and_liberty.html There is an idea. In fact let's apply it to other rights too. You can only vote twice. Go to church twice. Arrested a third time? To bad buddy, your a$$ is ours now. Oh your insurance company f----d you? Too bad you've already filed your lifetime maximum of two lawsuits. Want to attend a protest? Sucks to be you because you attended two already. What? You employer cut your pay below minimum wage and eliminated your benefits and makes you work in an unsafe way? We'd love to help you but this is your third job. We only protect you for two.

It's actually sad that the very place that gave birth to the modern free speech movement (as if they didn't already have it) is now the epicenter of the push for it's abolition.

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well what did the republicans talk about? I mean the right to demonstrate is just as sacred as the right to free speech; and perhaps the repubs did say something worth protesting against. From what I read it was a club meeting. Crashing it is as stupid as crashing the chess club because you hate chess.

Students crash a College Republican and demanded the group be disbanded and the members expelled from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Apparently they were chanting "no free speech for facists" and one of them was quotes as saying "dialogue is violence". Apparently differing political opinions are not to be tolerated at Cal. I love irony. It's my favorite form of humor. But when the people comitting it are too stupid to see it it does lose some of it's flavor. https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9986

My facebook page would have you believe i eat, breathe, and sleep ecological engineering. That it is my sole interest. Oh, and I'm facebook friends with my boss and most of my co-workers. And of course pictures of my brother and his family.

Justin Reed, former Celtic & Ole Miss star, has passed away at just 35. He was fighting blood cancer. Very sad news. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/former-celtic-passes-away-at-35-years-old/ar-AAtM5gE?ocid=spartanntp

The end of an era. When DC United finishes it's season in two days that will be the end of the line for RFK Stadium. For may years it was the home of the Washington Senators and the Washington Redskins. Even the Nationals played there for a time. Whe it's gone the Oakland will have the last of the big multi-use stadiums. And it's clock is ticking too. https://ballparkdigest.com/2017/10/19/end-of-an-era-at-rfk-stadium/

Well the First Order is in. Now waiting for the Empire.

Oh no, how dare they... warn people that rape and violence is happening in these plays? Clearly this is the same thing as burning books! something something cultural marxism something something outrageNot the same thing... but the latter is only a short step from the former.you can’t be serious? What is essentially a brief summary of certain moments is close to the same as the censorship and symbolic destruction of literature? By that logic, I might as well say book titles are a short step from censorship, because they direct the readers interest without giving him explicit information. I didn't say they were the same or equate them in any way other than to point out the former is a step (even a small one) in the direction of the latter. No, you said that “the latter is only a short step from the former”, indicating not that one is a small step into a certain direction, but that one is only shortly apart from the other. Yep, I wrote that. Not what I meant to say though. My answer to aluminiumtrioxid in post 422 really outlines what I think on the matter and why. Like I said, there is a history here. I don't think the words banned or censored should ever be used in reference to s book, or any other source of information for that matter.

Not the same thing... but the latter is only a short step from the former.you can’t be serious? What is essentially a brief summary of certain moments is close to the same as the censorship and symbolic destruction of literature? By that logic, I might as well say book titles are a short step from censorship, because they direct the readers interest without giving him explicit information. I didn't say they were the same or equate them in any way other than to point out the former is a step (even a small one) in the direction of the latter. I'm just going to point out that the slippery slope fallacy is called a fallacy for a reason. When it comes to asserting a thing WILL happen, or that one event consequently leads to another sure. I think I've been pretty clear that I'm not necessarily connecting the two. But there is a history here in the US in particular of music. movies, and books especially being banned and it begins with some "moral outrage" over a thing that offends only a few people with the power to take away what they think other's shouldn't see. This is from the article and the words of one of the professors: Another Cambridge lecturer told Newsnight that trigger warnings had been added to the timetable "without discussion", while another admitted they "self-censored" texts on their course to avoid causing offence to some students. ​The day that anything has to be censored to avoid hurting the feelings of the poor little dears we are in trouble. Censorship of any stripe does not belong in a school. Especially not one of "higher learning". I think you'll agree censorship and outright banning, while not the same thing, are at the very least the same KIND of thing. Of course it may be too late anyway. Earlier this year at Northern Arizona University a student was escorted from a classroom for reading a banned book before class. Two years ago right here in Tennessee a middle school student was suspended for reading a banned book during a designated free reading period at school. The school even took that book away from the student before suspending them. Both incidents were the same book by the way. It was the bible.

Oh no, how dare they... warn people that rape and violence is happening in these plays? Clearly this is the same thing as burning books! something something cultural marxism something something outrageNot the same thing... but the latter is only a short step from the former.you can’t be serious? What is essentially a brief summary of certain moments is close to the same as the censorship and symbolic destruction of literature? By that logic, I might as well say book titles are a short step from censorship, because they direct the readers interest without giving him explicit information. I didn't say they were the same or equate them in any way other than to point out the former is a step (even a small one) in the direction of the latter.

Snoke vs Palpatine. The Empire vs the First Order... it's only one game from becoming a reality.

The Grizz won big and even better Brooks scores 19 in his NBA debut. Nice!

Well, my final comment on it is this: if the poor little dears are unable to deal with a work of historical fiction I strongly suggest avoiding the study of actual history. It's much worse.

Actually nothing about the story upsets me. I really posted it in the spirit of "hey look at this stupid crap". But I am surprised at the people who think the poor little dears have a legitimate point.

Right... because there is no history of people wanting the things they find offensive being banned altogether. Someday these poor little dears will be in positions of political power. Granted we are talking about something that MIGHT happen but hasn't yet. But it's not a stretch to imagine what has happened before can happen again.

Who is we in this context? Well, I was really attempting to be humorous by ripping off a line from the original Planet of the Apes. But to answer your question the "we" would be the people who can read f-----g play without feeling so traumatized they need to see a f-----g therapist afterwards. Well some people that were victims of attacks like in the play might have some reason to be upset. There is a warning in the notes, how is that skin off your nose? Fine. If anyone whose lover was murdered and then dragged into the woods, raped, and had her hands and tongue cut off feels upset about it I'll sympathize. Otherwise my advice to the poor little dears is to either cowboy the f--k up or read something else.

Oh no, how dare they... warn people that rape and violence is happening in these plays? Clearly this is the same thing as burning books! something something cultural marxism something something outrage Not the same thing... but the latter is only a short step from the former.

Who is we in this context? Well, I was really attempting to be humorous by ripping off a line from the original Planet of the Apes. But to answer your question the "we" would be the people who can read f-----g play without feeling so traumatized they need to see a f-----g therapist afterwards.

Look at it on the bright side. If universities keep churning out legions milk blooded lilting pansies then in a few more years we'll going to take this whole f-----g show over and run this place!