• Great editors may be worth their weight in antimatter

    New York Times best-selling, self-published author Hugh Howey says, “Invest in your book with editing and great cover art.”

  • Is this an example of Defamation?—not protected by the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

    Libel (defamation) is the number one reason journalists get sued, and the average verdict is $2.4 million.

  • Taking it Global: Online Freedom of Speech versus the 6th Amendment

    Freedom of Speech is only one of the rights/protections that the US Constitution offers its citizens.

  • Originally posted on iLook China: Have you ever heard of a “found” poem? If not, this is what it means: “Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems.” Source: Poets.org…

  • The Internet is not a Safe Haven for being Anonymous when Behaving Badly

    There is no guarantee that being anonymous online offers a safe haven to be abusive to others. Recently, I was in a scuffle with a flock of anonymous voices on Amazon and as I struggled to disengage from the issue, I was warned that I should apologize to all the anonymous voices hiding behind the masks, and I asked myself…

  • Censored but not Silenced: Part 5/5

    Is it possible that Murdock—or other wealthy neoconservatives—are supplying the money behind the IMED where Julie Lenarz is a fellow?

  • Censored but not Silenced: Part 4/5

    I have learned that it is best to be suspicious of political nonprofit organizations with impressive sounding names that promise to achieve wonderful things and make the world a better place. They could be a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

  • Censored but not Silenced: Part 3/5

    There are several private-sector special interest groups that benefited from the Iraq War—each one for a different reason.

  • Censored but not Silenced: Part 2/5

    Wars are fought with mostly borrowed money that ends up growing the National Debt and that debt—if it is ever paid off—will be paid by U.S. tax payers and not by oil companies.

  • Censored but not Silenced: Part 1/5

    Civil Liberties says, “The right to free speech is a longstanding U.S. tradition, but actually respecting the right to free speech is not.”