Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Sally Ann bans Harry Potter and Twilight toys | Canada | News | Toronto Sun – So it’s okay to give them toy guns, but not toy wizards. Well, that makes a load of sense. Not. (Also, note various inconsistencies as to whether the Evil Toys are passed onto other charities, or simply thrown away.) Now, that’s certainly the SA’s right to do — but it would be nice (and honest) if they were up front about it, so that people don’t waste their donations.
- Silencing Wikileaks is silencing the press – “Just as past court struggles for the legal protection of free speech in America have sometimes involved characters or groups one might find flawed at best, and abhorrent at worst, so too is this an imperfect entity deserving of the full protection of law and due process. Wikileaks may be flawed. But Americans cannot allow the US to criminalize Wikileaks. If we do, the rights of all citizens are jeopardized.”
- So WikiLeaks Is Evil For Releasing Documents… But DynCorp Gets A Pass For Pimping Young Boys To Afghan Cops? – The Powers that Be have done an effective job of turning public attention away from the revelations of the leaked documents, and onto (a) the Horrors of the Leaks! and (b) what a depraved pervert the guy who runs WikiLeaks is. Now, both of those may be true, but that doesn’t take away from what we’re learning is going on behind the curtain.
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