Saturday, March 31st, 2007
How is it that the person who wrote one of my favorite blog posts of all time on the issues of positive thinking and positive association, has become the victim of threats that cross all sorts of lines. Whatever the details on this huge controversy are, the bottom line is ...
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Sunday, August 13th, 2006
I've never been one to believe it's better to do business in China or anywhere else by bowing to their demands for censorship and oppression than to not do so at all. Apparently many in the UK's Parliment agree:
UK MPs slam 'immoral' Microsoft, Google, Yahoo stance
THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS committee in ...
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
I wasn't going to go see The Da Vinci Code before, but now I'm gonna!
CNN.com - 'Da Vinci' provokes widespread protests - May 16, 2006
Now that's a movie I'd like to see!
It amazes me that wingnut factions worldwide will call more attention to an issue that they hate by kicking ...
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Saturday, April 8th, 2006
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Stones rock full crowd in China
Ahead of the concert on Saturday, the Chinese government asked that the band not play the songs Brown Sugar, Honky Tonk Woman, Beast of Burden and Let's Spend the Night Together because of their suggestive lyrics.
Authorities reportedly later added another ...
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Sunday, February 5th, 2006
PlaybillArts: News: Colorado Music Teacher Defends Screening of Faust Video
The controversy began after Waggoner, who teaches elementary, middle and high school students at the K-12 school in a small town about 25 miles east of Denver, tried to pique the curiosity of the first, second, and third graders in one ...
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