My rage only grows at the murder of cartoonists, artists armed only with wit, by masked gunmen shouting Islamic slogans in Paris today. The bursting slogan, Je suis Charlie, says "I am Charlie." If you speak, if you question, if…
Posts tagged as “free speech”
The Rapid City Journal reprints an article from the Exberliner about the awkward freedom-of-speech case of Yankton Sioux artist Robert Packard. We can't call it a First-Amendment case, because world-traveling Packard isn't in the U.S.; he's in Germany, where he's…
Boy, I seem to be all about praising librarians this week. Monday night, I'm talking up Augie librarians' speaker, Rick Steves; now, I find myself extolling Brookings Public Library Director Elvita Landau as the most calm and sane voice in…