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Mr. Comstock Knows It When He Sees It

Do you remember Annie Besant? No? Charles Knowlton? Charles Bradlaugh? Edward Bliss Foote? Ben Reitman? Bill Sanger? Ethyl Byrne? Emma Goldman? Margaret Sanger? [You might have heard of the last two. Goldman was immortalized in Ragtime. Sanger is justifiably famous.] What do they all have in common? They were all tried, convicted, fined or imprisoned, [...]

Why Do We Blog?

Why do we do this? Devote time and energy to hurl a few electrons into cyberspace, hoping that they’ll connect at some point with another human’s neurocortex? Some blog for self-expression. A reason to sit down at the end of an interminable day and collect one’s thoughts. Some blog for practice. Honing writing skills. Some [...]

Censorship? That’s MY Job

As a mother, you might think that I would want to protect my sons, who use the web and Amazon regularly (constantly?) from such nasty stuff.

Unh-unh.

I want the right to censor my own kids. I do not grant that right to Amazon.