Lecturer | Linguist | language researcher | PhD Candidate in Complex Systems
If you know my politics you will know that I am unapologetically a free speech advocate. Free speech is the basis for a free society. It is outward expression of reasoning and if speech is limited we can no longer
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Unless you have been living under a rock since yesterday you know that Elon Musk purchased just under 10% of Twitter. He is the single biggest stockholder of the company. He was also named to their board. For me this
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Recently the MLB decided to move their all-star game from Georgia to Colorado stating that “Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.” Leaving the actual substance of the bill and
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Never in my life would I think that people would believe that limiting speech would be a virtue. Unfortunately, this is our sad state of affairs. It reminds me of the movie I, Robot. In the 2004 Will Smith movie,
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Cancel culture is in full force and is sweeping the world like cancer it is. Dr. Seuss and the former spuds that were Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head are the latest victims. Unfortunately, a large number of companies and people
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In a world of shifting values and relative moralism, it has been said that there are in reality, no limits to government. We are simply limited by what is convenient at the moment and what the people vote in. This
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This has bee a long week. In September two of my children’s passports expired and Wendy’s was filled up. I was supposed to leave for the USA in may 2020 but because of COVID-19 I had to postpone out plans.
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I wrote yesterday of Trump’s defense team and their linguistic defense. It was great. Today, the Senate voted to acquit Trump. It was the correct decision for at least three reasons. Casting doubt on the election process is well within
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Democrats have long tried to establish that Donald Trump incited a riot with his rhetoric. They attempted to make the case that certain phrases were in fact not innocent at all but certain code for violence. These phrases included: We
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There was an article in the National Review that caught my eye today. It was about how the media covered the different riots this summer and how they treated capitol rioters in January. We hold concepts in our brain through
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