Turn off Rush: Changing the Channel is not Censorship

I am a pretty much and absolutist when it comes to freedom of speech. Since libel and slander can be addressed in the courts, except for the oft cited “Yelling fire in a crowded theater” example, I think people should have the right to say whatever they feel like. Therefore, I am compelled defend the right of Rush Limbaugh to speak whatever words leak out of the cottage cheese and moss he has between his ears.

You and I, however, are under no compulsion to listen to Rush’s drivel. Whenever Rush comes on, we are free to turn off the radio or television or change the channel. And after Limbaugh’s racist attack on Obama’s response to the crisis in Haiti, if we want to consider ourselves decent, honorable men and women we must refuse to support Rush by listening.

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The Swine Flu Vaccine And Darwin (Be One Of The Fittest, Get The Vaccine)

For some time I have felt it was unfair that those who reject science (e.g. Christians who don’t accept evolution, believe the Bible is true word for word, think the world is only 6000-years-old, etc.) to receive antibiotics, vaccines, anesthetics, and modern scientifically based medical care. If pain and suffering did not reform their beliefs then their more frequent untimely deaths would reduce their birthrates—reducing in two ways the overall prevalence of these anti-science beliefs.

 Now with the advent of the H1N1 virus (swine flu), a medically based survival of the mentally fittest is about to be played out with no need for anyone’s intervention.

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