... Egypt's Radio and TelevisionUnion is available as a consultant to the Federal Communications Commission. Look, ma, we can also have broadcast restrictions that would make a Third World nation proud.

Waldo brought my attention to this one, although I disagree strongly with his sweeping generalization in the opening line: Christians are innovative when it comes to ducking responsibility for their bigotries. This is the poster placed all over campus on an Ohio community college by an atheist group promoting its next meeting: It brought out the predictable narrow-minded rejoinders that the people behind the poster were mocking religion : Student aide Jessica Hodge said she felt the poster would “pollute the minds” of her children, ages 2 and 5, if they saw it. “It looks like soft-core pornography,” she said. “I don’t think they’re making a statement at all. They just want to shock everyone.” A Christian, Hodge said she doesn’t try to force her opinions on others. Questioning religion is fine, but mocking it isn’t, she said. As another Christian who believes in the First Amendment, Jessica, I need to explain to you that mocking religion is perfectly fair game. And I'd also point...

"Even if they should smash statues and burn scriptures, it would be wrong of me to carry anger in my heart or offense in my head, as the Buddha suffered through innumerable hardships, so too must I bear patiently these things, heat and wind, cold and rain, ignorant people and anger of others. All things arise a result of conditions, I did not condition them, but I will cherish all living beings within them." --Buddhist Prayer, translated from Pali Thailand plans to censor you and your site if you offend the Buddha. This raises a number of troubling questions about the use of the Internet to control how information is used, about the dynamics of our first amendment rights online and our willingness to defend them. Of course most Americans do not want to cause any offense to anyone, but often do so through sheer ignorance of the historical conditions people are sensitive to; sometimes people do so willingly, but for many Americans tolerance is an ideal as enshrined as it is for...