Comments on: Apparently, Pullman Has A Lot Of Whitney Houston Fans… http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/26/apparently-pullman-has-a-lot-of-whitney-houston-fans/ Free Minds, Free Markets, Free Booze Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:02:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Timothy http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/26/apparently-pullman-has-a-lot-of-whitney-houston-fans/#comment-1816 Timothy Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:29:00 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/26/apparently-pullman-has-a-lot-of-whitney-houston-fans/#comment-1816 Get that Messiah a gold glove! Get that Messiah a gold glove!

]]> By: Tyler http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/26/apparently-pullman-has-a-lot-of-whitney-houston-fans/#comment-1815 Tyler Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:42:28 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/26/apparently-pullman-has-a-lot-of-whitney-houston-fans/#comment-1815 My favorite bit from the article: "And of course there was the scene where newborn babies were shot onto the stage, apparently from a Mormon mothers offstage womb, and Jesus, like a good outfielder, caught all 16 of them." My favorite bit from the article:

“And of course there was the scene where newborn babies were shot onto the stage, apparently from a Mormon mothers offstage womb, and Jesus, like a good outfielder, caught all 16 of them.”

]]> By: Danimal http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/26/apparently-pullman-has-a-lot-of-whitney-houston-fans/#comment-1814 Danimal Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:24:25 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2005/10/26/apparently-pullman-has-a-lot-of-whitney-houston-fans/#comment-1814 I just love how commonplace references to "threat[s] to safety" have become in cases of uproar over controversial but essentially innocuous free expression. Have we really gone all the way back to 1914 in our thinking? Current First Amendment law, as shaped by judges over the last century, is wonderfully broad and disparaging of such nonsensical appeals to public safety and order. But I seriously worry about the mentality of the current crop of students. It won't be too long before the censorial creeps currently enjoying hegemony in American universities are in a position to determine the future scope of the First Amendment. I'm thinking of the sort who, say, claim the OC threatens student safety by its printed word or believe DuChateau committed defamation by calling Frog an ass clown. Meanwhile, free speech is in much worse shape in every other liberal democracy on earth. It's really pretty depressing how dumb our generation is about free expression. /rant I just love how commonplace references to “threat[s] to safety” have become in cases of uproar over controversial but essentially innocuous free expression. Have we really gone all the way back to 1914 in our thinking?

Current First Amendment law, as shaped by judges over the last century, is wonderfully broad and disparaging of such nonsensical appeals to public safety and order. But I seriously worry about the mentality of the current crop of students. It won’t be too long before the censorial creeps currently enjoying hegemony in American universities are in a position to determine the future scope of the First Amendment. I’m thinking of the sort who, say, claim the OC threatens student safety by its printed word or believe DuChateau committed defamation by calling Frog an ass clown. Meanwhile, free speech is in much worse shape in every other liberal democracy on earth. It’s really pretty depressing how dumb our generation is about free expression.

/rant

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