Category Archives: Culture
Supreme Court Slants Toward Free Speech
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court spoke up for free speech. The kind that offends.
The Court ruled unanimously in favor of The Slants. The Slants are an Asian rock band whose federal trademark application was rejected on the grounds that its name is offensive.
Justice Alito took offense at that. Here’s what he had to say about the Trademark Office rule: “It offends a bedrock First Amendment principle: Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend.”
That should please the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians.
Four liberal and three conservative justices agreed with Alito. Rookie Justice Gorsuch sat this one out.
Uber Founder Ejected
Uber investors forced C.E.O. Travis Kalanick out of the company he founded.
Here’s Reuters:
The resignation sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley and leaves Uber’s board of directors with the problem of finding a dynamic leader who also has a steady hand needed to heal Uber after a bruising six months.
Uber Founder Ejected
And here’s MIT Technology Review on Uber’s driverless car problem:
Its new CEO will inherit many problems, but a business plan based on the elusive dream of driverless cars is the largest.
Please Leave Evergreen State
Evergreen State College celebrated diversity by asking Caucasians to get their white asses off campus for a day. Death threats and property damage followed.
Deplorable Class War
Here’s a link to a lengthy piece by Michael Lind in American Affairs titled The New Class War.
Speechless in Berkeley
A generation ago UC Berkeley was considered the home of the free speech movement. Now students and imported thugs riot there to silence speakers they don’t like.
Speechless
Last week the university cancelled a speech by Ann Coulter. The school claimed it couldn’t assure her safety. She vowed to speak anyway but backed out yesterday.
Update 4/29:
Apparently anti-free speech protestors are pro-free massage. They got free rubdowns in the “Empathy Tent” at the sans Coulter event.
