tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16773593.post112409496118461995..comments2024-02-04T02:14:18.640-08:00Comments on Out of the Inkwell: Mike Dobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00694483252375913277noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16773593.post-40169009201151588262008-02-12T15:44:00.000-08:002008-02-12T15:44:00.000-08:00YO MIKE!!!Did you see our Fearless Leader Bush wit...YO MIKE!!!<BR/><BR/>Did you see our Fearless Leader Bush with Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday? Neither did I, only a few minutes of it. But I swear to you, I am not making this up: In his answer to a question about people saying he is this or that, he said "I am what I am!" All he needs to do is stress the "Yam" more and he's got it!Mark Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04799399359022340724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16773593.post-56715122528172501772008-02-09T07:07:00.000-08:002008-02-09T07:07:00.000-08:00Found my copy of the NICK comic zine yesterday. Ca...Found my copy of the NICK comic zine yesterday. Can't believe my two fave cartoonists, Mark and James K, are pictured on the same page -- and do a jam! What a deal this issue is, too. Wish Nick did comics specials every month...<BR/><BR/>BTW, Mark, your strips are great in this issue.SRBissettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14426874992235196378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16773593.post-40332175145556567982008-02-08T06:26:00.000-08:002008-02-08T06:26:00.000-08:00Freedom of Speech means tolerance of ALL speech. T...Freedom of Speech means tolerance of ALL speech. <BR/><BR/>That includes homophobes and racists and Nazis and KKK and so on, even Comedy Central and National Lampoon and blogs and Karl Rove on Fox News as an election-year pundit. <BR/><BR/>When speech turns into action, compromising the rights of others, it's then no longer speech, it's ACTION, and must be acted upon as necessary. <BR/><BR/>Often, hate-speech is its own worst enemy; intolerance is often what often derails their own ballyhoo.<BR/><BR/>When the KKK tried to rally in Wilmington, VT in the early '80s, they were their own worst enemy. When they got drunk the night before the rally and tore down banners the local high school students had put up encouraging people in town to ignore the rally -- "Hate Does Not Grow In the Rocky Soil of Vermont" -- the Klan members broke a public ordinance, since the high school students who put up those posters and banners had cleared permission with town authorities to post them -- and that led to the town sheriff to pull them over, and ask them to open their trunk, and when they complied and revealed the shotguns and firearms they'd brought with them, they were escorted to the state border and instructed that if they returned, they would be arrested. Inhibiting the free speech of others defused the entire situation, in a way, and I've never forgotten that lesson.<BR/><BR/>Free Speech means, yes, we often tolerate hurtful and mean-spirited speech. That makes it no less hurtful, infuriating or mean-spirited, but unless it's spilling into some other overt activity (e.g., blocking access to family planning/abortion clinics, crashing military funerals to spread homophobia, etc.), it must be tolerated. <BR/><BR/>And listened to.<BR/><BR/>And then acted upon, with reason and passion and all the free speech you, too, can muster.SRBissettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14426874992235196378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16773593.post-76125445084962013122008-02-08T03:02:00.000-08:002008-02-08T03:02:00.000-08:00DAMMIT! I have brilliant thoughts on the whole PC ...DAMMIT! I have brilliant thoughts on the whole PC comments thing but no time to share them! Very busy at work and at home right now.<BR/><BR/>I'll get back to you on thatMark Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04799399359022340724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16773593.post-75555300355345451012008-02-07T19:55:00.000-08:002008-02-07T19:55:00.000-08:00Someone like that would never win a single primary...<I>Someone like that would never win a single primary.</I><BR/><BR/>But he wouldn't let it stop him.Kip Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751319031224838771noreply@blogger.com