Since you were probably too busy last week driving across various state lines to procure semi-legal fireworks, you might have missed the rest of John Stagliano‘s debate with First Amendment scholar Barry McDonald. (Spoiler alert: They don’t agree!) It’s interesting and informative, but there’s not enough vicious name calling and ad hominem attacks for our cable news channel tastes. (latimes.com)

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  • MalzyWheels

    It was also never covered because the First Amendment isn’t viewed by a lot of people to be as precious as the Second Amendment. Censorship for all, folks. But shoot ‘em if you got ‘em.

    “Me, I romp and stomping
    Thankful as a romp
    Without freedom of speech
    I might be in the swamp.”

  • Come a little Miroslav Klose You’re My Kind of Man

    @MalzyWheels: Shall we import porn, or guns? Porn will only make us sticky, but guns will make us bleed.

    … Uh, we import porn, then?

  • MalzyWheels

    @josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris’s sack-dance…: Well, while I don’t do much imported porn, I like the beginning of the Futurama videos where they tell the viewer simply to “Have Fun,” instead of having some “I’m not a doctor, but I play one in the beginning of pornos” broad giving this blah blah blah, long-ass, buzz-kill dissertation about safe and responsible sex (realize that this has pretty much gone from the American porn lexicon, but hey…). So Imports wouldn’t be bad. And you know that American porn starlets, directors, et. al would just go to Europe to do their craft. But this is besides the point because the issue here is censorship, which I regard as infantile.

    It’s really sad because this country is way too complacent with the “you can’t say this” or “you can’t watch that because we deem it as improper” spew coming from our politicians and government. We accept most of it without protest. But try to do anything like create register for handguns and it’ll be like jumping into a pool of Parana.

    Besides we make the better guns [along with porn]! I’ll get a gun when they come for my Porn! You don’t want to be in a room with a spastic cripple waving a loaded gun around! :)

    Lawyers, Guns and Money. Had to put a musical reference in here! :)