Censors and Euphemists

Good morning. Several new items today.

• The U.S. government's Department of Agriculture has erradicated hunger. No joke. It's no longer calling America's 35 million poor hungry, but merely lacking in "food security." One more step in America's surrender to the fake. See "Security's Hungers..."
  

• Al-Jazeera has gone global with an English service. Too bad you can't see it in the United States. See "Censoring al-Jazeera..."
  

• Weekend Reading: On Monday Pierre presented a talk at Stetson University as part of the university's Values Council lecture series. The full transcript: See "Whose Freedom? Whose Responsibility?"
  

• John Dowland, anyone? For a little Elizabethan Lute music, try the "Dowland-de Maistre Smackdown..."
  

• Plenty more, as always, in Candide's Daily Journal...

Good weekend everyone.pt

Moday Morning Beatings

Good morning. A few new post-election items ...

• What is it with the Los Angeles Police Department and its barbarism? See "L.A. Beating," with video.
  

• How the University of Alabama and other corporations are dumbing down intellect and creatyivity in the name of copyright: see Pierre's "Art, Expression and the Parody of Property..."
  

• When it comes to the confirmation of the new defense secretary, it won't be a repeat of the Iran-Contra hearings--unfortunately. See "The Skeletons in Robert Gates's Closet..."

More, including Bach on the Lute, in the redesigned Candide's Latest...

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