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Okay. Let’s try this one more time, because I’m obviously not getting my point across. I don’t support neonazis. I don’t support any group whose ideas I disagree with, and I disagree with Nazism more profoundly than I disagree with any other group. They killed my family.

I’ve linked here, many times, to http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-icky-speech.html — it’s a long blog essay on why I think the First Amendment is important, and why I’ve given a lot of my time and a lot of money over the last quarter of a century to defending freedom of speech. It comes down to the statement that:

The Law is a blunt instrument. It’s not a scalpel. It’s a club. If there is something you consider indefensible, and there is something you consider defensible, and the same laws can take them both out, you are going to find yourself defending the indefensible.

I’m not quite sure what you are using “support” to mean, here. Yes, I think they have to right to be alive, to think wrong, evil things, to not be imprisoned simply for their beliefs. If this is supporting them, then I support every group in the world, including many who would, if they achieved power, want me killed or imprisoned.

I believe people have the right to think and say the wrong things. (And I believe that marching peacefully is a form of speech.) I believe our remedy for that should be to argue with them or to ignore them or to march against them. We have the right and the ability to mock them, to vilify them, to speak out against them, to expose them or to cut them out of our lives.

I believe that you, whoever you are, as a human being, have the absolute right to think things that I find offensive, stupid, preposterous or dangerous, and that you have the right to speak, write, or distribute these things, and that I do not have the right to kill you, maim you, hurt you, or take away your liberty or property because I find your ideas threatening or insulting or downright disgusting. You might will think some of my ideas are pretty vile too.

I believe that if you give the state powers to limit free speech, there is no guarantee that you will find yourself on the right side of what speech is permitted. That laws used to clamp down on one set of political groups, religions or ideologies can also be used against others, ones you identify with, like and really do support. 

From where I stand, it’s the Nazis that burn the books, that burn the people. We’re better than that.

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You might think that a 6-minute video about archery will bore you to death, but trust me, you’ll want to watch what this guy can do with a bow and a few arrows.

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If THE FACEBOOK had a commercial back in the mid-90s.

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By Ubertee
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Let's turn from the latest cheating scandal involving the New England Patriots to a much more pleasant subject: breasts.

It is completely legal and acceptable for men to go shirtless in public throughout the United States.  But in many states and cities, women do not have the same right.  And heaven forfend there should be a "wardrobe malfunction" during the SuperBowl or similar event that exposes the country to a brief split-second glimpse of a female nipple (actually a pastie, but don't confuse us with facts).  GAME OF THRONES is often slammed for showing too many breasts as well.  As are other cable shows.  And of course you can't show them at all on broadcast television.

Only in America.  Why do so many people in this country go mad at the sight of a nipple?

Anyway, this Friday at the Jean Cocteau we are screening FREE THE NIPPLE, the docudrama about the women who led the fight for nipple equality in New York City.



New Mexico is not New York, of course... but our Cocteau staff will be appropriately clad to honor the fearless women who are the subject of the movie.

And we'll have Nipple-cakes too!

See you at the movies.

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Sometimes, YouTube stops to buffer and I get some pretty great Tablederp.

This week’s gag reel is one of my favorites in the history of the series:

Holy cow! Watch this amazing Vine video of the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster crashing as it attempted to land on a barge last week after a successful launch to the space station. Make sure the volume is up, because holy wow.

The Jan. 10, 2015, launch of the Falcon 9 rocket went well, but the attempt to reland the first stage booster vertically on a floating platform/barge in the Atlantic didn’t go quite as planned.

Amazingly, the booster slowed, found the barge, and was able to target it for landing (all autonomously, mind you). But then something went wrong at the last moment. The fins used to steer it ran out of hydraulic fluid. The booster tipped at an angle, and the engines couldn’t compensate. It crashed, released fuel, and exploded.

A lot of people are calling this a failure, but as I said in my original post about the landing, it’s more fair to call it a near-success. Most of the procedure to land the booster went nominally, and now the cause of the crash is known. As Elon Musk points out, the next flight will have more of the hydraulic fluid on board, so the fins should continue to work.

Speaking of Musk, I have to hand it to him: He’s a master of PR. His tweets about the crash were good-natured and even funny:

"Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" may have to become a new phrase in the lexicon.

I liked his next tweet even better:

This was a serious event, and I have no doubt it’s taken very seriously inside SpaceX. But the public sees this differently, and sees Musk differently, so these tongue-in-cheek tweets put a great spin on the event.

The next scheduled launch of a Falcon 9 is no earlier than Jan. 31, when it will loft the Deep Space Climate Observatory over a million kilometers from Earth.