US citizens: call on Congress to defeat the plutocratic deforestation bill.

Hypersensitivity has reached the point where you can't cite a bigoted joke to condemn its bigotry, without getting rebuked for bigotry yourself.

It is impossible to discuss any subject thoughtfully if you are barred from citing examples.

In 1950 it was almost impossible to discuss the question of what is or is not pornography; you couldn't cite examples of pornography, so you were limited to abstract statements whose concrete referents were hard to be sure of.

Now the taboos have shifted: there is no obstacle to discussing what is pornography, but it is difficult to discuss what is bigotry.

Different people will always have different judgment about how to state a point.

As long as we agree on opposing bigotry, which is the substance, we should stay calm in disagreeing about the advantages and disadvantages of various ways of presenting this opposition.

You'll note that when I talk about the disrespectful practice of mislabeling the GNU system as “Linux”, which denies us credit for our work, I don't jump down the throats of people that do this, or even demand an apology.

I just ask them to please give us equal mention henceforth.

Twitter has very little security against rogue employees.

They might even be able to start a war by faking tweets on the bully's account.

Uri Avnery: A hypothetical Iranian nuclear weapon would not put Israel in any real danger.

The leaders of Iran know better then to use the bomb as anything but a deterrent.

Notwithstanding that, I think it is better if Iran does not get nuclear weapons.

Continuing the nuclear deal with Iran is our best chance of achieving that goal.

Calling for an EU investigation to find the murderers of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist that investigated the gangsters.