Cyberstalking, defamation, free speech, and public figures
A man stands accused of cyberstalking a prominent female leader within their movement, obsessively tweeting at her and criticizing her on his blog. She takes him to task for cyberstalking, harassment,...
View ArticleAtheist outreach at Halloween parades
Sometimes it’s great to get away from online drama and go out into the world for a bit of real life drama. Last night, the Oklahoma Atheists participated in the annual Halloween parade, in an attempt...
View ArticleWeekly Movement Drama Post Pwned
On account of a promise to a friend, I don’t post about intra-movement drama more than once a week. This week, I already blew my wad on the ever-expanding List of Known Sexists, which means I’m not...
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Spotted in Edmond #1
To those who believe that the War for Christmas isn’t an ongoing struggle, I give you the City of Edmond, an institution which uses my tax dollars (supplemented by private sponsorship) to maintain and...
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WBC and the Art of Trolling
Shirley Phelps-Roper and family outside of Tinker AFB, OK. © 2008 Herbert Petermann, used by permission. There are at least two kinds of outrage junkies, those who get a hit off of taking offense, and...
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Thoughts on the Ohio Holocaust Memorial
Libeskind’s original memorial model via ArchDaily To sum up the discussion so far: FFRF Objects to Religious Symbol at the Ohio Capitol (18 Jul) Hemant Mehta (as usual) weighs in first (18 Jul) Larry...
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Atheism Plus Freezing Your Peaches
As you may already be aware, I’m a big fan of free speech. I supported the ACLU when they defended hate groups and even when they stood up for corporate speech. I agree wholeheartedly with their...
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Criticism Is Not Censorship
This is one of those posts I just have to write because the issue keeps coming up over and over and over. I’m going to lead with a few examples. A couple of years ago, Westboro Baptist came to my town...
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Sleepwalking Into Safe Spaces
Not everyone was feeling too terribly triggered You’ve probably heard of the furor over a statue of a nearly-nude sleepwalker at Wellesley College, by now it’s been written up locally, nationally,...
View ArticleAttacks against speech are attacks on us all
Over the weekend, someone launched distributed denial of service (DDos) attacks against at least three outspokenly feminist websites: Freethought Blogs, Skepchick, and Feminist Frequency. I’ve written...
View ArticleWhen are boycotts worthwhile?
Blithely enough, I am going to go ahead and assume that most everyone reading this recognizes that calls for boycotts are a form of free speech, and that individuals choosing to join in such boycotts...
View ArticleVigilante Censorship
Around a decade ago when my local atheist group was still relatively young and small, we would distribute a paper newsletter around town wherever people would allow us do so. Back then we didn’t have...
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Freezing Peaches at AACON
If you were to Google for “removing the objectionable paintings” as a phrase, it will lead you to (as of this printing) exactly one place on the World Wide Web, a place where the writers call...
View ArticleFreezing Peaches on Twitter
When someone has encountered threats and abuse in any given medium, we can respond in such a way that affirms that person’s moral right to continue expressing themselves freely in that forum, or we can...
View ArticleMonday Morning Musical Meme
Trigger warning: Vulgarity, unabashed human sexuality, naughty words I absolutely love the part around 1:32 or so, ”Freedom of speech is my religion!” Is that called a bridge? I don’t know from musical...
View ArticleFreezing Peaches at Harvard
I’m truly, deeply, sincerely hoping I’ve got some of the key facts wrong in the great Boston Black Mass clusterfuffle, because what it looks like is that Harvard as an institution paid some fairly...
View ArticleTraditional public forums and quasi-protestors
At least two aspects of the Supreme Court’s majority opinion in McCullen v. Coakley seem (at least to me, at least so far) to have gone under-reported in the news media. The first of these is that the...
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Black Mass in OKC
It is always embarassing when I get scooped by Hemant Mehta here in my own backyard. My hometown newspaper, the Edmond Sun, is reporting on a Black Mass slated to take place here at the Civic Center in...
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Black Mass Revisited
I’ve been following along pretty closely as the Catholics here in Oklahoma City have cast about themselves for some way to shut down the Satanists here in Oklahoma City, at least with respect to their...
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Black Mass Wrap Up
Here in Oklahoma City, a handful of dedicated Satanists managed to get hundreds of (mostly Catholic) believers in a complete tizzy over the possible incursion of demonic powers into our world via a...
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