The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: speech

  • “American Blogger Killed”

    When I read that headline the other day, my blood ran cold. Because, hey, I’m an American Blogger, so I take stuff like this personally. (Okay, so my notoriety isn’t that overwhelming, but it still strikes a chord.) According to the Reuters article, the blogger in question, Avijit Roy, was based in Bangladesh, which, let’s…

  • On Coming Out in Public

    On Valentine’s Day, actress Ellen Page came out in front of a large group of people at the Time to Thrive conference in Las Vegas. You can hear her moving and heartfelt speech by going here if you get my blog by e-mail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hlCEIUATzg  but I’ll also attach the video below. Since her speech, there…

  • Freedom of Speech 101

    Could we puh-leeze get past the Duck Dynasty guy? I’m so sick of people holding him up as the poster child for freedom of speech martyrdom when nothing could be further from the truth. Let’s get back to basics. What is freedom of speech? The right, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,…

  • “He’s Not MY President!”

    It’s Inauguration Day here in the United States, and even though I worked graveyard shift last night, which means the ceremonies felt like they were being held at the equivalent of my three o’clock in the morning, I watched them. And I got an amazing thrill from the event. Not just because my guy won.…