Out-Housing

The lengths to which Eric Holder will go to for some things, and retreat from for others, certainly shines a light on his preferences. Because that’s what they are in essence, preferences. For example he had no preference for videotaped evidence of voter intimidation [see here], but he does prefer to monitor the aesthetic credentials…

Grand Old Club

For the first time an English Premier League club [see here] has banned, indefinitely, a customer (fan) from its games. Everton FC assert that in their opinion tweets made by this fan were homophobic and racist. The unnamed fan (deleted Twitter handle @WhereAreYeEFC) may be allowed back but this is unclear. Social media suggests that…

A Tale of Two Races

There now exists in the United Kingdon a law, a speech crime law, that treats different citizens in an inequitable manner. The inequity derives from accidental human characteristics such as skin tone and religion, for example, that the law itself purportedly holds to be equal. I’ll just draw on two different media stories to highlight where this…