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Trevor Blake: Banned Book Week 2012

American Library Association, Banned Book Week: Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by [...]

Peter Lamborn Wilson – Back to 1911 Movement Manifesto: Energy

ACME, you remember, was the company that made all those safes for Coyote to drop on the Roadrunner. If only it were that simple. Everyone simply can’t go “back to 1911″ – there wouldn’t be enough energy there to support our wasteful habits. The last viable population density must’ve occurred, in fact, around 1911. After [...]

Trevor Blake: Case Against Tax Exemption for Religious Organizations in Oregon

This essay makes the case against tax exemption for religious organizations in Oregon. The amount of revenue lost as well as the harm caused by religious organizations is not compensated for by the social good they are alleged to provide (this alleged social good being the justification for their tax exempt status). Tax exemption for [...]

Trevor Blake: The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints in Black and White

Those Mormons sure are friendly. But are they friendly to all of God’s children? The following quotations from Nephi, Jacob, and Alma are from the Book of Mormon. In modern editions of the Book of Mormon the word ‘white’ (skin) is often changed to ‘pure’ (character); the original text is quoted here. As the Book [...]

Pat Condell: The Enemy Within

via youtube.