Posts Tagged ‘First Amendment’

Laudator Temporis Acti

Laudator Temporis Acti (“One Who Praises Bygone Times”) Horace, Ars Poetica The Times, they are definitely bygone, or, if not bygone, doggone near bygone. The Seattle Times and the Asheville Citizen-Times and the Los Angeles Times and The Roanoke Times and The St. Petersburg Times and all the other Timeses, Intelligencers, Posts, Standards, Newses, Courants […]

Unfunny Imus

The Big Picture Home Page | Previous Big Picture Column |  Next Big Picture Column Unfunny Imus               It was certainly legal to fire Don Imus.  He was employed by private employers (at least to the extent that public corporations whose stock in trade is use of public airwaves can realistically be called private), so by […]

The Intelligent Design Debate: Dogmatists Keep Out

The Pope should not have allowed the Inquisition to silence Galileo in order to prevent the raising of questions about Ptolemaic cosmology, and scientists should not follow that regrettable papal example in order to silence those who claim there is evidence of a guiding force in the Universe.