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Fans of the television series “Game of Thrones” had a pretty upsetting evening Sunday night, and I sympathize with them. Before we go any further, I have to admit that I haven’t watched any of the series. I have read the first 3 books of the series that the T.V. show is based on, however.Continue reading “Creator vs. audience”

By accident at first, and then by design, I was pretty much off the electronic grid this weekend. Minimal to no emails, phone calls, facebook, twitter, or general internet browsing. It started Friday night while playing board games with friends. In a momentary pause in the game, I dug out my phone and went tContinue reading “A Useful Quiet”

In city council chambers last night, one of our councillors decided to make her point about being offended by offending the majority of people listening. Councillor Sandy White said the “n-word”. Here’s the newspaper article with the context: http://www.lfpress.com/2013/03/05/london-politician-drops-n-word-bomb In addition to the understandable outrage that most people responded with, there were 2 interesting semi-defenses of her statement. 1.Continue reading “Legal but offensive”