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Don’t Fuck With Free Speech

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Oh fuck. Let’s just get this out of the way. You’ll find no f-word, f*ck, f–k, @$!%, or other sanitized version used here. This is quite a change from Professor Allen Walker Read’s 1934 scholarly treatment of the word, An Obscenity Symbol—fifteen pages and eighty-two footnotes penned without once printing the word fuck anywhere in […]

The Cube: A Nightmare Recovered

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

Deep within my earliest childhood memories I have the indelible image of a vague and frightening setting: a featureless room with no doors or windows— floor, walls, and ceiling the same gleaming white grid. In the room a man sits alone with no memory of his arrival, wishing to be anywhere else. People appear and […]