ZOMG drama! Rand Paul under attack!

I think Eugene Fear-the-Peen has been selling his illegal email spam lists again. Over the past few weeks I’ve been getting increasingly dramatic begging letters from some frantic lunatic calling himself Rand Paul.

Rand Paul, Rand Paul. I’ve heard that name before. Ah, yes, he’s a Tea Party whackjob who, on top of being linked to the extreme anti-gay hate squad (inferred from his use of the same mailing list):

• has described taxation as slavery and wants to sue the Treasury and IRS for passing tax-evasion measures; 
• was involved in the moronic shutdown of 2013, which he doesn’t regret because he hates Obamacare; 
• wants pilots to be armed (just let the idea of someone firing a gun in a pressurised cabin sink in); 
• is anti gun control no matter how many people are massacred; 
• unsurprisingly, also has ties with white supremacists; 
• appears to want the abolition of marriage (because the … 

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Francine Prose makes a Charlie of herself | Disjointed Ramblings

This morning, I discovered the Grauniad was running a blog post in their Comment is free section, entitled "I admire Charlie Hebdo’s courage. But it does not deserve a PEN award". It is signed by somebody rejoicing in the moniker of Francine Prose. Yeah, I thought so too, but apparently it’s her real name. As far as I can tell, her forte is writing constipated verbiage reminiscent of the more indigestible 20th century French authors…

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“Charlie Hebdo and the culture of offence” – LSS Secretary’s speech at UCL | Lawyers' Secular Society

Hello everyone. Je suis Charlie.

I have to say, when I looked at Twitter on 7th January and everyone was talking about “Charlie”, and “Je Suis Charlie” was trending, I thought to myself: what have I done now? Sadly this is as funny as it gets.

Well we’re here to talk about “Charlie Hebdo and the culture of offence” so let me start by offending you.

I don’t think the discussion about Charlie Hebdo is necessarily one about “offence” at all...

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Encyclopedia of American Loons: #1292: Keith Ablow

Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist, author, and media personality, who tends to appear on such intellectually enlightening shows as The Tyra Banks Show and Glenn Beck as an expert on psychoanalysis. He even writes for Fox News’ blog devoted to health matters, where he tends to make claims that go against all evidence when it serves a particular political point, and runs a self-empowerment community based around his book Living the Truth. Though his credentials are fine, his psychiatric analyses of famous individuals or talk-show guests on the basis of thirty-second interviews or news headlines have not been recognized as methodologically sound by any psychiatrist with any integrity...

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In a week that has seen both the Grand Mufti of Egypt and the Pope come out as apologists for violence against peaceful dissent; in the wake of violent protests in some Muslim countries, leading to killings and arson over a message of peace and forgiveness, I urge you to read this excellent analysis by Stephen Law:

In the gallery of satirical art there’s a largely blank space where the work satirizing Islam should be. Here I argue that, where satirical work has been removed out of fear, it should be put back. I also deal with a couple of objections against doing so...

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Encyclopedia of American Loons: #1240: Paul Joseph Watson

... It’s difficult to paint a representative picture without giving him more space than he warrants, or to pick highlights, but Watson was for instance instrumental in promoting the conspiracy surrounding John Holdren’s alleged totalitarian global population control scheme (FEMA concentration camps wouldn’t be far behind). And don’t get him started on climate change, Bilderbergers or 9/11...

More on the raving loon here: Encyclopedia of American Loons: #1240: Paul Joseph Watson

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Watson is in fact British (born in Sheffield), not American, but he does interact a lot with the US far-right, as evidenced by his association with Infowars etc