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Is it really a crime when someone decides they're offended?

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Warning! Utterly Random Lightning Strikes
Can one group of people make arbitrary rules that prohibit certain behaviour by the rest of us?
'Of course,' you say, 'the government does that all the time.'
True, but in this case whilst the government are discussing newly proposed 'blasphemous libel' laws, they are not the ones setting the boundaries–the religious are. [...]

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Earning their money

Friday, December 14, 2007

I see Minister O'Dea has stepped up from merely defending the recent pay hikes for TDs, to now suggesting that they should by rights have been even higher (see today's Irish Times, p6).
On a different note, I wonder if those fine folks over in the Texas legislature have gotten any pay increases recently? Well, it [...]

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