The atheist blog The God is for Suckers is now blocked by SonicWALL Content Filtering System. The editor of GIFS writes: "I found this out because I sometimes use the excellent free wi-fi access at Panera Bread, and they use SonicWALL to filter their content. Now, I’m generally against content filtering, but this is a private business providing a free service, so I suppose they’re pretty much entitled to filter if they want. And I can appreciate that they want to impede people who would use their service to advocate violence, or eat up their bandwidth with porn that then gets displayed in the eatery." A reasonable stance on their unreasonable stance. But what happens when tax-funded schools with mandated attendance use Internet filtering from religious companies?
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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