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Travel blog #1: A funny thing happened on the way to the forum

That is, the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg, where I was honored to speak yesterday. And the funny thing that happened? Based on some amalgamation of the bio I submitted and my Wikipedia profile, I got labeled in my introduction as an “activist and travel writer”! See, back in the day, I wrote this […]

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I read banned books.

It’s Banned Books Week! This obviously calls for a meme roundup: “All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let’s get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good […]

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This is why I love the Internet (part 2*)

(I’m sure you all heard about this, but just in case.)     from thewall.com           And just because…       * Part 1, inspired by the wonderful Riadh Guerfali.