Google's Selfish Ledger: Good, Bad or Nuanced?

"This internal video from 2016 shows a Google concept for how total data collection could reshape society" Via Drudge

--- You will have go to the link to view the video. Google is not letting me show it here ---

Google has already shown what can happen to their employees who ideologically resist the company line and dare to voice that 'problematic' opinion.

In the following video clip (starts at 33:18) "dark web" professors discuss the growing problem with... let's just call it  "free thought" in institutions of higher learning and the impact it could have down the road.

"Do Western Muslims face a free speech double standard?"

"Today’s events in France, from the arrests to the rush to buy the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo, raise a number of questions about the limits of speech."

"We at the NewsHour have made the decision not to show the cartoon on the new cover of the satirical magazine depicting the Prophet Mohammed. The reason? We believe the offense it could cause outweighs the news value."

Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi is back on American soil

PHOTO (@RepEdRoyce): Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi is back on American soil after eight months behind bars in Mexico pic.twitter.com/C8Bsy94FhN
— TheBlazeNOW (@TheBlazeNOW) November 1, 2014

Andrew Sullivan: The “Quality Of Life” In New Jersey

"What you have here is not an argument, but a prejudice. Why is a head-shop somehow bad for a neighborhood? Why is tourism for casinos fine but for smoking a joint such a terrible thing? Why is legal pot worse for New Jersey’s reputation than the popularity of Jersey Shore and The Real Housewives of New Jersey?
And why, pray, is it a better quality of life to have less personal freedom rather than more?"

Chris Christie explains:

For the people who are enamored with the idea with the income, the tax revenue from [legalized marijuana], go to Colorado and see if you want to live there. See if you want to live in a major city in Colorado where there’s head shops popping up on every corner and people flying into your airport just to come and get high. To me, it’s just not the quality of life we want to have here in the state of New Jersey and there’s no tax revenue that’s worth that.

Who do side with, Andrew Sullivan or Chris Christie?

"Only 1999 more parody accounts to go"

Mocking politicians on Twitter is apparently now a crime in Illinois http://t.co/2TFxMjncze h/t @instapundit
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 18, 2014

"We have this freedom inside our hearts, we have this freedom inside our minds"

Does the Constitution Matter?

It went like this:

A pro-gun hot-head posting comments to a CNN article proclaimed that he’d taken an oath to uphold the Constitution long ago and had every intention of putting himself on the line to do so now. The “reasonable” not-against-the-second honest-trust-me commenter said:

What if the Constitution changes?

I answered:

 “I think that when a contract is altered that it's a new contract. The one you swore to uphold is the one you swore to uphold. If it's a different Constitution, you'd have to swear over again to the new Constitution.”

 Apparently this is absurd.