Category Archives: Censorship

Friday Fun Link – 5-Star Wrestling Matches

I’m tempting to use the “Xmas” tag on this one. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer newsletter is like the Roger Ebert of reviewing wrestling matches.  This Reddit thread contains links to almost all of the matches Meltzer has given the highly coveted and very rare 5 Star rating.  Quite a trip down memory lane […]

Saturday Snap (Classic) – An Obscene Children’s Toy

Found this funny clip while looking at some old videos we had from when Pace was little…

800 People on the Waiting List for “Fifty Shades of Grey” at Saskatchewan Libraries

Music Monday – “Thou shall not judge a book by its cover/Thou shall not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover”

Knock Knock. Who’s There? Rape? Rape Who? Rape Jokes – Are They Funny?

About a month ago, there was a minor uproar online after a female patron at a comedy show posted of an extremely unsettling experience her and her friend had on a Tumblr blog. The two women decided to go to a show featuring well-known comic Dane Cook (who they’d heard of) with Daniel Tosh (who […]

"Everybody Draw Muhammed" Day

Even if you want to make a point about censorship, you can't be too careful on “Everybody Draw Muhammed” Day…

"You Can't Handle The Truth" – Media Bans in the Digital Age

Everybody's probably familiar with the sad story of Tori Stafford, the young girl from Woodstock, Ontario who was abducted and killed last year.  Recently, some new detail has apparently come to light but the judge has imposed a publication ban meaning no Canadian media can cover this aspect of the trial.  The traditional media aren't […]

Friday Fun Link – 4% of Librarians Are Virgins But 7% Have Had More Than 20 Sexual Partners In Their Lives (April 23, 2010)

Recently, a 1992 study of sex and libraries was published online having originally been published without much initial fanfare but then quickly leading to the firing of the columnist who published it.   Lots of interesting tidbits.  I thought about listing what my answers would be but nobody needs to know which Shakespeare play my first […]

Parody Is Not An Infrigement of Copyright (Watch It While You Can)

I wrote about this meme before.  Turns out that a couple years after these parodies gave their German-language art house film some international attention, the people who made the movie have decided that the single scene used for all these parodies is an “infringement” of their work.  Well, they say that dinosaurs had small brains […]

Why Ann Coulter is the Iron Sheik of Politics

One of the big hub-bubs of the last week or so was around the fact that American right-wing commentator, Ann Coulter, had one of her speeches in Canada shut down by protesters.  The one that was shut down was at the University of Ottawa while others at locations including my alma mater, the University of […]