Revived 15Jul2018
Sunday - 15Jul2018
These older blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories. Redirect pages have been placed in the old locations.
Underground computer gaming and freedom
Latest efforts of a desperate government
The threat of web censorship
Censorship failing, bit by bit
Blogging anonymously
Comments
No roundup for the next few days
Friday - 22Dec2017
Although I do not celebrate Christmas, this will be the last headline roundup until Tuesday. It's almost impossible to find interesting news stories this close to the holiday.
Revived 06Dec2017
Wednesday - 06Dec2017
These older blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories. Redirect pages have been placed in the old locations.
Free Markets vs Corporations
Competition Redux
Microsoft agrees, "democracy" is forbidden in China
That's Show Biz
Modern liberals are not the same as classic liberals
The Nannystate rides again!
Ozone levels are falling
Alternatives to statism
Another from the global warming front
The market provides what is in demand
Lego learns from the free market
Demonizing your idealogical opponent
Revived 29Nov2017
Wednesday - 29Nov2017
Irregular
Tuesday - 28Nov2017
I'm spending time cleaning up and standardizing the code and format of older blog entries.
I'm also transferring entries from the old file structure to the current one and reformatting those pages. Then I'm putting in redirect pages at the old addresses.
I plan on resuming regular blogging around the first of the year. But the occasional new post will probably slip through.
I'm also transferring entries from the old file structure to the current one and reformatting those pages. Then I'm putting in redirect pages at the old addresses.
I plan on resuming regular blogging around the first of the year. But the occasional new post will probably slip through.
Liberty demands
Monday - 27Nov2017
These blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories.
Read More...What's with all the quotes?
Saturday - 25Nov2017
Some of you may have noticed that I tried combining all my self-quotes on one page. It didn't work all that well. I already had a tag called maxims that I was using for the new self-quotes, so I just transferred all the ones from the page to the blog.
One. At. A. Time.
The good news is that it's done and the new quote templates work fine. You can't see it unless I use it, but the quote templates already have A HREF already there so I can attribute the quote.
Anyway, just like Technopagan Yearnings, I'm updating the code. I'm using classes with my copy-paste templates instead of individual copy-paste templates. That's so I can change the class definition in one spot and it will change every use site wide. I won't have to change the individual blog entries. Or the individual elements in the sidebar. Or any of the special pages.
When I get it done, which is going to take a while. The new stuff will have the cleaner code, the stuff that catches my attention and the oldest entries will get the code as I plod through it.
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One. At. A. Time.
The good news is that it's done and the new quote templates work fine. You can't see it unless I use it, but the quote templates already have A HREF already there so I can attribute the quote.
Anyway, just like Technopagan Yearnings, I'm updating the code. I'm using classes with my copy-paste templates instead of individual copy-paste templates. That's so I can change the class definition in one spot and it will change every use site wide. I won't have to change the individual blog entries. Or the individual elements in the sidebar. Or any of the special pages.
When I get it done, which is going to take a while. The new stuff will have the cleaner code, the stuff that catches my attention and the oldest entries will get the code as I plod through it.
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Returning the favor
Tuesday - 22Aug2017
Wombat at The Other McCain has been nice enough to link my articles in two of the In The Headlines features. I have linked to The Other McCain before and I am a regular commenter there.
Since turnabout is fair play and I appreciate the traffic, I decided that site needs a permanent link. So I've put my daily news reads in the sidebar.
No, these aren't my daily reads, just the regular news ones.
Since turnabout is fair play and I appreciate the traffic, I decided that site needs a permanent link. So I've put my daily news reads in the sidebar.
No, these aren't my daily reads, just the regular news ones.
Results
Monday - 21Aug2017
I don't usually submit my articles to reddit, but I did for This last week in free speech. I cross-posted the article on my politics blog Pagan Vigil and my pagan slice of life blog Technopagan Yearnings.
The libertarian link got hardly any views and quickly moved from the front page to the much deeper.
The pagan link got a couple of hundred views in two days and sparked an interesting conversation.
I was surprised at the insistence on historical and political context for violence. It's also interesting that the article kept moving up and down.
I'm disappointed to see how many people believe that "hate speech isn't free speech" and that certain people don't deserve free speech rights.
The libertarian link got hardly any views and quickly moved from the front page to the much deeper.
The pagan link got a couple of hundred views in two days and sparked an interesting conversation.
I was surprised at the insistence on historical and political context for violence. It's also interesting that the article kept moving up and down.
I'm disappointed to see how many people believe that "hate speech isn't free speech" and that certain people don't deserve free speech rights.
Why the site changes?
Wednesday - 12Jul2017
This blog will run Monday through Friday. For a while at least, on Mondays I'll publish my crux files. Wednesdays I will publish a weekly original article. Thursdays I'll publish the American classics. I'll put up news clippings as I run across them. I'll put up NeoNotes entries as I have them ready. Expect a headline roundup every weekday. And quotes. Many, many quotes.
Read More...Freedom demands
Monday - 26Jun2017
hiatus
Wednesday - 24May2017
Due to unforseen circumstances, I'm taking a break from blogging until June 5, 2017.
the Pagan Vigil Reader - updated
Wednesday - 16Nov2016
Ejecting
Friday - 01Jul2016
Avatars
Sunday - 20Mar2016
Technically this isn't news about this site.I comment quite a bit on other sites. This picture was my favorite avatar for quite a while. It uses a theta symbol and symbolized one of my favorite concepts. But it was time for a change and I had something else in mind.
A while back I created a category called Thinking By Blogging at Technopagan Yearnings and had used the NW graphic you see. But in light of this piece By Your Own Name, I thought it would be hypocritical to use a personal sigil for that category. I was pushing it with the web address. So I switched to a labyrinth. I meant to use ithe NW sigil as a commenting avatar, but it needed more whitespace to work for Disqus. I just hadn't made the time.
Until now. And I'm getting a couple of nice responses. So instead of going into a side bar explaining on the sites that had noticed, I thought I would waste my own web bandwitdh by explaining.
Aren't you just thrilled?
New quotes - updated
Saturday - 05Mar2016
So what is it with all these new Quotes & Thinkums entries?
Some of the comments I make on other boards are worth saving. So I'm putting them here.
Addendum: I've given those entries their own catagory, NeoNotes.
That's it.
Some of the comments I make on other boards are worth saving. So I'm putting them here.
Addendum: I've given those entries their own catagory, NeoNotes.
That's it.
Another place I talk Christianity
Sunday - 02Aug2015
Vandalism messes with my vigil
Thursday - 26Feb2015
Old posts and comments
Friday - 17Oct2014
Memorial or political rally?
Thursday - 13Jan2011
This is a page from the original version of Pagan Vigil. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.paganvigil.com/C127135145/E20110113130905
Memorial or political rally?
No shame
This was the thing that put me off blogging for more than two years.
I'm angry right now.
No, strike that. I'm pissed.
There is absolutely NO REASON to turn a memorial into pep rally.
Every single time I've commented on a mass killing, I've been flamed. So this time, I thought I would stay out of it.
And then I see the President turn a tragedy into a bloody political event. Complete with slogan. T-shirts. Bumper stickers!
This goes beyond double standards.
So what good does it do to follow the rules of propriety if the "other guys" break every single one?
How is this different from what Bush 43 did? Or for that matter, what that diseased Westboro Baptist Church keeps trying to do?
They've got no shame. And they try to use YOUR SHAME as a weapon against you.
Fuck them.
They have not the right or the power. I'm not going to give it to them anymore. No matter what I say, they'll turn it political. They will demand that I give up my thoughts for the ones they dictate. They try to turn my acts of respect into silent acquiescement to THEIR agenda.
Just like they do now.
I'll say it loud and clear.
Obama has no class. He turned something that should have healed into politics. T-shirts? By all the gods, the man's a coward and an opportunist.
Death is too important for politics.
A class="pvc" HREF="http://www.paganvigil.comNo, strike that. I'm pissed.
There is absolutely NO REASON to turn a memorial into pep rally.
Every single time I've commented on a mass killing, I've been flamed. So this time, I thought I would stay out of it.
And then I see the President turn a tragedy into a bloody political event. Complete with slogan. T-shirts. Bumper stickers!
This goes beyond double standards.
So what good does it do to follow the rules of propriety if the "other guys" break every single one?
How is this different from what Bush 43 did? Or for that matter, what that diseased Westboro Baptist Church keeps trying to do?
They've got no shame. And they try to use YOUR SHAME as a weapon against you.
Fuck them.
They have not the right or the power. I'm not going to give it to them anymore. No matter what I say, they'll turn it political. They will demand that I give up my thoughts for the ones they dictate. They try to turn my acts of respect into silent acquiescement to THEIR agenda.
Just like they do now.
I'll say it loud and clear.
Obama has no class. He turned something that should have healed into politics. T-shirts? By all the gods, the man's a coward and an opportunist.
Death is too important for politics.
Posted: Thu - January 13, 2011 at 01:09 PM