The Tech Toddler has struck again. Naturally it was McSweeney\u2019s that called him out best.<\/p>\n
As a free speech absolutist, only death could stop me from defending the rights of Twitter users to speak without censorship. Well, either death or a request from an autocratic leader asking that I censor certain content that could be sensitive for their regime. Whichever comes first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I WILL DEFEND FREE SPEECH TO THE DEATH. OR UNTIL AN AUTOCRAT ASKS ME TO STOP<\/a><\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ve earned a lot of credibility with my girls for openly enjoying Taylor Swift\u2019s music. Or at least everything from the Red<\/em><\/a> singles on. I think I would enjoy seeing her live, but I\u2019m not sure I could handle everything that came with it. Especially the 20,000 screaming girls.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n
I loved this piece by site favorite Tom Breihan about his experience taking his 14-year-old daughter to see Taylor last week. Not afraid to admit some of her songs get to me, too, although not so much that I burst into tears. Who knows how I would react if I was standing with one of my girls and watching them get floored by the moment.<\/p>\n
The Taylor Swift Live Experience Made Me All Emotional<\/a><\/p>\n
BTW, don\u2019t tell M that C and I were talking about music last week and she said that while she likes the music of both Taylor and M\u2019s fav Harry Styles, she likes Taylor a lot more because \u201cI think she\u2019s a good person. I think Harry is kind of a creep.\u201d \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n
\nMTV shuttered its news division last week. Like many kids who grew up on MTV, my initial reaction was \u201cMTV News was still a thing?\u201d<\/p>\n
I spent a lot of time laying on the couch watching MTV News during MTV\u2019s glory years. No longer did I have to go to the school library to read Rolling Stone or Spin to get the latest music news, delayed by the natural publishing timelines. It was just<\/strong> entertainment news, but I think it had a profound impact on my generation\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt Was Lightning in a Bottle\u201d: An Oral History of MTV News<\/a><\/p>\n
\nI vaguely remember Skylab from the summer of 1979. When we visited Kansas City, The Jones Store had cardboard sheets for sale from which you could punch out a novelty hat that was supposed to protect you from the falling debris. And I recall sitting in my grandfather\u2019s pickup in central Kansas, listening to the news that Skylab had crashed into remote Australia. Sometimes I remember weird shit.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the story of the Aussie who collected some of the scraps that landed near his home.<\/p>\n