The Very Late Grandson

 

Regarding our sometimes tenuous connections to the past, of which I have mentioned that of Mr. Volkov (and soon, if I have not already, that or doctorally advised Henry Kissinger) and both gasped and reproduced gasps at the embellishment of Ms. Clary, later Queen Desideria of the reborn Swedish stormakt of Sweden-Norway and inauguratrix of the Bernadotte dynasty, the perhaps strangest is that of grand- and great-grandsons. I can say I knew my great-grandfather, though not much, and I would not posit to have had a conversation with him. But drawn out, the bonds uniting familys up and down, may over personal relationships 

There Ain't No Such Thing As Free Speech

The commonly cited clique that rights do not apply to private corporations or, as perhaps would be the wiser turn of phrase, against other persons or, even better, horizontally, is seemingly melting as the ices of the Arctic before our very eyes. 

Nobody would suggest that .

Meanwhile, the haplessly absent force of the state is very present. But I am not discussing the compelled speech of 

These questions, except the core idea of free speech - punishing those who says wrong (or even refuses to speak right) and the anathema of any balanced, founding father-esque notion of freedom under responsibility, were brought to a climax with the artist previously known as Kanye sporting a balaklava, a 

Proving this, however, is a way to purchase your freedom, if yet at a seemingly grotesque cost.