Freedom Of Expression Is Meaningless If You Can’t Offend

“Censorship might be legitimate when a writer incites violence or war, but Gunter Grass’s poem does neither. His transgression is to write something that many people find offensive and (given his history, as a conscript in the Waffen-SS) deeply insensitive. However, this is no reason for censorship: freedom of expression is meaningless without the right to offend.”

The End Of DVD Stores?

“While niche independent stores have the best chance of survival, a report by market forecasters IBISWorld on DVD hire outlets proclaims the ”end of an era” for rentals. Industry revenue, which was $1.6 billion in 2008-09, will slump to nearly half that – $858 million – by 2016-17, the final year of the forecast, the report said.”

The Un-Choreographer

A leading exponent in Britain of physical theater, the genre that combines expressionistic, stylized, often unison movement with text, music and design, Hoggett is a choreographer who stretches the definition of the term. He’s never been a dancer and he has no technical training — he doesn’t so much design steps as elicit them from his performers.