Archive for February, 2008

Freedom of Speech

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

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Ezra Levant to the Alberta Human Rights Commission:

“Make my day.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5dwUqCGJeE&feature=related

It’s worth watching.

(For my non-Canuck friends, the HRCs are quasi-judicial bodies that have assigned themselves the role of offensiveness police. Yes, in Canada, we take niceness so seriously that you can be financially ruined for being mean.) 

Muscles of facial expression

Friday, February 1st, 2008

You are to understand that the next quotation is from our tiny, constantly smiling, soft-spoken anatomy prof with the white hair and the gentle very English voice.

“Now these muscles are the dilator muscles of the mouth, and they have very strange names. My favourite one is this one: the levator labii superioris alaeque nasi. It doesn’t even sound like a muscle. It’s more like a… a blessing.” And then he intoned it, to uproarious laughter on all sides.