by Heather Hastie | Oct 18, 2018 | Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Middle East, US Politics
Each day for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been tweaking a post about Jamal Khashoggi. The post never quite gets to the completion stage, and developments overnight mean much of the post is redundant. Now, the story has been headline news for so long, as it...
by Heather Hastie | May 31, 2018 | Freedom of Speech, Tweets, USA
I wasn’t going to write about this. But, there are heaps of cool tweets today and I need a topic. The stuff I’m writing already is too long to head a Tweets Post, so Roseanne Barr it is. I didn’t watch her show way back when. It didn’t appeal....
by Heather Hastie | Sep 25, 2017 | Freedom of Speech, Tweets
I’m having trouble getting back into the business of searching for tweets every day. I’ve become very slow at it after just a few days off. That was all it took to out of the habit – just like a diet. I forgot to put the last two onto social media as...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 21, 2017 | Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, USA
As I said in my post on Charlottesville, the destruction of a statue is one I don’t agree with. I think that has a lot to do with my education in history, and perhaps also a general dislike for that sort of action. I suspect everyone here would agree with me...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 13, 2017 | Freedom of Speech, USA
I made a start on my usual Daily Tweets post and before I knew it, hundreds of words about the horror in Charlottesville were on the page. Thus, a separate post is in order. The violence is bad enough, but it’s what’s behind the violence that has me...
by Heather Hastie | Apr 6, 2017 | Australia, Freedom of Speech, New Zealand
joint post by Jerry Coyne and Heather Hastie New Zealand is dealing with the tail-end of Cyclone Debbie at the moment. (It made a huge mess of north-west Australia recently.) There’s very heavy rain all across the North Island and the north of the South...
