When we go to school we learn by questioning, and the answers to those questions form the ways we see the world, but should we ever be prohibited from asking questions?

For the purposes of this discussion the personal confessional preferences of the now brutally slaughtered cartoonists, journalists, and staff of the Paris-based Charlie Hebdo magazine are irrelevant. For the sake of their profession, these cartoonists and journalists were atheists.

In Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and far too many places around the world we seem to be missing a major human rights violation. The treatment of women in these regions qualifies for barbarism by any standard, and the horrific state of affairs in these regions eclipses the rest of the world in its severity.

As separate as they may seem the reason for the guilt or shame associated with the prohibitions on lurid sexual behaviors and recreational marijuana usages come from the same place.

The idea that a corporation is not just a separate entity that is remotely controlled for the purposes of business administration, but that the business is being used to promote and extend the personal identification of the person or persons that are operating it.