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Marilyn Welker

Sustainable Heroes: Catching Up with Marilyn Welker

If you care about Central Ohio sustainability or environmental activism, chances are your journey has been touched by Marilyn Welker. As one of Simply Living’s co-founders and a past Executive Director, Marilyn’s gentle wisdom and steadfast…

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The Times Strikes Back

I had just finished this cartoon and was waiting on one of my proofers to give it the all-clear from typos when the news about Jimmy Kimmel came down.

The fuckers canceled Kimmel. The news is new, and I’m going to draw on this tomorrow, but…

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Man speaking at a mic

The “Intellectual Diversity” of Ohio State’s Center for Civics

Is a lack of intellectual diversity causing university faculty to self-censor? That’s a central claim made by advocates of Ohio State University’s Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, which is one example of a slate of new “viewpoint diversity”…

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Rachel Coyle

The First Amendment and Cancel Culture

This article first appeared on Substack

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects us from being arrested or punished by the government for things we write, say, etc.

It does NOT protect us from other repercussions,…

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