Fredrick Douglass on the 4th of July

One of the great things about the web is you keep stumbling over things you didn’t expect. The complete text of a speech from FD is reproduced on the interesting blog Afro-netizen (regrettably, the speech is undated, but I’ll guess 1870 or later).
Douglass was asked to speak on the 4th of July, and was [...]

Weekly WTF: Turkey blocks all WordPress blogs

This guy is totally crazy (in addition to being an antisemite and saying evolution causes terrorism).
You might have heard of him as the author of the shiny islamic creationist book sent to professors all over the world. Now, he’s after WordPress:
“So we have become obliged to apply to Turkish judicial courts to stop this [...]