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Professor Tom Flanagan: Glib about Murdering Julian Assange

Last night, on CBC News, University of Calgary political scientist Tom Flanagan, a former key adviser to Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, said that he wished Julian Assange would be assassinated and “disappeared,” joining a growing list of North American, right wing, commentators and politicians calling for the same, and doing so at the same time […]

“Man Dies from Heart Attack in Second Life”

If it has not already happened, one could expect this sort of headline at some point in the future, especially as the always thin and sometimes too abstract “dividing line” between so-called Real Life and Virtual Reality continues to melt. People in Second Life will soon be able, if they choose, to avoid fumbling around […]