Moral Panic and Democracy

On this Bread and Roses thread about the Manitoba government’s With Child, Without Alcohol ‘campaign’, sparqui quotes a definition of moral panic:
…In essence, a moral panic is an exaggerated concern about some ‘social problem’. Among the characteristics of every moral panic are the alleged breakdown in public morality described above, a heightened level of public [...]

Environment

There are several things that can be said about me – some bad, some worse, but there is a constant in my life. I am not an astrophysicist. Those of you that thought I was, can stand down, wipe the moisture from your brow and return to civilian life.One thing I have done [...]

OF NAZIES, MOVIES AND THINGS SAID/UNSAID

I was in a bar the other day (how many stories begin that way?) watching a replay of the Superbowl. On another of the TV screens (one for curling, one for celebrity poker and some jiggley beach volleyball) a movie began. I did not catch the name, but the credits rolled (articistically) [...]