To understand the furore over The President's speech to school children, it is probably sufficient to ignore the facts of the matter and precedent of previous addresses by Presidents of various hues, and just note that a lot of peoples' fears are based on "What would I do given that access?".
Hence the paranoia.
If my kid's teacher opted out of letting the class watch the speech, as the local School District permitted, I will be rather irate.
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Saturdays I tend to use for soapboxing on things which may or may not be related to physics. Today I think it will be free speech. There's a Supreme Court case involving Hillary: The Movie in the context of McCain-Fiengold campaign finance law.
What sensory cues do we rely on during the perception of speech? Primarily, of course, speech perception involves auditory cues - we pay close attention to the sounds generated by the speaker.
With the whole controversy around Michael Savage being blocked from entering England because of his inflammatory comments I thought
It's very nice of Obama to have occasionally acknowledged the existence of freethinkers in his speeches, but it doesn't mean much when his administration endorses blasphemy laws.