Lots of Interesting Stuff in the Chronicle Today


Toll lanes for people who want to drive traffic free. We'd all like it to be free, but obviously that isn't working.

52,000 people! That's double the estimates I read yesterday.

Freedom of Expression versus offending a religion. Britain caves to a religious mob. Salmon Rusdie comments. Money quotes:

"We are not against freedom of speech, but there's no right to offend." Actually, there is.

"Maybe 5,000 people would have seen this play over the run. Are you going to upset 600,000 Sikhs in Britain and maybe 20 million outside the U.K. for that?" he said. "Religion is a very sensitive issue and you should be extremely careful."

Well, I think that's precisely the point.