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While freedom of speech is "an American right", we are getting into a lot of Hot Water, Deep Doo and Big Trouble in our lives when speaking (or tweeting or even blogging, FBing--facebooking, and socializing freely.) In part this trouble is happening because Different Rules and Laws Apply to Where and When one can 'speak freely.' One cannot for instance yell "Fire" in a theatre or public place if there is no fire (and maybe even if there is...I need to google that.) That is because people have been killed in stampedes (even from rock concerts or shopping spree sales without an emergency, so

 When tuning into the text of Brown University's Presidential speech to the 2017 Graduates in May 2017, I learned that a Brown Grad from the 1980s pursued political ambitions and focused on addressing the opiod problem (in her state and maybe the country...time to get back to that site after I post this entry.) That reminded me that drugs and mental illness are 'equal opportunity destroyers'. When I ushered movies shown at college in the 1980s, I recall one "The Harder They Fall". The theme song was "The higher they climb, the harder they fall, one and all..."

When someone pursues ambitious