Freedom of expression would not truly exist if the right could be exercised only in an area that a benevolent government has provided as a safe haven for crackpots. The Constitution says that Congress (and the States) may not abridge the right to free speech. This provision means what it says.

That didn't change the silence of early evenings when I lay in bed and listened to the smaller branches of my favorite oak tree scrape gently against the house outside my window while a whippoorwill, which I always imagined for some reason as a small otterish animal, hooted softly against the approaching dark.

[…] others (OK maybe just one person) wondered if Starbucks would ever respond to their well-written proposal to introduce America to the Zucchiniccino. (No biggie Starbies, I’ll just be over here getting rich.)

Will they, like the fellows, judiciously bear a hand in sweeping the stable, or will they fatuously wait to be themselves swept with a besom of destruction?