Does the size of a crowd indicate the importance of the social movement?
An offhand comment I heard claimed that the crowd in DC to attend the Obama inauguration was not only the largest ever for the capital, but the largest gathering of people together at one spot ever in the history of the world. I [...]
The Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend has been canceled. News is still breaking and I haven’t fully read up on things but I needed to get down a few of my first impressions …..
First of all, it didn’t help any to advertise the thing as ‘Obama Inauguration Pig Sex Orgy’. The group mostly responsible for the shutdown [...]
I have taken insults before abotu my support of civial unions. I just consider it a logical outgrowth of the seperation of church and state. The legal ‘goodie bag’ that is passed out to couples for signing a legal contract should not be confused with a sacrements of a church. As a friend pointed out [...]
A twist on the old ‘boy who cried wolf’ story ……
Once uppon a time in a small far away vilage there lived a group of people. This group lived in total fear that one day a wolf woudl come into their vilage and destroy everything. As such they stationed watchmen all around the borders of [...]
The Max Hardcore website is offline. Closed down by the government. This is a very troubling and disturbing thing, but NOT for the reasons everyone is saying.
To understand the root of the issue, you have to realise that the Max Hardcore trial was a mail fraud trial and not a obscenity trial. The website closer [...]
Shocking! Its shocking I tell you! The new ‘voter signup’ ad campain featuring Jessica Alba is creating a lot of contreversy. Its got bondage in it for crying out loud. And we all know how close minded people can be toward anything having to do with BDSM. Oh woe is us. We are so oppressed.
We [...]
Last month, anticapation was building over the latest burst ouf indignant outrage. Madaonna was getting ready to do something sexualy ranuchy. And we all know how much contreversy that creats. And we know it is going to be contreversal because Madonnas publicist said it was going to be contreversal. The article quotes ‘An on-set source [...]
A bunch of fundementalists religious nuts are complaining that barbie dolls are too sexual. Just more of the same old ‘wont someone think of the children’ hysteria.
Fox news reported that the ‘Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’ lists Barbie among items that it finds to be moraly offensive. The groups website [...]
In the quaint old days of the internet, before forums and mailing lists and yahoogroups, was a place called usenet. It is still around today, but due to an encoding method that changes video and audio files into text and back again, it is now home mostly to people swaping pirated movies and songs.
Well thatss [...]
This is one of those stories that dosent make sense even when youve heard it twice.
I recently found out about a case in canada againt the Little Sisters bookstore. They sell porn, and theirfore have had some cencership issues. The supreme court of canada recently ruled that what happened to them *IS* cencorship. However, the [...]