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Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 3:53pm By Chris Hall
Representative Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) was only four years old when H.L. Mencken died in 1956, but since then, he seems to have taken Mencken's famous definition of puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere might be happy" as...
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A fight between two neighbors in Macomb County, Michigan, and the resulting criminal charges have led to necessary if belated soul-searching among the state's legislators and legal experts. On October 18, a quarrel between Daniel Allen and Winfred...
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It's no longer necessary to call Scott Roeder the "alleged" murderer of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. Roeder admitted to the AP this afternoon that he did indeed murder Tiller, and that he intends to use the "necessity...
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Sexy Biz: Durex, Lifestyles, and Trojan lead in Consumer Reports condom test | Examiner.com – Consumer Reports tested 15,000 condoms for its most recent report, representing 20 models from different brands. The most reliable? While all of the...
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160 Handy Twitter Tools and Resources | Social Media Strategies and Tools Explained –
FWD/Forward – FWD (feminists with disabilities) for a way forward
Richmond High School gang rape: Cops arrest 2 in attack on Calif. teen girl; Bystanders did...
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These are my links for October 21st through October 22nd:
Mollena Williams Named Ms. SF Leather 2009 | San Francisco Bay Times – Originally from New York, Mo has been active in the BDSM community since 1996. She is a founding member of the Crowded...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 12:20pm By Chris Hall
Taking a romantic cruise on a luxury liner is the dream of a lot of couples. Cruise lines have made a mint from exploiting the "Love Boat" mythology even twenty-some years after the cheesy television show sank in the sea of ratings. One...
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President Obama told the Human Right Campaign Dinner (Video) in Washington Yesterday "I will end Don't Ask, Don't Tell. That's my commitment to you." The full text of the speech as released by the White House appears below.
THE...
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It's all God's fault. That's the only logical conclusion you can draw from the ad produced by Protect Marriage Washington in the campaign against domestic partnership rights for gays and lesbians in the state of Washington. The ad (below)...
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The Free Speech Coalition and fourteen other plaintiffs have filed suit against the Federal Government challenging the 18 U.S.C. §§2257 regulations, which require filmmakers and photographers to keep age records of all models and actors...
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Sorry for the headline, we just couldn't resist (neither could SFWeekly.) Five former employees of San Francisco based Vixen Creations, filed a class action suit Monday alleging that the company didn't pay overtime when they worked more than 8...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 10:13am By Chris Hall
Who would have thought that you can't write off prostitutes and pornography as health expenses on your income tax? If that comes as a shock to you, you have something in common with William Halby, a 78-year-old tax attorney from Brooklyn. Halby...
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In the U.S., the Right would like you to think that all nudity is sexual and, since they are scared of sex, should be punished. Once in a while, politicians actually see past this as the city council in Pittsburgh recently did when it passed what's...
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An Australian man has been ordered to continue paying child support to a prostitute that had his baby. The man told a federal magistrate he shouldn't have to pay for the inadvertent offspring given the circumstances of the conception....
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In some quarters, the "gay panic" defense is almost as cherished as a symbol of American values as apple pie, motherhood, and cheap bulk sales of steel-core ammo. To eliminate it from our justice system would be as nakedly repressive and...