It’s not like the government can’t get good information about sex, minors, and the internet — but it just won’t listen. The feds’ position tracks U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ campaign to protect teen girls from their MySpace urges. Check out these dire warnings about the horny fellow students and creepy old guys who will [...]
Read MoreHey, is Art Spiegelman in the house? Or some other cartoonist of semitic spirit? Anita Kunz, artist for this week’s New Yorker cover, does not qualify, regardless of her religious background. Maybe she went to shul as a child, who knows? No matter — she’s from Toronto; that must be her problem. In the New [...]
Read MoreIt looks like I’ll not be eating my cachucha (meaning hat, for those without the time to email “Ask a Mexican”). According to today’s Las Cruces Sun News, that Joint Terrorism Task Force report about Iraqis smuggled across the border, which I wrote about yesterday, is most likely utter mierda. It turns out the [...]
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var addthis_pub = \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’abcnews\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’; Oh my goodness — Iraqis smuggled through our southern border! The FBI says so. ABC does, too. It sounds real!
But so does the story of that poor woman in the 1980s who shampooed her little dog then put it in the microwave to dry off, and you know [...]
Ah, the Times! Recently I interviewed a renowned sex therapist about “pornography addiction.” She doesn’t believe in the concept — she thinks spending too much time looking at internet smut is just a bad habit (though certainly, quite a troubling one for many people). She compared it to her own irksome vice: hours wasted every [...]
Read MoreAs roosters go, this one looks too slender and callow to be an adult. I think he’s an adolescent. Let’s say that in chicken bio-time, one month equals eight human years. We’re looking at a teenager. He’s a Chicken Little. A minor.
Not only that, he’s got those nasty razor contraptions under his feet. He’s involved [...]
Kooler than Kahlo? “Whorehouse: Pseudo-journalists at a good price” Zócalo, July 2007
Did Frida Kahlo have spinal bifida? Does correctly guessing the Mexican left’s future lie in parsing its gusto for Canal-Street-style trinkets? Tune in, folks — below.
First, Frida’s medical problems. A New York Times story today about the artist’s current exhibit at Mexico [...]
As faithful readers of this blog already know, I was interviewed by Susie Bright a few weeks ago; we discussed everything from moral panics in general to child endangerment paranoia in particular, and the need to review and question every claim the government makes — including about the nature and prevalence of child porn on [...]
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