Miss Teen Mexico US Latina’s gown is aqua, shiny, liquid and long. Just like the Rio Grande River, and surely you wouldn’t want it — or her — trussed up and blocked by ugly old concrete or girders. Miss TMUSL (her name is Breeana Shaw) doesn’t like that idea. Lovely Miss Texas Latina, [...]
Read MoreTo make it to the Republican presidential caucuses, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani has been flip flopping the cosmopolitan stances he used to take on gay, women’s and immigrant rights. Once he supported them; now he’s against. And lately, he’s adopted another opportunistic tad: implying that Staten Island is a center for [...]
Read MoreThe New York Times yesterday finally took hold of the “New Dirt on Eichenwald and Justin Berry” story, after being scooped days ago by Counterpunch. That publication sent me to cover the hearing in Nashville last week, where a judge rejected Kurt Eichenwald’s motion to quash subpoenas. They seek evidence that Eichenwald paid additional [...]
Read MoreKurt Eichenwald is in more trouble today, as new evidence emerged that he secretly paid even more money to teen porn maker Justin Berry, besides the $2,000 check which embarrassed him and the New York Times earlier this year (see my previous post, “Eichenwald Dustup” for background).
For the latest, see my reporting in today’s online [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Read MoreNational Center for Reason and Justice (NCRJ) board member Emily Horowitz and I attended the New York City trial earlier this month of an immigrant woman who supposedly confessed to raping a preschooler. Shades of the old McMartin panic of the 1980s…with the issue of coerced confessions thrown in the mix. We wrote this op-ed [...]
Read MoreSo Susie Bright was planning to visit NYC from the West Coast, and she asked me to come to a recording studio in Chelsea to be interviewed for her show. OMG, thrill! Bright is one of the smartest — and certainly most accessible and entertaining, ergo serious – sex radical feminist writers in the country. [...]
Read MoreUpdated October 21, 2007
On August 24, 2006, Salon.com posted an opinion piece I wrote titled “Why I Need to See Child Porn.” Almost immediately afterward, New York Times lawyers, a personal lawyer of Eichenwald, and Eichenwald himself contacted Salon. Eichenwald said he had not looked at any material illegally, although my op-ed assumed he had, [...]
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