Posted on October 31, 2004 by Chris
When I first read this, my reaction was, “Oh, crap. Not again.” I immediately flashed back to the eighties, when AIDS was killing off gay men at a rate that was beyond Jerry Falwell’s wildest fantasies. AIDS is one reason that no person of good conscience can look back at Ronald Reagan’s presidency with charity [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2004 by Chris
As I type this entry up, the little timer on the right side of my blog is ticking down to Election Day. We have 5 days and change until the polls close on the West Coast and the decision about who’s going to be President for the next four years is finally made.
Although I [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2004 by Chris
The ever-valuable Snopes has two pages devoted to sorting the myths from the facts about George W. Bush and John Kerry, thereby fulfilling the role that the mainstream press has abdicated. Their most recent entry both verifies and debunks a letter critiquing Kerry’s military record.
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Posted on October 24, 2004 by Chris
To continue the theme of promoting the voices of sex workers, this recent entry on A New York Escorts Confessions by Alexa is one of the most poignant and honest things that I’ve read in a while, and it says very important things both about the costs/benefits of sex work and the potential of [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2004 by Chris
Whores rarely get to speak for themselves. Usually, they’re being shouted down either by moralists who condemn them or reformers who want to save them. Their lives are usually defined in public by more “respectable” types, who cast them either as amoral seducers or tragic, oppressed “soiled doves.” When sex workers speak up for [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2004 by Chris
Yes, folks, you heard it here first. The corn-bred girls of Oklahoma have apparently become a rampaging herd of lesbos that can’t even hold their unnatural lusts in check long enough to take a pee.
In the tape released by the campaign of Brad Carson, the Democratic candidate, [Republican Senate candidate Tom] Coburn says a campaign [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2004 by Chris
POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. [...]
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Posted on October 11, 2004 by Chris
Once again, The Onion seems to be less a humor ‘zine than a chronicle of the times:
Study: Good Porn Still Hard To FindBOSTON—According to a report released by the Institute for Advanced Media Studies, good porn remains hard to find. “Though it’s true that there is 350 percent more pornographic material on the market than [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2004 by Chris
Now this is important. After four years of being told that we’re supposed to keep our mouths shut out of patriotism, that we’re supposed to claim happily that black is white and up is down because we need to “support the troops,” and watching a sycophantic press corps that’s only too glad to do [...]
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Posted on October 6, 2004 by Chris
There’s not enough free stuff on this website for me to give a full review of their content, but what I see I like, and I get a very good vibe from them, enough so that I think they deserve a spot in the Non-Crappy Porn Echelon.
Like Voodoo Dollhouse, Nofauxxx strives for an alternative in [...]
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