Category Archives: Free Speech

someone should have gotten the gas chamber for janet jackson’s nipple

By Mark | April 6, 2005

In another sign of America’s willingness to embrace Talibanization with open arms, Wisconsin congressman James Sensenbrenner today suggested that criminal prosecution should await anyone who dares to cross the extremely fuzzy federal indecency line. (He’s pretty much saying, “We can’t tell you what you can’t say, but if you say something that we don’t like, […]

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the eyes have it

By Mark | September 26, 2004

When I was a freshman in college, it was during the Reagan administration, and the Meese Commission on Pornography was in full swing. Porn was in the news almost daily, and, for that reason, someone on my campus had arranged to have Larry Flynt, the publisher of fine magazines like Hustler and Cat Fancy, come […]