The US Supreme Court has rejected on Tuesday a constitutional challenge to an Alabama law that makes it a crime to sell sex toys. As reported by Reuters this morning, “The high court refused to hear an appeal by a group of individuals who regularly use sexual devices and by two vendors who argued [...]
I was preparing to post on another topic entirely. But last night I had the misfortune to watch a major US news network with their panel of ‘experts’ who felt the need to pick apart the liberation of Iraq yet again, talking about the prisoner abuse scandal, the vast amounts of money spent on [...]
The International Herald-Tribune today reports that: “…two activists convicted of libel in Britain for criticizing McDonald’s animal rights practices, environmental policies and the nutritional quality of its food did not get a fair trial and should be compensated by the British government, a European human rights court said Tuesday.” Here we go again. [...]
People love freedom. Its a natural response of the human spirit to appreciate independence and autonomous rationality. They love it. Although sometimes they voluntarily curtail their own freedom for some idea of a greater good (such as religion), they love the fact that it is theirs to begin with.
So it [...]
Geoff Huish, 26, was so convinced England would win Saturday’s rugby match he told fellow drinkers at a social club, “If Wales win I’ll cut my balls off,” the Daily Mirror reported on Tuesday. Friends at the club in Caerphilly, south Wales, thought he was joking. But after the game, “Huish went home, [...]
Well, if it ain’t a left-wing writer in a left-wing paper saying a left-wing thing about Bush. Krugman, writing in today’s New York Times, doesn’t think that Bush’s key reforms to Social Security will offer any “social security”. He says that the Bush plan would dismantle Social Security entirely (ahem). So what [...]
These bumbling, blubbering baffoons. Mercedes has, in a concession this past week, offered to make some of their premium range cars WITHOUT the standard leather seats…… WHY?
Because, following protests by the German chapter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA researcher Edmund Haferbeck says, “When you consider that the skins of four [...]
On March 1st last year, I wrote in this blog a post entitled, “Sex and the USA” (available in archives). In it, I expressed my anger with those in power in America for its “archaic, backward, revolting, coercive” attitudes to how we deal with and express human sexuality. To those adjectives I now [...]
