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July 22nd, 2007

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Apparently, there is a new strong argument against abortion. It is one that you might find a bit surprising. It was made recently by disgraced former Republican majority leader Tom Delay. At the annual gathering of College Republicans, he told the young people that, “"I contend [abortion] affects you in immigration. If we had those 40 million children that were killed over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today. Think about it." I’m trying to but it is hurting my head. So we need more unwanted children to do our gardening, clean our house, and pick our crops? A similar but slightly more frightening version was made last March by former Democratic Senator Zell Miller. In a speech at an anti-abortion gathering, Miller said "Here is the brutal truth that no one dares to mention: We’re too few because too many of our babies have been killed." He went on to explain “If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country…” So the argument is that they need to stop dying in the womb over here so that they can do their dying over there.”

What’s the tab for the world’s largest child molestation ring? Almost two billion dollars in the United States alone and still counting.  The tab jumped considerably with the announcement of the settlement with the Los Angeles Diocese of the Catholic Church, which agreed to pay victims of pedophile priests and their lawyers 660 million dollars. Apparently, the settlement was agreed to after years of wrangling primarily because the very first court case was about to go to trial. The church, and by that we meet Cardinal Roger Mahoney, very much wanted to avoid having to put Mahoney on the stand where he would have to tell the truth. Its not that he has any objection to doing that, its just that he is so sadly out of practice.  Mahoney has fought for years to keep the full story of pedophile priest in the Los Angeles archdiocese from coming out, and with this settlement, many fear we will never know the whole story, which I suspect could have been subtitled the most disgusting story ever told. 

Justice, or at least a little common sense, has prevailed in Utah. The Utah Supreme Court has thrown out a second degree felony conviction for sexual abuse of a minor against a 13 year for having sex with a 12 year old. In this case, the 13 year old was a girl, who got pregnant by her 12 year old boyfriend. As you can well imagine, this is a state that teaches abstinence only education. Under state law, children under 15 who have sex with each other can both be found guilty of molesting each other. The court ruled unanimously that that provided for an absurd result.  For adolescents under 14, the law provides for no mitigating circumstances, something the high court did not address. The conviction of the 12 year old still stands, and anyone having sex who is under the age of 14 must still be prosecuted. But it is Utah, so this may be as close to common sense as you get.

Democratic Senator John D. Rockefeller the 4th has never been much of a friend to free speech. He has now introduced legislation that would throw out the recent 2nd. U.S. Court of Appeals ruling against the FCC, and allow them to have a zero tolerance policy for any naughty words used over the air, even excited utterances. The bill would allow the FCC to make any single word or image indecent, regardless of context. This is the way that obscenity was decided in the bad old days before the Supreme Court  Miller decision. After Miller, context had to be a part of determining whether something was obscene or not. Combined with fact that there is even less agreement on what is indecent than there is on what is obscene, this would put tremendous power in the hands of the FCC. It is a power that the pro-censorship head Kevin Martin is very anxious to use. If the law is passed, broadcasters will certainly sue, and the whole thing will wind up in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has shifted extremely hard to the right, and may have lost patience with notions such as free speech.

What do Brattleboro Vermont and Huntington Beach California both have in common? Neither has an official anti-nudity ordinance, but both are now working to make sure that their lax response to nudity changes quickly. Inspired by a nude stroll by a 68 year old man through their Gallery Walk art event, the Brattleboro city council took up emergency legislation to ban nudity from certain parts of town. Huntington Beach faced a similar dilemma with a naked man who frequently could be seen in his home in public view. They enacted a complete ban on public nudity. Sadly, L.A. County, with more coastline than any other city, does not have a single legal nude beach. At least a nude beach would be somewhere people could go to be nude other than their front yards. The Huntington Beach city council had to take it a step further, with a ban prohibiting anyone from removing their swimsuit in public, even under a towel, a common practice for beachgoers changing out of wet attire. When it was pointed out to Mayor Gil Coerper that you can’t actually see anything under a towel, he replied "They're nude under the towel." He was unfazed by the follow-up explanation that we are all nude under our clothes. Perhaps he is the exception.

And if you thought that the self-inflicted humiliation of Rep. Randall "Duke" Cunningham was finally over, you are so wrong. He still manages to embarrass himself even while in jail. When the scandal first became public, a rumor was floated that defense contractors provided him with prostitutes on a regular basis, specifically with a limo picking him up and taking him to poker parties in luxurious hotel suites. When this story broke, his wife went and had herself tested for STDs, told the press about it, and revealed in the New Republic that her husband was "a very aggressive spontaneously assaultive person.” Now Duke claims that the story was not true at all, although other accounts contradict him. Cunningham does admit, though, that Brent Wilkes, who was convicted of bribing him, did provide prostitutes on a trip to Hawaii paid for by Wilkes. And Cunningham even complained about the quality of the prostitutes, saying that Wilkes took the younger and cuter one for himself. He’s not known for being gracious about his bribes. Even so, I suspect that just like with , the defense contractors bribing him, when the hookers arrived I’m sure he also presented them with a menu of what he wanted.

Now his estranged wife is speaking out against him. In this month's edition of the New Republic, it is revealed that in earlier court documents she called him, and she complains about his frequent public gay bashing (Openly gay Rep. Barney Frank once commented that "he seems to be more interested in discussing homosexuality than most homosexuals"). Most of the bribes from defense contractors he shared with his wife- but she is clearly glad that he did not share anything from one of them: defense contractors allegedly provided him with prostitutes on a regular basis. When the news broke, she immediately had herself tested for STDs. According to reports, a luxurious stretch limo would pick him up and take him to a lavish hotel suite.

Whacko of the Week

John McCain went from a gutsy Maverick campaigner to our whacko of the week in a fairly short amount of time. The straight talk express sort of morphed into the crazy talk express. It seems like it is all over for him but the shouting, so it seemed like the right time to take a look at what he’s done during his candidancy that merits his inclusion here. As a candidate running for president, he acted like someone who’d just gotten up out of a bed with a pod underneath it. It seems as if he disavowed almost everything he ever believed in to cater to the religious right in his quest to become president. And he made a lot of really strange choices. He hired Terry Nelson as his campaign manager. This is the same guy who in the 2000 primary made racist allegations against MCCains adopted child. Nelson was responsible for the notoriously racist sex tinged ad used against black candidate Rep. Harold Ford Jr. in the last election.

McCain criticized the Christian Right in the past, but he was a keynote speaker at the Discovery Institute, an organization fighting to remove non-Biblical science from the classroom and replace it with the more Christian pseudoscience of Intelligent Design, something he now approves of despite a recent landmark court decision stating that Intelligent Design is not scientific. It also believes in Bible based government. McCain supports prayer in school and the teaching of the Ten Commandments in school (although that “Thou shalt have no God before me” part seems a little tough on non-Christians). He opposes including sexual orientation in hate crime legislation, despite it being an increasing factor in hate crimes. He missed a major vote on the war in the Senate to spend time at a rally encouraging young people to just say no to sex, and he is a big supporter of the administrations misguided abstinence only programs.  

Other turnabouts include coming out in favor of overturning Roe v Wade, and objecting to gay marriage and supporting the legislation barring it in his home State of Arizona. Ironically for the man who will be 72 if elected, a Gallup poll found that people were more likely to vote for a gay president than a man his age.

McCain introduced bizarre legislation that would treat blogs and social networking sites much like internet service providers and hold them responsible for all activity in comments and user profiles- with fines of up to $300,000. It puts onerous responsibility on any site that allows comments, requiring them to make sure that no one who comments and leaves an email address has been registered as a sex offender. In a bizarre twist, if someone posts child pornography on your site, you must take it offline, report it, and then keep it for 180 days- which makes little sense as under current law mere possession of such images is a crime. It also does not clearly define child pornography. Under current law, it could be a fully clothed picture of a child that seems salacious in the mind of the viewer, and it can include drawings and paintings. Explain to me how you determine how old someone is supposed to be in a drawing- especially of fantasy characters? And yes, people have been prosecuted for such things.

In 2000 McCain authored a bill that would block all obscenity from library computers- without bothering to define exactly what obscenity is or who would decide. He wants Hollywood to self-censor itself and remove sex and violence from films.

And finally, he stated that one of our previous whackos of the week, Tom Coburn, was his advisor on sexual issues. Listen to that segment from June 10th and it will be clear that McCain managed to pick one of the craziest people on capital hill.

I remember before the 2000 campaign when McCain was thought of as such a moderate republican there was even talk of a Gore McCain ticket. I never would have guessed that McCain would remake himself into a staunch right-wing republican. Of course, I never would have guessed that Gore’s actual running mate,  Joe Lieberman, would also remake himself into a staunch right-wing republican.

Entertainment

Apparently, the.Hooters restaurant chain was too subtle. The new Hawaiin Tropic Zone restaurant in Times Square offers bikini wearing servers along with breast shaped lighting fixtures and salt and pepper shakers. And to let the point sink in that they are not objectifying women, they have twice nightly beauty contests where the women line up.

Then there is Washington state based chain Cowgirls Espresso, with the tagline “udderly the best.” The minimum wage paid employees celebrate the theme days such as Bikini Wednesday and School Girl Thursday by wearing the appropriate attire.

And don’t forget Arizona’s Heart Attack Grill, where the servers dress as naughty nurses. Free French fries to real nurses. Except the State Board of Real Nursing sent them a cease a desist letter, explaining that only board certified nurses could call themselves nurses. Sandy Summers, of the Center for Nursing Advocacy, claims that dressing as a naughty nurse kills thousands of people. Why? Because portraying nurses as brainless sluts discourages women from becoming nurses, creating a dangerous nursing shortage. Two problems with this. Since men can also be nurses, it certainly might encourage them to sign up, dramatically increasing their roles. And secondly, who says you have to be brainless to be a slut. I know a lot of brilliant sluts. And you can certainly find a lot of less than brilliant folks in the pro-abstinence movement. Nursing advocate Summers says that her group  is “asking people, if they're going to have these fantasies, please don't make it so public. Move these sexual fantasies to other professions.'' Okay, but how do you make a naughty advocate costume?  She really needs to visit a Halloween costume shop to see just how many professions get sexualized with fantasy costumes. What amazes me is that, as a nursing advocate, she is more concerned about costuming than the fact that the restaurant, which serves unbelievably cholesterol laden food cooked in lard along with beer and cigarettes, is going to provide her nurses with a lot of new clients. You’d think that with a nursing background she’d know that eating food like this kills a lot more people than women wearing naughty nurse outfits.

Nick Lachey played the put-upon husband of a moronic narcicicst played by Jessica Simpson in the MTV series Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica. With the cancellation of that series and his marriage, the former boy bander has continued with his music career, but is now in hot water. Or was. More specifically, a hot tub with girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo. The outdoors incident was videotaped by paparazzi, and now some say the scandal might hurt his career because of its expliciteness. I am shocked, shocked to learn that a musician is having sex.

Equally dumb is the story that Britney Spears bodyguard used to sell sex toys online. They also report that he was fired from his previous security agency because they found out about his sex toy business. Are they inferring that just because you sold sex toys you can’t be a good bodyguard? Some of those giant rubber dildos would be a formidable weapon.

As porn becomes more mainstream, adult movie premieres are becoming bigger and more public. Take, for example, the premiere this weekend for Adam & Eve Pictures tropical paradise movie, Eden, starring Sunny Lane. It was be held at the Palms Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. There were two big parties, video promos splashed across Palms Hotel walls and specially designed blackjack tables featuring Eden logos and cast member names along with other promotions. They’ll even have a trailer for the movie running on in-house TV channels which will also play on the hotels outdoor Jumbotron. Sure, the Transformers premiere had full sized transformer robots, but at the Eden premiere you got to see real women who can twist themselves around in some much more interesting ways.

Actor David Duchovny says he hates the idea of shooting a sex scene with his real-life wife Tea Leoni because he thinks the idea of married people making love onscreen is disturbing. He said that he could not imagine anything creepier than watching people who normally have sex with each other have sex on camera. Well how about Tom Cruise doing an on camera sex scene with Katie Holmes. Now that’s creepy.

We think of Missouri as a very repressed state, but residents there can lighten up by going to the Deja Vu Comedy Club in Columbia July 25th – 28th and be entertained by adult stars Monique Alexander and Sunny Leone. These Vivid contract girls are part of the Vivid Comedy Party, which brings together adult stars and outrageous comedians. The show has also been seen in Hollywood and Chicago.You can get more info at dejavucomedy.com.

Adult star Aurora Snow will be signing at the San Diego Comic Con on July 28th.  And unlike Monique and Sunny in Missouri, she’s not there to work with comics, but rather, because she is in a comic. She’ll be promoting her autobiographical Aurora Snow comic book published by Carnal Comics. Its part of their True Stories of Adult Film Stars series, which has featured adult stars from Hyapatia Lee to Jenna Jameson.