Why I can't vote for GWB, and a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing...
I work in a video store, and I'm the supervisor of the adult room. I take my job very seriously, and I'll admit, I enjoy porn. But if this turns out to be true, then I can't even consider voting for George this fall. From the article:
In this field office in Washington, 32 prosecutors, investigators and a handful of FBI agents are spending millions of dollars to bring anti-obscenity cases to courthouses across the country for the first time in 10 years. Nothing is off limits, they warn, even soft-core cable programs such as HBO's long-running Real Sex or the adult movies widely offered in guestrooms of major hotel chains.
Department officials say they will send "ripples" through an industry that has proliferated on the Internet and grown into an estimated $10 billion-a-year colossus profiting Fortune 500 corporations such as Comcast, which offers hard-core movies on a pay-per-view channel.
I'm kind of lukewarm on Kerry(mainly because he flip-flops like a koi on dry land) but to me, the Bush administration is trying to chip away at many of the modern freedoms that we've come to be accustomed to in order to set up some kind of new, half-assed Puritan society. As my friend Elle Wiz suggested today, between this, broadband in every household by 2007, and going after steroids and Howard Stern, George would like us to forget that there's still a war going on.
This is also some interesting, albeit very NSFW reading about the subject, and about one Rob Black, pornographer, entrepreneur, and former wrestling promoter(XPW, a sub-ECW, hell, even sub-JCW-level promotion). Black and his girlfriend, Lizzie Borden, are going to be the newest obscenity test case.
On a lighter note, I watched the third Matrix movie tonight at work. Bleagh. If they had taken this and Reloaded and edited the two of them together, it probably would have been a good movie. Ultimately, it takes too damn long to get going, and when it does, it's unsatisfying. The problem is that the first half of the movie is a lot of talk, and a lot of meandering psuedo-religous psychobabble at that. Then Neo, Morpheous and Trinity take a back seat to characters you've barely even seen for a good half an hour before it ultimately ends in one big stupid non-ending. I can say nothing great about this movie. It may actually be a worse trilogy ending then Return of The Jedi, though we'll see next year about that. It's too bad, too. The Wachowskis made an amazing science fiction film, then screwed it up by trying to get too deep and philosophical.
In this field office in Washington, 32 prosecutors, investigators and a handful of FBI agents are spending millions of dollars to bring anti-obscenity cases to courthouses across the country for the first time in 10 years. Nothing is off limits, they warn, even soft-core cable programs such as HBO's long-running Real Sex or the adult movies widely offered in guestrooms of major hotel chains.
Department officials say they will send "ripples" through an industry that has proliferated on the Internet and grown into an estimated $10 billion-a-year colossus profiting Fortune 500 corporations such as Comcast, which offers hard-core movies on a pay-per-view channel.
I'm kind of lukewarm on Kerry(mainly because he flip-flops like a koi on dry land) but to me, the Bush administration is trying to chip away at many of the modern freedoms that we've come to be accustomed to in order to set up some kind of new, half-assed Puritan society. As my friend Elle Wiz suggested today, between this, broadband in every household by 2007, and going after steroids and Howard Stern, George would like us to forget that there's still a war going on.
This is also some interesting, albeit very NSFW reading about the subject, and about one Rob Black, pornographer, entrepreneur, and former wrestling promoter(XPW, a sub-ECW, hell, even sub-JCW-level promotion). Black and his girlfriend, Lizzie Borden, are going to be the newest obscenity test case.
On a lighter note, I watched the third Matrix movie tonight at work. Bleagh. If they had taken this and Reloaded and edited the two of them together, it probably would have been a good movie. Ultimately, it takes too damn long to get going, and when it does, it's unsatisfying. The problem is that the first half of the movie is a lot of talk, and a lot of meandering psuedo-religous psychobabble at that. Then Neo, Morpheous and Trinity take a back seat to characters you've barely even seen for a good half an hour before it ultimately ends in one big stupid non-ending. I can say nothing great about this movie. It may actually be a worse trilogy ending then Return of The Jedi, though we'll see next year about that. It's too bad, too. The Wachowskis made an amazing science fiction film, then screwed it up by trying to get too deep and philosophical.
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