A few years ago I read a book about Judge Robert Bork, a man that then President Ronald Reagen nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. At the time of the nomination I was still a little young to follow this event, but I am so glad that Bork never made it onto the U.S. Supreme...
The Republican party is having their presidential convention in Tampa this summer. Tampa, not Tampa Bay, which is not a city but a general metro area and body of water. I believe their NFL football team is named the Tampa Bay Buccanners and not just the Tampa Buccaneers, as...
Rick Santorum keeps putting his foot in his mouth. Well, at least it isn't a silver spoon like Mitt Romney. He stated that for Puerto Rico to become a state, it must abide by federal law and have English as the main language. One point there Rick, there is not such federal...
" Zambia Post's Fred M'membe was jailed for four months for contempt of court. The Post employee was cleared of obscenity charges last November for sending government ministers pictures of a woman giving birth in a hospital car park during a nurses' strike. President...
The communist party of St. Petersburg, Russia, is launching a search engine named Engels after a communist mastermind German philosopher Friedrich Engels. The search engine will block pornographic content, dating...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1445 views | 1 recommendation | 4 comments
"Gere escapes Indian courts
India`s top court has suspended an arrest warrant against Hollywood star Richard Gere, for breaking public obscenity laws by kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at a public Aids awareness event last year.Read More..."
Jim Mitchell, more recently famous for the shooting of his brother Artie in 1991, has died at his home in Northern California. The Mitchell Brothers ran the O'Farrell Theater in San Francisco, pushing the limits...
created by Jordan Yerman | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 3995 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
I had a story in the Globe earlier this week about a new linguistic study of obscenity. The story ran a bit long and some of it ended up on the cutting room floor, so I thought I would reconstitute it here. Call this the "director's cut." In keeping with previous postings on...
created by jmberger | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 1654 views | 17 recommendations | 5 comments
"The National Science Foundation is paying more than $200,000 for a study whose results may be unprintable.The grant's title, "Expressive Content and the Semantics of Contexts," doesn't sound exciting, until you figure out what "expressive content" means.Christopher Potts , a...
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A contrite Richard Gere has apologized for causing such a fuss by kissing superstar Shilpa Shetty, redirecting public attention towards the AIDS awareness and prevention program he was there to promote in the...
created by Jordan Yerman | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 788 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments