While I’m not comfortable with ANY form of censorship, I have to admit that the ubiquitous “celebrity head on a porn-image body” pics trouble me. Not that the usual Starlets need much help ruining their “reputation” these days….

It disturbs me too.

No one should have the ability to sully the good name of a starlet by placing the face of a despicable politician on their bodies.

I suggest you read the civil lawsuit filed against the individual and The Citadel!

As for outlawing pajamas in public I support that. I would appreciate people making an effort to look presentable – pressed slacks, clean shoes, etc. But that’s just me.

Anyone who, say, throws ideas out to broaden horizons, or breaks the law whenever it’s convenient for them to and gets away with it, is doing something more and better than casting an irrelevant vote for an at best irrelevant political candidate. No, it still isn’t much, at all. That’s how useless voting is.

By the way, I’ve never been to a cocktail party.

I have run into far too many people who decline to vote ….. Or do much of anything other than trot out the “it doesn’t change anything” excuse at cocktail parties. If you do something, pretty much ANYTHING, else to effect changes, you are different. I don’t care if it’s picking up trash by the roadside or working with Habitat For Humanity. But please, do something other than post “I don’t vote” comments. The people who (apparently) believe that refraining from exercising the franchise is a positive and sufficient contribution baffle me.

That moral superiority is quite real actually. Sucks to be you.

Both intent to deceive and success in deceiving a “reasonable person” are necessary. There are still issues with the bill, such as whether that should really be a civil rather than a criminal matter and whether it draws arbitrary lines between defamatory and non-defamatory depiction, but surely some kind of legal action is legitimate in such situations.

Which isn’t to say that society wouldn’t be fundamentally better off if they would take their precious selves back to whatever ivory tower spawned them, and stayed there.

“Elliot, … And if you can’t in your concience deal with the way things work in this country, even on the level of actively trying to change that, then please leave for somewhere more to your liking. All you are doing here is cluttering up the landscape with fake moral superiority.”

#43 | C. S. P. Schofield | January 18th, 2012 at 7:48 pm

“And if, out of all those options, you still can’t decide to do anything other than comment from the sidelines, from the supposed superiority of somebody who doesn’t vote or otherwise participate, THEN get out. Please. As soon as possible. Society needs politically active Hollywood twits more than it needs you.

QFT

But, hey. You’re not comfortable with ANY form of censorship.

I guess I’m saying that I understand Ms. Dickerson’s impulse, even while thinking it’s wrong.

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/15376980/neihborhood-photographer-arrested-for-child-porn-in-alpha

Last week, the photographer plead guilty to possession of child porn, an event which makes her proposed law even sillier – since he’s already been charged and plead to an existing law. Of course, then there’s the question of whether that was really child porn.