Tuesday's Brains are Full of Dust...

Matt Yglesias looks for a metaphor:

I've seen ads from both Barack Obama and John McCain watching the Olympics this evening, but Obama's ads are in HD and McCain's are not. Please explain how this serves as a metaphor for the entire campaign.

Dildos At the Supreme Court

( A Right To Adult Sexual Autonomy? )

Substituting "Intelligent Design" for evolution invalidates biology credits needed to meet college admission requirements.

( ACSI vs. Stearns goes down in flames! )

The Homos are Coming, the Homos are Coming!

( Sally Kern Makes Teh Stupid Burn! )

Music is Drugs! Save Your Children!

( ABC News goes for more stupid )

Iran refuses to swim against Israel in the Olympics

( Stay classy, guys )

It might destroy the Earth. And it runs Linux

( It's the Large Hadron Collider! )

Defining Deviancy Up: The Red Rose Convinction

Over at Pendorwright, I've posted a rather long article about the recent conviction of Karen Fletcher, AKA "Red Rose," in the very first "obscene works of fiction" prosecution since 1973. Fletcher's work was undeniably vile, but it was still fiction, and her convinction and sentencing should send a chill through any creative writer no matter how far his or her efforts are from Fletcher's own twisted imaginings.

Completely silly and irrational reaction

So, as I've revealed before, I have a deep and abiding porn crush on starlet Aria Giovanni [NSFW], whom I've described in the past as "quite possibly the most physically perfect broad ever created." Apparently, not in a laboratory, either. I mean "broad" flatteringly: a strong, adult-looking woman with real hips and real breasts, not one of those bubblegum "barely legal" types that are so popular these days. And she photographs convincingly: you can tell there's actually something going on behind those eyes.

My transfer stop on the way to work is right in front of the Deja Vu "adult video store" in downtown, the one right across the street from Pike Place Market, and I noticed along the back wall there was a poster of Aria with some logo for a generic brand of sex toy. My reaction was, "Oh, dear. Aria, Aria, that just cheapens your brand."

I quickly recovered.