"But I do have an opinion about pornography. I'm for it."

[elfs]

So said Tom Lehrer. But Robert Bork is not. In fact, he's so against pornography that he seems ready to overturn the First Amendment completely and adopt some kind of European speech code:

Liberty in America can be enhanced by reinstating, legislatively, restraints upon the direction of our culture and morality. Censorship as an enhancement of liberty may seem paradoxical. Yet it should be obvious, to all but dogmatic First Amendment absolutists, that people forced to live in an increasingly brutalized culture are, in a very real sense, not wholly free... Relations between the sexes are debased by pornography, large parts of television are unwatchable, motion pictures rely upon sex, gore, and pyrotechnics for the edification of the target audience of 14-year-olds, and popular music hardly deserves the name of music.

It creeps me out that superrighty Bork and superlefty Catherine MacKinnon should be so... close... on such an issue. Ew!