Image by aeric meredith-goujon, also seen here.
I’ve just sent my Canon PowerShot TX1 off to the service center in some square state, wah! See you in (probably) December, my much-loved, much-used, very needed little video friend. The display suddenly decided the world was upside-down, obviously channeling my internal world these days. At least I can still photo moblog with my Ocean until I borrow another camera (I just gave the Xacti back to Irinaski). So, here’s a little link obsession while I flop about madly without a visual recording device:
* Thomas Roche, otaku and the six-foot pussy — it’s not what it sounds like. Or maybe it is. Over at the Blowfish blog, Thomas reflects on the seriousness and the silliness of what we do teaching front-line sex ed at SFSI. It’s a great read.
* A flickr friend has images on a new site that’s all fetishy and sexy; nothing explicit but now I think I have my next two ex-girlfriends all picked out.
* Finally, something to help with my RSI! Super kewt Japanese squishy boobs!
* Be worried about the definition of obscenity, very worried. “Obscenity” has been the government’s definition of “bad porn”, supposedly for extreme or illegal acts according to “community standards” on a case-by-case basis depending on the community. Over on Salon, Greenwald blogs about Sen. Orrin Hatch’s questioning of the new DoJ nominee Mukasey, writing,
As he always does, Sen. Hatch makes clear that — even as we battle the Global Epic War of Civilizations against Islamo-fascism — his primary concern is that the Department of Justice is not doing enough to battle the evils of what even he calls “mainstream, adult pornography.”
Hatch explains that “pornography and obscenity consumption harms individuals, families, communities.” Unfortunately, Hatch said, the DOJ has a “terrible record enforcing adult obscenity law” — such enforcement stopped during the Clinton administration and there is not much more to show for it during the Bush administration.
The problem, Hatch explained, is that the DOJ is only prosecuting “extreme” obscenity — not what he calls “mainstream obscenity.” Since most consumers only access “mainstream obscenity,” not “extreme obscenity,” this strategy is misguided — it prosecutes “too narrow a range of obscenity.” Also, warned Hatch, there are far too few FBI resources being devoted to “mainstream obscenity prosecutions.”
Mukasey promised to review the policy of only prosecuting “extreme” rather than “mainstream” pornography, and vowed: “I recognize that mainstream materials can have an effect of cheapening a society, objectifying women, and endangering children in a way that we can’t tolerate.”
(thanks, Julie!)
* Scarily, I’m following this up with today’s news item, where an anti-porn crusader wants Kansas City juries to redefine what’s obscene, snip:
On September 25, a Johnson County grand jury indicted the video store on misdemeanor criminal charges of promoting obscenity. The store’s alleged crime was renting out four allegedly obscene movies – Don’t Kiss Me I’m Straight, Hellcats 12, Anal Machines and Real Female Masturbation. A man who gave his name as Sean O’Cleary rented the videos in late August and never returned them. He had paid a $100 deposit and, later, called to tell the store that he’d turned the films over to the grand jury.
The grand jury handed down 15 obscenity charges against the store and three other Johnson County businesses. They’re accused of renting out racy videos, selling sex toys and displaying obnoxious Halloween costumes.
* See what kind of person doesn’t return videos!? IMHO, Real Female Masturbation is a pretty tasty amateur series (tho Screaming Orgasms will always be my favorite for seeing cute girls get themselves off).
