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War on Sex gets mainstream notice

The _New York Times_ has noticed that the anti-choice crowd has become more and more the “anti-sex crowd”:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07contraception.html.
bq. Many Christians who are active in the evolving anti-birth-control arena state frankly that what links their efforts is a religious commitment to altering the moral landscape of the country. In particular, and not to put too fine [...]

Conservative Talking Points

The structure of Conservative-machine argument is incredible. I’ve already noted (somewhere…. I really need to add meta data to my last three years of entries) that the right-wingers use highly offensive language when it suits them, but if a liberal does the same they complain loudly about “lowering the level of discourse” or “wild-eyed liberals.” [...]

TV-B-Gone!

As soon as the site comes back up, I’m ordering a “TV-B-Gone”:http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65392,00.html, a keychain fob that turns off almost any remote-controlled television. I’m sure it’ll only be a matter of time before people find a way to counteract it, but I hate these little TVs in every corner and cranny.
The place I’m most likely to use [...]

Targeting the Howard Stern demographic

Now, this
war on porn (is any noun safe from this administration?) might be just the ticket. If the Bush administration wanted to grab the attention of the Howard Stern demographic — that is, people who vote Republican because they don’t like paying taxes, but otherwise love to look at boobies — this would be it.

Nothing is off limits, [...]

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