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Month: January 2019

color image of a neon sign that reads 'Georgia's NOT BUYING IT,' surrounded by neon tubing in the shape of the state of Georgia
Fake News, News, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work, Super Bowl

Sex Trafficking Conspiracy Theorists Peddle Same Old Lies in the Lead-Up to Super Bowl LIII

Stephen Lemons/January 30, 2019January 19, 2022 /Leave a comment

Harder to kill than Jason Voorhees. More persistent than the Babadook. It is the lie that will not die, one that’s awakened each year at this time by activists, law enforcement, and the gullible journalists who hang on their every…

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Photo of the former home of the Theta Tau fraternity house, a three-story residence on a small lot near the campus of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York
Campus Speech, Freedom of Speech, Hate Speech, News

New York Judge Upholds Hate-Speech Suspensions Stemming From Fraternity ‘Roast’ at Syracuse University

Stephen Lemons/January 23, 2019January 23, 2019 /1 Comment

On January 8, 2019, in a court decision that could double as the film treatment for a remake of National Lampoon’s Animal House,  a New York judge upheld Syracuse University’s suspension of ten members of the Theta Tau fraternity who had taken…

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A smiling Kamala Harris at a summertime political rally, handing a microphone to fellow U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, who is visible only by the back of his bald head
Censorship, News, Politics, Sex Work

Kamala Harris’s Record as a Prosecutor Exposes the Dirty Truths Behind Her Newfound ‘Progressive’ Persona

Stephen Lemons/January 22, 2019January 31, 2019 /Leave a comment

You can roll the silkscreens on those “Kamala in 2020” T-shirts now. The first-term U.S. senator from California made it official on January 21, 2019: She will seek the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency. The announcement was equal parts…

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Meghan McCain during a January 15, 2019, discussion on ABC's 'The View,' speaking passionately and pointing a finger at fellow panelists
John McCain, News

Confidential to Meghan McCain: Your Dad Condoned Racism When It Benefited Him

Stephen Lemons/January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 /Leave a comment

Meghan McCain seldom misses an opportunity to remind everyone who her father was, and when the co-host of ABC’s The View saw a chance to buff the family image during the January 15 episode of the popular daytime TV talk show, she…

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The University of Notre Dame's pugilistic leprechaun mascot puts up his dukes to confront a boy- and girl-next-door wearing black shirts that sport the PornHub logo
Campus Speech, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, News

Campus Prude Group at Notre Dame Co-Opts #MeToo Rhetoric, Demands Online Porn Ban

Stephen Lemons/January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 /Leave a comment

Aiming to land a haymaker straight to the kisser of wanton indecency, a student group at the University of Notre Dame has called on university officials to institute a campus-wide Wi-Fi block on online porn. To make its case, the group,…

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Photo of President Trump at his desk in the Oval Office, surrounded by VIPs, as he prepares to sign a bill in to law.
News, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work

Trump Approves $430 Million to Screw Sex Workers

Stephen Lemons/January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 /1 Comment

Come fire or flood (or wall), the federal government never seems to run out of money to throw at its war on sex workers. On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, President Donald Trump signed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization…

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Comedian Hasan Minhaj on the set of his Netflix show, explaining the meaning of the Saudis' nickname for Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman
Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Media, News

Netflix Bows to Saudi Kingdom, Censors Comedian Hasan Minhaj’s Show

Stephen Lemons/January 8, 2019January 8, 2019 /Leave a comment

No one ever accused Saudi Arabia’s ruthless rulers of possessing a sense of humor. So it should arch nary an eyebrow that they object to an episode of the comedy series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj that’s critical of the kingdom’s notorious young…

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Venn diagram depicting the teensy intersection where Social Media Mavens, Social Justice Warriors, and Crossword Puzzle Solvers intersect
Hate Speech, Media, News

Fighting Words: The New York Times Crossword Puzzle as Cultural Divide

Tom Finkel/January 5, 2019January 9, 2019 /1 Comment

Those of us who were nursing our hangovers probably missed out. But on New Year’s Day, the nexus where Social Media Mavens, Social Justice Warriors, and Crossword Puzzle Solvers meet got a rare moment in the spotlight when the New…

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Kevin Hart and Ellen DeGeneres, seated and talking, on the set of The Ellen Show.
First Amendment, Media, News

Ellen DeGeneres Forgives Kevin Hart for His Homophobia, Says He Should Host Oscars

Stephen Lemons/January 4, 2019January 4, 2019 /Leave a comment

Ellen DeGeneres, one of the most powerful openly gay celebrities in Hollywood, really really wants her pal Kevin Hart to host the 2019 Oscars, despite all of the jokes the comedian has made at the expense of the LGBTQ community. During…

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A photo of a man and a woman dancing the tango, locked in a passionate embrace.
Media, News

Enough Already About the Butter: Last Tango in Paris’s Feminist Message

Stephen Lemons/January 3, 2019January 3, 2019 /Leave a comment

Lost in the recent outrage over film critic David Edelstein’s off-color Facebook comment about the infamous “butter scene” in Last Tango in Paris is one salient fact: By any measure, the late Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 succès de scandale conveys a powerful feminist…

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           Required Reading

  1. Lacey/Larkin Statement on Trial
  2. Major Points on Lacey/Larkin Case 
  3. The Senate Accused Them of Selling Kids for Sex. The FBI Raided Their Homes. Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time., Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason, 8/21/18.
  4. The War on Backpage.com Is a War on Sex Workers, 38-minute Reason documentary, 6/26/19.
  5. Seventh Circuit Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner’s decision in Backpage v. Dart,11/30/15.
  6. Inside Backpage’s Vicious Battle With the Feds, Christine Biederman, WIRED cover story, 6/18/19.
  7. Feds Bungled Preservation of Server Evidence in U.S. v. Lacey and Larkin, Front Page Confidential, 10/8/2019.
  8. Real Men Get Their Facts Straight, The Village Voice, 6/29/11.
  9. How John and Cindy McCain Came to Hate Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, Front Page Confidential, 9/17/18.
  10. Backpage’s Victories in Federal and State Courts, Front Page Confidential, July 11, 2022

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