Texas Is Not A Civilized Place. Texans

We Often Seem To Be Swimming Through Such A Miasma Of Sexual Violence - In Advertising, Television Programming, Heavy Metal, Rap, Films, And Worst Of All, In The Home - That Even First Amendment Absolutists Sometimes Daydream About How Nice It Would Be To Have Government-as-nanny Just Outlaw All This Effluent.

Reading Ehrenreich Is Good For The Soul.

One Function Of The Income Gap Is That The People At The Top Of The Heap Have A Hard Time Even Seeing Those At The Bottom. They Practically Need A Telescope. The Pharaohs Of Ancient Egypt Probably Didn't Was A Lot Of Time Thinking About The People Who Build Their Pyramids, Either.

It Is Quite Reasonable To Subscribe Both To The Old Saw That No Good Girl Was Ever Ruined By A Book And To The Perception That It Is Not Good For Children To Be Constantly Exposed To The Sexual Violence In Our Popular Culture. Protecting Children Seems To Me Logically, Legally, And Rather Easily Differentiated From Censorship.

You Could Probably Prove, By Judicious Use Of Logarithms And Congruent Triangles, That Real Life Is A Lot More Like Soap Opera Than Most People Will Admit.