@dripdrop: The MPAA is an insidious organization with plenty of real and chilling censorship effect, but the BBFCC is on a different level because it's a government agency enforcing laws. Filmmakers who run afoul of the MPAA risk having their films shunned by almost all viable commercial outlets in the US, filmmakers…

That silly story from The Sun inspired me to find this image.

Being able to appeal to human sentimentality is every bit an evolutionary edge as anything else. Some animals have speed, others deadly venom, the giant panda has adorableness. Underestimate that quality at your peril. Their ability to reproduce atrophied, their ability to find food sucks, but being so fucking cute…

An anecdote from the other end:

I don't blame the models for looking particularly grim (even for models), having to go up and down all those stairs in such high heels must inspire thoughts of death.

@Diziet_Sma: I'd say Lady Gaga is both. Gloriously so! Weird is fine and good on its own, but weird shoved in everybody's face is even better.

Best animated film of the summer? Are we forgetting Up? Rotten Tomatoes has Up with a higher percentage than Ponyo, with Up having a better critical consensus ("one of Pixar's best") than Ponyo ("not Miyazaki's best work but still good"). And yes, it is a competition! There can be only one best animated film of the…

Children are most likely to be victimized by people who already have access to them, such as relatives, teachers, clergy or parents. This kind of abuse is vastly more likely than the stranger danger these repressive sex offender policies are supposed to protect against.

A Christian complaining that she can't find acceptance in a tiny fragment of society? The words "tough titty" comes to mind.

Short people got no reason to live. They got little hands, little eyes. They walk around telling great big lies. They got tiny little noses and tiny little teeth. They wear platform shoes on their nasty little feet.

@bluebears: Except he has a vote in the government, and none in private insurance companies... unless he's on the board.

Not a surprise, really. The Bible itself, with its undead messiah and all, pioneered the genre of Christian zombie fic.

@mrsdracomalfoy: Oh not at all, I thank all of you for not cussing me right out, really, given how explosive this topic is and how outre my views are.

@lilbobbytables is a la-di-da feminist: Pictures of crimes are used in commercial ways all the time, by tabloids and newspapers and the aforementioned Nancy Grace. While people may not masturbate to them, it's hard to deny that some get off on the sensationalism. Does that encourage future crimes in some cases? It…

@Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!: If the imperative there is to find the victims ASAP, then one might actually make the case that the child porn should be decriminalized and distributed. The more people see it, the more likely someone will recognize the victim. Keeping the possession and trade of images…

@deeemer: Adults having sex with children should be illegal. Do I really need to say that?

Even more proof that child porn laws are ridiculous. Let's criminalize actual crimes, not people masturbating to pictures of crime scenes after the fact.

@goodgirlrevolution and BlondeGoddess: That really does look like Marc, and probably is. Nicely played, Mr. Jacobs.

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: When you put it that way...

The same problem exists in bestiality vids. Those Free Willy puns really killed the mood in that whale porn I saw.