That’s because the new left is filled with unchecked animosity and resentment, fueled by hubris and rationalization that only they are right and everyone else is wrong, backwards, stupid, etc. Kind of like how a teenager is sure they know better than the adults.

Child porn is inherently harmful to the children involved and destroys children’s lives. “Rape” porn is almost always staged with paid actors.

I hope that you don’t truly believe that 1) watching a video of two people who have consented to participate acting out a rape scene together and 2) watching a video of a person actually raping a child, who by definition does not have the capacity to consent, are the same thing. I doubt that you do.

According to who? Where is your proof that people who didn’t already have something very wrong with them engaged in a fantasy so many times they just had to up the ante by actually doing it?

And I honestly think this is part of why no want takes these issues seriously. I just don’t think this semantic squabble is where the Left should be taking this discussion. It should point out there is a difference. There is a big difference in society-wide racism and this incident. But that doesn’t mean we should…

I agree that it’s a totally semantic squabble--but I’m predicting that it’s a squabble that the public Left will take up again and again in the days to come as our media apparatus processes this occurrence and Right-wingers inevitably (and not entirely speciously) label the alleged perpetrators as being racists.

Good. They damn well deserve to be charged with hate crimes. Maybe in the future, right-wing internet commenters will actually wait at the very least 24 hours before screaming about how the police are biased against white people. Not wasting my breath, though.

I am prone to give Ellen a pass here.

said some very not nice things about homosexuals, so I didn’t feel like that was good of me to have her on the show, to have a platform.”

She’ll fit in just fine. All network news is trash entertainment. You really think Chuck Todd and Brian Williams have more journalistic credibility than the bozos at Fox? It’s all one big clubhouse, full of out-of-touch millionaires reading headlines off of teleprompters. Kelly just happens to be easier on the eyes…

Serious journalist=must be ugly. Got it.

What are you talking about? She was the only one who really took him on. Did you forget the fight they had?

Ms. Pickens the wording you were looking for is “soul food” or “down home cooking”. Looks like this:

I would like for women, and men, to feel empowered to make healthy decisions which positively impact their lives. It worries me that studies are showing that men in their early 20s are suffering from porn induced ED. It worries me that girls are emulating the behavior they see online without first discovering their…

I have two teenage boys and I have discussed this with them on numerous occasions.

Our problem is not porn, it’s that teenagers, male and female, are looking to porn to figure out what they’re “supposed” to be doing. How many teenage girls are finding that stuff on the internet (or being led to it by their boyfriends) and, because they don’t feel comfortable having the conversation with anyone and…

Putting aside the thorny issues about pornography and what results from it, any governmental action against it seems pretty far from a libertarian stance.

But that begs the question: Who decides on the definition of obscenity?

Seems that a lot of porn is the best way to provide relief (pun intended) to those with various kinks that might be hard to participate in otherwise.

Eugh. Give me the fascinating, flawed, grippingly atmospheric Prometheus a thousand times over a dull, flaccid movie like The Hunger Games.