This is cool: Editors of the ABA Journal have selected Meeting the Sin Laws as one of the top 100 best websites by lawyers, for lawyers. Lawyers are being asked to vote on their favorites in each of the Blawg 100’s 12 categories. Voting ends Jan. 2, 2008. But enough. One of my favorite legal [...]
The "adult" in adult entertainment
November 23, 2007 By Leave a Comment
If you’re a grammar snob, or maybe you’re just terrified of sounding less-than-literate, check out The Grammarphobia Blog. Yesterday’s entry: adult entertainment. There we learn that “[t]he use of ‘adult’ as a euphemism for sexually explicit (as in ‘adult cinema’ or ‘adult entertainment’) dates from only 1958, according to the OED. The earliest published reference [...]
Which year(s) were YouPorn?
November 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment
An interesting article, Obscene Losses, by Claire Hoffman appears in this November’s online edition of Conde Nast Portfolio. It begins: DVD sales are in free fall. Audiences are flocking to pornographic knockoffs of YouTube, especially a secretive site called YouPorn. And the amateurs are taking over. What’s happening to the adult-entertainment industry is exactly what’s [...]
Well, we didn’t try to suppress speech …
November 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment
… even if Judge Kanne of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals says, “yes, you probably did.” This opinion is hot off the presses. In throwing out the Village of Washington Park’s alcohol-ban in adult entertainment establishments, the Court writes: Because the purpose of the ban on alcohol consumption in newly licensed establishments was to [...]
If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em
November 7, 2007 By 1 Comment
The City of Warren (a suburb of Detroit) has bought an adult bookstore: The city of Warren has been known to purchase private businesses to aid long-term development goals. But city officials broke new ground with their recent purchase of an adult bookstore. The rare move has given the city ownership of Book World, the [...]
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