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...story's adult tone has fueled speculation that it's not just for kids. Henrietta spouts lines like "Sir, you see before you one who, like our Sainted Lincoln, burns to serve through the medium...
...short while ago, a horrifyingly gauche society known as The Cambridge Center for Adult Education provided their culturally and aesthetically degenerate “townies” with the opportunity to indulge in their senses. The wine tasting event (clearly appealing to an arriviste set) was pompously entitled “The Chianti Wars.” In retrospect, it was very Christian and noble of them: an attempt to stem the inevitable tide of a decaying Western Civilization, as evinced by Dan, the transvestite who sat to the left of our fearless author. Perhaps I was overcome...
...ruling was not that nude dancing itself is an unworthy form of expression--the court has consistently found this kind of activity under the protective umbrella of the First Amendment--but that the state has a legitimate stake in limiting so-called "negative secondary effects." Nude dancing at adult establishments, the city reasoned, leads to increased rates of crime and prostitution and decreases in surrounding property values. Accepting this line of reasoning, the court upheld the ordinance...
...court's ruling is misleading because it implies the city ordinance sidesteps any normative judgement on the content of the expression. In reality, the ban is an across-the-board affront to basic free speech principles. If nude dancing at adult establishments did indeed lead to higher crime rates or severe property devaluation, the city could have used a number of non-speech related means to control the effects. Certain zoning laws might allow for more efficient law enforcement and could limit the extent to which the surrounding property is devalued. Instead, as Justice Stevens wrote, "the City of Erie...
Consider what happened with Rezulin, the diabetes drug that was taken off the market last week. The FDA approved the medication in 1997 after tests on 3,000 people showed that it could help control Type 2 (formerly adult-onset) diabetes, which affects 15 million Americans. Although some test subjects developed abnormal liver reactions, no one suffered permanent damage, and no one died. Now that millions have taken Rezulin, however, it has been linked to at least 90 cases of liver failure, 63 of which resulted in death...