Fat candidate

He's proud to be large, and he defends Social Security. What's not to like?

Thanx to Mercury Rising.

Obvious, yet controversial

A democratic morality should judge sexual acts by the way partners treat one another, the level of mutual consideration, the presence or absence of coercion, and the quantity and quality of the pleasures they provide. Whether sex acts are gay or straight, coupled or in groups, naked or in underwear, commercial or free, with or without video, should not be ethical concerns--Gayle Rubin

Thanx to Sex is not the enemy.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

J.G. Ballard's archive is one of the British Library's "treasures."

Thanx to File 770

The major media attempt to deal with new phenomena

With as much insight as their predecessors expecting drug-crazed violence at Woodstock or telling us that the pointy-eared weirdoes at a sci-fi con believe in flying saucers, The Washington Post ponders the Sanity rally:

"...in the days before the rally, observers of the political-media complex sought the larger goal of this unusual gathering: Would visiting progressives of all ages actually take political marching orders from comedians?