Tag Archives: Law and Rights

When I was DJing all the time in the ’80s and early-’90s, few songs enflamed the masses more totally or burned out more quickly than 2 Live Crew’s “Me So Horny” (’89), a hormone-dripping, vastly catchy exemplar of Miami bass-driven party rap following in the swaggering wake of the group’s …

Interesting story came up over the long holiday weekend: the 23 kids who sang “We don’t need no education/We don’t need no thought control/No dark sarcasm in the classroom/Teachers leave them kids alone” on Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick In the Wall Pt 2,” from the band’s ’79 monster The Wall, …

Apparently operating under the assumption that he won’t whip out anything untoward, the NFL has signed Paul McCartney to play the halftime show at the Super Bowl in Jacksonvile on February 6. In case you have been spelunking or time-traveling for the last year, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson had …

Fear not the great cultural/political clampdown, for it isn't coming.

As a writer, author and editor I often do research into wherever my interest, the news, or curiosity take me. This should be my and every American’s fundamental right without fear of being regarded suspiciously by my government. I therefore am in complete agreement with the American Library Association on …

That’s what the guys are saying, anyway: Liza Minnelli’s former bodyguard has accused the singer of forcing him to have sex with her in order to keep his job, court documents have revealed. M’hammed Soumayah is suing Minnelli for $100m damages, saying she made “many repeated attempts” to compel him …

As I stated here in September when the FCC unanimously imposed a fine against CBS for Janet Jackson’s Nipplegate, it was time to close the book and move on. CBS disagrees and has appealed the $550K fine (the maximum $27,500 for each of the twenty Viacom-owned CBS affiliates), the largest …

As I mentioned here, the actual logistics of voting are just as important as intent and rationale: if you don’t know how to vote or where to vote, your voice won’t be heard. That’s why a site like MyPollingSite.com is such a helpful tool. But with legal challenges, varying eligibility …

Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, which “defends imprisoned journalists and press freedom throughout the world, as well as the right to inform the public and to be informed, in accordance with Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” has put out their annual ranking of worlwide press freedom. Autocratic …

One week to go until the election, and your vote won’t count if you can’t find the right place to place it. MyPollingSite.com is there to help the lost and wayward: Welcome to MyPollingSite.com We offer a Free nonpartison web based service to help voters find their polling site in …