By Martin Bosworth Over the weekend there was an interesting flap in literary circles–the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) went insane with copyright infringement notices against Scribd.com, an online document-hosting service, […]
Porn stars must present their papers
By Martin Bosworth Future movie auteurs in the vein of Seymore Butts, take note: In order to produce your next penetrating panoply of puerile pleasure, you need to provide a complete list […]
The very long night of Rudy Giuliani
By Martin Bosworth So let’s say you’re Rudy Giuliani–darling of the media for turning New York City into Disney World, fawned over as the Saint of 9/11 and a “national security authority” […]
Who would Jesus prosecute? Justice shifts focus from civil rights to religious rights cases
The New York Times reports that the Ashcroft/Gonzales Department of “Justice” (my quotes) has significantly shifted the civil rights mission of the nation’s highest prosecutor of federal law. Instead of focusing on […]
It’s alway 1984 somewhere…
Today is the 58th anniversary of the publication of 1984, George Orwell’s dystopian vision of a corporatized totalitarian world where “Big Brother” is always watching and where the art of “double-think” (holding […]
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