Anyone who knows me -- or thinks they know me -- has figured out that I do not suffer fools gladly. With a drill sergeant for a father and an Irish Catholic for a mother, it didn't take me long to learn that a lot of people want to convince...

FORT MYERS BEACH, FL -- Mayor Larry Kiker has an interesting way of avoiding controversy. He generates it himself.

Kiker helped make national headlines this week by firing Scott Janke, the Fort Myers Beach, FL town manager, for the singularly strange social crime of marrying a woman who works...

FORT MYERS BEACH, FL -- From all available accounts, Fort Myers Beach town manager Scott Janke was a great employee. Alas for Janke, liberty and common sense, he's lost his job -- because the Town Council doesn't like what his wife does for a living.

Janke's wife is an adult...

IRELAND -- From the country that gave the world the Blarney Stone, the Magdalene Laundries, molesting monks and aborting minors stopped at the border comes the latest in moralizing insanity. Unwilling to allow radical Islamics and American religious fundamentalists to claim all the glory, Ireland has made blasphemy a crime....

EL DORADO, KS -- Reading the headlines about Emily Sander's life would lead the casual observer to think that the most exciting thing that ever happened during her brief 18 years on earth took place during the three months when she was a softcore model know as "Zoey Zane." The...

SEATTLE, WA -- While possible investors and developers puzzle over what can be done with the powerful social networking possibilities inherent in Twitter.com, online retail and resale giant Amazon.com has (hopefully) learned a few things about the tech toy's ability to spread the word. In the case of Amazon.com, the...

Other than those of us with our eyes, ears and minds open - who could have guessed that conservative Americans would be frantically shrieking about the immorality of David Ogden's Deputy Attorney General nomination out of one corner of their mouths while madly salivating over internet pornography out of the...

LOS ANGELES, CA -- After birthing eight babies, otherwise unemployed 33-year-old Nadya Suleman can be forgiven for being a bit body conscious. After all, based on photos of the attractive, if wildly eccentric, poster child for IVF excess did expand her waistline considerably in order to accommodate all those bundles...

WASHINGTON, DC -- After struggling to thrive for 13 agonizing years, the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was allowed to die quietly today when the U.S. Supreme Court declined without comment the opportunity to reconsider Mukasey v. ACLU.

The Clinton-era law was allegedly designed in order to "protect" minors...

MADISON, WI -- Love it or hate it; nudity tends to include at least a passing sense of vulnerability. Thanks to a Wisconsin state court of appeals, that vulnerability doesn't have to extend into the realm of legal rights.

In a decision handed down today, the court affirmed that removing...

LOS ANGELES, CA -- When 10 year-old Betty Mae Page began caring for her younger siblings in an orphanage after their molesting father's incarceration and parents' divorce, she had no idea that one day she would be loved - and mourned -- by an entire planet of people who had...

CHICAGO, IL -- Throughout 20 years of both ups and downs in the fate of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., company heir apparent Christie Hefner has accepted and symbolized change. Now that she's chosen to step down as chairman and CEO she's decided to embrace change.

The new year will see...

The few adult industry professionals still wondering who to vote for in Tuesday's presidential election might take a tip from anti-porn evangelical bully boy Focus on the Family, which assures an anxious electorate that an Obama presidency could well bring about a host of liberal evils, including the fact that...

Looking for something to really scare the pants off of your kids and other loved ones as the Halloween season draws to a close? Drop by your local fundamentalist Christian "Hell House" and find out what torments await you once you've died and gone to hell.

Typically orchestrated by church...

August 5th was my birthday. I celebrated it much like I celebrate every day; by waking up and immediately going to work. The commute is short -- from my bedroom to my dining room. This satisfies my sense of personal urgency, my irregular sleep schedule, my desire to run a...

James, Sean and Brian Gunn think they've done something sexually daring - but not too sexual and not too daring - by creating what they call "PG Porn." If its first offering is any indication of what viewers can expect from the future, male porn fans will probably call it...