Obscenity

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• The league of sex-censoring librarians

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 593
  Two Kentucky librarians who decided a graphic novel was obscene have been fired for refusing to let an 11-year-old check out the book. Sharon Cook, an employee of the Jessamine County library, checked out The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: The Black Dossier in 2008 and kept it out so nobody ...
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• Jessamine county has very little in common with me

  
  librarian.net — Authority: 462
  You probably saw this on the tubes today. Library workers in Jessamine County Kentucky [a library system Ive featured in talks before, though I cant remember why] got fired when it was discovered they’d colluded to sort of permanently check out graphic novels to keep kids form being able to check them out Please ...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  1 week ago

• Federal Agencies Can Easily Manage Settings on Their MySpace Page, but How Should They?

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 548
  I got some feedback from readers about my post last night regarding the irony of the FCC’s newly-created MySpace page containing some rather vulgar user comments. I wondered if the agency would continue to allow such comments when the agency regulates similar words when they are uttered on broadcast TV or radio.  ...
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• 7 More Alan Moore Comics That Could Get Librarians Fired

  
  Underwire — Authority: 141
  A library employee in Kentucky was so offended by Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentleman: The Black Dossier that she effectively took it out of circulation, and was recently fired for her efforts. But God knows what the amateur comics censor would have thought of the prolific Moore’s other titles ...
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• Midweek Insomnia-Induced News Update

  
  Mixtapes for Hookers — Authority: 132
  $pread Magazine more than made the amount of money needed to print their next issue.  Yay! Simon Reynolds on beards .  I am sure that many bearded men out there did feel inspired to stop shaving because they wanted to look more like the guys in Fleet Foxes.  I would like to state for the record that I am ...
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• Disadvantage Pornography

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  Presumably, the title of Jonathan Raban’s piece about the photographs of Dorothea Lange for the New York Review was entitled “American Pastoral” because, as his point of departure, he invokes William Empson’s Some Versions of the Pastoral . As Raban put it, Empson’s book “casts a hard modern light ...
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• Daily Links for November 8th through November 10th

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 126
  All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s). Top 50 US Craft Brewers by Sales (MAP) | Sloshspot Blog - You may have seen the map we created earlier this year using the data from 2007 sales, and we now present the updated version with figures for 2008 sales. Once again, to be very clear, the rankings are ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  2 weeks ago

• An Update Houston and Hodgkins

  
  That Woman's Weblog — Authority: 121
  Face of Cancer As most of you know two months ago we were handed the horrible news that all known treatment used in the “curable cancer” ( Hodgkin’s Lymphoma) hadn’t worked -our options were exhausted- we were devastated and terrified . A mention was made of a trial for a new drug SGN 35 ...
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• The Magna Sententia Podcast: Episode 4

  
  The Magna Sententia Weblog — Authority: 118
  The Magna Sententia Podcast with Anna and Ellie Sherise. Hosted by Rodger McMillan. This week: The Sherise Method: Rectify “ Four Teens Arraigned In California Gang-Rape Case ” ( Agence France-Presse ) “ Richmond Gang Rape Seen As Nearly Inevitable ” (SFGate.com) “ ...
  2 weeks ago

• Court Rules That Using Domain Registration Privacy Services Repr...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Lots of people use private registration services for domain names, that lets them register a domain name while keeping their own identities private. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to do so: they dont want spam or they want to keep the identity of the site owners anonymous. read more
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• China Bans ‘Pornographic’ Online Literature

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 141
  China Bans ‘Pornographic’ Online Literature : “Chinese authorities have banned 1,414 works of online literature, saying all of it was deemed obscene.” By Rhett Pardon, Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009 BEIJING — Chinese authorities have banned 1,414 works of online literature, saying all of it was deemed obscene. ...
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• US Ruling Likely to Upset Obscenity Prosecutions

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 141
  Ruling Likely to Upset Obscenity Prosecutions : “Prosecutors will have to work much harder reaching a Internet obscenity convictions after Wednesday’s ruling by the 9th Circuit.” By Rhett Pardon, Thursday, Oct 29, 2009 See further 9th Circuit: Obscenity Should Be Defined by U.S. Community Standards , ...
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• obscene

  
  n e u f n e u f — Authority: 445
  [click image] You have been spared the image of me barfing into my wastebasket... too sick to turn on the Photo Booth program in time.
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• Cocktail Tease

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 520
  Veteran WNBC4 anchoress Sue Simmons confesses to DWA - drunk while anchoring. Simmons was accused of booze after she told co-anchor Chuck Scarborough to fuck off or something like that a year or so ago. But Sue claims she stopped boozing before broadcasts in the 1980s .  Why would she even anwer this callow TV ...
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• 11th Circuit Obscenity Case Tests Community Standards on the Internet

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 507
  Fulton County Daily Report : "The federal judges who on Thursday heard the appeal of the movie producer, known as Max Hardcore, arent being asked to make the same judgments the jury did . . . the judges are being asked to decide some of the heaviest issues in the area of obscenity law, such as whether the government ...
  3 weeks ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• The Community Defense Reporter Online: Protecting Children and Their Neighborhoods

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 507
  The September 2009 edition of the Community Defense Reporter is now available online at the Community Defense Counsel .
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• Supreme Court Decisions Pertaining to the Legal Regulation of Pornography

  
  Breaking Free — Authority: 127
  The following is a guest post by noted scholar of constitutional law, Gerard V. Bradley , Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame . He is president of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars , chair of the Federalist Society’s Religious Liberties Practice Group, vice president of the American Public ...
  3 weeks ago

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