February 1st, 2010

Sexting, and what it means to be a girl

On January 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit heard arguments in Miller, et al. v. Skumanick, a child pornography case that, oddly, involves no child pornography.

July 22nd, 2008

Saggers Beware: the Fashion Police!!

It is somewhat unbelievable to me that this is becoming a national movement in law enforcement.

I happen to be a somewhat devoted fan of the fashion phenomenon known as “sagging.”  For the uniniated, “sagging” is the practice of wearing baggy pants low enough that they expose one’s underwear and/or buttocks.  The city of Flint, [...]

June 20th, 2008

Philly is becoming a scary place to live

It’s not bad enough we’re still the murder capital of the US, or that local children amuse themselves by scaring commuters to death; lately it’s looking more and more like we Philadelphians should fear our own police.

A little over a month ago the Philly cops pulled three shooting suspects (remember “innocent until proven guilty?“) out [...]

January 11th, 2008

Commemorating the American Gulag

No celebrity photos today folks. Sorry.

Six years ago today the first prisoners (oops, sorry, “detainees”) were shipped to the dungeon at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. For six years, the 305 men, women and children there have lived in 23-hour-a-day solitary confinement, with little or no sunlight, no books, no communication with or news of [...]

August 29th, 2007

Who's watching you surf the web??

I generally try to keep work out of this blog (at least inasmuch as I blog on personal political issues, rather than ACLU-priority political issues) but this is both personal and tremendously pertinent to anyone who might be reading this.

The ACLU, with two other organizations, today filed an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit Court [...]