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Republicans think porn is pretty dangerous.

https://www.gq.com/story/flori...

Then again I heard someone claim Theresa May is a communist the other day so who knows what left and right mean any more.

There is the old trope about projection, and it is quite true. It's how family values and conservative people are often found to have some sexual orientations that differ from what they rail about, and often are into some nasty pron habits as well.

BTW, on the topic of Idaho and porn, they come in at number 49 in the Pages viewed per capita (88) in a PornHub breakdown of their data. http://www.westword.com/news/p...

Arkansas was last at 77 Page Views per capita, and Kansas was number one at 194 page views per capita.

Not sure if Google wants to take on PornHub et al, and their army of one arm stronger than the other fans.

more about the small business sabotaging an event at the last minute

I'm not sure whether you're lying, or if you just read really biased news sources. Check out this article about the big case that most people have been talking about. The article is from a liberal, gay-friendly perspective but still serves nicely because they are reporting the facts:

http://www.westword.com/restau...

...and please observe that the bakery turned them down immediately when they asked for the cake, NOT sabotaging their event at the last minute.

So stop spreading misinformation about this issue, 'K?

Sometimes things go so tragically wrong. http://www.westword.com/2000-0...

"Is it time to put up a wall to quarantine texass? They've wanted a wall for some time. Should texass be allowed to infect good American blue states?

Red state texass let an Ebola patient out on the streets with some tums or antibiotics....

Epic healthcare failure." - muhutdafuga

http://blogs.westword.com/late...

Women are 99% of the prostitutes.

That's not actually true. There are a lot more males working as prostitutes in the developed world than people realize.

"Most astonishing to the researchers was the demographic profile teased out by the study. Published by the U.S. Department of Justice in September 2008, Curtis and Dank's findings thoroughly obliterated long-held assumptions about underage prostitution: Nearly half of the kids — about 45 percent — were boys." http://www.westword.com/2011-1...

On the related topic of sex trafficing, here's an article:

"In my visit to Care Corner Orphanage in Thailand I was shocked that most of the HIV-infected sex slave survivors were boys under the age of ten. I saw and learned of something similar in the Philippines and in Bangladesh. Upon reflection, I think part of the reason for my shock was because I was conditioned through the media, literature, photo and film to believe that this was a crime perpetrated against only girls and women. The photo above actually came from a video released a few days ago by Reuters titled The Trafficking Business in which the entire focus is females as victims and how millions of them are forced into the sex trade or sweat shops. While not untrue, it’s not painting a full picture either.

Speaking broadly on the topic of human trafficking – boys and men are trafficked far more than girls and women because, in part, strong bodies are needed for labor. And as it relates to sex trafficking, girls and women are victims to a larger extent. Many other crimes have such disparities but few place the disparity so high in their definition. All this is to say let’s define human trafficking and sex trafficking for what they are: horrific crimes against the most vulnerable populations. There are loads of ways to be vulnerable. Yes, one of many vulnerabilities is being a woman.
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As I mentioned in The Other 20%, men raping boys is still a taboo topic. Even filmmakers who document the horrors of sex trafficking have told me they feel their work wouldn’t be accepted if it instead highlighted the abuse of boys. “The public isn’t ready for it,” I’ve been told. Truth is, we only speak about the victimization of boys when it’s forced on us by breaking-news scandals like those of Jerry Sandusky or The Boys Scouts of America. As the news story fades so too does the conversation. This makes it tough, then, to even entertain the idea of discussing, as I’ve heard from several high-ranking women in anti-trafficking organizations, that the sex traffickers, the actual criminals in the crime, are about 65% men. Such a statistic has a hard time taking root because there’s already the perceived and ingrained idea that men and men-only are the criminals." http://goodmenproject.com/feat...

Women are overwhelmingly the victims of domestic abuse.

When asked, "Has your significant other hit you within the last month?", men and women are about equally likely to reply to that question with "yes". The difference is that women are more likely to be severely injured (because men are stronger) and women are more likely to be taken seriously as victims of domestic abuse. There's a prevailing belief that men should be capable of defending themselves - which leads to dismissal of female-on-male domestic violence, shame, and an unwillingness to admit that they are victims of domestic abuse.

"The Guardian: More than 40% of domestic violence victims are male, report reveals"
Campaign group Parity claims assaults by wives and girlfriends are often ignored by police and media
http://www.theguardian.com/soc...

Also, here is a good article from a local magazine discussing the hemp industry here in Colorado. Westword

Amendment 64 also doesn't require a federal permit to grow industrial hemp (as other states have done), so as it stands right now, go right ahead and grow it knowing that yours may be the landmark case that allows others to cultivate in the future.

At least Landau got a $795,000 settlement.
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/05/alexander_landau_795000_police_brutality_settlement.php

Well, if it's anything like the Alex Landau case, there won't be any charges against the police.

You can skew your stats all you like to prove the point you want to prove.

In the city where I live (Denver), there is an average of about 1.5 bike fatalities per year for the last 10 years. For the same period, there was an average of about 55 automobile fatalities per year.

So by that metric, I am about 36 times more likely to die from an auto accident than a bicycle accident.

Accompanied reading

Here is the information you requested:

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Cheeky reference aside, if you want to learn more about the author, a local alt-weekly I read sometimes did a fairly good article on him.

Users are free to choose another device if they feel that strongly about the situation. My hunch is that /. won't accurately represent the marketplace, however.

One thing people tend to forget here on the dot is that Apple doesn't sell "computers" as we define it. They sell a style or rather a UI. It's like going to Casa Bonita; you go there for the scenery not the food.

As much as I hate Apple, it's their right to do what they want with the device. Especially considering that you have a choice of phones to choose from. Yes, Verizon+Droid is indeed a choice. Forgetting the touch UI issues with flash, it's just too slow and Apple wants their device to be as polished and native looking as possible for the "experience".

I'll put it in Star Trek terms: If you built your house to look like the bridge of Voyager, you'd be pissed if your [insert related person here] up and installed an ugly looking "crystal" SG-Atlantis control panel.

I still don't see why Apple aren't allowed to set the terms of participation in their program. If you sign up as an iphone/ipod/ipad developer, you know what you're getting into, and you know they can change their rules at any time. Don't come whining when you don't like it any more

Yes, absolutely. The same applies for Facebook app developers too. You're programming for a closed platform, controlled by a closed company.
If you can't handle that, develop for Android.

You mean like this one?

They should have gone weekly, focusing on Denver, Colorado, and Western US interests in the same way that Time/Newsweek/et al focus on US national interests. No one owns that market (yet) and there are enough folks that would pay for it. They could have been a mainstream Westword and people would have continued to pay for it. It would not succeed as a daily. A daily just isn't needed. I doubt the Denver Post is going to last more than a few more years.

Here's your incentive... best CD packaging evar.

http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2009/08/coolest_cd_case_ever_has_there.php

Denver International Airport tried something along that line.

Things went so badly that when they sent camera equipped luggage to trouble shoot the system, they lost their camera equipped baggage. Forever.

From this article:

[Her] oldest son, Jacob, accused her second husband of child abuse. Dennis Shell had spanked his thirteen-year-old stepson with a martinet, a kind of cat-o'-nine-tails with leather straps, after an argument during which the boy yelled at him... Shell says she witnessed the spanking, which was Jacob's first in nearly a year. "I didn't feel eight swats were excessive, given his age, his size, and his offense,"

Her son was taken away and placed into foster care. She's advocating for a parents right to abuse their children. Spanking is one thing but a cat-o-nine-tails? I hope this woman ends up in jail.

She's been ejected from courtrooms by judges and attacked in a hallway by a convicted child molester she was trying to capture on film. She's been arrested in Wisconsin for refusing to turn over her video equipment to a police officer and detained at the Colorado Springs Airport because she forgot to remove a .380-caliber pistol from her carry-on items.

I'm sorry both your jr high wrestling coach and church youth leader recognized you for a cum sponge, but don't take it out on all of us. Go and find them, kill them, and get on with accepting you're gay.

Local newsrag wanted $60 for a 2 line, 1 week listing for my motorcycle. I put a full ad w/ pics on Craigslist and it sold in a whopping 4 hours. Only thing the papers are good for is local editorials and opinions, and frankly, the indies (like http://westword.com/ here in Denver) do a better job on those.

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apparently, putting sex offenders and deadbeat dads in the stocks isn't easy with long hair, an unwaxed head, non-perfect teeth and a suit that costs less than three grand.

of course, it's a different game once you get down into NJ. That dude looks like Herbert Kornfeld.

From: http://www.westword.com/issues/2003-08-07/feature. html/1/index.html

Through a partnership with the firm bLogistics, Amazon receives a 15 percent commission on each book sold, while bLogistics -- which stores the books in a Boulder warehouse -- and the library each receive 42.5 percent of the revenues. Last year the library made $37,265 from the deal over ten months, and the DPL is projecting that it will earn $50,000 this year. The Friends raised $100,000 through two used-book sales last year.

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Fans of old books are especially troubled by the new arrangement, because bLogistics only sells books that have an International Standard Book Number (ISBN), a ten digit ID that has been assigned to almost all books published in the last thirty years. They fear the old books will all wind up in the trash.

"Older, rarer books, what happens to them?" asks Linda Lebsack, who sells used books with an emphasis on Colorado history at her small shop on Broadway. "Do they throw them away or sell them out the back door? Every year I go to the sale and see a book by some old geezer who lived in a small Colorado town and wrote his memoirs. You'll see dozens of books like that go through the sale. I've bought signed editions of poets from the 1920s. I sold a library discard the other day for $45."

And even though Jackson says those books will be sold at the used-book sale in October or at the annual rare-books auction in January, the Friends volunteers have seen what really happens to many of the volumes. While preparing for what would be their last summer extravaganza, they heard rumors that they no longer had full access to the stock because much of the year's discards were simply being tossed in the dumpster.

So Monley and the volunteers went down to the library's dock to investigate. What they found appalled them: box after box of books heading to the dump.

"We thought it was a mistake and went down and took them out of the trash," Monley says. "They went on throwing the books away, even though they were good books for the book sale. We always sold them; they were $18 or $19 books. They were throwing away art books -- they sell beautifully; some were in perfect shape inside. We'd sell them for $7 or $8, and they'd go in minutes."

"Those of us who sort the books see what's coming through and are appalled by it," Silverman adds. "They were saying they needed to raise money for Spanish-language materials, and we would be seeing Spanish materials for children in mint condition being discarded. We were getting stuff that had never been opened, and it was being discarded."