I think there often is a victim In prostitution: the prostitute. ...The whole business is about as nasty and sleazy as anything can be...-- Bibblesnæð

It's because culturally we need the "act" to be nasty and sleazy. I don't know why, but unfortunately it seems a good part of the allure is that it is naughty, it is dirty. It doesn't have to be, but culturally it is. Looking at porn on the net, most of it is ugly, misogonistic, at least 180 degrees removed from erotic and at worse bereft of anything resembling any kind of humanity. Look at the boob tube, the innuendo is all about being naughty or "forbidden". I am not saying there are not balanced individuals out there with healthy sex lives, but overall as a culture it is pretty sick. Hence most prostitution falls in line with the greater culture and is also sick.

As far as how he was caught. Glenns article suggests he may have been targeted, but more worrisome and more likely is that we all have the same level of monitoring on our transactions and our banks and other financial institutions work hand and hand with big brother.

I fear privacy will be a word that drops from our lexicon, as it continues towards having no meaning.

There were a two things that ended the Vietnam war;

- The draft

- The Press broadcasting what the war was really like on a human visceral level. The John Wayne Hollywood crap was put in the shitter where it belonged, not in the press coverage. Now, for Gods Sake, the press is afraid to show flag draped caskets.

Wish I could say real and continuing coverage of the ravages of warfare is enough by itself to end the Iraq occupation, but I am doubtful. You want people to move, put their ass on the line.

Did all the Clinton fans crying media bias miss the front page of the NY Times yesterday?

No, Alex did.

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@dm8877 must have been in diapers during the Whitewater days when Ken Starr came down upon Arkanasas and anyone remotely related to Clinton as an the Avenging Angel of the TRUTH, destroying everyone and everything in his path. Excessive hyperbole I know, but not that inaccurate. $70 millio dollars and an freakin' impeachment later, we end up with some sperm on a dress. If it did not take a right wing conspirancy to do that then at the very least it took right wing vengeful, sick and twisted lunacy.

... I could say something more constructive than Dick Morris is an imbecile.

Maybe a better wish is that people ignore him and he just goes away.

Guys like to copulate for sport, fun and pleasure.

Never knew that, I guess that's what the media is there for, to keep us informed.

All right not a great defense, partaking in prostition services is illegal as well as the prostitution itself. And you can't be enforcing the law while breaking the law yourself and supporting those who break the law.

But dang another hero bites the dust.

Looked at that graph mentioned in the article, the inflation adjusted price of gas stayed flat or gone down slightly from 1979 to 2000. In the last 7 years since GWB took office, gas has risen 60%.

The "Holy Toledo" in the subject refers to the exclaimations of Oil friends of Bush who were looking at their soaring profits.

And you're also a lawyer? That's like four strikes right off the bat. You couldn't possibly have anything Serious to say... And a piece of advice for your next book - don't rely so much on evidence and logic to determine your conclusions.

-- thehallmark

I agree with Hallmark, "serious" is a "Serious " word. And who in their right mind, whether a journalist or a lawyer for that matter would ever rely on "too" much evidence and logic. Why bother, it's much easier to make stuff up.

And well put, being a lawyer does have at least 4 strikes, just like in baseball. Right off the bat. But the 5th strike against lawyers are that they are all in disguise running the country in the form of elected officials and politicians.

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It is funny that the word discrimination has both a good and evil side to its dictionary definition. The evil side refers to making distinctions based on racial, religious, sex, etc, intolerances or bigotry. The good side refers to the ability to make nuanced distinctions and use practical judgment based on facts and evidence. Who knows, maybe that is what forces "serious" journalists to be "balanced", they cannot determine when and how to use discrimination.

Lack of discrimination does things like:

tie together a lunatic/comedianne/sociopath/entertainer and an advocate promoting a position as the same thing,

tie together a politician who lies a nation to war and another who lies about an extra-marital affair,

tie together actions and events that can cause potential personal consequences, with those that can devastate an entire nation.

To bad discrimination has such a bad connotation, journalism sure could use some discrimination.