FULTON, N.Y. – Stop when this starts to sound familiar: A former porn star remakes herself as preacher’s wife, embraces Jesus as her personal savior and thoroughly renounces her porn past to the cheers and adulation of decent people everywhere. Sounds like the story of Theresa...

SPRINGFIELD, Fla. – Every time I read about porn showing up on a domain once held by a politician, local government, school district or anything else along those lines, I shake my head and wonder. Don’t these people know how freaking cheap it is to renew a domain name? Take the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Among the many articles published by right-wing news outlets about the National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s (NCSE) “Dirty Dozen list,” one caught my eye not for anything in the text of the article itself, but due to the spectacular advertising...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – One of the nice things about not believing in any God is I don’t have to sit around wondering whether any given thing I do pisses Him off, or reminds Him of something He finds abominable, or any of the other shit all those “God-fearing” people presumably walk...

WASHINGTON – Politics is so confusing sometimes, it makes me wonder why I even bother feeling guilty about not voting. (I’m kidding of course. I’ve never once felt guilty about not voting.) Over the past several years, the world of politics has been turned on its head, effecting...

WASHINGTON – Among many critics of “big government,” it’s a common practice to assert as established fact private entities operate more efficiently than their state-run counterparts. The government, we’re told, is a monument of inefficiency, waste and graft. There’s plenty of...

EDMONTON, Canada – When your stated mission is to “to create, deliver, and evolve the most emotionally engaging games in the world,” I guess you can’t afford to make offhand comments about one of your games becoming “totally softcore space porn.” (Because, you know, porn simply...

AUSTIN, Texas – When I launched my first free porn site during those carefree days of the late 1990s, despite what Justice Potter Stewart said about the definition of porn some 30 years earlier, I think most people agreed what did and did not constitute a “porn site.” Even in the...

WASHINGTON – Amid the sound and fury attending the signing of his various executive orders, many of which appear designed to deliver immediately on specific campaign promises, one of President Donald Trump’s election season pledges has gone largely unremarked. Trump signed the...

LOS ANGELES – Changing careers in midstream is always a difficult endeavor. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve spent 20 years practicing medicine, law or picking lint out of your navel in the middle of the night while sleepily ‘keeping watch’ over a warehouse full of cheap, useless...