Month: July 2008

Image via snowfreak91287. News item both for gloating, and gratuitous excuse to show you the hot photo above. NYT — Math Scores Show No Gap for Girls, Study Finds, snip: Three years after the president of Harvard, Lawrence H. Summers, got into trouble for questioning women’s “intrinsic aptitude” for science and engineering — and 16…

“The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court ruling striking down the controversial Child Online Protection Act (COPA) that required Web operators to restrict access to large amounts of constitutionally protected speech. COPA placed severe restrictions on a wide range of legal, socially valuable speech, including content relating to sexual identity,…

Image via Map Girls. When I had a porn article in Oprah I was like, whoa, mainstream — but now it’s looking like even the more straitlaced media outlets are ponying up to *finally* viewing sex culture as a constantly relevant set of issues worth covering, in all its myriad forms. And this is a…