LAS VEGAS – In the long and storied history of erotic art, perhaps nothing has ever been more arousing to me than the notion of a sexually-charged exhibit featuring smutty depictions of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Add in a little golden shower imagery and you have 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...

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...

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...

ATLANTA – How many Americans now remember, or ever realized in the first place, there was an H1N1 flu outbreak in 2009 that reached a level where public health officials declared it a pandemic? How many would recall then-President Obama declaring this strain of “swine flu” a...

WASHINGTON – There’s an old quote you might have heard about how “nobody has ever gone broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” Of course, H. L. Mencken never actually wrote those words, but a great many people believe he did, because this is what...

By Evo Morales Special to YNOT LA PAZ, Bolivia – Hello my American friends! My name is Evo Morales. While I’m quite famous, you may not recognize my name because your educational system is designed to produce obedient consumers and not informed adults. I am the president of...

SALT LAKE CITY – In April 2016, Utah passed a nonbinding resolution declaring pornography a “public health crisis.” Now, the sponsor of the resolution says he’s working on a new bill that would enable residents of the state to sue porn producers for damages resulting from...