CHICAGO, IL — Claiming unconstitutional restriction of speech in a public forum, the Entertainment Software Association has filed suit against the Chicago Transit Authority for refusing to accept advertising about “mature” and “adults-only” video games.Under CTA regulations...

TORONTO, CANADA — Never underestimate the power of a bureaucracy to makes its impact felt far from its point of origin. A case in point is the Toronto civic workers strike – and an assortment of strippers who may just find themselves in trouble with the law because of...

FORT MYERS BEACH, FL —Mayor Larry Kiker has an interesting way of avoiding controversy. He generates it himself. Kiker helped make national headlines this week by firing Scott Janke, the Fort Myers Beach, FL town manager, for the singularly strange social crime of marrying...

WASHINGTON, DC — More than half of all adult Americans have accessed the internet through a mobile connection, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Mobile devices — laptop computers, cell phones, gaming consoles,...

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA — We can now declare the global economic downturn a bona-fide depression: Erotic Airways, the three-year-old airline formed expressly for the purpose of providing the adventurous a lift into the exclusive ranks of Mile High Club members, has mothballed...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Asia, Africa and the Middle East will lead online growth for the next five years while the industrialized West slows to a crawl, according to a new report from Forrester Research.In 2008, the top five countries in terms of numbers of internet users were the...

FORT MYERS BEACH, FL — From all available accounts, Fort Myers Beach town manager Scott Janke was a great employee. Alas for Janke, liberty and common sense, he’s lost his job – because the Town Council doesn’t like what his wife does for a living.Janke’s wife is an adult...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Ken Hoyt appears to have a problem. In spite of his work as a porn professional, the 44-year-old is seriously challenged when it comes to keeping his pecker in his pants and the women in his sites of legal age. Hoyt, a registered sex offender, was arrested...

WASHINGTON, DC — Domestic terrorism. Torture. War crimes. Drugs. Five months into his tenure as U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder has a lot on his plate.Apparently Holder’s reported weight loss indicates to the Christian right the man needs more to eat. Last week, the AG...

DULUTH, MI — Whether it takes all kinds of we’ve simply got all kinds is a subject for debate – but one thing certain, Duluth, MI police definitely want to find a man with a self-identified fetish for rubber balls. Or slashing them to bits, anyway. Surveillance tapes...