Philosophy Now Forum

Choice? Aside from those who get involved with porn because they are emtionally damaged people, there is the issue of human trafficking where impoverished women from Eastern European countries (and elsewhere) are drugged, kidnapped and coerced into prostitution (including porn films). There's no wa...

Artisticsolution sezz: I happen to live in Las Vegas...Sin City That's what the Texas Baptists used to call New Orleans, and I lived in that particular City of Sin for over 15 years. Perhaps that is why my views are similar to yours, the exposure - ahem - if you will, to that way of life and its pro...

The following is not Blue Grass, but American/Scots-Irish traditional folk.

Scottish & Irish are the roots of blue grass.

Jimmy Rodgers, 1930
Muleskinner Blues

William Wordsworth - My Heart Leaps Up My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky. So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Samuel Alex...

A rt i s t i c s ol u ti o n writes: In fact, I would say it was the ones who have been taught that a woman's sexuality is something that is not natural and therefore there is something wrong with her if she uses her body as a means of income. Agreed. Grown women can do what they damned well please...

THAT'S LIFE
sung by the Chairman of the Board

with apologies to Homer:
The Idiocy

Bourgeois Blues
Leadbelly tells the story of playing in Washington D.C. but he cannot find a place to stay or to eat: "No Coloreds Allowed"

Bus2Bondi, I figured you for this one.

You are certainly right about the origins of political correctness being in communism but wasn't it also popular with the American right in 1980s?

No idea whatsoever... busy working two full time jobs in the 1980's, while partying it up in New Orleans...

King of the Road
This one's for you, Jetset Jason