Comments on: An Island of Sanity http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/an-island-of-sanity/ Frank commentary from a retired call girl Sun, 19 May 2013 03:48:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: c andrew http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/an-island-of-sanity/#comment-22425 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:17:40 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=3225#comment-22425 Matt,

Tim Wilson has a musical treatment of this approach.

]]> By: Sailor Barsoom http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/an-island-of-sanity/#comment-8002 Tue, 24 May 2011 02:06:20 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=3225#comment-8002 Look at what I said earlier about getting rid of winner-take-all.

]]> By: Patrick http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/an-island-of-sanity/#comment-7997 Mon, 23 May 2011 23:51:32 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=3225#comment-7997 I think a big problem with American democracy is that it’s based on geographic boundaries instead of ideological ones, where you can have 30% of the voters having libertarian views but they are pressured to compromise and vote Democrat. I’m advocating for a voting system like the one in Italy where even a group with 10% support can get a few seats in Congress.

]]> By: Jeremy In Kansas http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/an-island-of-sanity/#comment-6045 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:50:32 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=3225#comment-6045 As a resident of Kansas, I’m actually shocked that this bill didn’t pass. An identical one passed last year in Missouri and is now law and has forced several strip clubs out of business. Some of us may be a little backwards here, but we do have some pretty good strip clubs and adult bookstores.

]]> By: Sailor Barsoom http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/an-island-of-sanity/#comment-5894 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:42:48 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=3225#comment-5894 I heard a lot about the terrible effects playing Dungeons & Dragons would have on me. Well, I’ve been gaming, off and on, for decades, and except for that one job interview back in my teens D&D has had no negative effects on me at all.

]]> By: Days of Broken Arrows http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/an-island-of-sanity/#comment-5776 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:00:27 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=3225#comment-5776 My first thought was that I don’t know how anyone could make the leap in logic to claim that exotic dance clubs lead to “sex slavery.”

WTF?

And then I remember growing up and having to put up with people claiming that “satanic” messages were being put into rock music by ELO — yes, the Electric Light Orchestra — among other rock bands. In retrospect, how many of us were damaged by listening to the likes of Zeppelin, ELO, Sabbath or Judas Priest? Not the kids I knew — some of whom are now doctors or CEOs. And yet back in the day, this was a Serious Issue, hotly discussed in legislatures, schools, and churches.

Same old America. Same old Joe Friday/Tipper Gore mentality.

]]> By: Maggie McNeill http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/an-island-of-sanity/#comment-5726 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:50:21 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=3225#comment-5726 Why don’t you rewrite it as you please and I’ll edit it for you. Just email me the changes. :-)

]]> By: Maggie McNeill http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/an-island-of-sanity/#comment-5724 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:46:35 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=3225#comment-5724 There is only one political party in the U.S., and it wants big big BIG government. The soi-disant “conservatives” mostly try to control people’s minds and the soi-disant “liberals” mostly try to control their bodies, but the key word in both cases is CONTROL. Restrict the proles’ reading matter, entertainment, sex, speech, beliefs, money, property and weaponry and you own them, and it doesn’t matter which order that control over those things is established. :-(

]]> By: Matt http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/an-island-of-sanity/#comment-5723 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:07:39 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=3225#comment-5723 Oddly enough, the church I go to is looking for a permanent home. Right now we are just renting space. One of my suggestions was that locating next to a bar could have some major benefits by providing lots of parking space on Sunday mornings. I would be fine with being next door to a Gentleman’s Club, it could be some good marketing for the church. But I’m a Unitarian-Universalist, so what do I know about religion?

]]> By: bdevereaux http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/an-island-of-sanity/#comment-5716 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:00:33 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=3225#comment-5716 If this keeps up I see a sex work revolution coming on. Why? Be careful what you wish for. If they were successful in regulating these adult businesses basically out of existence, fives times more are going to pop up as illegal businesses. It’s already happening (and I wish to heck I could find the article, I’ll toss the link in when I do) in some places that have attempted to ‘clean up’ the neighborhood. Warehouses have been set up to look just like any other warehouse on the outside yet on the inside it’s a free for all strip joint – no alcohol regulation, no ‘standing x amount of inches/feet’ from a customer, and sadly no security nor drunk check when a patron decides to drive home after having too much to drink.

If people weren’t stupid or assholes we wouldn’t need regulations or rules. Places could exist without security if people could learn just how to BEHAVE. Sadly it isn’t so.

If you don’t give people options they will make their own.

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