“My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility. In vicious attacks like the one on Spitzer, gay activists, with all their good intentions, are aligning themselves with the forces of ignorance and repression. Too little reliable work is currently being done in homosexuality because free inquiry cannot be conducted in a politicized atmosphere of harassment and intimidation.”- who else but La Paglia, in Salon.
AND I THOUGHT JONAH GOLDBERG WAS RISQUE: Check out the Onion’s take on what Beijing is doing to impress the International Olympics Committee.