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Orgasms and Politics

February 13. The day before Valentineâ€™s Day, the day we celebrate and honour erotic love in the USA. Which, of course, makes people like me laugh out loud. Americans celebrating erotic love? The same group of people who keep voting en masse to ban pleasure in all of its forms? I could spend the rest of this post linking to every news item and blog entry I can find that documents how much we hate our bodies in this culture. Our fat selves. Our messy selves. Our sexual selves. Our reproducing selves. Our natural selves. Our self-pleasuring selves. Ourselves.
But I donâ€™t want to do that. Not today. Today, Iâ€™m willing to risk opprobrium to celebrate erotic love. (And if you want to see opprobrium, try posting something called â€œErotica

Submitted by Lorraine on 13 February 2006 - 3:06pm.
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He's gone; the policy --strategic non-communication-- may still be in place.

First, McClellan was a necessary figure in what I have called Rollback-- the attempt to downgrade the press as a player within the executive branch, to make it less important in running the White House and governing the country. It had once been accepted wisdom that by carefully "feeding the beast" an Administration would be rewarded with better coverage in the long run. Rollback, the policy for which McClellan signed on, means not feeding but starving the beast, while reducing its effectiveness as an interlocutor with the President and demonstrating to all that the fourth estate is a joke.

— Jay Rosen, old school journalist in new media clothes
PressThink: The Jerk at the Podium: Scott McClellan Steps Away