On Tim's Humorama Pastiche:
hugob00m wrote:Ha ha! A great idea! I may have to contribute a "Humorama-style" drawing before you end this feature!
We'd all love to see you take a whack at this, b00m!
On the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against Nights of Horror:
overbarrel49 wrote:the information on the supreme court was totally fascinating. it sound from your break down that most of them didn't really even understand exactly what they were voting on or at least why it was important. thanks for going to all the trouble to give us this info

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willjohn wrote:I was pleased to see that the unfortunately named US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter got a mention this week.
I remember reading years ago that Felix had a system for deciding if a book was indecent or not. If Felix got an erection he deemed the book to be obscene. The older Felix got the more liberal
censorship of books in the USA became.

butch wrote:Thanks for the info about why the Supreme Court wanted to destroy Joe Shuster fetish magazines

didn`t know that the censorship was that strict at that time!

I doubt that the Framers of the Constitution, wise as they were, realized just how intense the assault on American freedom would be over the years. Certainly those who hoped the courts would become "the bulwark of our freedoms" as I believe someone said, were to be bitterly disappointed as time after time the courts upheld expansive interpretations of what were supposed to be very limited government powers (see for a recent example Chief Justice Roberts' ruling on Obamacare, which fundamentally alters the relationship between citizen and state, and ignores the responsibility of the Court to strike down legislation plainly beyond the power of Congress to enact).
Butch mentioned that he didn't realize how strict censorship used to be. The tendency of the courts before 1960 had been to accept the power of the states to punish obscenity, the only real limits being on
prior restraint (as I noted on the page) and on the Federal Government, which was largely restricted to forbidding the sending of obscene materials through the mail (a very serious offense). So censorship was generally allowed and considered, incredibly enough, a matter to be left to the local police. This was the state of the law at the time of
Kingsley Books v. Brown.
During the 1960's, the courts began to chip away at the power of local police to decide on their own what constituted obscenity, and began to substitute their own wacky ideas, culminating in
Miller v. California (1973). Such undefinable "standards" as "appeals to prurient interest," "has no redeeming social importance", and the always-confusing "average person applying contemporary community standards" (
Miller) has left obscenity law a complete muddle today, with no one knowing what could be considered obscene. In general, Federal prosecutions are rare these days, but here in Illinois about twenty years ago a comic shop was prosecuted for obscenity and found guilty. The focus on child pornography (a legitimate target for authorities, unlike material that only involves adults) and limited prosecution resources have probably done more than any recent court decisions to aid the cause of freedom.
butch wrote:Want to let you know that there is a spanking of Francine by her husband Stan on
American Dad in an episode call The Missing Kink

not to give away any plot but the spanking she gets is otk

It is airing this weekend on the television network or you can get a sneek peek of it on youtube

Thanks for the heads-up, Butch!

I really meant to record this one on Sunday night, but I was so tired I forgot! I followed your alternate suggestion and downloaded the clip from YouTube (provided by Fox itself, so they can't complain when I present it on CSR!). I've never liked
American Dad, so I would have missed this completely if you hadn't advised us of it. It's not a bad scene on its own, although Fox included another scene that I really hated because it had some gratuitous animal abuse that wasn't the least bit funny and which I will certainly edit out before presenting the clip on
CSR.
Later update: I was later able to view the episode on demand, so I've got the whole thing now.