a lot of detail about the sex industry, layered history of the sex workers advocacy movement and the cliquism and classifications within both.

muses about the social differences between strippers and call girls. The hypocrisy of it is hilarious

intriguing to see the thinking that would allow a woman to be comfortable with being a ‘working girl’ and have it broken down like that.

wry quips on Trinidad’s unique race relations

I am what historian Richard W. Bulliet calls post-domestic. Unless you are a hill farmer, or a herder (in which case you are an anachronism, which won't come as a surprise since making a living in either of those ways is very difficult) so are you.

Inserting the word “cool” into her patter at every opportunity, the woman responsible for Juno proved herself the most gung-ho overgrown teenager on the block. Aw-shucks likeability aside, it was rather satisfying to hear one slightly disgruntled audience member complain that Juno, although marketed as an “indie” film, was marred by rather stock Hollywood conventions. Perpetually cheery, Cody acknowledged the thrust of the question and merely pleaded guilty to commercial instincts and professed affection for happy endings. As hard as one tries, it’s difficult to dislike Diablo Cody.

A dozen years ago, the Library of Congress created a stir when it dropped The Birth of a Nation from a wide-ranging series of movies marking cinema’s centenary. The only thing worse than showing Griffith’s movie is to pretend it never existed.

has never ceased to be relevant and was never more so than during the long 2008 presidential election, not just because the only African American in the US Senate (and one of only four since Reconstruction) was running for president; but also because the election itself was so relentlessly personalised.

Griffith taught the movies to take history personally, to interject close-ups, dramatic re-creations and factoids to aid a particular plot line – and the movies taught the world the excitement of visualised drama. In last year’s election, every candidate had his or her story; each campaign was required to project a narrative and would be criticised by media pundits if it failed to do so.

Ushers in some movie theatres wore Klan sheets or Confederate uniforms. Meanwhile, as the Klan spread far beyond the South, establishing itself throughout New England, the Atlantic seaboard and the Midwest, The Birth of a Nation was used as a recruitment film as far north as Portland, Oregon.

When Lake Superior State University issued its 34th annual edict on Words to be Banished... environmental buzzwords were first to be composted,

the cliched staples of food writers - the 'robust' stew, the 'piquant sauce...'

we speak of the 'the prance and a half', the 'wad,' the 'pick' and the 'nice little supper'

It does something to a mother to see her fine youngest child on stage...swilling down Beaujolais and attacking women of the night. Things get worse when he turns to the inspector and claims, 'I was crossing from the park when this prostitute attacked me.' (Believe me, his siblings will never let him live that line down.)

The uproar over a royal halfwit’s casual relationship with a camcorder is tabloid PC at its most cynical.

Lantos insisted that Congress lift the abstinence-only earmark imposed by Republicans in 2002, and begin to fund family planning elements like free condom distribution. His maneuver infuriated Warren, who immediately boarded a plane for Washington to join Christian right leaders including born-again former Watergate felon Chuck Colson for an emergency press conference on the Capitol lawn. In his speech, Warren claimed that Lantos’ bill would spawn an increase in the sex trafficking of young women.

I told him my husband still has the contract he signed as president of Random House when their imprint Times Books acquired Dreams from My Father. "Worth something now, huh?" he told me, as he draped a long arm to gather me in between himself and his even taller vice president and easefully lit up for the camera. I felt safer and calmer than I have for eight years.

One of my photographs entitled "Joshua and His Brother" is part of the I Gavel Online Auction represented by the Daniel Cooney Gallery. The image is up for grabs at the starting bid of $200.

Tracy Quan of the U.K.Guardian picks up the gauntlet, arguing that [Caroline] Kennedy's minimal makeup and all-business style in her first round of media interviews actually suggests "she isn't passionate about being a New York senator" and suffers, from a "lack of ambition."(!!!)

One of them grabbed her saying, "You're a prostitute. You're coming with me." Dymond grabbed onto a tree and started screaming, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy." One of the men covered her mouth. Two of the men beat her about the face and throat...the three men were plain-clothed Galveston police officers ....

The event is a serious evening based in St Anne’s C of E church in Soho with a minute silence for the five women who were murdered in Ipswich two years ago. This will be followed by carol singing and a collection for the xtalkproject.net and Safety First Coalition in and around Soho.

Whilst there is a serious intent and theme, the evening however will be mainly light hearted as the night progresses. Currently amongst the other supporters mentioned on the leaflet, Westminster Choir are sending a couple of members to help us sing and the Chancellor of the Diocese of Europe is making a special appearance as Father Christmas.

It would be so good if you could support this event by lending us your voice as we all try to speak out in our own way about the issues that are affecting sex workers currently.

Please cross post to all your networks and tell everyone you know.

Don’t forget to bring a bottle on 17th December and suitable Christmas attire welcome!

Branch Secretary of the GMB IUSW
Sex Work branch
www.iusw.org

There is also a smattering of eggheads who have written books on the sociology of paying for "it." Me? I'd rather hear it straight from the hooker's mouth rather than a bunch of windbags. But I guess the professors of desire are what gives a show like this its respectability.

So what has made so many gorgeous, educated women decide to climb on corporate men instead of the corporate ladder?

They sat down on the couch and talked about memoirs, a genre, Mailer said, that was by definition corrupt: "That's why a writer writes his memoir, to tell a lie and create an ideal self. Everything I've ever written is memoir, you know, is an inflated vision of the ideal Platonic self."