Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Donald Trump’s approval rating is 52%. Barack Obama’s approval rating at the same point of his presidency (11 February 2011) was 50%.

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 11, 2019

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Debates about pornography have always included arguments about its “effects.” Now we can gauge the effects of specifically computerized pornography. These novel effects include scientific research showing that digitalized pornography affects the brain and nervous system in harmful ways that no centerfold ever could. Accessing pornography online makes interactive and directive engagement with it possible, so that the consumer is no longer limited to staring at a two-dimensional representation of a stranger in the nude. The action now is more adventurous. The consumer’s involvement is more intimate and directive. What he does lies somewhere between looking at a centerfold and actually having sex. But where in between? How shall this nether-act be described and morally evaluated? For a married man, is masturbating while in conversation with and directing the like act of a web-cam equipped cheerleader adulterous? If it is not, it is at least an act of spousal infidelity. But which act? What exactly should this sort of betrayal be called? How should our culture and our law judge a woman who divorces her spouse for his regular resort to such outlets?

(Gerard V. Bradley, "Prolegomenon on Pornography," Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 41 [spring 2018]: 447-98, at 455-6 [italics in original; footnotes omitted])

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During Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, one of the promises he made was better and cheaper health care for all. This is the one promise he seems to have forgotten, and instead has done all he can to gut the Affordable Care Act. This is also the one promise that probably made him an attractive candidate to others besides the xenophobic and racist people who make up his base.

He has kept his promises to all of the billionaires and millionaires who are his friends by cutting taxes and gutting regulations that keep the rest of us and the environment safe. But what about those of us who cannot afford decent health care and therefore don’t receive it? Better and cheaper health care for all is something the majority of U.S. citizens would support. Most people do not support the wall. Forget “Build the wall,” and give us better and cheaper health care for all.

Robin Banks, Portland

Note from KBJ: It’s always good politics to call the people whose votes you’re seeking “xenophobes” and “racists.”

I think it is very important for the Democrats to press forward with their Green New Deal. It would be great for the so-called “Carbon Footprint” to permanently eliminate all Planes, Cars, Cows, Oil, Gas & the Military – even if no other country would do the same. Brilliant!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2019

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