The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Dodgers have a Groomer Problem How the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence exposed children to live sex acts TECHNO FOG For years, the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco has been a venue for public debauchery. Billed as “the world’s  largest  celebration of kink, leather, and alternative sexualities,” it brings together a perverse crowd to browse “exhibitors showcasing their kinky wares and ample live BDSM demonstrations over 13 blocks of historic Folsom Street.” Its current policy allows for public nudity and disallows public sex acts. But that wasn’t always the case. In the 2000s (and really up until recently), the Folsom Street Fair was notorious for allowing public sex acts (couples, solo, etc.), urination, and more extreme displays of bondage and fetishes. Nearly everything was allowed on the city street. I won’t go into further details on the acts themselves, but you can view the  work of a photojournalis t who was there. ( Warning - it’s graphic. ) And the ...

  Patrick Lawrence: John Durham & the Burying of History Witness the obliteration of a highly significant passage in U.S.  history. To be deprived in this way of the past — of the facts of our time — is a kind of condemnation. Riot police at the Capitol on Jan. 21, 2017, for Donald Trump’s inauguration.  (Lorie Shaull/Wikimedia Commons) By  Patrick Lawrence T here are certain things I do not quite get since  Special Counsel John Durham’s report  on the epically corrupt conduct of Donald Trump’s enemies during the 2016 election campaigns went to Congress last week. Many things, actually. For all the ground Durham covers in his 306–page report, I don’t get why he left a lot of things undone and unexamined, a lot of names unnamed and a lot of conclusions unconcluded after a four-year investigation into the very unfunny fiasco known as Russiagate.  And then there are a few things I do get. Chief among these is that, with the already-evident burying of ...