Alberto Gonzales and his band of not-so-merry mandarins have just released the first batch of statistics from a U.S.-sponsored commission into the search queries of sexual sites from among the biggest search engines – Google, Yahoo and MSN. The unsettling results? Less than one percent of the sites indexed are sexually explicit. The study, however, doesn’t quantify if a search for “Latino Men,” which in my mind is nothing but sexual, carries the same pornographic weight as “Latino Men Thumbnails” or, for that matter, “Latino Men with Large Penises.”


The study also concluded that almost half the sites were incorporated or otherwise established outside the boundaries of the United States making any sort of first strike against pornography legally tenuous at worst and a political non-starter at best. But the heart of the matter – if that really is the organ of choice - is why the push? With an American electorate having sent numerous, unmistakable and resoundingly defiant messages about legislating morality , why does a lame-duck administration - with so many other problems before it - want to push and probe its way into the murky waters of regulating Adult Entertainment? Maybe because Mr. Gonzalez senses that in the short time he has left remaining in office he’d rather be the result of search for “Great Latino Americans” rather than “Latino Men Thumbnails.”

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