Flutterby™! : the lolita controversy

The Lolita controversy addresses the rise of synthetic jailbait, faux child themes in popular porn. I see this as a direct reaction to the restrictions that COPA imposed, say "no" and it's guaranteed to become a fetish, but the article also raised the spectre of some of the bad bits of the Meese era and is making me rethink my vote for Browne rather than against Bush. It's easy to think of the Reagan years in terms of the trumped up falsehoods (like the "he closed all the asylums and created the homeless problem", ignoring the tightening of the standards for involuntary incarceration in the late '70s which was more likely the cause) and forget about the real horrors. For whatever her faults and roles in the Branch Davidian fiascos and numerous other bad Justice Department decisions, Janet Reno ain't nothin' on Ed Meese.