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on The Culture of Pimping
In some European countries, they've legalized prostitution itself but solicitation and pandering are still illegal. That way, the victim (the prostitute) will not be punished under law and won't have a criminal record working against her if she chooses to leave the business and seek gainful employment.
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on Meth Laws: Five Years Later
Gateway drugs? No! Fallacious reasoning. Yes, it's probably so that everyone who uses meth started using less serious drugs, but how many people use marijuana and never, ever touch meth? Lots of them?
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on A Jazz Bridge
Jewish artists were responsible for introducing African American music to the popular mainstream, from the 1920s until the 1960s. People like the Gershwins and their forebears in Tin Pan Alley wrote popular jazz for sheet music and for Broadway. Later Jerry Wexler brought the Drifters to the radio, and Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwhich, Carole King, and Jeff Barry at the Brill Building wrote and produced music for a variety of mostly black groups using the idioms of black R&B.
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