More on the Eliot Spitzer debacle, sort of

I cannot get enough of the mess around "Kristen"/Ashley Dupre/Ashley Youmans history and the class issues involved - seriously, the way public opinion and discussion are changing as we get differing details of her background is breathtaking. I'm digging up as much as I can, but if you find good coverage, please link me!

Women and sex and social class - what a tangle.

(PS - John McLaughlin tossed up the issue of why, exactly, prostitution is illegal and whether it's consistent for porn to be legal but not prostitution (see this essay for discussion of exactly that point) and I think Pat Buchanan's head is about to explode. Eleanor Clift is amused. Oh, Sunday morning people - never change. Next up: Pat Buchanan will get another chance to tear Geraldine Ferraro limb-from-limb OR smarmily agree with her. You just KNOW he's been up nights trying to decide what would piss her off more.)

The first of the "tell me what I never post about" responses

ali_wildgoose asked for linguistics nerdity. This got out of hand. There's a lot of "how I got into linguistics and why it is totally awesome" that you can feel free to skip - the geekcore is behind the last cut.

( How I got there in the first place )

( No, wait, THAT'S not where the story starts )

( What I love so much about it, anyway )

( Some of my favorite cool things that languages do )