Fear of Stuff

Two items that you might want to keep in mind if your travels take you to distant lands.  Kuwait has banned DSLR cameras (big, digital cameras with big lenses) for everyone other than professional journalists. Small digital cameras and cell phone cameras are still okay.

A village in India, Muzaffarnagar, has banned cell phones for unmarried girls to thwart them from eloping.

And in the District of Columbia, cameras are prohibited from being brought into the Superior Court Building, but "you may bring a mobile phone into the building; however, you are not permitted to use the phone's camera function on the premises." Never mind that a cell phone camera can take really good photos, as in this front page New York Times photograph.

Has Online Prostitution Ended in DC?

Online prostitution has come to an end in the District of Columbia and in the surrounding suburbs. Mostly. Probably. Possibly.

Bowing to pressure from seventeen state attorneys general and being accused of helping promote not just prostitution, but child prostitution, Craigslist has removed its adult services section, replacing it with the word "censored."  The photo to the right is what Craigslist in DC looks like.