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• Can't disagree with a word of that. In fact, it's the language I've been wanting to hear more often.

  The central point here is that AHF, Hall and the rest of their crew really do not care about performers, as many have been saying all along, and see nothing in this fight but personal gain for themselves at the cost of whomever.

  This was a particularly ugly moment in the ugly history of cynical opportunism characteristic of the way the other side has waged its disingenuous campaign from the start. That such a moment could occur says nothing good about the health of our political system, which seems to need polygraph examinations as often as performers need STD tests.

  So we'll see if this thing makes it to the Senate floor. I'd have bet against that a month ago, but after the dismal behavior of those elected to represent us so far, I'm holding onto those chips. I don't know what's going to happen.

  It's at that very level that the real worry should be focused. We have a system that works. The big lie that's told over and over with various subordinate lies to support is that it doesn't work. So if it doesn't work and hasn't worked over the past sixteen years, where are all the sick and dying? With literally hundreds of thousands of non-barrier protected sex acts recorded on video during the period, if the system didn't work we'd have a lot of this thing nobody seems to care about call empirical evidence.

  The empirical evidence is that thousands of us who have passed through this business during those years are alive and healthy today because of our "broken" system that these amateurs, these blowhards and scam artists, want to replace with a system that they can't even describe and that's never been tried anywhere. Spurious comparisons to the unrelated experiences of legal brothels in Nevada and academic reports that seem to need corrections and retractions within five minutes of coming out do not disprove the elemental fact that every single day we shoot footage of people fucking without condoms and they don't get sick.

  Will that still be true under some patchwork system thrown together by those oh-so-expert and efficient bureaucrats employed by political hacks and ward-healers? I seriously doubt it but I have as yet no way of proving that opinion, given the complete lack of specific detail regarding how this preposterous thing would be organized and funded, much less how it would operate.

  In short, I have no clue how they intend to do this thing if they try it.

  And most worrisome of all, neither do they.

• So...the bill would exploit the PASS database, but would NOT include the rigid testing regime (including Aptima for HIV) that PASS uses; only the failed ELISA quick tests. Because, condoms can cover the rest??

  This is the cherry on top of Bullshit Mountain. And the fact that the Cali Senate could (and, I'm afraid to say, more than likely will) pass this monstrosity speaks volumes about the prevailing attitude of politicians towards not only porn performers, but sex workers in general. Which is: "Speak only when we want you to, and only what we want you to say that justifies our hatred of you."