Sublime

One major contribution to this movement came from Massachusetts federal judge Bailey Aldrich, who expanded Stanley’s protections in a later 1969 case. Whereas the Supreme Court had protected private possession of obscenity in an individual’s home, the question posed by Aldrich was, “How far does Stanley go?” In the judge’s view it extended to adult

propriety.

he first figuratively and then literally set out to “play God,” initially by making the claim that humans had the power of gods and then during the past decade by creating an organization to save and restore endangered species with modern biotechnology.

Half of us are plugged into iPods, immersed in daylong concerts of our own choosing, virtually oblivious to the environment—and for those who are not plugged in, there is nonstop music, unavoidable and often of deafening intensity, in restaurants, bars, shops, and gyms. This barrage of music puts a certain strain on our exquisitely sensitive