He Who Laughs Last....
June, 1988
In 1985, Attorney General Edwin Meese III started a joke that started the whole world laughing. Unfortunately, Meese may get the last laugh.The joke? The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, a.k.a. the Meese commission. And why was it so funny? Well, who could take seriously the titillating testimony, the erotic exhibits, the Keystone Cop quality of the proceedings—other than the prudish antipornographers? The New York Times didn't even see fit to publish reports of the New York hearing...
