Steve Lick, Author at Mike South

While America Is Distracted By Gay Marriage, The Fed Allows China To Take Over A U.S. Bank

Steve Lick — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:24:48 +0000

AFP – The United States on Wednesday opened its banking market to ICBC, China’s biggest bank, for the first time clearing a takeover of a US bank by a Chinese state-controlled company. Just days after high-level US-China economic talks in Beijing, the Federal Reserve approved an application from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to […]

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Santorum’s “War on Porn”: Nothing But A Carnie Work

Steve Lick — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 06:35:31 +0000

Step right up to the political midway and pitch a softball into a milk jug. Win a presidency. American politics is nothing but a carnie work. And if I was a conspiracy type, I would tell you that Santorum and President Obama are working together to perpetrate the ultimate Three Card Monte on Mitt Romney. […]

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If You Haven’t Watched Porn On A Television Lately, You’re Really Missing Out

Steve Lick — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:16:21 +0000

Like a majority of the rubes in these modern times, I utilize portable communication devices to watch my entertainment, pay my bills, call my mom, and schedule my fucking. I am a slave on the Apple plantation. When Steve Jobs used to step on stage with his 1989 mock turtleneck, I froze in my tracks […]

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Porn Flourishes in Socially Conservative Pakistan

Steve Lick — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:04:07 +0000

Jakarta Globe – Karachi, Pakistan. Dark and smoky, the cinema hall reeks of hashish. An overly made-up woman on screen in provocatively figure-hugging clothes dances suggestively to the beat of loud music. The audience, all men, cheer and whistle. The music stops, the scenes get racier and sexually titillating. The crowd abandons all caution. The […]

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L.A. Times Tonight: Porn industry may boogie out of L.A. over condom law

Steve Lick — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:26:33 +0000

From the L.A. Times: Producers weigh taking legal action or moving out of town when a Los Angeles measure requiring performers to wear condoms takes effect March 5. For decades, the nation’s pornographic film industry found a happy, largely accepting home in Los Angeles. Producers operated lucrative businesses in anonymous office parks in the San […]

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Alleged Pornographer In Iran Gets Death Sentence

Steve Lick — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:58:40 +0000

You thought Max Hardcore got railroaded? Read about this poor bastard in Iran. From ZDNet: In mid-January it was reported that web developer Saeed Malekpour had been sentenced to death in Iran for allegedly building and maintaining porn websites. UPDATE 02.17.12 PST 2:25: Despite opposition, Iran has set to schedule Malekpour’s execution and it is […]

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If you haven’t already noticed, Twitter has silently become the worlds largest porn marketer.

Steve Lick — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:39:55 +0000

I’m sitting here scrolling through Twitter on my iPhone, and I have a tinyurl link to a photo of Belladonna’s asshole in my Twitter feed immediately followed by a CNN link to a news story about debt ceiling bullshit. I didn’t have to venture into some hot pink conspicuous porn site that my co-workers might […]

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On-demand porn loses allure

Steve Lick — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:43:57 +0000

Time Warner Cable sees a drop in video-on-demand revenue, with adult films seeing the biggest decline. Link to Money.MSN article Why pay for adult films when the Internet beckons? That’s a question Time Warner Cable (TWC) and other on-demand video providers are struggling with. The cable provider said recently that its video-on-demand segment, which includes its […]

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Sasha Grey Officially Wins. A Porn Star Gets Paid to do Voiceover Work

Steve Lick — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:54:59 +0000

Mainstream success for porn stars usually consists of being nude in a project that isn’t required to have a 2257 statement. I’m sure it’s a personal victory for any porn star if they can get paid to appear on screen without an accompanying penis. Personally, I’ve never been a big Sasha Grey fan, but you […]

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Kylie Ireland Sounds Off On Charlie Sheen Via Twitter

Steve Lick — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:30:10 +0000

@KylieIreland Will people PLEASE stop asking me if I fucked @charliesheen ! It is NOT a requirement to become a pornstar.#shitmyfanssay (1 hour ago) Kylie Ireland on Twitter

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