In June of this year, the citizens of Seattle's sister city Reykjavik, tired of their government's lackluster response to Iceland's economic collapse, elected a comedian named Jon Gnarr as their mayor. Gnarr was the head of a new political party, The Best Party, that ran on a joke platform whose only serious plank involved acquiring a polar bear for the Reykjavik Zoo.

Last week, in an interview with foreign press, Gnarr commented that he used his computer for "mostly porn." The outrage was swift and brutal: A city council representative named Sóley Tómasdóttir led the charge, saying, "Jokes like this don't do anything but normalize porn. Humor is a powerful weapon, as Jón knows well." Reykjavik has a human rights platform that pledges to "work against the spread of pornography."

Hrannar Björn Arnarsson, assistant to the Prime Minister, agrees with Sóley, as does Björk Vilhelmsdóttir, chairman of the city social welfare committee. "Porn is violence," she writes on her Facebook page. "Don't understand why the mayor was saying this, seeing how he's a sincere spokesman against violence."

Gnarr's response was at least delightfully self-deprecating:

"I was kidding. I find [porn] tragic. It's a loveless world and unattractive. This is sex without love."

"Icelandic politics is at such a low plane that an inappropriate man can become mayor," he continued. "Politics is in many ways an act, and I haven't learned all the rules yet. But I'm getting it."

If you were planning on relocating your porn business to Iceland, you should probably reconsider.