{"id":518,"date":"2003-12-08T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2018-08-09T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:22:17","slug":"518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/08\/518\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t I Read It Anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at Opinion Journal, Michael Judge reflects upon the articles in Playboy<\/i><\/a>, given that magazine’s fiftieth anniversary celebration:<\/p>\n

Playboy’s editors take a bow for being at the forefront of every liberal cause of the past half-century, including civil rights, equal rights, gay rights, birth control, gun control and abortion. Call me na\u00efve, but somehow I think these social movements would have taken place with or without a magazine that was nearly named Stag Party.<\/p>\n

Worse yet, Mr. Kaminsky has rounded up the usual suspects to decry the brown shirts currently running the country: “America’s leading literary light,” Norman Mailer, says with a straight face that the Bush administration went to war in Iraq because “an escape was needed from our problems at home.” Not to be outdone, Hunter S. Thompson claims that he’s “personally embarrassed by the fascist sink these [expletive]-eating greedheads from Texas have plunged us into.” With Manson-like flair, he goes on to say, “Those pigs deserve to be boiled in their own oil.”<\/p>\n

Forgive me, Ms. Wolf, but perhaps the least offensive thing in this issue is the centerfold of Playboy’s 50th Anniversary Playmate, Colleen Shannon, whose turn-ons include “vinyl, positivity, supportiveness, artistic abilities, and a good sense of humor.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Geez, do you mean it’s like Harper’s<\/i>, a magazine I can no longer read<\/a>? Why, I shall become enraged, shall write a piece to the editor, and shall take up my righteous anger and…..<\/p>\n

Wowza, check her<\/b> out!<\/i><\/p>\n

I’m sorry, you were saying?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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