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I was listening to Jason Lewis, Minnesota's "Mr. Right," on the drive home this evening. Not surprisingly the topic of discussion was today's U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding affirmative action and Internet censorship. For those not familiar with the opinions, here's the Cliffs Notes version: affirmative action at colleges (barely) survived and porn access for homeless men was severely curtailed.

(Okay, that's a bit of a simplification: for more intelligent analysis try here and here.)

Somehow Mr. Right's discussion of Constitutional law segued into a rant about the Star Tribune purportedly peddling lewd material to our children. (Well, your children anyway.) Specifically, Lewis was upset about a recent trend story revealing that gays and lesbians are coming out of the closet at younger and younger ages.

Now I won't vouch for the merits of the journalism. Trend pieces are, generally speaking, heinous pieces of crap spewed out by daily newspapers in an effort to prove that they have their fingers on the pulse of the public. But there is nothing remotely lewd or pornographic about the article.

What is Lewis actually offended by? Homosexuality. Duh. This will come as no surprise to frequent listeners of his show.

What really set my nipples tingling, however, was Mr. Right's next statement. He declared that daily newspapers are being "turned into rags like City Pages, where all they are are whores pimping their next porno movie."

Somebody alert Lou Gelfand!

But seriously, this revelation raises a few obvious questions:

1. Where are these films being produced?

2. Why am I always broke?

3. Where will LNW's vast public-library readership now turn for pithy and insightful commentary on current events?

Posted by Paul Demko at June 23, 2003 8:37 PM

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