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...were running Wal-Mart, there would be strippers in the aisles and strippers at the checkout line. In fact, it would just be a strip joint. But despite the fact that I have neither morals nor taste, I think Wal-Mart was right to pull the lad mags--Maxim, Stuff and FHM--from its shelves last week...
...Mart, which I love not only for the cleanliness, prices and service but also for employing people who would otherwise be knocking on my door with religious literature, sells to a lot of the red states. And red states, as their color portends, get angered really easily. To make its customers happy, Wal-Mart has often done some stupid things, like pulling Midge, a pregnant, married doll; making Nirvana change the song Rape Me to Waif Me; and forcing the Goo Goo Dolls to redesign the cover of A Boy Named Goo because a Wal-Mart executive thought...
...Mart isn't expected to sell Playboy or other pornography, and the lad magazines have been getting away with convincing the world they're something different just because they cleverly disguise a few minuscule body parts. After Wal-Mart decided to discontinue selling FHM, a spokesman for the magazine argued that unlike Details, the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED swimsuit issue and many women's fashion magazines, it never publishes frontal nudity. But it has been working nudity loopholes the way our corporate brothers at AOL worked accounting ledgers. National Geographic photos and those imaging scans in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...rack in an immigrant-owned deli, where the owner's sacred and repressed culture makes you feel even worse about your purchase. Because a country that tries to fool itself about these issues is a country doomed to create yet more Cinemaxes. And, if nothing else, this whole Wal-Mart controversy should teach us that life is far too short for soft porn...
Melanie Clark, a white Wal-Mart employee who married Darryl, the black mechanic, in 1992, had previously been married to a white man who she says repeatedly hit her. After divorcing him, she explains, she was wary of hooking up with another hard-drinking, abusive "good ole boy." But Melanie, 38, was attracted to Darryl, 36, who showed a gentle interest in her, taking her dancing and teaching her how to hunt deer. Others were less pleased about their getting together. Some of their black neighbors in the rural community of Branchville, Ala.--particularly the women--were so angry about...