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Sweating up the back pockets of traveling salesmen during the 1930s, the so-called Tijuana Bibles were the first truly "underground" comix. Pure pornography, these crudely printed eight-page pamphlets put popular comicstrip characters in more "adult" situations, expounding on the likes of Dagwood's obvious oral fixation. Later the comix artists of the 1960s used identical mixes of sex, racial stereotypes and pop culture for artistic and political subversion. But now, having inseminated the medium, porn comix seem spent. With dullness and utilitarianism, they whore themselves out to men who no longer find the Batman and Robin relationship satisfying...
...have heard today that Adams residents are so well-conditioned from our Straus Cup achievements that we don’t break, we bounce, even from four stories,” he wrote. “But the truth is, this amazing outcome is pure luck...
...They’re pure demagogy,” he said one evening at a Harvard-sponsored discussion, “aimed at trying to get votes and hitting the headlines. They have no utility value or need...
...positions of real power, often filling in for their husbands and brothers who are in jail or on the run. Ninetta Bagarella, wife of captured top Corleone boss Salvatore "Tot?" Riina who directed Cosa Nostra for a decade, is thought to be the brains allied to her husband's pure brutality. "Their role goes well beyond raising the family," said Cipriani. "Women in the Mafia not only have acquired authorization, they are now the ones who do the authorizing." Still, most of Italy's organized crime network has been ordering up fewer hits, the number of which had peaked...
...This is not news, folks. This is pure, frothy, self-righteous politics - and we really should do a better job of separating the two. The RNC decided to present three photographs of "defining moments" in the Bush presidency. Obviously, as it defined so many things for most of us, the events of September 11th serve as a natural backdrop for one of those images. As much as the Democrats may want to forget, President Bush was the guy in charge of the country that day, and while his reaction to the attacks is no more or less real or valuable...