Word: smuts
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...Flynt has plunged into the California recall zoo under the slogan “Vote For a Smut Peddler Who Cares,” promising a crackdown on illegal immigration, treatment instead of incarceration for nonviolent drug offenders and legalized gambling. He’s also making appearances on the ACLU college tour at the University of Miami and Harvard, criticizing President Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft for their support and implementation of the Patriot Act, which he calls an unprecedented attack on civil liberties. While his characterization of radical feminists as a group whose “only...
...would transform the governorship into a game of Russian roulette. If the governor can be tossed out in the street at any moment due to factors he cannot control, there will be no persuading any wise and prudent leader to run in the first place. Film actors and smut peddlers may be the kind of star candidates Californians will have to get used...
...LARRY FLYNT, founder of Hustler and self-proclaimed "smut peddler who cares," joining the same race in California...
...Smut, as Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said, "can't be defined, but I know it when it gives me an erection." I don't know if that's exactly the quote, but I can't look it up right now because I'm trying to stay off the Web until I finish this essay. And Maxim is pretty blatant about being smut, with the feline poses, latex outfits and none-too-subtle cover lines, like SEX SCENES: GOOD GIRLS RATE DIRTY MOVIES! Yet men read Maxim on planes, buy it without an accompanying pack of Trident and use their...
...vandals’ commitment to free speech is even more suspect. As Los Angeles Times columnist Norah Vincent notes, the same students chalking their campuses with tasteless drawings and slogans also push for speech codes and steal conservative campus publications from the newsstands. Vincent aptly describes students who defend smut like the snow penis and then shift the debate from decency to free speech rights: “self-entitled, sophomoric pranksters falling back on high principles when it suits them.” Student “artists” of the snow-phallus variety have hijacked the meaning...