Word: smuts
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There are two fields in which I'm anxious to see technology improve: medicine and hard-core pornography. And since I'm not sick yet, I'm pretty focused on the porn thing. Luckily I am not alone in my stunted vision of utopia. The desire for newer, better smut has long been a major impetus behind technological progress: VCRS, DVDS, Web development and I believe X-ray glasses were all spurred by prurient desires...
...John McCain talking. But then on a question about public funding for artists like photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, whose erotic scenes of mostly gay men incensed North Carolina's Senator Jesse Helms, McCain didn't dodge the bullet: "Some people may call it artistic license," he said. "I call it smut and filth." To a young girl asking about lowering the capital-gains tax so that she could pay for graduate school, McCain said relief should go to the working families first...
...combat the perception that McCain is too liberal, his campaign has been running a TV ad in South Carolina in which Representative Lindsey Graham (the G.O.P.'s impeachment star) characterizes him as pro-life, against Internet smut and "conservative." And yet to win, McCain needs to reel in a new kind of South Carolina Republican, the kind who lives along the seacoast and trends more libertarian than conservative. Are there enough of them? Probably not. But McCain will give it his best shot, working to take his campaign to the next level, trying to appear more presidential--to stop...