Race to the bottom
...between the Cleveland Journal of Bourgeois Marxist Culture (aka Cleveland ObScene) and the Cleveland Journal of Bourgeois Marxist Studies (aka Slave Times).
The CJBMC has a full-page cartoon (4/19/06, p/ 6; sorry, I can't find it here) accusing all of the Religious Right of being racists whose brains would melt if they voted for Ken Blackwell for governor of OH. Presumably, the RR doesn't read the ObScene, so they don't have to worry about offending many readers...except for the few who remember that the abolitionists were the Religious Right of their time. It's particularly ironic since the ObScene has been referring to "Uncle Tom Blackwell", so I suppose he isn't too black to be governor.
The CJBMS followed with an lead article about men who castrate themselves (Warning! Not lunch-friendly!), with a big Burdizzo® on the cover (Note the "u", the capital "B" and the trademark, FT, ...these were invented by Napoleone Burdizzo who founded a firm in Turin.) The whole lot described therein should be eligible for Darwin Awards, but what would be the point, really?
Soooo...both rags enjoy being gratuitously offensive, both editorially espouse policies that would remove surplus wealth from people, and both are financed by the entertainment, hospitality, and sex industries, who are all dependent on surplus wealth. I've got to wonder why the restaurants keep writing the checks for such unappetising fare.
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