NP but RIP Hugh Hefner --since no one else here might.

[jesse gooch]

Seconded. Couldn’t have said it any better than Mark and Jerky.

There was some great journalism and overall free-thinking there. 

> On Sep 28, 2017, at 7:47 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm actually kind of amazed by all the vile piling on that the new puritans of the Middle Left are indulging in at the Great Man's passing. You'd think he was Torquemada and De Sade combined from the bleatings emitted by the Usual Suspects at The Guardian, HuffPo, et al, and not one of the most important and courageous free speech, free expression, and (whatever one might think of his own, oft-darkly-rumored-about personal peccadilloes) liberation from some very foolish sexual hangups, at a time when it was sorely needed. H e was an original, he was great, he lived his best life, and he made a lot of people very, VERY hor-I mean happy. 
> 
> Plus, Playboy Magazine was AWESOME for a great many years. Just awesome. So much great writing! 
> 
> I'll just go ahead and say it... FUCK the haters. Hef was fuckin' Aces, man.
> 
> Jerky
> 
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com <mailto:mark.kohut at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I reveal myself surely unflatteringly and surely politically incorrectly these days 
> when I say the 'working title' of GR, before I was enlightened by all of the 
> Orientalists, Mindless Pleasures usually made me think of Playboy Magazine. 
> Even the stories and articles. 
> 
> I  won't quote John Updike's wonderful insight into most inartistic young men and beauty here
> for fear of everyone, but think of nudes in art history and imagine what he said. 
> 
> Thank you for everything Hugh, including paying Dick Gregory to find the bodies of
> the murdered civil rights workers in the 60's. 
> 
> 
> 

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