“I can’t define porn, but I know it when I see it.”
There’s no denying that more and more the front page is featuring pornographic pictures – that is – pictures of assholes. Just scrolling the front page before dinner, I was treated to a variety of asshole pictures: Carl Rove, Charles Grassley, and Donald Trump; other assholes like Scott Walker, (Man! What an asshole that guy is!) Reince Priebus, and Mitch McConnell regularly grace this formerly “safe for work” site as well. I find it quite disappointing, and likely, a cheap ploy to increase traffic. The saddest thing is that it’s certainly gratuitous, as the only really newsworthy thing about assholes like these is that anybody takes them seriously. In my opinion, presenting them in any other context — especially repeatedly - is just cheap and tawdry.