Watch "How To Marry A Millionaire" with Marilyn Monroe.

At one point she walks into a Manhattan penthouse apartment. It has two floors, overlooks Central Park, and has 24/7 concierge service. "Holy Toledo! This place must cost $1,000.00 a month!"

Funny thing. Heard Stormy Daniels run down how the shaved look happened.

Back in DVD days, a porn star could hit the road and tour a lot of strip clubs. She could sell a lot of merchandise and make herself well known. The problem was that a lot of these clubs were in small towns where the cops loved harassing the dancers. A lot of places had laws that said that visible pubic hair was illegal, so a lot of dancers shaved, and they encouraged the porn stars to do the same.

When the shaven ladies got back to shooting, they kept on shaving. Pretty soon that became the standard look in movies and magazines.

Think about it.

Those laws were written long before VHS was a thing. Back in the day they were policing burlesque shows where the ladies might go down to G-string and pasties. The pubic hair thing was a simple test to see if they'd gone too far.

Also, in the bars the dancers might have to keep their G-strings on [laws vary by state] A lot of dancers travel, so it makes sense to be ready for the strictest enforcement

What's even funnier is that the question that prompted the story was something like 'have you seen porn behavior filtering into the mainstream?'

I think the interviewer was expecting something about clothes...

But it's kind of like saying Elvis or The Beatles didn't invent their signature hair styles.

What Ms. Daniels said [and I agree with] is that a lot of porn stars started shaving around the same time and that filtered into the mainstream.

I managed to get my pacifist mom to buy me toy guns. I had a space gun, a spy gun, a cowboy gun, and a military gun. Played with GI Joe.

When I got old enough to want to look 'adult' I put away all those guns and never wanted to have a real one.

I think we'd have fewer adult gun collectors if they'd been playing with guns as kids.

If you add a million gallons of fresh water to a sewer it's still a sewer.

I was thinking that 'qwerty' would be a good definition for 'an inefficient practice or tool that survives because it would take a massive effort to update it.'

In 1960, Federal minimum wage was $1.00 and hour. At 10 cents a comic, one hour of labor would buy ten comic books.

Today, the Federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour and the most expensive comic book's cover price is $7.99.

That's the thing. On top of all the other costs, we're shelling out overtime to keep extra cops guarding the water.

Blame Reagan.

Back when radio was starting, a bipartisan Congress created the FCC. Some of the rules were that no one entity could own more than one AM and one FM station in any market [later one VHF TV channel] There had to be a balance in editorial content; if the station supported Candidate A, Candidate B had to be allowed equal time.

Reagan 'saved' the media by deregulating it.

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Ross Thomas was a Washington reporter turned crime novelist. All his stories have a political slant.

The Fools In Town Are On Our Side is about an ex-CIA agent who is trying to make a small Southern city 'so corrupt the pimps will vote for reform.'

Anyone who knows the difference between the Fairness Doctrine and the Equal Time Rule will probably enjoy his work

Former Olympian Arrested at Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
Former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn, 67, was arrested on June 20, 2026, at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., after allegedly touching a piece of peeling liner on the newly refurbished pool
What Happened
Hearn, a three-time Summer Olympian, was on a 52-mile bike ride when he stopped to view the pool after its $14 million renovation, a project championed by President Donald Trump ahead of the U.S. 250th anniversary. Reports say he noticed a partially detached “American flag blue” coating on the pool’s bottom and reached in to examine it, briefly touching the still-attached edge Yahoo Moments later, U.S. Park Police detained him on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property

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Here's a great story.

Snake Eyes was one of the original Joes. He was made of all black plastic because that was the cheapest thing they could do.

Can I assume Denmark from your username?

I don't know enough about other countries to make an intelligent comment.

On the other hand, I could write a book on how Reagan screwed up the US media.

Before him, kids' cartoons were highly regulated. After he came in, you started seeing full length commercials like "GI Joe" and "The Transformers."

Cable was getting off the ground at the time, and the FCC could have reigned in Fox News.

A comic book was 10 cents in 1960.

$3.00 in 2026 for the cheap ones.

TIL.

The part about one entity being able to own all the stations in one town.

No. I've never met anyone who was monolingual in English who could also understand French.

[off topic and a dad joke]

The FBI rounds up spies on December 8, 1941.

They throw a German, a Japanese, and an Italian into a cell and handcuff them all.

They drag the German into the interrogation room first. They sweat him for three hours and he finally breaks and tells everything he knows.

Next they grab the Japanese spy. He tries to hold out, but after five hours he cracks and tells them everything he knows.

Last they take the Italian. The other two think he'll break quickly, but he doesn't come back for ten hours.

"Did you tell them anything?"

"No."

"How did you manage to hold out?"

"They never took off my handcuffs."