From the Post-Nintendo Editor:
BC: Mr. Panero, there are a great many ideas and individuals who fall under the general heading of “conservative.” You once had this to say about a heroic writer of our age and his weblog:

But these encomia are bittersweet, for we must bid adieu to a longtime
blogroller and TNC ally Bernard Chapin. His Chapin Nation regretfully
stole our idea for running tawdry pictures of pin-up girls between blogposts,
and we just can’t have that. Bernard, you will be hearing from our lawyers.

Now I have to ask here, is not the unashamed gaze at scantily dressed women the most conservative and traditional thing that one can do nowadays? Think of the heteronormative implications. There are legions of activists at Harvard who are eagerly awaiting your answer with bullhorns and placards at their asexual sides.

Mr. Panero: Look. First off, Robert Bork reads my weblog. Can you imagine Robert Bork clicking over to a pinup girl? I’d rather not think of it. Second, I’m all for normative social relationships. I wish our culture was more like Italian opera and less like German opera. But I also believe that pinup girls belong on the nosecones of fighter planes and not on intellectual weblogs. As a corollary to this, you should know there’s a girl at Dartmouth right now who has a pin-up of Hilton Kramer on her dorm-room wall. Think of the heteronormative implications in that!

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