[battlegearboat]

And here we have San Francisco with all it's feces smeared streets and urine scented parks.

[jjm2111]

Maybe Morford's acid will disolve him one day and deprive us of his wit.

[stanz]

This wrapped up my holiday catalogue offerings. (to name but a few)

[Hodar]

The Abercrombie catalog is, by the way, not sold to anyone under 18. It has a cover warning of "Mature content."

Interesting that in the furor here on FR, this little detail was left out....

[Scenic Sounds]

Note to scrunchy parents: I'd be far, far more worried about what, say, Kraft is selling to your kids in all those millions of boxes of toxic and openly poisonous Kraft Lunchables than about some quasi-sexy yuppie-fashion catalog they never even see. But that's just me.

Oh, but here. Here is the safe, saccharine J. Crew catalog, all bland white former sorority girls and carefully emasculated boys and a smattering of safe black persons, all with incredibly clean teeth and nifty haircuts and big happy smiles playfully tossing snowballs at each other in their new J. Crew scarves, only $29.99. Oh yes, that's much better.

And here we have the L.L. Bean catalog, featuring those exact same J. Crew models about 10 years later, doing the exact same smiley snowbound activities, only with more gray hair and a higher credit limit and less sexual activity and lots more monogrammed luggage. How disturbing. I feel sort of violated just looking at it.

How can he say things like this and get away with it?

[mountaineer]

Is this really a Morford column? I saw no mention of Bush or Ashcroft (though, to be honest, I find it difficult to read his trash all that closely).

[Billthedrill]

Meanwhile, Abercrombie is thrilled. The latest round of reactionary screeching is exactly the outcry they were counting on, as they yank the sexy catalog from the shelves just as the news of its raciness hits the media, thus resulting in an instant wave of interest among their target market: a.k.a., those youths who simply love it when parents get all pissy and fumy about interesting types of sex they no longer have.

Well, maybe not. Sales were down 13%. The kids may love it but it's the adults who have signature authority on the ol' VISA.

Now, as far as all catalogs being soft porn, Miss Morford probably has a point. I await with glee my Northern Tools catalog...generators...hubba hubba...

[Agnes Heep]

It must be profound, because I don't understand a word of it.

[pogo101]

Morford is right, I tell you! He's right! Right, that Stanford students are ineptly dressed. Or at least they were when I was there (AB '89, History & Poli Sci). Maybe because with tuition and fees of (now) over $35k a year, and some 70+ percent of students getting financial aid, they can't bloody afford many new clothes, let alone Abercrombie-wear. (One wonders at what vastly PUBLICLY-SUBSIDIZED institutions of higher learning MORFORD spent several years sodomizing, on the dime of me and other CA taxpayers.)

He's about as "right" as usual on everything else, however.

[ikka]

Still, Maryam Kubasek of the National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families (hello, red flag of rigid sanctimony) apparently thinks the catalog is literally capable of stripping her young son naked and plying him with massage oil and anal beads and a nice Burntbridge Pond Striped Polo shirt with moose embroidery for $39.99. Oh the horror.

A little bit of projection on the part of the author, I think.

[Ribeye]

This walking puddle of puke called Morford is a pathic wretch. If he thinks he's the PJ O'Rourke of the wild-eyed left, he's more than wrong.

However, he's right about this:

"I'd be far, far more worried about what, say, Kraft is selling to your kids in all those millions of boxes of toxic and openly poisonous Kraft Lunchables..."

Why any parent would give that horrible crap to their kids is beyond me.

[ArrogantBustard]

Only Morford would get off at the thought of Kitchen Aid mixers. I hate to think of what (s)he would do with a dough hook...

[ILBBACH]

I think this is another leftist anti-capitalism diatribe - defending a leftist ideas by putting down the catalogs of companies that don't cater to his crowd (LL Bean, J Crew, Pottery Barn Kids, etc.).

BTW, why didn't he mention Victoria's Secret? He probably thinks that catalog is...yucky!

[spodefly]

Still, Maryam Kubasek of the National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families ... apparently thinks the catalog is literally capable of stripping her young son naked and plying him with massage oil and anal beads and a nice Burntbridge Pond Striped Polo shirt with moose embroidery for $39.99.

If anyone knows about stripping young sons naked and plying massage oil and anal beads, it's Morford.

[Jim Cane]

I mean, whatever happened to the innocent and tantalizing catalogs of yore, like the 4-inch-thick Sears tome with its countless pages of busty bra models who looked like your best friend's mom?

I always thought the mom from Family Circus had a nice rack.

[Bernard Marx]

slabs of steaming gourmet meats being perfectly sliced with spotless $200 Wusthof knives. Mmm yeah, baby. Do it to me just like that.

This is one seriously disturbed pervert. It gives me the shivers to think that both my "senators" come from Sodom by the Bay and owe their office to people like Morford.

[SoothingDave]

Whatever happened to fantasizing all the way through the panty selection in the JCPenney catalog?

Um, Mark. The rest of us weren't fantasising about wearing the panties.

< SD

[Gritty]

Here comes Ms. Morford again to bravely take on the world of the normal.

[Cosmo]

alot of this article is hilarious. I just did the C&B, PB, and W&S thing with the wife and came away thinking alot of the same things.

Conservatives need to get over Abercrombie.