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Comedian Al Franken, who is looking to unseat incumbent senator Norm Coleman (R-MN), has a problem with porn. Not ribald humor created by someone else that he downloaded to his computer in the privacy of his home, but material he created for public consumption. A former “Saturday Night Live” cast member, Franken wrote a 1,478-word article titled “Porn-O-Rama!” for the Y2K issue Playboy. Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson gives a pithy summary: [H]e enthuses that it is an "exciting time for pornographers and for us, the consumers of pornography." The Internet, he explains, is a "terrific learning tool. For example,...