Has the whole world gone crazy?

While waiting in line to purchase a bottle of water at the newsstand in the Las Vegas airport, my eyes fell upon the various magazines that line the front of the registers. Most of these were so-called men's magazines with women in various states of undress on the cover, and articles about things purportedly of interest to men.

One sensational headline caught my attention: "How to steal your best friend's girlfriend!"

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I stared, mouth open, in utter disappointment. If one is, in fact, your best friend, then doesn't the covenant of that friendship preclude you from stealing his girlfriend? What kind of world are we living in where we're actively encouraging one another to minimize any importance friendship might have?

5 Comments

On Jul 31st, 2006 at 02:35am Justin Moore added:

Heh, that magazine is on the back of my toilet right now! Maxim has a humorous article of that sort every month. Sometimes its things like "How to do brain surgery" or "How to amputate your own leg!" but they occasionally throw in oddballs like that too. The gist of the column is its thing no one would ever do anyway, but this one - I can imagine there are plenty of scum bag guys out there that would beseech the code.

On Jul 31st, 2006 at 08:32am Aristides Pereira added:

I couldn't agree more... worst is the banalization of such things, like nobody cares and in the end, it is a wild world where stealing a girlfriend from your best friend is nothing! Sad, sad times.

On Jul 31st, 2006 at 12:26pm ringmaster added:

My question is this: Why do airports carry such salacious magazines anyway? I mean, what are the expected consequences?

On Jul 31st, 2006 at 04:10pm Elfboy added:

I used to have a subscription to Maxim, but I stopped taking it when I eventually realized I was actually dumber after reading it. I mean I really think it caused me to lose brain function. The chicks are hot though.

On Aug 3rd, 2006 at 10:30am Mody added:

That's the expensive tax of free speech with no limits or red lines. Even stuff that are against common senses and manners can be go out to the light. Be prepared for worse.