--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [from Tuesday's Page Six]
>
> BUCKLE UP FOR 'PURITAN' RANT
>
> CHRISTOPHER Hitchens is following up "As American as
> Apple Pie," his
> much-discussed ode to oral sex in Vanity Fair, with
> an essay in Maxim
> denouncing the "stupid Puritanism" of modern
> society. "To be young in
> America now is to be constantly told to buckle up,
> wear a bike
> helmet, wear a condom, avoid risk, watch your
> intake, show your ID at
> all times and respect the world of political
> correctness and safe sex
> that curmudgeons like me have so considerably left
> to you," Hitchens
> writes in the upcoming piece, which begins with his
> outrage about
> being carded at an airport bar. The liquor-loving
> intellectual is
> among a new crop of Maxim contributors signed up by
> editor-in-chief
> Jimmy Jellinek, who has enlisted superchef Mario
> Batali to write a
> food column and best-selling author Robert Greene,
> an advisor to Jay-
> Z and 50 Cent, to dole out career tips.
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