Mike Luckovich for September 29, 2017

Now that would be ethereal!

What he said just before St Peter opened the trap door.

(— I don’t think so … more likely tossed into a lake of teenage male precious bodily fluids within the panderer’s circle of Dante’s “Inferno,” frantically treading to keep his nose above the surface. (— (—

Why not, there should be no false modesty in heaven. After all, until the fall, Adam and Eve were naked…

Um…I really don’t think Hef would be in heaven…just sayin’…

Matthew 7:1-3…just a reminder.

…in heaven there is no beer…that’s why we drink it here…

Must have been one heck of a deathbed conversion there. I’m pretty sure he had sinned a bit.

I think Hef’s got some ’splaining to do first before entry is granted.

Playboy Enterprises (his production company) did a film of that title in 1985.

Wait, is this where Victoria’s Secret got their idea for “angels” ?

On tv yesterday they were discussing all of Hef’s charitable donations and good works. They were very numerous. He might have been a hedonist but he was also a philanthropist.

I wonder how many of the pious people commenting on Hef are convinced that serial philanderer trump will indeed go to heaven.

Hef will get to heaven, if it exists, a lot sooner than Cheney, Wolfowitz, or Trump.

@DTroutma:

“Masters Of War”

Come you masters of war

You that build all the guns

You that build the death planes

You that build all the bombs

You that hide behind walls

You that hide behind desks

I just want you to know

I can see through your masks

.

You that never done nothin’

But build to destroy

You play with my world

Like it’s your little toy

You put a gun in my hand

And you hide from my eyes

And you turn and run farther

When the fast bullets fly

.

Like Judas of old

You lie and deceive

A world war can be won

You want me to believe

But I see through your eyes

And I see through your brain

Like I see through the water

That runs down my drain

.

You fasten all the triggers

For the others to fire

Then you set back and watch

When the death count gets higher

You hide in your mansion’

As young people’s blood

Flows out of their bodies

And is buried in the mud

.

You’ve thrown the worst fear

That can ever be hurled

Fear to bring children

Into the world

For threatening my baby

Unborn and unnamed

You ain’t worth the blood

That runs in your veins

.

How much do I know

To talk out of turn

You might say that I’m young

You might say I’m unlearned

But there’s one thing I know

Though I’m younger than you

That even Jesus would never

Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question

Is your money that good

Will it buy you forgiveness

Do you think that it could

I think you will find

When your death takes its toll

All the money you made

Will never buy back your soul

.

And I hope that you die

And your death’ll come soon

I will follow your casket

In the pale afternoon

And I’ll watch while you’re lowered

Down to your deathbed

And I’ll stand over your grave

‘Til I’m sure that you’re dead

.

Bob Dylan

That should help put Hef into perspective.

And if sexual exploitation was involved with his enterprise, it also encouraged the use of the birth-control pill, which helped free women from the slavery of the body. That’s important. Women had received the privilege of education, and the right to vote, but their bodies were still held against them. Obviously Playboy did not do the heavy lifting of social change, but it certainly did not fight it.

On a roll, baslim and dtrout. Well done!