Blake Lively Soft Porn

Okay, my wife gets Rolling Stone (as a magazine subscription promotion of some kind), and after she brought the mail in tonight with the latest issue, she said "I think this a little risqué."

She's referring to Rolling Stone's cover story, "The Nasty Thrill of “Gossip Girl”." Click here and you'll see what she means.

Blake Lively is hot, no doubt. However, my son watches Gossip Girl and, frankly, I don't think he understands the symbolism of Ms. Lively and her co-star "slurping a cone."

I'm not going to begrudge Rolling Stone for selling magazines. Some of my masculine readers have appreciated some of the breast-blogging around here, so I'm not one to criticize. I will note that publisher Jann Wenner, a top hard-left cultural standard-bearer, is sending out conflicting messages for young people. You've got the sexy cover on the one hand, and then you've got the magazine's special section, "The RS100: Agents of Change," and trailing the pack at No. 100 is Taylor Swift. The country star is 19 years-old. Her claim to fame as an "agent of change"?

At 19, the biggest star in country and teen pop has managed to keep her head on straight — no drinking, no smoking, no limousine peekaboo — without seeming like a prude. Swift has given country music a new audience: teen girls who identify with her wholesome persona as much as her music.

So, what's it going to be?

You've got "Blake Lively and Leighton Meester melting cones from coast-to-coast," and then you've got Ms. Swift who carries herself with grace and maturity, "without seeming like a prude."

I'm sure Robert Bork's getting a kick out of the incongruity.