Brian Miller, film editor for the Seattle Weekly, this week assigned himself to review The Notorious Bettie Page. Which is cool.

What’s perplexing, however, is the way he blindly casts about for an opponent in the porn wars. (Maybe try Barnard College, 1982?) Specifically, I’m wondering about the way he describes what I have to assume is this article as an “indictment of centerfold culture.” Are you feeling okay, Brian? Does anyone see that in Joan Acocella’s review? Or how about an “argu[ment] that the entire pin-up tradition popularized by Hugh Hefner in the ’50s leads inexorably to today’s hard-core pornography, the abuse of children, the debasement of women, rape, and everything that is evil about the Internet (and probably the pop-up ads, too).” I mean, huh?