For business travelers and defense contractors of a certain age, the only real reward at the end of another crushing day of airport security and ulcer-causing plates of casual-dining-chain fat globules and the constantfearof getting fired is the pay-per-view porn on the hotel teevee. But various Christian wingnut groups who shouldmind their own goddamned businesshave been pressuring Marriott for years to end its profitable porn business. And now that pretty much everybody but the oldest, most confused business traveler has figured out how to watch pornos on the internets, Marriott is "giving in" to the wingnuts and phasing out the in-room adult video-teevee stuff.
The moves comes two weeks after likely GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's resignation from Marriott's board. During the 2008 presidential campaigns, Romney was criticized by family-oriented interest groups for not pressing Marriott to drop the adult movies offered in its rooms.
Haha, of course this involves Mitt Romney. [ Washington Post ]
Can you still get vibrating beds and those mirrored ceilings?