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The state of the culture

Like a virgin

When I was a kid, I had such a sheltered life that I thought "oral sex" meant "talking about it." Did get quite a reputation after frequently saying, "Know about it? I'm an expert at it."

Madonna Dearest

I have to wait until my Newsweek comes to get any real news. This item was tucked in the back of the latest issue, under Newsmakers:

Prom a nod

It's hard to argue with Brother Kenneth Hoagland, principal of Kellenberg Memorial High School, about the wretched excess of proms today. "Conspicuous consumption" was once thought to be a rather scandalous claim to make against somebody; today, it's a quaint expression. Why wouldn't high school students also want to do everything bigger, flashier, riskier?

Killing states' rights

I'm not crazy about Oregon's assisted-suicide law. For one thing, it's dangerous to do anything to make suicide an easy first option instead of a desperate last one; that's the wrong thing to add to the culture, considering how many teens consider suicide and don't need that much encouragement. For another, inviting physicians to participate takes that profession where we shouldn't want it to go.

Only victimization spoken here

Don't laugh at this or shake your head in disgust, or you, too, may be "ordered to undergo diversity training or cultural sensitivity training." As I've said before, I love the Spanish language and make periodic stabs at learning it well enough to carry on a decent conversation in it. I hope my study of it remains a voluntary exercise, however.

The art of grandstanding

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad to have a Hoosier pervert off the streets. But how much money is Oprah willing to spend? What about murderers and rapists instead of just child molesters? Can you imagine the poor snooks who turn their friends into Crime Stoppers now and have to settle for a pitiful few hundred dollars?

Famous for being famous

In the culture of celebrity, it's all about the money or the fame, or maybe the money and the fame:

The very rich--John D. Rockefeller and powerful people of his era--used to pay press agents to keep their names out of the papers. But today one of the things money buys is a place at the table beside the celebrated, with the celebrities generally delighted to accommodate, there to share some of the glaring light.

Meeting halfway

Does anybody besides me think that if a little bit of Utah rubbed off on New Orleans and a little bit of New Orleans rubbed off on Utah, everybody would be a little better off?

!@#$ you, we're British

We may be getting too politically correct here in the colonies, but at least we don't have to worry yet about being socially correct:

Hyphenated Americans weep

Happy Columbus Day. If you don't run across any drivel today about what a racist, oppressive exploiter Chris was, count yourself lucky.

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