My husband was doing the innately male “surfing” thing with the remote control when we happened upon one of the current crop of interchangeable, pompous pundits. He was barking questions at a panel that included a representative of the Human Rights Campaign fund and Michael Medved.
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Happy New Year
By the time this column hits print, it will be the year 2001—a new year, or new millennium, depending upon how one calculates commencement of the latter.
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With a Whimper
T.S. Eliot wrote “This is the way the world ends….Not with a bang, but a whimper.” I thought of that line from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” when I read the headline in the City State section of the Indianapolis Star on November 10th, detailing events that will probably lead to the demise of AIDServe, Indiana.
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The Continuing Saga of the Scouts
Sometimes, you may win by losing. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, strange and promising things are happening.
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Joe Lieberman and Bobby Knight
We have a Jewish Democrat running for Vice-President on what has, at times, appeared to be the “All God, all the time” ticket. Leiberman is a Yale Law School graduate who has taken to telling audiences that “In America, we have freedom of religion, but not freedom from religion”—a statement that is misleading if not downright inaccurate…
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