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It all started innocently enough. I got a call from a guy named Stephen Johnson. He was writing a story about sex and developmental disability, a topic that had interested me for some time. He had done a web search and come across a couple of articles I had written on the subject. […] “What Bush figured out — that all of us had been missing all these years — is how easy it is to hornswoggle liberals…. What George Bush figured out is that all you have to do is go around calling yourself nice.” — Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter
There’s something about Hannibal […]
Lasse Hallström’s charming film, Chocolat, pulls off a rather impressive and tidy little trick. It points a perceptive finger at some important issues that lie behind our culture’s deeply ingrained fear of pleasure. But it does so in such a matter-of-fact, wholesome, unobjectionable way that everyone gets to walk out of the theater with […] My father prayed as if his family’s life and vitality were being debated on high as he bowed low. — Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft, on family values
Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone: You pave paradise, put up a parking lot. […] After two weeks of watching the machinations by which the next President of the United States was rather randomly being selected, I needed an antidote. I pried myself away from Al Gore and Dubya Bush’s dueling press conferences — each laying pious claim to the purple robes of social virtue, respect for the […] |
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