Michael Jackson Was A Poor Black Boy

On The Whole, I Prefer Not To Be Lectured On Patriotism By Those Who Keep Offshore Maildrops In Order To Avoid Paying Their Taxes.

We Often Seem To Be Swimming Through Such A Miasma Of Sexual Violence - In Advertising, Television Programming, Heavy Metal, Rap, Films, And Worst Of All, In The Home - That Even First Amendment Absolutists Sometimes Daydream About How Nice It Would Be To Have Government-as-nanny Just Outlaw All This Effluent.

Think Of Something To Make The Ridiculous Look Ridiculous.

The Impulse To Make Ourselves Safer By Making Ourselves Less Free Is An Old One ... When We Are Badly Frightened, We Think We Can Make Ourselves Safer By Sacrificing Some Of Our Liberties. We Did It During The Mccarthy Era Out Of Fear Of Communism. Less Liberty Is Regularly Proposed As A Solution To Crime, To Pornography, To Illegal Immigration, To Abortion, To All Kinds Of Threats.

Conservatives Have Been Mad At The Supreme Court Since It Decided To Desegregate The Schools In 1954 And Seen Fit To Blame The Federal Bench For Everything That Has Happened Since Then That They Don't Like.