To prepare myself spiritually for what I'm willing to wager will be the New
Age of Prudery (as manifested lately in the Gore/Lieberman attack on
Hollywood's debasement of the higher values), I drove to the Getty Center,
in west Los Angeles...
Advertisement
16 August 2000
A chasm has always separated Gore's professions from his performance. He
denounces the rape of nature, yet has connived at the strip mining of
Appalachia, and, indeed, of terrain abutting one of Tennessee's most popular
state parks. He put...
11 August 2000
What’s behind the assault against affirmative action, race-based scholarships, educational loans and other programs designed to enhance opportunities and access for blacks, Latinos and other minorities in higher education? What’s at stake...
04 August 2000
Now, it's the turn of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman to be flattered by the same
moist-eyed press corps that's been hailing the stultifying Republican
convention in Philadelphia as a masterpiece of political stagecraft. Gore is
being...
02 August 2000
It's "Reach Out" time. It happens every four years. Someone gets up in
front of the Republicans and reminds the white people filling 95 percent of
the convention hall that the party has to reach out. Who better than Colin
Powell? He told...
01 August 2000
There are today over two million Americans incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails throughout the United States. More than one-half, or one million, are black men and women. The devastating human costs of...
Pages
