Either We Figure Out How To Keep

When Michael Jackson, A Poor Black Boy Who Grew Up To Be A Rich, White Woman, Married Elvis Presley's Daughter The Scientologist. Makes You Proud To Be An American, Dudn't It?

Texas Is Not A Civilized Place. Texans Shoot One Another A Lot. They Also Knife, Razor, And Stomp One Another To Death With Some Frequency. And They Fight In Bars All The Time.

The Pyramids Were Built For Pharaohs On The Happy Theory That They Could Take Their Stuff With Them. Versailles Was Built For Kings On The Theory That They Should Live Surrounded By The Finest Stuff. The Mall Of America Is Built On The Premise That We Should All Be Able To Afford This Stuff. It May Be A Shallow Culture, But It's By-god Democratic. Sneer If You Dare; This Is Something New In World History.

It Is Quite Reasonable To Subscribe Both To The Old Saw That No Good Girl Was Ever Ruined By A Book And To The Perception That It Is Not Good For Children To Be Constantly Exposed To The Sexual Violence In Our Popular Culture. Protecting Children Seems To Me Logically, Legally, And Rather Easily Differentiated From Censorship.

The Thing About Democracy, Beloveds, Is That It Is Not Neat, Orderly, Or Quiet. It Requires A Certain Relish For Confusion.