Irresponsible Adults and 'Artistic' Perverts
Culture
When adults abdicate responsibility as protectors of children and vanguards of public morality and decency, children become the nation's most endangered species. When adults equate legal with moral, appropriate and acceptable, perversion can find patronage.
Was Blind, but Now She Sees – Thanks to a U.S. Soldier
Culture
ABC World News profiles an Army sergeant who took responsibility to help a suffering Iraqi girl.
TIME Plays TV Doctor: Suggests Vatican Gave Pope John Paul II A Push I
Culture
TIME promotes the views of an Italian doctor who did what the magazine condemned Senator Bill Frist for doing: diagnosing a patient from video footage.
The Scoundrel Song of David Banner
Culture
No matter how pornographic his lyrics, no matter how many kids he helps to corrupt, no matter how callously he maligns fellow citizens as niggas and hoes and no matter how coarsely he portrays black urban culture as an open sewer, he has a ready explanation: It's somebody else's fault, not his.
Will the Media Cover THIS Story
Culture
Will public nudity and sexual acts performed in broad daylight in San Francisco streets, while police stand by doing nothing, generate headlines on national newscasts?
The Death of Sportsmanship
Culture
Rutgers University is known as the birthplace of college football, but in the last few weeks it's seemed more like the deathplace of sportsmanship.
"Resegregation" in Alabama Schools (and in Omaha Too
Culture
Guilt by association: "Tuscaloosa, where George Wallace once stood defiantly in the schoolhouse door to keep blacks out of the University of Alabama...."
Embarrassing Celebrity Pundits
Culture
A key measure we have for punditry in our political culture is fame, not a display of any brains.
Rutgers Fans' Abuse of Navy Players Elicits Media Yawn
Culture
Journalists leaped to the defense of the Rutgers women's basketball players, but Navy men's football players seem to be fair game.
Kathy Griffin's Unfunny Jesus Joke
Culture
Comedienne crosses the line by mocking Christ while accepting an Emmy award.
