Recent commentaries in the national press

October 19, 2001

Note to the Taliban: Gone to Starbucks

Good morning, brothers of the Taliban, from Carmel Valley, San Diego.

I must decline your website’s offer of protection from the evils of sexual objectification proliferating around our community.

Thanks to you, I awoke to our daily dose of CNN Anthrax reports and MSNBC sensitivity sessions about Good Islam versus Bad Islam, as if anyone growing up in this diverse society wouldn’t know the difference between rabid control freaks and religious people who happen to live down the block.

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Advice to the suburban entertainment cops

September 23, 2000

Just in case federal regulators think there is a future in controlling the entertainment industry’s assault on America’s children, I offer this reality check from the suburbs — there is no childhood here and there hasn’t been for quite some time. 

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Women Mind Their Own Business

February 5, 1998

Many smart men don't understand how so many women could think that Monica Lewinsky is Hillary's problem, not theirs. Commentators say progressive women are in a bind between the president's alleged exploitation of an impressionable girl and his pro-woman public policies.

But if conversations around my beauty shop last week are any indication, that dilemma is in the minds of the beholders.

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