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Time moves backward when it is time to move on. The dynamics may change, these murderous passions may exhaust themselves. (It is hard to believe that anyone's sense of injured honor would be appeased by joining a lynch mob to commit the most primitive of murders. But victims feel themselves to be justified in anything that they do.) In any case, maybe peace will become possible again after this fire has blown itself out. If it does blow itself...
Indeed, when you think about it, the treatment of John Rocker by just about everyone provides an interesting commentary on our American social psychology. Because he has come across publicly as a backward, bigoted, homophobic, fascist jerk, John Rocker is, par excellance, a politically correct villain. Everyone is allowed--and even welcomed--to hate him (check out www.rockersucks.com if you don't believe me). And yet, as opposed to the WWF, where hating our enemies is a guiltless pleasure, Rockers villainy begs us pause. John Rocker may be a character, but he isn't playing one. He is a real...
...convention. Oh, yes, they replied. In fact, driving from the airport into the city, one notices immediately how remarkably clean the buildings are and how well paved the road is. If someone in the car were to turn around in their seat, however (preferably not the driver) and glance backward toward the airport, one might notice a slight discrepancy: Viewed from this new angle, the buildings stand in disrepair. City leaders must have figured that since everyone takes another road on the return trip to the airport, there was no reason to waste time and money cleaning up both sides...
...Today story, debate rages over whether this newly sloganized "insist and assist" attitude - set the standards and bend over backward helping everybody get through - constitutes a lowering of the bar or an enlightenment of philosophy. In the age of push-button wars and untold desk jobs, isn't the Army just being smart by being patient? Or is a 10 percent failure rate - from serious injury or mental incompatibility, usually - an insult to the supposed test of mettle that boot camp was once supposed...
...Alamos nuclear laboratory - capped by this week's revelation that vital hard drives are missing from the lab's inner sanctum - and his struggle to stabilize gas prices, Richardson, once positioned near the top of the short list of this year's vice-presidential possibilities, is sliding backward down the political slope. And it's unclear if anyone is willing to break his fall...