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...clean and safe. "Cleanandsafe," as solar advocates will tell you. They imply, or may even tell you outright, that nuclear energy is dirty and dangerous. In elementary school, those were fighting words for me, since my father designs nuclear fuel. I viewed any attack on nuclear power as an insult which could be settled only with a fistfight at recess...
...Eighth Amendment forbids "cruel and unusual punishments." Some of the witnesses last week thought the cyanide, which took some minutes to kill Harris, was barbaric. That is an insult to centuries of creative barbarians, who have administered capital punishment by boiling in oil, burning at the stake, flaying to death, crushing, impaling, drowning, crucifying, drawing and quartering, disemboweling, gibbeting, garroting, throwing to lions and much, much worse. Cyanide, by comparison, is a sweet pink poof of cessation. Would last week's witnesses have been happier if California had used a neat bullet to the base of the brain (the method...
...first half of the staff editorial is "an insult...to feminists." Yes, the parody was offensive--its authors have admitted that and have apologized. But it was offensive because it mocked the death of a fallen members of our community, not because it mocked feminism...
...sick parody is not only an insult to Frug's family, whose husband (a professor of law) and son (a member of the Class of '93) are members of the Harvard community, but to feminists, women and thinking people everywhere. Spoof editors wrote "Then we go out at night to hunt down some hunky men and rip their clothes off. Sure, it's degrading, but we've all carefully selected wimps for husbands. Like Jerry," a reference to Frug's widower, Gerald...
...voters who cast their ballots for Brown in the face of intense pressure, my heart goes out to you in joy. I join you in rejecting the message that Jews, as Jews, see men like Jesse Jackson as our enemy. That message, not Jerry Brown's, was the true insult to the Jewish people in New York earlier this month. William G. Bikales