Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many types of excuses have gone through distinct stages of popularity in recent memory. In the arena of malfeasance, for a while, childhood abuse was the excuse du jour. Then O.J. Simpson helped reinvigorate racial disadvantage as a form of pardon. Now, as the president struggles to conceal his criminal culpability behind the right to privacy, a new excuse for the common man's ineptitude has been ensconced...
Sluggers like McGwire--batters who swing for the fences four times a day and damn the torpedoes--are, pardon the iconoclasm, a dime a dozen. Second-rate ballplayers like Dave Kingman, George Foster and Cecil Fielder have put up roughly comparable numbers with exponentially less hoopla...
...would certainly represent closure to the Lewinsky case, but it wouldn't also mean justice had been done--particularly if Starr's report to Congress were to contain persuasive evidence of crimes. When Richard Nixon resigned over Watergate, that was closure too, it can be argued--but his pardon by Gerald Ford was viewed by many, even to this day, as an unsatisfactory moral ending...
...Pardon me then when I was disturbed to learn that one of Peoria's most famous and accepted social institutions is a strip club. Big Al's, a "world-famous gentleman's club" located in the middle of downtown, features "the world's most beautiful women," fine cigars, cognac, a lunchtime buffet and Wednesday night wet T-shirt contests...
...Pardon my bias, but isn't getting naked to make a little money just a bit degrading...