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...waitresses laugh and to the ones who pick up litter on the beach, the ones who stop to help the ones who have flat tires, the ones who return wallets, the ones who pick and sing for fun and the ones who run the Fritos pie booth at the PTA school fair. Here's to the clerks who say, "Now you have a nice day, hear?" and mean it, and to the ones who say wryly, "If it was a snake, it would've bit you." Here's to whale savers and the wolf lovers and all the lovely birders...
...moment, those same kids exploring jungle fauna or listening to ...Baby One More Time are just a few keystrokes away from Pandora's hard drive--from the appalling filth, unspeakable hatred and frightening prescriptions for homicidal mayhem that the Littleton massacre evoked. If you listened to the conversations at PTA meetings and around Little League diamonds last week, it was as if we'd already forgotten that the Internet brings us vital medical information, cross-cultural dialogue, vast stores of learning and beauty and virtue. Yet what comfort is that to a parent who came across a website last week...
...giggles. It was nice to see that "that woman" seemed as disillusioned with the president as we are, but Lewinsky didn't look that concerned about her future. "Mommy made a big mistake?" Knitting? Monica, you've now explained phone sex to Barbara Walters. There's no PTA presidency in your future...
Information is power. Which is why every group, from the local PTA to the national political parties, has rushed to gets its message publicized on the Internet. The dash to the Web has been joined by hate groups, and a report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center this week charges that hate organizations have been anything but lax in their efforts. Last year alone, the report says, the number of Internet hate sites increased by 56 percent, from...
...Founded by members of the class of '02, this rag bears an uncanny resemblance in its design to elementary school PTA newsletters. Playing butt-monkey to the Lampoon and Demon, Satire V has officially joined the select group of unread, unfunny self-proclaimed "humor" magazines guaranteed to leave a bad taste in the collective mouth of the Harvard populace. This freshman posse considers themselves real smarties by reversing the Harvard motto "Veritas." Backwards word, real clever...