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Half of the American people are going to be sore at the other half. That's all right. There is sore, and there is homicidal. Or, worse, there is fratricidal...
...effort to achieve perspective on the subject of citizens being sore with one another, my mind has wandered to 16th-century France. There, for nearly 50 years, French Catholics and French Protestants attacked one another with conscienceless enthusiasm. The to and fro of the Gore and Bush camps, the postmodernist recounts of the Sunshine State, the genteel animadversions of James Baker and David Boies on the Sunday talk shows - all these represent quite an advance from the massacre on the eve of the feast of St. Bartholomew, when the Catholics cut down 3,000 Huguenots as part of the sectarian...
...this would have been trip number 17!), but the pop culture maelstrom of South Florida was too hard to resist. In between lying on the beach or carousing around Coconut Grove, my older brother and I would go looking for election protests... Speaking of election protests, I think those "Sore / Loserman" posters are wonderfully clever... With all the recount frenzy, it looks like everybody wants a do-over. The Backstreet Boys are calling for a recount of CD sales after their first week tallies for Black and Blue just narrowly missed the 2.4 million record set by 'NSync in March...
...think both candidates would see that patience is of the essence, although we're getting beyond that now. Anyone who doesn't concede an election the moment Dan Rather declares a winner risks being labeled a sore loser. Gore was so eager to surrender in a timely way that he jumped the gun, only to renege later when Florida drifted back into contention. Bush nearly refused to accept the retraction, protesting that little brother Jeb had assured him the Sunshine State was his. To Gore, that wasn't a controlling legal authority. This time he was definitely right...
HERPES HEARTACHE Hold that kiss! A provocative but still preliminary study suggests that herpes simplex virus Type 1 (the virus that causes cold sores and fever blisters) may be linked to heart disease. Researchers found that seniors with a history of herpes were twice as likely to suffer a heart attack as those who never had a cold sore...