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...have doubts. For one thing, at the turn of the millennium, rapid change (technological, social, cultural) has become so pervasive in American life and sometimes so difficult to absorb - think of the genome project and its implications, to cite one of a thousand examples in a world of techno-miracle and deconstructed tradition - that voters might actually prefer continuity of political leadership...
Growing up, I thought about becoming a lawyer from time to time, but it was all rather abstract--law held the same sort of hypothetical interest as medicine, astronomy, marine biology or a thousand other fields. Whenever I stopped to give the idea any serious thought, the negative connotations associated with attorneys and their dirty work always seemed to pop up--especially when reinforced by stories of lawyers in my extended family whose collective moral character was, at best, highly questionable...
...talking about a few gays, a few hundred gays, a few thousand gays! I'm forever amazed that we are living in the year 2000, homosexuality has been around for thousands of years and here in America came to society's doorstep openly over 50 years ago. I'd think we would be able to accept others as they are and move on to better ourselves and the planet...
...minute. You can do it.) Our culture is deep into a populist period of personal confession, the First-Person Era. There's the unflagging craze for memoirs--especially ordinary people's tales of woe, like Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Elizabeth Kim's story of orphanhood, Ten Thousand Sorrows. "I don't see any sign of them waning," says Jeff Zaleski, book-review editor of Publishers Weekly. "The high-profile memoirs by famous people haven't done well, [but] there's been an increase in the common-man type of memoir." Novelist Martin Amis writes...
When I wrote for Salon, the FTR (full traffic report) would arrive in my e-mail like the bluebird of low self-esteem. A hit-count list of the previous day's articles, it would range from tens of thousands (say, a cover story on a sex scandal) to a few thousand or less (say, mine). The writers' room in hell has a similar setup. There's nothing to make you question your career goals like discovering that your take on the post-Tina Brown New Yorker was empirically proved to be 10 times less interesting than Jennifer Lopez...