Let's see: Arlen Specter pledging in writing to behave, athletes amateur and pro trashing one another for all to see, President Bush rescuing his security detail, Palestinians mourning the late Joyful Jihadist as he romps with all those Heavenly virgins.Herewith comments direct or implied on other topical items. . .
Oh, to be a Bostonian and a rapturous beneficiary of the Big Dig - at $14.6 billion, the nation's most ambitious public works project. It's primarily a tunnel (named for baseball great Ted Williams) running sometimes 110 feet under Boston's inner harbor. Motorists and everyone else are learning the thing has 1,000 cracks that in the past year have allowed 26 million gallons of water to leak in. The situation is so serious that John McCain may convene a meeting of his Commerce Committee next week to determine whether a few splendid splinters might close the breaches in the publicly funded tunnel's walls.
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In March, Dan Rather will relinquish his post as principal newsreader at CBS. His impending departure, of course, has nothing to do with the bogus "memos" he aired last summer purporting unsat performance by George Bush during his years in the Texas Air National Guard. A report on what happened regarding the memos may be imminent, and Rather has said he probably shouldn't have rushed onto the air with the things without additional checking as to their veracity. But this question remains: Will he leave the field without a direct apology to President Bush?
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First, this year, it was Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," followed by Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11." Comes now the year's third culturally divisive flick, "Kinsey" - about sexologist Albert Kinsey, one of the early popularizers of "If it feels good, do it!" Notes Judith Reisman, author of the 1990 book "Kinsey, Sex, and Fraud: The Indoctrination of a People": The consequences of the dubious Kinsey's "sexual adventurism include AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, child sexual abuse, incest, and pornography." The movie may make him out to be just another guy with - you know - an excess of passion.
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