Bottom Lines Columnist Jim Kershner’s Take On The News
Is assigning blame so complicated?
The liberals are blaming the conservatives for inciting violence. The conservatives are blaming the liberals for tarring everyone with the same brush. The plain truth is that the people who planned and made the bomb are to blame. Period.
What do they mean by “fueling”?
Meanwhile G. Gordon Liddy, noted intellectual, rejects the notion that he is “fueling the lunatic fringe,” on the grounds that he is the lunatic fringe.
All-singing, all-dancing Liddy
By happy coincidence, G. Gordon will appear at the Spokane Opera House on May 13. He will be performing excerpts from “Annie Get Your Gun.”
A voice of reason, crying out for moderation
I made that up, of course. Liddy will be delivering a talk on the theme: “What the World Needs Now Is Love, Sweet Love.”
Another juror revolt
This just in from the O.J. trial: The jurors are holding out again, this time over the issue of world-wide video residuals.
Give Your Daughters a Reality-Check Day
Thursday was Take Your Daughters to Work Day, dedicated to showing America’s young women how boring it will be when they grow up and work in an office.
What they can’t read can’t hurt them
A new study shows that kids can’t read. The good news is, they have excellent self-esteem about this.
Tuning out the TV-Turnoff
On a related note, most American kids watched TV right through National TV-Turnoff Week, not having read anything about it.
It pre-dated the stone chopping tool
Archaeologists in Zaire have found sophisticated human tools dating back 80,000 years. Previously, scientists believed that the remote control dated back only until the mid-1970s.
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