P.P.S. (Saturday, 1/29/05)

My blood level is elevated a bit this morning after reading the front-page story about porn star Ron Jeremy being invited to speak at Eastern Washington here — and then seeing James Dobson , the kindly Focus on the Family leader, pictured as a monstrous demagogue in a political cartoon on the editorial page here (click on “Nick” and choose the 1/27/05 cartoon in the pulldown). When a country calls evil good and good evil, then it is in a destructive moral stupor.