Two recent events involving public standards of morality were instructive to me. In one, the director and cast of a Conroe, Texas production of “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” resigned because of the censorship of parts of the script involving curse words and the portrayal of teenage actresses as prostitutes. The other was the […]
Archives for June 2002
PC And The Alamo
The ultimate Texas shrine was injected into the political correctness wars a few days ago when an official of the Houston Independent School District announced a change in the way the siege at the Alamo will be treated in history classes, so as to make the dialogue less of an “us vs. them” confrontation and […]
The Shake Up We Need
The recent reorganization of the FBI in the wake of allegations and much evidence that it did not properly respond to serious warnings of terrorist activity last summer is long overdue, but probably not enough. I expect another round, possibly including much higher level terminations. These preliminary steps at the FBI are but the first […]
Health Care Follow Up
As a follow up to my April report on the Texas Association of Business health care survey, I pass along the following, particularly for the benefit of those readers who took issue with my comments about the now outmoded and pernicious tradition of tying health care insurance to employment. Forbes magazine notes that government now […]
The Closure Myth
I was struck by a couple of seemingly unrelated news and commentary pieces lately that converged to bring my attention to the concept of “closure”. One item was on the conviction of Bobby Frank Cherry in the 1963 bombing that killed four young Birmingham girls. Another was the report that there are about twenty thousand […]