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We Often Seem To Be Swimming Through Such A Miasma Of Sexual Violence - In Advertising, Television Programming, Heavy Metal, Rap, Films, And Worst Of All, In The Home - That Even First Amendment Absolutists Sometimes Daydream About How Nice It Would Be To Have Government-as-nanny Just Outlaw All This Effluent.

There Is No Inverse Relationship Between Freedom And Security. Less Of One Does Not Lead To More Of The Other. People With No Rights Are Not Safe From Terrorist Attack.

No One Has Ever Accused Texas Of Being In The Vanguard Of Social Progress. This Is The Most Macho State In The U.s. Of A. By Lore, Legend, And Fact, Texas Is 'hell' On Women And Horses.

I Think Most Of Us Become Nicer As We Get Older, Less Judgmental, Less Full Of Certitude; Life Tends To Knock A Few Corners Of Us As We Go Through. Cancer, Divorce, Teenagers, And Other Plagues Make Us Give Up On Expecting Ourselves - Or Life - To Be Perfect, Which Is A Real Relief.

Nice Is A Pallid Virtue. Not Like Honesty Or Courage Or Perseverance. On The Other Hand, In A Nation Notably Lacking In Civility, There Is Much To Be Said For Nice.