I have always liked William Raspberry
I'm a big fan, too. I didn't start reading him until the Washington Star folded and I had to switch to the Post, but that's still a very long time.
The man is decidedly biased against the non-religious, though, a point I have made (tactfully and poignantly, of course) to him several times in letters, to no avail. I've never understood how people who have experienced bigotry themselves can be so insensitive to bigotry against others. But I digress.
I thought his subject was interesting and perhaps of interest to the thread. Since I don't have kids, in many ways I lead a sheltered life. I recall that, perhaps a year before Monica, a friend of mine told me that he had been chatting with a neighbor's teenage daughter about oral sex. She said that her cohort doesn't consider that practice sex and that many girls opt for it so that they can remain virgins. Of course, when Clinton made his famous statement about not having had sex with "that woman," I immediately thought about the girl and her definition. Clinton may not have seemed like a liar to her.
When I was a teenager, women were still repressed and boys were still looking at the pictures in National Geographic. Things sure have changed.
Karen |
