Mark My Words … I Mean What I Say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, June 25, 2001 | by John Elvin

"Last week, it would have been tough for [President George W. Bush] to explain why he against what a Republican Congress had just approved. Next week, he can blame those liberals in the Senate."

-- The National Review finds the silver lining in the defection from the GOP of Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont.

"I feel it is a sexist and unfair law that oppresses women by dictating that we must cover our chests when men have the right [to go shiftless]."

-- Willian Courtney, age 20, explains her participation in a topless protest by the Booby Liberation Organization that resulted in her arrest in Boston.

"Midwesterners are scared of sex...."

-- An editor of the Chicago Sun-Times analyzes a newsroom flap over a photo essay on cleavage, perhaps also explaining the Great Plains population decline discussed elsewhere in this column.