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    Bad Day at the Media (Comes Naturally #108)

    It all started innocently enough.

    I got a call from a guy named Stephen Johnson. He was writing a story about sex and developmental disability, a topic that had interested me for some time. He had done a web search and come across a couple of articles I had written on the subject. […]

    Hannibal Lecter, Good, Evil, and the Yearning for Integrity (Comes Naturally #107)

    “What Bush figured out — that all of us had been missing all these years — is how easy it is to hornswoggle liberals…. What George Bush figured out is that all you have to do is go around calling yourself nice.”

    — Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter

     

    There’s something about Hannibal […]

    Let Them Eat Chocolate (Comes Naturally #106)

     

    Lasse Hallström’s charming film, Chocolat, pulls off a rather impressive and tidy little trick. It points a perceptive finger at some important issues that lie behind our culture’s deeply ingrained fear of pleasure. But it does so in such a matter-of-fact, wholesome, unobjectionable way that everyone gets to walk out of the theater with […]

    Bush League Sex (Comes Naturally #105)

    My father prayed as if his family’s life and vitality were being debated on high as he bowed low.

    — Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft, on family values

     

    Don’t it always seem to go

    That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone:

    You pave paradise, put up a parking lot.

    […]

    Morality, Yes; Moralism, No: An Ode to the Marquis de Sade (Comes Naturally #104)

    After two weeks of watching the machinations by which the next President of the United States was rather randomly being selected, I needed an antidote.

    I pried myself away from Al Gore and Dubya Bush’s dueling press conferences — each laying pious claim to the purple robes of social virtue, respect for the […]