In his first paid speech as an ex-president, Bill Clinton was heckled but not only from the usual gaggle of patriots who have hounded him since the impeachment days. According to a published report, he was upbraided over his pardon of billionaire tax fugitive Marc Rich by a big-wig in the audience of the speech put on by the investment firm Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. The woman called the pardon ridiculous, a retort that caused Clinton to become red-faced. State Sen. Leslie Byrne, D Fairfax, thought she was being cute when last week she introduced an amendment to a bill that will impose a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion is performed. In the interest of gender equity, Ms. Byrne proposed that men should have to wait 24 hours before they can pick up their Viagra prescriptions.
Men have all the power and control in a sexual relationship.
On Tuesday, seven Democrats in the House of Representatives voted present on a resolution wishing Ronald Reagan a happy 90th birthday. Al Gore has landed a gig as a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism the place where kids learn more about how important their jobs are than how to actually do it right. What these future news snobs are supposed to learn from a man who spent all of three years as a working reporter is still unclear. But they d better not take any writing lessons. But it s only one class.