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...dangers. They come packaged with the sunshine, the freedom and the raw possibilities of paradise. But now, after Northridge, for some the most telling decline is a kind of mortal normality. "We are in the process of rediscovering our reality, our ordinariness, aren't we?" observes Neil Morgan, a columnist for < the San Diego Union-Tribune. "The uniqueness we assumed we had has come unraveled. We are so much more like the rest of the country, and we have problems. I mean, what the hell, they have snow and ice, and we have earthquakes. No, there's no redeeming uniqueness...
...else could one explain his insistence that he was a target of a "new McCarthyism" by the press? Inman named only three columnist critics, just one of whom had been harsh. Most press reaction to his appointment had in fact been admiring, even excessively...
...taken somewhat seriously. Doesn't this bother anybody? It's mob rule, just like our hypothetical post-nuclear-winter France. It's also a power trip for the columnist, just to write blather and occasionally slip in things like...
...sports columnist--sarcasm dripping from his pen like water--wrote the next day that Sure, the ENTIRE wrestling team got involved in a HUGE BRAWL against the coach's wishes. Riiiight. What-ever. Come on, he told the readers. We all know the coach was in on it, and we can't set this example for our kids...
...Columnist William Safire, commenting on the Senator Packwood follies, observed that our diaries reveal our youthful selves to our aging selves, and that we should not be surprised if what we see sometimes makes us wince. Annas suggests that the genetic revolution has reversed that proposition. Our genes, he says, could serve as "future diaries" that will reveal our aging selves to our youthful selves...