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...example, in a case decided earlier this year, Justice Scalia expressed horror that a person who lives near a polluting plant would be able to hold the company accountable for violating the law. Justice Scalia argued that the Court was making it too easy for people to fight environmental threats in their own neighborhoods. Never mind that the factory in question had poisoned a river by dumping toxic mercury into the water 489 separate times...
Hoping to engage and enrage everyday travelers, print and television outlets told horror stories of how a contract dispute among United Airlines pilots was wreaking havoc with business and pleasure flyers alike. Those reports were most often followed by warnings that the U.S. aviation industry--currently being pushed to its operational limits--could only get worse from here...
...thought that "Father Knows Best" was a documentary - that its ethos of domestic civility was the overwhelming norm. But I was also exposed to, and invigorated by, lots of what would now be called "transgressive art" - popular works that exceeded or demolished the official standards of probity. I attended horror movies, read vivid comic books, gorged on a diet of rock 'n roll. (And what was the most extreme TV genre of the decade? Wrestling.) Somehow I survived; miraculously, so did my parents, nice conservative Catholics who monitored but chose not to restrict a boy's outlaw tastes...
...There were a few differences between then and now. One was that the culture of vulgarity was still a minority one. Another difference was that the content of '50s anti-art, however loud or lurid, was harmless. (OK, except for comics like EC's "Vault of Horror," with its ripely illustrated cautionary tales of deceit and dismemberment.) And a third was, well, me: a kid who was as naive as he was curious. When Little Richard wailed, "I saw Uncle John with bald-head Sally/ He saw Aunt Mary comin' and he ducked back in the alley...
...horror for those who like to make fun of new dumb sports is that the I.O.C. has eliminated the exhibition-sport category and is planning to cut, not add, new events. That means artistic roller skating probably won't make the cut. Artistic skating is a lot like figure skating, but it's done on '70s-style quad roller skates and to even worse music. How can that not be a sport at an Olympics in which Olivia Newton-John is performing at the opening ceremonies? There is no justice when Mr. Samaranch is in charge...