Jackass Rape Survey

Perhaps it is a sign of depraved callousness to laugh at

    something as somber as the Rhode Island Rape Crisis Center's   latest


    HORRIFYING   survey of kids- in grades six to nine-  most of whom are

    are at least a few years away from their first date or even their first

    wet dream .  With such  morally decadent young males  out there , the

    Center will  be a busy institution for years to come.


          I am not surprised that militant feminist ideology  is guiding

    a  JACKASS  survey.

           I  expect  that the vast majority of those naughty boys will


    never even " rape " their future wives.  No, not even after  a $50 dinner!

        Were  BOTH sexes surveyed by Peg Langhammer's  staff  investigators ?

      In this matter of kissing , " consent " is - with most NORMAL females-

    signaled by subtle body language. I recommend that Peg  view the last

    ten minutes  of the Academy Award winning foreign  movie  " Cinema  Paradiso ".


         I  loath rapists but long live PASSION !  Militant feminism is now

    as silly as it is sexless.

How to sweeten sour criticism

I wrote recently to your newspaper responding to reader displeasure


    with  Channing Gray's often  " sour " criticism. It occurred to me that


    if the honest  critic has nothing very positive to say about the entertainment,


    he  could look around the audience for delighted faces.  Ask them for their


    opinion of the show. Even if that person is the star's mother,  her opinion


    will sweeten the sourness of the review.


           I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show just once and I was " dragged "


    there to see it. I would have given it a sour review. But people who have


    never seen the cult sexual farce should hear from people who have seen it


    a thousand times.


          " Gone with the Wind " legend Clark Gable has given me an an enduring


    reminder of the weight of my own opinions :  " Frankly my dear I don't


    give a damn !  "

Globe typo - " bald in pursuit " ?

           I am proud of our president's speeches in China. But I read on

    the front page of today's Boston Globe  that Clinton's recent speech

    was " BALD in its  pursuit of closer ties with Beijing...."

         His speech is, I suspect, no more BALD than he himself- who , like

    his idol JFK , has an enviable head of thick if graying hair.

        A more alarming typo might read: "  was BOLD in its pursuit of CLOSET

    ties with Beijing..."

          I have plenty of red ties in my closet !

Carl's Young's bureaucratese

I am wise enough not to write about things I hardly understand.

    But I just read " Blue Cross's mental health policy " by Carl Young.

    At first I thought I was reading a column by Carol Young . I believe

    this woman is on the editorial staff. "  Something very wrong here", I

    reflected. " No Projo columnist writes like THAT - the stuffy, atrocious

    deceptive BUREAUCRATIC style! " Then I looked more carefully at the name

    - " Carl ". I don't know the man. I know people often must play their

    assigned roles- even if it is obtuse bureaucrat. But I wonder if such a

    man could ever be FUN to talk to.

       The " responsible " bureaucrat in our society -almost without exception

    - loses the ability and even the will to utter  SIMPLE, TRUTHFUL

    sentences about their institution. Ultimately   he or she must lose

    the ability to to talk humanly about ANYTHING !


        Orwell was right about the obfuscation of the English language : it

    often hides petty, nasty motives !