Eccentric Flower:199808/the day the nineties ended
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two august ninety eight noon the day the nineties ended I agree with James Lileks: someday people will look back upon the day that Monica Lewinsky's stained dress was entered into evidence and say, "That's the day the nineties actually ended." The coda for a deeply weird decade, one which changed all the rules about the law, about politics, and about the media. Unfortunately it changed them without leaving instructions, and it'll take us another couple of decades or so to figure out what happened. We humans are slow. The Boston Herald, a newspaper I don't read because of its slant (older, blue-collar Bostonians who still look at college students and think "damn hippies"), had Billy Corgan in a front-page photograph yesterday. If you don't know who that is, ask the nearest person under twenty-five. This is obviously a sign of the apocalypse. More importantly, it was one of the two stimuli for the newest Circular Cruise, which is on liberalism and Al Capp. It's not available yet at the time I write this, but it should be up by the end of the day, so all you Monday morning folks will have an abundance of riches. © columbine |
