Sunday, March 16, 2003

The article on rape at the Air Force Academy in Sunday's New York Times was fine, infuriating work -- read it and you'll realize that true justice in this situation, as in the Catholic Church's pedophile scandal, would demand nothing less that the building of a supermax prison in the lowest circle of hell for an awful lot of perpetrators and enablers, far more than will ever really be punished. I have one criticism of the Times article, however: Why the reluctance to explain "LCWB," the designation for the all-male Academy class of 1979 that brings such cheer to Academy misogynists? As explained here, "LCWB" stands for "last class with balls." Why couldn't the Times say that? The Times published the Starr Report, didn't it?

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