I Won't Write About Heaven's Gate and the Electric Chair
A columnist derides Heaven's Gate and extremist sects while skewering Florida's use of the electric chair. He recalls cruel methods of execution, questions humane punishment, and praises the idea of the guillotine as a brutal irony. Donald Kaut's syndicated column runs in the Herald-Journal Tuesdays and Fridays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heaven's Gate Cult
Antarctic
Heaven's Gate Loonies
Applewhite
Koresh
Manson
Heaven's Gate
Florda
Mariel
Florida
Donald Kaut
The
Herald-Journal
Mike Royko
Kentucky
Junior
Mommy
Daddy
Founding Fathers face budget cuts threaten historic papers
Royko warns that budget cuts imperil key Founding Fathers projects and their voluminous papers. He cites NEH and arts endowments, private funding declines, and Clinton era shifts devaluing historic documentation. Prominent historians warn of reduced access to Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Bennett
Lynne Cheney
Clinton
Jefferson
Bennett
Cheney
National Endowment For the Humanities
NEH
National Endowment For the Arts
New York Times
National Archives
National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Founding Fathers
Joseph J. Ellis
Macon
United States
Washington
Franklin
Pork Barrels In Congress Highlight Wasteful Spending
Julianne Malveaux examines the Congressional Pig Book Summary from CAGW, detailing pork projects in 1997 appropriations. The piece cites non authorized, non competitive, non hearings driven, and unrequested funds totaling billions, including defense wide research and Hawaii programs, with commentary on political incentives and welfare reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
CAGW
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Defense Department
Hawaii
Navy
Daniel Inouye
D-Hawaii
Hawaii Small Business Development Center
Oceanic Institute
CACW
Mississippi
Thad Cochran
Julianne Malveaux
Herald-Journal
Cruel humor masks shock jocks' sparse talent
Elizabeth Schuett argues that crude radio shock jocks reveal a lack of talent and taste. She criticizes insensitively targeting disasters from floods to Heaven's Gate and notes the harm to victims and families, urging higher standards for humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heaven’s Gate
Rancho Santa Fe
Leaven’s Gate
Elizabeth Schuctt
Gibsonburg
Ohio
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Lawton Chiles
New Orleans
Donald Kaul
By Frank Rich
America
Adams
Madison
Richard Ekman
Mellon Foundation
State Department
William Slang
John Carlin
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Elizabeth Schuett
Arthur Murray
Peorle
Hadi
Syracuse Newspapers
Syracuse
Urban Associates
Onondaga County
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