Politics under our current campaign finance laws can be a treacherous endeavor, so we should be a little forgiving of the Gore campaign's recent interactions with the entertainment industry. On the one hand, Hollywood executives are purveyors of what Joe Lieberman has called a "culture of carnage," brazenly deceiving the general public and corrupting the innocent minds of children for profit. On the other hand, they just gave the Democratic National Committee about $10 million of …showed first 75 words of 1203 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1203 total…males have a hard time controlling. I can't prove this hunch, but it certainly merits further study. And it makes more sense than the hysteria peddled by the Democratic running mate and the Republican running mate's wife. The question that needs to be answered right now is not what our popular culture has been doing wrong for the last decade or so--but what, in this strange and blessed time, it has actually been doing right.