Bill Clinton was right: we all lie about sex. But not in the way he meant it. When people agree always to say something they all know to be untrue, they destroy more than one solitary truth: they form a destructive habit.  Soon they agree on another lie, and then another and another, until, well, the whole damn country goes insane. Jesse Jackson said that we couldn't say "black" anymore.  All at once, university presidents, network anchors, United States congressmen and senators, corporate executives, even Republican politicians, said "African-American."  I think the last people to stop saying "black" were the black people themselves, who had not been consulted. I don't know who the Jesse Jackson it was that stopped us from saying that men and women are equal and made us say that they are alike, but alike it is.  So we forgot about equality and pretended not to notice the differences, and, lo, now we can't figure...(Read Full Article)