Indecent Exposure

Kids are learning all too much, all too fast, as charges of sex and lies beam into every home

So you think we've got trouble now? This is nothing. Give it 20 years, maybe 30, when today's children are running things, and then we'll know trouble.

If there was a shred of innocence left in their warped little hearts and minds--and there is no reason to suspect there was--we have probably driven it out of them over the past two weeks with dispatches that sound as if they were pulled off the walls of public rest rooms.

Kids still young enough to carry lunch pails bearing cartoon characters have seen and heard the lurid stuff of Zippergate everywhere. We have...

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