Last week, in Little Rock, Arkansas, Federal Judge Susan Webber Wright dismissed Paula Jones' sexual harassment case against Bill Clinton--on summary judgment.

Clinton's supporters and the White House spin meisters are all over the media saying that the President has been "vindicated." Well, not exactly. "Vindication" as used in this context would be exoneration, that is, "cleared from accusation or blame."

To grant summary judgment to the defendant means that the Court had to assume that all the accusations made by Jones were TRUE, and then rule that they did not constitute sexual harassment. Thus, the Court ruled that a man putting his hand up a woman's skirt, feeling her crotch, and then exposing himself, asking her to "Kiss it," does not constitute sexual harassment.

Would all those husbands, fathers, and boyfriends in Internet land care to accept this definition, if it were to happen to a woman close to them?

I wonder how Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill feel about this. You might recall that the worst accusation made by Hill was that Thomas told her a dirty joke. For that, she became the international poster child of sexual harassment. Once again, the public is being played for suckers, but as my youngest son keeps telling me, the country has the president and the government that it deserves. Maybe so.

On March 24th, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Mitchell Johnson (13) and Andrew Golden (11) murdered four of their classmates and a teacher at Westside Elementary School. In some ways, this was a bellwether event. Sure enough, kids have gotten killed at school before, but it hardly ever happened to white kids--especially non-urban white kids.

Predictably, the pundits appeared on the small screen and blamed all the usual suspects: the "gun culture," TV violence, and video games. At least we didn't hear that the shooters were exercising their freedom of choice, or that the victims died with dignity.

Just as predictably, the pundits missed the point entirely. For starters, what about the idea of disposable kids? If we don't abort them, we put them in day care. No one advances the idea of "quality time" anymore, but the damage has been done. Children are a big inconvenience.

Teaching family values takes time and is difficult, so far easier to be tolerant and non-judgmental, right? If the kid is crying out for attention, what better way to deal with it than a drug?

Much was made of the so-called religious convictions of the shooters' families. Clearly something didn't work. One hour on Sunday doesn't seem to cut it. But anything more would be inconvenient.

Allowing for the remote possibility that the two killers were simply murderous psychopaths from the git go, can anyone actually believe that a parent couldn't have seen something coming? Granted, that would have taken time, and would have been inconvenient.The baby boomers became the baby killers and spawned the murderers of innocent classmates. This nation could face no more bitter penance as Lent comes to an end.