Opinion: Stomped in Watts, Privacy’s Overrated, and Jack O’Connell for That Position That Shouldn’t Exist

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Our offerings in today’s Opinion Section:

Karl Fleming: Looking Back at Being Stomped in Watts
Forty years after being beaten senseless by an angry black mob, a white reporter recalls the civil rights struggle between nonviolence and rage.

Max Boot: Forget Privacy, We Need to Spy More
Electronic surveillance is a key weapon in the war on terror. Don’t handcuff the president and the NSA.

Erin Aubry Kaplan: Good Riddance, Exit Exam
Underdog high-schoolers won the battle against the test, but the fight for racial justice has just begun.

Pico Iyer: How Can a Botox Nation Boo Barry Bonds?
It’s not the baseball player who needs an asterisk, it’s the rest of us.

Editorials

No Drilling Off Our Coast
The House should reject needless calls to lift the ban on offshore gas drilling.

For Public Instruction Chief
The position shouldn’t exist, but incumbent Jack O’Connell should be re-elected.

The EBay Effect
Supreme Court ruling on auction pioneer could usher in long-overdue patent reform.