Opinion: In today’s pages: First ladies and postmodern Mexicans
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Columnist Joel Stein wishes everyone a Happy Slut Day:
People vastly prefer Halloween parties because New Year’s Eve involves dressing up like an adult, whereas Halloween involves dressing up like a slut.... There’s no chance that harrumphing will return Halloween to the innocent and carefree days of threatening neighbors who don’t give you candy and vandalizing trees with toilet paper. So we need to invent a separate holiday when adults can get drunk and finally wear that pair of boots that seemed OK in the store but it turns out go up a little higher than you thought. That’s why, after much research and consultation, I have founded our nation’s newest holiday: Slut Day.
Contributing editor Gustavo Arellano introduces America to the postmodern Mexican, USC’s Mark Sanchez. UCLA’s Michael L. Ross deems Myanmar the world’s newest petro bully.
The editorial board charts a new course for Cuba policy and praises Maria Shriver for making relevant her retro First Lady role. The board also thinks Argentina’s leading presidential contender --a Peronist former First Lady -- will be good for the U.S.
Readers continue to respond to the fires. Whittier’s John L. Peel says, ‘When these fires are out and the crews have made their way home, I hope that the respect continues -- that when we see the red lights and hear the sirens, we can set our own hurry aside, move over and stop so that fire, rescue and law enforcement can do their jobs.’