Of morality and public life
The starlet, the cardinal, the baseball slugger and the mayor make an unlikely quartet, except possibly in a summer when scandals have rocked everything from entertainment and religion to sports and politics and produced a virtual morality play on a public stage. Tony Castro in the Daily News.
Lindsay Lohan's moment in the spotlight may have been the most poignant. On the night she was arrested for driving drunk and with a suspended license and carrying cocaine, the 21-year-old actress was quoted by companions in the SUV as boasting:
"I can't get in trouble. I'm a celebrity."
Shades of gray
America's headed down the tubes and Julianne Spillman believes she has found proof in the U.S. flag. Brent Hopkins in the Daily News.
The retired Glendale resident, who used to work on a Ford assembly line, now buzzes around on a scooter that proudly sports the Stars and Stripes on the front basket.
But it attracts notice from the wrong kind of people - moral reprobates.
"You know what happens to me? People steal my American flag," she growled. "This is the sixth flag I've had to buy. We've lost our way."