These are staff editorials, mind you, not random letters to the editor. I have a personal prohibition against giving the Journal money, so I’ve just cut and pasted the free abstracts from the archives.
This one’s just about the strangest thing I’ve ever seen:
Big Brother at the orgy
Date: Apr 30, 2005
Section: EditorialOne thing the students may not fully consider is how such experiences might come back to bite them. Baby-Boom parents can be thankful that they misbehaved in the days before everyone had access to computer databases and tiny cameras. One click of the cell-phone camera at a student orgy, and a very compromising picture may end up on thousands of desktops. And this “information” lives forever.
This one is actually dead-on, and waxes on for a while about Waterloo Sunset in particular:
God save the Kinks
Date: Jan 9, 2004
Section: EditorialThe beauty of the Kinks and the reason for their obscurity was the way they deliberately sabotaged their own popularity. At the height of LSD, acid rock and Flower Power, [Ray Davies] eschewed the entire trend and began writing a series of songs about the glories of English traditions: tea and toasted buttered currant buns, village greens, roast beef, dew-soaked leaves and autumn afternoons. This was hardly the stuff to grab Haight-Ashbury…
Damn. I wish I could find that editorial-as-haiku they did a couple years back. And, needless to say, their craziest editorials of all were their endorsements of G.W.Bush in 2000 and in 2004.