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Presents the author's thoughts on the ongoing search for the plane that crashed off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts in July, 1999, killing John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren Bessette. Comparisons to the search for Charles Lindbergh's infant in 1932; The tragedy that the Kennedy family has endured over the years.

Makes predictions regarding the expected run by Hillary Clinton for the United States Senate seat from New York State. The continuing saga of the Clintons; Hillary's ambition and destiny; How she performs in polls when compared with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; The carpetbagger issue in her campaign; How the New York press will handle Clinton; Role of gender in the election; Her celebrity as a factor; What Hillary Clinton represents.

Offers opinions on United States government mistakes as of June 7, 1999. Brief details of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia; Suggestion that the bombing was an act of stupidity; History of other acts of stupidity; Outlook.

Compares keeping bees with raising adolescents in the United States. The author's colony of Italian bees in his apple orchard; How bees and teenagers view work; Nature of bee and human societies; The teenage years being a period of overindulgence and neglect; Idea that adolescence and high schools should be abolished; The prolonged adolescence of baby boomers; President Bill Clinton being a boy.

Presents the author's thoughts on the conviction and sentencing of John William King for the murder of James Byrd. What kind of person it would take to forgive King's actions; Questions regarding the death penalty and how it may civilize society; Reaction of people outside the courthouse to the verdict and sentencing.

Comments on the acquittal of United States President Bill Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction-of-justice for which he was impeached. The author's anger and inability to forgive; The author's view that Bill Clinton is self-centered and a liar.

States that in order to increase its falling popularity, American football needs to find a richer intellectual tradition. How football and baseball are viewed by intellectuals; Author Ted Morgan's view that football is a symbolic re-enactment of America's westward conquest of territory; Differences between football and baseball; The author's attempt to create an intellectual tradition for football.

Discusses how the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado has raised the issue of gun control. Editorials worldwide about the American gun culture; Anti-gun forces, which took energy from the public outrage over the shootings in Colorado; Speculation that the gun industry may face lawsuits as the tobacco industry has; Suggestions for Charlton Heston, president of the National Rifle Association (NRA); Why the author sympathizes with the gun culture and the anti-gun culture.

Ponders on the role of presidents in the history of the United States. Assassination of the late United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas; Resignation of Richard Nixon due to the Watergate scandal; Involvement of Bill Clinton in a sex scandal with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; How the presidents is remembered in history; Speculations on the public perception of Clinton.

The article comments on a speech delivered by W. F. Buckley Jr. at Kent State University in Ohio on April 1, 1998. Buckley discusses the crisis facing U.S. President Bill Clinton in line with a sex scandal involving Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky. His first proposition suggests that Clinton's failure to settle the Paula Jones issue was an early warning signal of his inefficient leadership. It is a defective presidential leadership because the mess never should have happened, or else it is Clinton's destiny.

Comments on euthanasia and envisions a society where it is practiced in the name of efficiency and convenience. The author's belief that the law should never sanction euthanasia; Thoughts on the American character that has sought to impose rational control on all aspects of life; Mention of Jack Kevorkian; Thoughts on morally questionable precedents that legalization of euthanasia would set; The libertarian thought that a person has a right to die when they choose.

Compares the scandal involving United States President Bill Clinton and genocide in Rwanda. Disproportion between the subjects; Matter of perspective; Wealth of the US; Book on genocide in Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch; Comparison involving true evil against pathetic misbehavior; How Clinton avoids undesirable situations; Clinton's recent visit to Rwanda; Coming winter in Kosovo; Clinton scandal being a circus; Clinton's distractions.

Highlights George Corley Wallace, 1919-1998. His career in the politics of Alabama; His transformation; Mention of his inaugural speech, mostly written by Klansman, Asa Carter; Why it is suggested that he was one of the great political arsonists.

Examines the uncharted territory of the impeachment considerations regarding United States President Bill Clinton. Importance of US public opinion; Determining Clinton's fate; The politics of impeachment; Extent of the devastation; Possible backfire against Kenneth Starr's report; Public boredom with the scandal; Clinton's fault; Reality that we live in a bad world.

Explores different ways by which President Bill Clinton can confess that he had a sexual relationship with Monica Lewisky and still win the public's sympathy. Making an Oprah-type give-and-take confessional on television; Emphasis on errancy, repentance and redemption; Risk and rewards of playing the race and religion card; Strategies for taking the focus away from potentially incriminating evidence.

Presents the author's thoughts on how human technology is moving forward with the advent of cloning animals. Thoughts on the space program and astronaut Alan Shepard; Reaction to seeing a launch in 1972.

Examines the vindication of prosecutor Steven Pagones in the hoax related to Tawana Brawley. The kingdom of lies between the sacred and the mundane; Brawley's false rape accusations against white law officers in Wappingers Falls, New York; The cultural appeal of Brawley's lies; Brawley's lawyers found guilty of defamation against Pagones; An era of media mythification; Racial archetypes in the United States.

Presents humorous observations on what proper dinner party conversations should be. List of topics that shouldn't be discussed, like Monica Lewinsky, and the sexual behavior of United States President Bill Clinton; Mention of topics that are acceptable for conversation; Outline of the guest's duties.

Muses on the author's habit of talking to himself. Subject matter of the soliloquy; The universality of talking to oneself; Mention of Richard Nixon; Ideas on what to do if caught talking to oneself.

Focuses on romantic love. Reference to author Octavio Paz and his book, `The Labyrinth of Solitude,' which contained a treatise on the dynamics of passionate love; The transformation of scandal and trash into a higher class; Mention of Mary Letourneau and her affair with an underaged boy.

Comments on the shooting of school children by two classmates in Jonesboro, Arkansas in the spring of 1998. The culture of fantasy in television and motion pictures; The playing of violent games; The innocence of children being an adult myth; The moral price for upsetting the balance between fantasy and actuality.

Argues that United States President Bill Clinton is the world-historical genius of the present tense. The confused instability associated with the present tense; The belief that the present tense is a congenial medium for the president; The contention that all great political illusionists are masters of the present tense.

Discusses the case of a bride left at the altar. Humorous anecdotes; Interest of the public; Reasons men hate weddings; The reaction of men to the story.

Reflects on the character of President Bill Clinton in the wake of the sexual misbehavior allegations against him. Comparison of Clinton with presidents known to have extra-marital affairs; Americans' moral perceptions on the issue.

Reflects on people's attitude toward crime in the United States. Reactions on individual cases of crime; Punishment of crime; Two moral poles in which the mind perceives crime.

Comments on the Jewish initiative to open the Swiss banks' World War II books in order to recover Jewish money deposited there. Range of reactions to the issue; Variations in the theme of remembering and forgetting in the case of the Swiss and the Holocaust; Symmetrical deal to allow the Swiss to remember their role in the war; Emergent truth in the Swiss case.

Focuses on technological progress. Social aspects; Computer and the Internet computer network; Mixed record of technology.

Comments on the Kennedy family. Celebrity news status enjoyed by John F. Kennedy Jr.'s marriage; Second-generation sibling stars of the family.

Comments on the impact of the sex scandal involving Dick Morris, chief political strategist of President Bill Clinton, on American politics. Reflection of crisis in the American cultural-political conscience; Principle of nonaccountability; Ideological promiscuity.

Opinion. Comments on the significance of the alleged discovery of existence of life on Mars. Speculations on the nature of life on Mars; Christian implications of the discovery; Effect of the discovery to human sense of self-importance.

Presents the author's story of his house hunting with his wife. The stories that were told about the houses that they looked at; The distinctive aura of a houses; The haunting of the house that the two settled on.

Opinion. Explores the question of how well President Bill Clinton will handle his second term and whether or not he will have greater success than most past presidents. The impact of the new millennium; New cooperation for the 21st century.

Discusses the bombing incident which occurred during the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. Reference to other bombings in the United States in the 1990s; Comment from President Bill Clinton on the bombing; Information on the media coverage of the incident.

Presents information on children who have famous and dysfunctional parents and how they cope. Identification of some of these children and their parents; Problems that children of famous parents often encounter; Reference to several parents who have fared well with their offsprings.

Opinion. Discusses the death of seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff who died in the Wyoming plane crash of 1996. Information on possible cause of the plane crash; Fascination of flight by United States public; Reason for showing anger at persons involved in the flight; Why Dubroff parents should not have let her fly the plane.

Opinion. Comments on the Dunblane Primary School Massacre in Dunblane, Scotland, in March 1996. Search for a moral and intellectual explanation for the incident; Background information on Thomas Hamilton, the man responsible for the incident; Hamilton's suicide.

Provides information on the effects a major blizzards could have on a country.

Laments the racial divide in the United States. Comment on the speech of Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam who organized the Million Man March; Comparison with the `I Have a Dream' speech of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.; Contents of the book `One by One from the Inside Out,' by Boston University economist Glenn Loury.

Focuses on the advantages of sexual abstinence. Basketball as birth control; Urging abstinence as a policy to reduce teenage pregnancy; Mentality of abstinence.

Focuses on the book `Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery,' by Norman Mailer. Intent of the book; Interview of Lee Harvey Oswalds' friends and co-workers in Moscow, Russia.

Focuses on the identity of the African American. Author's debate with an African American friend regarding the need to increase black self-respect and pride; Conflict between the American and Negro identities of the African American; Author's friend's views regarding the proposed construction of the American Museum of Slavery and Freedom in Washington, D.C.

Speculates on the growth in the travel industry. Popularity of competitive marketing programs; Reasons why people will travel; Popular places.

Criticizes doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. Church's contraception and ordination of women; Author's ambivalence toward the church during adolescence; Reveling in the rituals; Dislike for the doctrines.