In the Newspaper

I came across these hwadlines reading the dead tree version of The Olympian today:

Suspicious speaker spurs evacuation. It started out as a suspicious unattended package that turned into stereo speakers. But my original thought could easily describe America these days. We will prevent suspicious speakers from polluting tender minds by evacuating all within hearing range of said suspicious speakers.

N.C. employee retires, refuses to lower flags for Helms. The linked story is much more colorful than the three inch squib in the dead tree version but both identify Jesse Helms as a man of "hate and prejudice". Who says the media never get anything right?