Opinion: In today’s pages: Goodbye Getty goddess, hello new Joel Stein
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Columnist Rosa Brooks wonders where lies the line between hero appreciation and fascistic hero worship:
Before you run me out of town on a rail, let me be clear: I respect the service and sacrifice of the troops. It takes guts to volunteer for the military. Injured service members deserve top-quality care, and the families of those killed deserve our deepest compassion. Soldiers, firefighters, police and many others accept risk and privation to serve the public, and we should be grateful. But it’s a big mistake to mix up the idea of service -- or the idea of sacrifice and suffering -- with the idea of heroism.
Columnist Joel Stein has met his match -- a writer and editor who penned a piece on circumcision and won the Be Joel Stein contest. The University of Michigan’s Gavin Clarkson explains how a legal loophole lets non-Indians on reservations evade justice.
The editorial board tells Congress to ‘hurry up and wait’ on fixing FISA, and heaves a sigh of relief that the Getty agreed to give antiquities back to Italy, closing a scandalous chapter of the Trust’s history. The board also explores Alaska’s addiction to oil.
Letter writers talk healthcare, and employer plans to make workers shape up or pay up. Culver City’s Garrett Soden cautions, ‘Sure, go after the fatties. But remember: You’re next.’