Essay 4961

Dirty business in a MultiCultClassics Monologue…

• Adweek reported the latest happenings regarding Steven Biegel and Dentsu. While the judge denied Dentsu’s motion to dismiss, Biegel was given until January 17 to offer greater details to support his charges. This could be categorized as calling his buff.

• Senator Larry Craig continues to fight his guilty conviction stemming from the infamous toilet stall incident. Craig’s lawyer’s argued in a brief that the act wasn’t illegal because it did not involve multiple victims, and the law “requires that the conduct at issue have a tendency to alarm or anger ‘others.’ … Appellant’s alleged conduct in this case affected only a single individual—[the arresting officer] Sergeant Karsnia. It did not—and could not affect ‘others’ as the disorderly conduct statute requires, and therefore, does not satisfy that element of the statute.” Um, what about alarming, angering and affecting Craig’s wife and about 99 percent of the American public?