Honk If You Ve Had It With Honking
The most useful explanation goes beyond Gingrich’s ideology and background to an American public still sorting out ambivalent feelings toward conflict and commonality in the 1990s. In that sense, the new speaker and the O.J. Simpson trial (you didn’t really think you could read this far without a reference to it, did you?) are of a piece-blood sports that compel and repel at the same time. We listen for the clang, and wince at it....