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Open-Air Nuthouse I've said before that our poor country sometimes resembles an open-air insane asylum. Alas, here are two more pieces of evidence to support that assertion: 1. New York City has decided to fund a high school strictly for homosexuals. 2. The Pentagon planned to set up a "futures market" in which investors could speculate on such things as terrorist acts, assassinations and the overthrow of governments. As Jack Paar used to say, "I kid you not." Fortunately, enough people in Congress were outraged by this latest wacky idea from the Pentagon that the fearless bureaucrats have backed off....

MTV show to feature Dallas gay school Struggling Walt Whitman hopes film brings students, funds04/17/2003 By KENT FISCHER / The Dallas Morning News In the six years since its founding, the Walt Whitman Community School has struggled with low enrollment, strapped budgets and a perplexing problem. How, school organizers wonder, do you expand a private school for gay and lesbian teens when the students you serve are, essentially, in hiding? One possible answer: Get yourself on MTV. Whitman, one of the country's few schools established specifically to educate gay and lesbian teens, will get a national megaphone Thursday night when...