When the Culture Is All Too Common By Quin Hillyer

Perhaps a quarter of the men look like they have just come from grilling brats at a tailgate party. About a fourth of the women, and even girls as young as 12 or 13, look like they are at the beach, or at a pajama party, or offering services on a Tijuana street corner.

But they are at the airport -- just about any American airport -- and collectively they are just one more sign of the coarsening, or maybe it's the cheapening, of modern culture.

Another example: At a family tourist spot just the other week, one couldn't help overhearing the loud conversation of several 13- or 14-year-old girls. "I don't care who he's married to: I'd have an affair with Bill Clinton any day."

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