Going Legit

January, 1992

One day I found myself being the lone nut in an uncomprehending crowd, yelling. Quite an experience for someone settled into the role of mature journalist and part-time professor. It was at the University of California-Irvine a couple of years back, when Phyllis Schlafly, the self-appointed goddess of virtue, had just referred in a public debate to the problem of "illegitimate" children.Surprising myself as much as my friends, I was suddenly out of my seat in front of 5000 people deman...