(FORTUNE Magazine) – Is it really possible that we are coming to the end of the U.S. military's endlessly ramifying investigations of the infamous 1991 Tailhook Convention at the Las Vegas Hilton and still have not identified three of the more fascinating ''victims'' of the debauchery, as they were characterized in last April's Pentagon report, or the perpetrators in their cases, the former being Navy and Marine officers who were subjected to pinching and groping, and the latter being the damsels who done them wrong, and where are the investigative reporters of America when the public really needs to know the details? -- With the expanding U.S. commitment in Haiti, is it now considered impolite to recall the socialist rhetoric and ''liberation theology'' arguments that terrified Haitian businessmen when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide invoked them during his successful 1990 campaign, and ruder still to dwell on his speeches justifying ''necklacing'' for some of his political opponents? -- Given that Congress arranged in October for yet another extension (the fourth) of the ''emergency'' unemployment-benefit program, now entering its third year of payments for jobless workers, including those in areas with labor shortages -- the extension covers even states with unemployment rates below 5% -- is it really such a smart idea for hard-nosed conservatives like Texas Republican Bill Archer to start wondering aloud if the deal is beginning to look like ''simply another federal welfare program,'' since this is guaranteed to result in certain of his colleagues thinking, hey, what's wrong with that? -- Does anybody care to challenge a fellow's award of the moral-equivalency sweepstakes championship to Barbara Kantrowitz of Newsweek, who concluded her cover story on Sixties radical Katherine Ann Power by professing that she (Barbara) just couldn't figure out whom to feel more sympathy for: the nine children of the Boston policeman gunned down in that botched 1970 bank robbery where Katherine Ann was driving the getaway car -- or Ms. Power herself, emetically identified as ''the young woman who lost her way in the tumult of the Sixties''? -- Why do we have this feeling that Continental Insurance will abandon its Minuteman logo, and is our premonition based entirely on the Adweek report showing that the Revolutionary War figure was the ''least recognized'' symbol in a 48-corporation survey, or are we also being influenced by news stories indicating that the University of Massachusetts may deep-six its own Minuteman symbol, said by assorted student grievers to be (in the words of the AP) promoting ''racism, sexism, and violence''?