Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Mr. Gregg Kilday interviews Mr. Tom Hayden's dummy: .. .Jane Fonda proves to be an unconventional politician: Four weeks ago, during the course of an...
...Nobody knows...
...I hope it doesn't win...
...It commands a strong popular following...
...Some might wonder about the pungent, acrid odor produced by the urine...
...She was hysterical...
...George, Utah, last week at one in the morning...
...Healthy, wholesome foods and a large quantity of water work the most effectively to produce beneficial acids in the urine...
...March 27, 1979] The Great Books Series A catalogue of the preeminent theological desiderata that addle the brain of that modern saint and martyr, Bishop Paul Moore, Jr.: Few realize the heartbreak and tragedy undergone by homosexual persons because of the misunderstanding, fear, and anger many people have for them...
...It is easy, then, for most of us to dismiss "them" as a category of undesirables, instead of acknowledging that they include our brothers, sisters, parents, children, indeed, ourselves...
...Thus the same water would serve a double purpose, eliminating the extreme wastefulness of the present system...
...In effect, the business sector has created, inside the private sector, the classical division between "private" and "public" spheres on which democratic liberal society was believed to depend...
...This newly devised plumbing system is our only plausible solution to the water shortage problem...
...But why not...
...Bruce Bartlett, libertarian and poet: One of the principal differences between libertarians and conservatives has always been their contrary attitude toward businessmen...
...The main feature of a more sensible design would be that one toilet per house would be connected to the main sewer line...
...This could eventually open up an entire market for urine-based soaps and colognes...
...Ballantyne is a full-time student at UCLA Law School...
...Philip Green reports villainies heretofore adjudged unthinkable, but villainies that take place all the time in this age of galloping capitalism and free sex...
...They only follow the example of the stonewalling auto industry, which for years has done its best to send the nation down a drain greased with petroleum, in the name of no cause more exigent than their "right" to despoil society without having to put up with any "interference" from it...
...He now lives in Washington: Unfortunately, Mr...
...Herb Caen, part-time nuclear physicist and logician: Asked what he thought about the atom bomb, the late Sam Goldwyn cracked, "It's dynamite...
...I'm scared to see it...
...Harper & Row, 1979] The New York Times Book Review In a review of William Shawcross's Sideshow: Nixon, Kissinger and the Destruction of Cambodia, Pol Pot and his Good Government associates get an understanding ear from Dr...
...After all, neo-conservatism explicitly espouses patterns of a privileged style of life and resources distribution that deny most people even the little they feel themselves holding on to so tenuously nowadays...
...how it has not only distorted our view of women on the deepest level, but has also distorted our view of God...
...If all the Vietnamese, both North and South, are the way they are portrayed in that movie, how come they won...
...My friends have seen it and told me about it, though, and I just think it's amazing that good people can see the movie and not even consider its racism...
...Tom Hayden's dummy: .. .Jane Fonda proves to be an unconventional politician: Four weeks ago, during the course of an interview, I asked Fonda, who is represented in this year's Academy Awards competition by the Vietnam homefront drama, "Coming Home," what her opinion is of that movie's closest competitor, the Vietnam combat drama, "The Deer Hunter...
...All the countries have walked out of the festival...
...Water-urine showers are healthier and less frequently necessary than normal bathing...
...She said, 'I've just seen 'The Deer Hunter.' What are people doing...
...There will no longer be a need for costly lotions and creams...
...The number is important...
...It is also true that few realize the devastating effect of the cosmic male chauvinism in the Judeo-Christian tradition...
...How many...
...Without them, perhaps some will feel less compelled to shower so frequently...
...You don't have to worry about films like 'The Green Berets,' because they're not good and nobody takes them too seriously...
...Green is a political scientist...
...she says she spends 46 hours a week in class or studying and she will not consider any job that interferes in any way with her school work...
...Spring is here, and the death warrants have been signed for thousands living, thousands unborn...
...Diluted with water this urea gently softens the skin tissues...
...But to look backward is not ultimately to look in the direction in which most of the complaints that lead people to neo-conservatist dogma will be satisfied...
...Take A Bishop Like Me Paul Moore, Jr...
...What are they doing there?' I said, 'All we're doing is hoping that not too many people go to see the movie.' I don't know what else to do...
...She also has three children who presumably take some of her time, and she has refused to take a full-time job since 1968 because no one came forward to pay her minimum salary demand, $l,000-a-month...
...a Representative from Oklahoma, presumably a servant of the public good, tells delegates to the Conservative Political Action Commission that he has driven to the Washington meeting alone, down the carpool lanes, and has also "ignored the 55-mile-an-hour limit as I always do" -to this virulently mean-spirited revelation of a determination to spread visible and expensive pollution to the farthest horizon possible in pursuit of mere personal convenience, the delegates, according to The New York Times, responded with "applause...
...Few talk openly with gay persons about their sexuality...
...Conservatives glorify and ally themselves with business, while libertarians are essentially neutral-siding with business when it is right, but pulling no punches when it is wrong...
...This toilet would be used for bodily disposal other than urination...
...April 22, 1979] The San Francisco Chronicle A cool estimate of the famed Harris-burg Calamity from Mr...
...The other toilet's pipes would be redirected to a large underground tank in the backyard...
...But if a movie is brilliantly done and brilliantly acted and brilliantly photographed, then it has an impact on good people...
...April 14, 1979] The New York Times The Queen's English, placed on a butcher block by a periphrastic maniac and transformed into sausage fit for an idiot: Neo-conservatism, looking back to a time of once-was security for people's economic and personal prerogatives, does resonate widely...
...After two weeks of daily exposure, one will grow accustomed to the new scent, just as one adapts to the odd odor and smell of mineral water...
...April 8, 1979] The New Republic A visionary plan for preventing America's impending nationwide water shortage, from the capacious brain of Miss Mary Louise Weber, environmental polemicist: Obviously, we must use the remaining water supply to its fullest extent, avoiding all possible wastage...
...April 2, 1979] The Libertarian Review An impressive treatise on right and wrong, slammed down on us by Mr...
...The benefits of this newly devised method are several...
...These toilets could be used only for urination...
...These are Renaissance times: On Feb...
...March 1979]ls, cannot attack business...
...This will certainly motivate families to return to well-balanced diets...
...March 1979...
...March 31, 1979] The Atlanta Constitution An auspicious report from what Dr...
...The accumulated mixture of water and urine (approximately 90 percent and 10 percent respectively) would be filtered through a layer of organic substance and then piped back through the house into the showers...
...Dudman visited Cambodia in December, contracted no diseases, and doubtless saw no flies...
...Michael Harrington once called "The Other America...
...Indirectly, the new type of bathing will improve the rapidly deteriorating American diet...
...I haven't seen it," Fonda answered...
...We have to do it now or we're doomed to repeat it...
...In doing so, we must continue to meet the demand of the American public...
...I don't know what 'Apocalypse Now' is going to say...
...He was making a Goldwynism, but in Harrisburg, the jokes are over...
...These two prerequisites can be met by remodeling the plumbing systems of our homes...
...I got a call from Julie Christie (who was) at (the Berlin Film) Festival...
...But they can be assured that the vast amount of water used to dilute the original substance mellows that sharp smell...
...Richard Dudman, professor of moral philosophy for the St...
...Various kinds of food and drink can produce substantial differences in an individual's urine...
...28, the California Supreme Court ruled 6-to-l that Enid Ballantyne was eligible for state unemployment benefits...
...April 16, 1979] The Nation Dr...
...It is possible that many will acquire a liking for the scent...
...The conservatives, no matter how much they may realize that businessmen are subverting their goals, cannot attack business...
...I got awakened at St...
...The result is that the social problems and economic woes that the public experience look like the products of ineffectiveness of the government that serves them, not the products of the effectiveness of the government that does not serve them...
...Scientists have found that the urea present in the urine works as a natural skin - moisturizer...
...In so doing, it works most effectively as its own advocate by disabling and discrediting those components and activities of the public sector that serve other interests...
...Shawcross accepts uncritically the testimony of Cambodian refugees about life inside the country in more recent times, under the Pol Pot regime...
...Louis Post-Dispatch...
...These commonly used products only clog the pores and make one feel greasy and dirty...
...it helps one judge whether the Khmer Rouge revolution is uniquely evil or whether its violence is comparable to the aftermath of other wars and revolutions the world has known Though Pol Pot's harsh rule and austere economic system drove hundreds of thousands of city dwellers out of the country as refugees, two weeks of recent eyewitness observation inside Cambodia indicated that food, clothing and shelter were adequate under that strange regime and that working conditions, while hard, seemed by no means intolerable...
...We have to define the war culturally...
...Though acknowledging that information about conditions there has been difficult to obtain and often impossible to verify, he repeats atrocity stories that may or may not be true and passes along the estimate, based on interviews with only 1,000 refugees, that about one-fourth of the population has died of starvation, disease and execution...
Vol. 12 • June 1979 • No. 6
