Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Dr. Helen Caldicott nabbed once again with her luminous mind in the gutter: The hideous weapons of mass genocide may be symptoms of several male emotions...
...all I know is that most of the animals that are eaten do not eat other animals...
...Humans do not...
...Few Americans have ever heard of these events...
...I can't explain why nature has that happen or arranges the food cycle in that way...
...to own Porsches, and to spend money as effortlessly as she drinks water...
...Frank Clancy, free-lance writer: It is Khadafy's very humanness that makes him so perplexing, and that makes our response to him, and to terrorism, so problematic: No matter what his transgressions, Khadafy is still a human being with human hopes and dreams...
...And I think there may also be locked in nature some sort of reward if you rise above the other predatory animals on earth...
...It's as simple as that...
...As O'Neill puts it, "The home, the family...
...Are they conservatives, liberals, radicals, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists or some of each...
...That's what the home is all about, that's what the family is all about...
...It rose slowly from the ground, surrounded by smoke and flames, and elongated into the air...
...so if you want a hint from nature whether we're supposed to head toward civilization or the jungle, my guess is that we're supposed to head toward civilization...
...He leaned down, grabbed me by the collar, pulled me up hard and said, `You eat dog food!' To which I responded, `Yes, I do, Mr...
...That you have heat...
...The generals take this model to House and Senate hearings to say: "But Senator, how do you feel when America has these small blue missiles and Russia has these great big red missiles...
...Boeing constructed a model of the different sizes of missiles, painting the American ones blue and the Soviet ones red...
...If you're wealthy, single, and my sister sounds like she would be a lot of fun, drop her a line...
...That you have some recreation...
...I know nature created the predatory animals, but there's a lot of evidence that we're not one of them...
...The American missiles are smaller than the Soviet missiles, a fact that is used to good advantage by the generals to persuade Congress of the need for more money...
...To acknowledge that is frightening because we must then acknowledge that Khadafy, and all terrorists, are to some extent like us...
...November 1986] Harvard Crimson Learning the hard way as related by Bruce C. Williams of the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church to fifty students of venerable Harvard: When six soldiers raped the four-year-old daughter of a peasant family he had befriended in Cuba and then dismembered the entire family, Williams said he realized the Marxist cause was not genuinely reformist...
...A search of the apartment, at 115 West 71st Street, also found a machete, feathers arranged near an altar, several dead chickens and one live chicken, the police said...
...Box K-88, Union-Tribune, San Diego, CA 92112...
...more so when armed with the ten warheads it will explode with the most almighty orgasm...
...November 9, 1986] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1987 53...
...John Venetucci, said the man identified as Nicholas Diaz, was found at 4 P.M...
...November 20, 1986] PC World Interlarded within a report on the growing computer industry, a bizarre lament over life in the Peach State: Now, it's extremely important to recognize that gay people are among the foremost contributors to the creation, success, and fulfillment of the personal computer vision...
...October 7, 1986] San Diego Union Another New Age Liberal prepares for her day in court: Case study: A Normal Heights woman who for years has accused Police Chief Bill Kolender of planting midgets or androids in her attic to spy on her, has a lawyer to take her case...
...November 1986] Parade The TV mind makes bold to ask a TV question and gets a TV answer: Q. I have watched Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw give the evening news on TV for a long time...
...Helen Caldicott nabbed once again with her luminous mind in the gutter: The hideous weapons of mass genocide may be symptoms of several male emotions reflecting inadequate sexuality, a need continually to prove virility, and a primitive fascination with killing...
...All sincere replies will be answered in kind...
...He's been the number-one superstar for me, and for everybody I know, for ten, fifteen years...
...The names used by the military are laden with psychosexual overtones: missile erector, thrust-to-weight ratio, soft laydown, deep penetration, hard line, and soft line...
...Atty...
...They seem not to have a hill of beans between them...
...That you can educate your kids better than you were . . . but more than anything else, that you have some time with them...
...November 3, 1986] Progressive In the pages of the stalwart Progressive, the kind of astute historical observation we comrades have come to expect: As Robert Karl Manoff reported in "Only in Amerika" (Media, October issue), an estimated sixty million viewers will be treated to the horrors of a fictional Soviet occupation of the United States in the forthcoming ABC miniseries, "Amerika...
...November 1986] Minneapolis Star and Tribune Reflections on the humanistic nature of the sage of Libya from Dr...
...We have the ingenuity to avoid being eaten by tigers, and it seems to me that we should have the ethics then not to kill animals that aren't threatening us...
...That you have a meal...
...I think they can learn that AIDS is a disease that you don't get from your little friends...
...from Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War, by Dr...
...We never had that 50 years ago...
...Friday by the building superintendent, who noticed a foul odor coming from the apartment...
...At 25, she married a Florida cop...
...Dierker, who insists his client leads an otherwise "better than normal life" and is financially secure, says he'll leave specific dollar damages up to a jury...
...He declines to say whether he's taken the case for a flat fee or on contingency...
...We've never done anything to them...
...I think, then, that it's also a little bit insulting to us that we're not higher animals than the ones in the jungle that tear innocent animals into pieces...
...A. Rather, Jennings and Brokaw try mightily to be impartial in presenting the news...
...That you have a roof over your head...
...She is, to put it bluntly, tired of working...
...Andrew Jacobs, a United States Congressman and—more amazing still—Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health: I'm in no better position than anyone else to say what nature does, but it's my own metaphilosophical view and suspicion that nature strikes back at violence to itself...
...Now in 1986, having participated in the feminist and sexual revolutions, having survived the death of the Kennedys, having suffered through a short and unfulfilling marriage, my sister is prepared to fulfill her destiny: to have her fingernails and toenails done weekly...
...March 12, 1986] San Diego Tribune Proof that Mr...
...Pop.' " Jillette sighs, "I really have no understanding that the masses don't know Iggy...
...S.J., Englewood, N.J...
...How can people who are gay feel secure living in Georgia when an inhumane law hangs over their heads like the sword of Damocles...
...Include a picture...
...I was sitting there, and there was Iggy up onstage with his dick hanging out...
...A McDonnell Douglas advertisement for a new weapons system proudly proclaims that it can "shoot down whatever's up, and blow up whatever's down...
...Eric Dierker, who does not himself believe Kolender planted the midgets or androids, nonetheless holds police responsible for his client's "delusion...
...More than 400 Yanks and thousands of Red Army defenders died in bitter winter fighting...
...November 9, 1986] Rolling Stone How urban sophisticates live, as reported in the intellectual RS: Jillette, a closet rock scholar, still treasures the memory of a concert in San Francisco several years ago, at which he fought his way to a front-row seat...
...Your admission that you cannot find any political bias in their presentations is a tribute to their professionalism and continued success—certainly insofar as you are concerned—in keeping their programs fair, evenhanded and nonpartisan...
...Ivan Boesky may be down but not out: Paid Advertising MY SISTER WAS RAISED TO LIVE LIKE a Jewish American Princess...
...The vegetarian animals of the earth have the longer intestines...
...October 22, 1986] Vegetarian Times Learned elucubrations from the Hon...
...A Police Department spokesman, Sgt...
...September 18, 1986] Washington Post Another incoherent soliloquy from Old Blunderbuss: In fact, Tip O'Neill's enduring legacy may not be his tenure as speaker or his stewardship of the Democratic Party, but his simple and yet all too rare ability to find his way home...
...Yet that is necessary if we are to respond effectively—and morally...
...That's what life is all about...
...However, every Russian school child knows...
...to shop for jewelry, face powders, perfumes and fine clothes...
...Diaz was the godfather of Erik Estrada, a star of the television series "CHiPs...
...She was a tremendous disappointment to her family...
...Ronald Reagan said, "I don't know why the Russians are so paranoid...
...He's suing the city and Kolender on behalf of his client for "negligent infliction of emotional distress...
...to take month-long ski trips to resorts around the world...
...October 7, 1986] New York Times Evidence mounts of the Republic's desperate need for animal rights: Police are investigating the death of a 58-year-old man, who was found in an Upper West Side apartment with numerous stab wounds...
...They always get what they ask for...
...But at 19, she dropped out of college to be a scullery maid on the sailboat, "Polynesia...
...Many programmers, designers, and engineers who happen to be gay have been the brains behind some of the most significant products that helped revolutionize our information-driven society...
...It was a very sexual sight indeed...
...I recently watched a filmed launching of an MX missile...
...But, in fact, it was the United States that invaded the Soviet Union and occupied large areas around Archangel and Vladivostok in 1918-1919...
...First of all, the predatory animals—carnivores—generally have very short intestines...
...Still I am unable from their newscasts to determine their political leanings...
...Humans have intestines that match the victims of the predators...
...Bantam special revised edition, 1986] Newsweek A Planned Parenthood quoque begins to doubt: "I don't think that third graders are going to be able to process things about anal sex and oral sex and needles," says Susan Newcomer, director of education for Planned Parenthood...
...He says police failed to show "legitimate concern" and made jokes that reinforced his client's delusions...
Vol. 20 • January 1987 • No. 1
