Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Minneapolis Star and Tribune Sunday Magazine Ornate droppings from Dr. Peter G. Bourne, chief quack of the late Jimmy Carter's White House: Fidel Castro has been in power longer...
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...Soon we hope to start construction of the largest timber-frame Goshalla (barn) built in America since 1858, complete with a methane-gas generator...
...Arguing among ourselves, while important, just isn't enough...
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...This enemy "sees us clearly," he said...
...Her feminist politics led her to stop wearing make-up or shaving, and she never felt "different...
...This program will benefit you in many exciting ways...
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...AT GITA-NAGARI, THE ANIMALS ARE HAPPY BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY WILL NEVER BE SLAUGHTERED...
...The Spectator accepted that neither Mr Barnet nor the Institute was a front for Cuban Intelligence and that neither was controlled by the KGB...
...Their health-care system is one of the best in the world, and their system of education is excellent...
...Q. What makes Fidel Castro tick...
...Over 300 newspapers and magazines, and several major radio and television networks have featured favorable stories about Gita-nigari Village and its revolutionary cow protection program...
...In 1975, the Indian Saint, Srita Probhupada, established the beautiful Gitanagari Farm Community, north of Harrisburg in Central Pennsylvania, as a place of pilgrimage devoted to cow protection and agriculture...
...We invite you and your family to take part in the most revolutionary cow protection program in the world...
...Chapkis faced harassment, hostility, and embarrassment when people misidentified her as a male...
...now everyone is well-fed...
...And, of course, the Soviet people are exerting pressure in many ways to move toward that end...
...Q. What is your most telling story about him...
...It apologised to Mr Barnet and agreed to pay his legal costs...
...The rest wanted to turn themselves in...
...6) Get-acquainted vacation weekend completely free at our guest lodge for the whole family...
...January 8, 1987] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1987 53...
...5) Periodic news on your cow's progress...
...Q. What do the Cuban people think of Castro...
...A. He is a man of extraordinary energy, ambition and intellect...
...If we were to start "acting like apes," that might be a real advance...
...Mr Barnet is also a senior fellow, co-founder and former co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies, an independent and respected centre in Washington DC devoted to research on public policy issues...
...Men shouted crude remarks, such as "Hey, Ugly!," and pointed and laughed at her on buses and in the street...
...Eric N Lindblom Palo Alto, California [February 1987] Vegetarian Times A proposal sure to be ventilated at the 1988 Democratic National Convention and to be boomed forth from the august pulpit of New York's Riverside Church: ADOPTA-COW IS AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME...
...A. It's a little difficult to tell how people in a dictatorship feel, but in general Castro remains overwhelmingly popular...
...December 20, 1986] City on a Hill The incomparable newspaper of U. Cal...
...What Gorbachev wants and Reagan fears as retailed by an editorialist at In These Times: One reason Gorbachov gave for his campaign of democratization was that it would help end the Cold War and bring victory against the Soviets' "enemy...
...Your fully tax-deductible contribution will enable you to join one of our four Adopt-A-Cow programs: PROGRAM A For $30 each month ($1 per day) for one year, you receive: (1) A beautiful 8 x 10 color photo of your adopted cow...
...4) Pure ghee (clarified butter...
...But the American people have nothing to fear and everything to gain from such a development...
...Q. Has he changed...
...Now we are turning to you, our friends, for help now to maintain and expand the protection of Gita-nagari's beautiful cows...
...I went from counter culture to high culture in a trans-Atlantic flight," she said in an interview with City on a Hill, and suddenly her appearance became a major concern...
...She also "looked sexually ambiguous," which caused problems in a culture where the language is gender specific...
...A. Since the death, in 1980, of Celia Sanchez, his companion of 20 years, and after possibly suffering a mild heart attack in 1983, he has mellowed...
...A. When his guerrilla force landed in Cuba in 1956, all but 12 were killed or captured...
...It was said on behalf of Mr Barnet that he had brought the action to clear his name of an allegation made in a letter published in the Spectator in its issue of 7 April 1984 accusing him of being a mainstay of the Institute of Policy Studies, which was described as being a major front for Cuban Intelligence, itself controlled by the KGB...
...Before his revolution, the vast majority lived close to starvation...
...Want serious intercourse...
...A truly open and democratic society there would undermine the strongest ideological basis of post-World War II American foreign policy...
...Such letters can be a kind of grassroots participation in democracy...
...To care for the animals costs about $1 per day, plus shelter expenses...
...By taking a bold stand against the horrible crimes being openly committed against our sacred mother cow (go-mata), Adopt-A-Cow has received extensive coverage from the international news media...
...In "Fidel" (Dodd, Mead), psychiatrist and foreign-affairs expert Peter G. Bourne takes a close look at Cuba's leader...
...Toward this end, I suggest that every reader who has ever written a letter to The Progressive or has ever thought of doing so ought to write at least one letter to a local newspaper or a general-circulation magazine...
...Richard Jackson Barnet of the venerable Institute for Policy Studies throws himself on the mercy of Her Majesty's judicial system and clears the good names of Cuban Intelligence and the KGB: The settlement was announced in the High Court recently of a libel action brought against the Spectator by Mr Richard Jackson Barnet, the author of a book entitled Allies: America Europe and Japan since the War...
...PROGRAM B For $100 each month for one year you receive: (1) All of the above, plus (2) A brass plaque, with your family name engraved on it, mounted on your adopted cow's stall in the new Goshalla...
...A quick reading of any daily paper will confirm that it is the human animal who has brought inhumane behavior to its present state of the art...
...A wonderful opportunity to visit with your cow...
...OUR PRESENT FACILITIES HOUSE BARELY TWO-THIRDS OF THE HERD...
...June 20, 1986] Progressive How young Eric got published in the Progressive and may get published again and again: We need to get more progressive ideas into general circulation if we want to affect the body politic in the United States...
...Santa Cruz reports on the urbane thoughts of Wendy Chapkis, revolutionary, before she turned herself over to the plastic surgeons: Chapkis said that she "lived for years and years in a very supportive feminist environment": she was nurtured as a feminist while at UCSC as an undergraduate, and later in Berkeley...
...He modeled himself after Cuba's hero, Jose Marti, adopting his speaking style and handwriting...
...During the two years he spent as a political prisoner in the mid-1950s, he read 1,000 books, from Shakespeare to Freud...
...A. As one of the titans of the century...
...But not Fidel...
...However, in 1979, Chapkis moved to Amsterdam to work at the Institute for Policy Studies...
...I looked like a Bay Area dyke," in hiking boots and a down jacket, she said bluntly...
...Gorbachov is probably correct in believing that the Reagan administration and other Cold Warriors fear democracy in the Soviet Union...
...January 14-20, 1987]Spectator Mr...
...They are not frightened by our nuclear might...
...3) Sweets such as burfi, sandesh, and other delicious homemade milk products...
...They will not start a war," but they are "frightened about one thing: if democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win...
...Peter G. Bourne, chief quack of the late Jimmy Carter's White House: Fidel Castro has been in power longer than any other world leader except Jordan's King Hussein...
...Life expectancy has gone up about 20 years .. . Q. How will history judge him...
...November 2, 1986] In These Times Democracy...
...PROGRAM D If you cannot adopt a cow at this time, please send whatever contribution you can to encourage us, in exchange, we will send you a delicious special prasadam gift, homemade at Gita-nagari...
...She explained that she always had facial hair, but she was never aware of it—or concerned about it—during her life within the Bay Area feminist community...
...December 20/27, 1986] Tokyo Weekender Proof that America still enjoys world respect: PERSONAL AN INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE...
...Respectable, reliable man aged from 45 to 58...
...Much of his early drive came from the fact that he was illegitimate...
...November 1986] Washington Post Miss Jeanette S. Miller apprises readers of the Post's squall page of achievements of a higher civilization: Do apes abuse their offspring, batter their mates and others, perform ghastly experiments on other species, degrade the environment and devise ever-more-efficient ways to reduce the world to rubble...
...We need to get into other publications the kind of discourse found in the Letters pages of The Progressive...
...HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HELP...
...He frequently worked several days at a stretch without sleep...
Vol. 20 • March 1987 • No. 3
