Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Proof that it didn't start with Nancy: Daddy was not a superstitious man but he believed in fortune-tellers when it came to finding a lost bird dog. . . ....
...But it is painful to face up to it...
...He paid her a dollar, and we left...
...Jesse Jackson is the voice of the voiceless, the articulator of the dying hopes of desperate urban blacks, distressed family farmers, unemployed union workers, his is the eloquence of the hip-hop nation, that anxious, wounded, dreaming amalgam of ragtag people, a hoi polloi of democracy lip serviced literally to death...
...We will create a group altar, so bring something to place on it...
...The legislation is based on the belief that husbandry technology should be adapted to the animal and not vice versa...
...One time Daddy took me with him to see a large black woman who lived alongside a country road with some brightly painted crescent moons, stars and an enormous human hand tacked to the trees in front of her house...
...Their fate is to be buried up to their necks and stoned until they are dead...
...The fortune-teller, by her comments, seemed to identify the dog...
...The workshop will also explore an assortment of techniques for individual and solitary work, as well as work that can be done in groups...
...Of the Democratic candidates running for president, only Jesse Jackson chooses that course...
...Instead, celebrate Care-Giver's Day and equality in child rearing...
...Judith Toole, an assistant county corporation counsel, argued that park laborers and weed cutters work "in constant view of the public which uses the parks and lakes for recreation during the summer...
...A resource guide to women's spirituality will also be provided...
...As the tireless champion of the poor and minorities and disenfranchised, Jackson is the conscience of the presidential contest, the poet of the dispossessed, a man who makes common sense seem subversive...
...When finally my father was invited in, I slipped in the door behind him...
...Earl, you ain't never gonna see that dog ag'in...
...From An Outdoor Journal, by Jimmy Carter, Bantam Books, $18.95] Austin Chronicle Another dithyramb for Jesse Jackson, this time from the political editor of the venerated Austin Chronicle: The anger you just feel...
...Her efforts have since culminated in an animal protection law that Sweden's parliament is soon expected to pass...
...This will be a joyful two days...
...But in this imperfect world, with the brutal choices it offers us, Jackson is the candidate of necessity...
...Thus homosexuals have been forced by society's non-acceptance to limit their activity largely to gay bars and other exclusively gay gatherings...
...But where does this leave a man or woman who lives in a small oppressive town in which there are no gay bars...
...Several years ago the Swedish children's author campaigned against artificial insemination on the grounds it deprived cows of a normal sex life...
...Thompson meant the media-enhanced story that Gov...
...On Care-Giver's Day, people could thank neighbors, teachers, Cub Scout leaders, aunts, uncles or even psychology professors who deserve recognition...
...She was...
...We will chant, share songs, and create several group rituals...
...For a few moments I wondered if my job as Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty isn't kind of trivial...
...Certainly, there are myriad troublesome aspects to the thought of a Jackson presidency, but none as troublesome as the limp alternatives of "moderation" proffered by the other candidates...
...But are the two systems so different because of the way the condemned spend their last few minutes of life...
...February 26, 19881 In These Times The journal of the yuppie revolutionaries unveils a new clod philosophe preparing the way to a still greater future: Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Long-stocking, has long supported animal rights...
...In arguing for a tax increase before the Chamber of Commerce of the Southern Suburbs the other day, the governor singled out Massachusetts and a couple of other states for special praise and declared, "What do (these states) have in common...
...Souring your system with the knowledge that you know something is going on here and you know all too well what it is...
...Sows will be freed from farrowing pens (and provided separate feeding, sleeping and toilet areas...
...But the real guilt lies with those who have made and support laws, written and unwritten, that deny others (and themselves) the right to freely express their God-given sexuality...
...Talking with a casting director, he asked if he would have a chance at a particular part if he were known to be gay: "She said, 'Why not?' And I said, 'What if the director knew?' And she said, 'So what...
...After asking several questions, she said, "Mr...
...He's gay— and so is his wife.' That was when I knew I would have no more of this hypocrisy...
...The Swedish Embassy's Irene Noby told In These Times that the bill of animal rights includes these sections: "Docking of dogs' tails shall be forbidden...
...I remember that she made us wait for a while before she would see us, which was a strange experience in itself for white people in a black woman's yard...
...Anything less will be just one more mark against Mississippi's chances of achieving the civil rights of its people...
...Higher taxes than Illinois...
...Thompson is proposing a futile strategy to spur economic development: tax and spend...
...A man with a record of indecently exposing himself in laundromats and other indoor places may have been a victim of discrimination when denied county jobs as an outdoor laborer, a state official says...
...And while you're at it, forget Father's Day...
...We rode in silence for a while, and then Daddy said, "I expect she's right...
...March 23-30, 1988] Interface (New England's Center for the Fitness of Body, Mind, and Spirit) The estimable Miss Margot Adler advertises her wares in an important catalogue of the goofball and the occult: W2574 A Two-Day Workshop Saturday and Sunday, July 23 and 24, loam-6pm Members: $98/Non-members: $112 This workshop for women only explores goddess spirituality and women's spiritual empowerment...
...In a perfect world, Jesse Jackson may not be the candidate of choice...
...Hens shall be let out of cramped cages (which fail to meet their basic needs...
...With more parents sharing duties and more people other than parents giving care, all could be honored on one day, he says...
...In the recent set of arrests, people who may have been guilty of exposing themselves in a public place were arrested...
...Cattle shall have the right to graze outdoors...
...We will create sacred space and take an inner journey to meet the goddess within ourselves...
...If you care, you recognize that these are not the times to stay the middling course...
...The governor was particularly enthusiastic about Michael Dukakis, whom he credited with engineering the "Massachusetts miracle," by which Mr...
...Felicitations, Leigh: This morning I read in the Washington Post about two twenty-five-year-old Pakistanis who had been sentenced to death...
...It looks like pigs in Sweden will soon be enjoying a higher standard of living than the American homeless...
...April 26, 1988] Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi) A sonorous communique from another stupefying sap headed for the clergy: Homosexuality has historically been condemned in our society, but in light of the Kinsey report, this means that our society refuses to deal openly with the bisexual urges that a full 90 percent of the human population experiences...
...May 2, 1988] Detroit Free Press Dr...
...These arrests will certainly not stop sexual encounters in public places, but what I hope they will trigger is an effort by the university to offer its rather substantial gay population an organization through which gay people can safely come together and know one another...
...After all, we are certainly more civilized than the Pakistanis...
...Dukakis turned around Massachusetts' moribund economy and set it on the road to expansion in the 1980s...
...It leaves them in the bathroom, or the state park, or some other area that becomes known throughout the community as the area for anonymous homosexual activity...
...Britton McKenzie, 41, who says he has an "addiction" to indecently exposing himself, applied for jobs in April 1987 as a laborer with the Dane County Parks Department and as a weed cutter with the county's Department of Public Works .. . State law prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of criminal records unless an employer can show that an applicant's criminal record could have a bearing on the circumstances of the job...
...Their crime was adultery...
...Bold action, radical thinking, genuine compassion, that is what is demanded of us...
...In a newspaper interview last year, McKenzie estimated he had exposed himself thousands of times...
...We will also explore the uses of ritual, ritual tools, and the workshop will attempt to demystify "magic" and all the trappings of ceremony...
...This afternoon I read the excellent article about capital punishment by Richard Dieter...
...Keith Gore Wiseman Columbia Theological Seminary Decatur, Georgia [March 10, 1988] Commonweal Leigh almost makes an intelligent distinction but recovers admirably...
...Stollack, a psychology professor at Michigan State University, says having a separate Mother's Day and Father's Day perpetuates the myth that each parent has a different role...
...Gary Stollack heaves his incomparable verbal virtuosity into the cause of gender-free bliss: Gary Stollack says forget Mother's Day...
...Please bring a musical instrument, particularly drums, rattles, tamborines [sic], flutes, and cymbals...
...May 7, 19881 Milwaukee Journal One hundred twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation and still prejudice grinds down the best of our idealists: Madison, Wis...
...Here in the United States, the fate of the two thousand men, women, and children on death row is to be gassed, hanged, shot, electrocuted, or injected until they are dead...
...Spring 1988] Los Angeles Times From the world of the arts, more inscrutable doings: Noted stage and film actor Ian McKellen, 47, in Boston recently to accept an acting award, explained to the Boston Globe his recent decision to acknowledge his homosexuality and to work openly for gay and lesbian rights in his native England...
...Leigh Dingerson [April 22, 1988] Crain's Chicago Business The venerated Crain's of Chicago exalts he who incontestably is the best-suited vice presidential candidate available—for the Democrats: Gov...
...In your gut...
...It combines joyful exuberance with time for inner meditation...
...March 10, 1988] 50 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1988...
...As far as I'm concerned, parenting, in a biological sense, ends when the sperm hits the egg," said Stollack...
...Of course not...
...And, besides, what can you do about an empire in twilight...
...Margot Adler is a reporter with National Public Radio's 'All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition...
Vol. 21 • July 1988 • No. 7
