Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series The youthful pleasures that shaped the character of the weirdest rogue to live in the White House since Prof. Woodrow Wilson: For more serious offenses...
...Others provide a sycophantic audience to laugh at the daring of R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr...
...On the other hand, it would be dangerous as well as sentimental to believe that child rearing alone is enough to bring about a livable future...
...Ralph Abernathy addressing 200 students at Dickinson College, apparently without notes: "Martin Luther King Jr...
...I for one have had it with PBS...
...May 1988] Black/Out More trouble for the Melting Pot, as reported in "the magazine of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays": There are those who say that the urge to have children is a sign of encroaching despair, a last desperate outcry before the leap into darkness...
...I believe that raising children is one way of participating in the future, in social change...
...June 1, 1988] Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) Dr...
...And the pandering to Jesse Jackson...
...I called and asked for an explanation and was given the excuse that this is how fraternities are known, as "The Greeks...
...when he uses the word "fuliginous" in The American Spectator to describe the country's largest minority...
...Is this the kind of personality we would like to see residing in our White House...
...Maurice J. Kane Tom Campbell Santa Barbara [June 15, 1988] Spy The humor magazine of the urban sophisticates serves up still more hilarious commentary for its knee-slapping readers and quite possibly the residents of many of America's finest morgues: So, despite the few remaining plebiscites (yes, California, we really really do care), it's all over but the shouting...
...You owe the Greek Community here a retraction and an explanation that you were refering [sic] to Greek letters and not to individuals of Greek descent but members of the fraternity...
...Well, when I talk about mothering, I do so with an urgency born of my consciousness as a lesbian and a black African Caribbean American woman staked out in white, racist, sexist, homophobic America...
...they're 60-ish...
...After watching the MacNeil-Lehrer Report on Tuesday, Feb...
...June 14, 1988] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1988 51...
...And the rewriting of the Mario Cuomo profiles...
...Dukakis...
...They're ineffectual white men...
...I'll not give them another penny for the perpetuation of fascism in America...
...President Michael Dukakis...
...Herschel Sternlieb Brunswick [February 11, 1988] Nation Christabel Hitchens covers the art scene for the armed camp what reads the Nation: All across the District of Columbia, in these waning days of the most corrupt and brainless Administration in not-so-recent history, you may find members of the Third Generation...
...Vol 7, No...
...For unless we develop some cohesive vision of the world in which we hope these children will participate, and some sense of our own responsibilities in shaping that world, we will only raise new performers in the masters' sorry drama...
...Even the homeless contingent Mrs...
...So what does all this have to do with lesbian parenting...
...they're good-looking...
...March 4, 1988] Times Record (Brunswick, Maine) In the correspondence section of a great local gazette, Herschel from Brunswick sounds like Michael Dukakis's future secretary of state: Does Public Broadcasting deserve your support...
...And the cynical deal cutting...
...Therefore, by creating the flood myth, men can portray themselves as true procreators of mankind, he said...
...Not a syllable for reconciliation...
...From An Outdoor Journal, by Jimmy Carter, Bantam Books, $18.95] Philadelphia Daily News Ethnic soap opera from the city of Brotherly Love: A headline on one of your news stories has greatly disturbed me...
...The larger issue here goes beyond a mere violation of law and speaks to apparent insensitivities expressed by Mrs...
...At the age of four, my first such punishment was for taking a penny out of the Sunday School collection plate instead of giving my offering...
...The faux conservatism is almost unforgivably transparent...
...This is ignorant, malicious, in very poor taste, vulgar in nature, bottom-of-thebarrel reporting and a thoughtless splurge of sensationalism which gives the opportunists the chance to exploit a definitely misleading comment...
...Michael ("Kitty") Dukakis, alight and unmoved by enlightened Santa Barbara's prohibition against Demon Tobacco: Thanks to Barney Brantingham's column on May 29 ("Mrs...
...Not from Olympia, not from the rancher, not from the stupid Democrat, not from the Nicaraguan congressman and absolutely nothing from the priest...
...Dukakis blows smoke in county's face"), we have been given some insight into the attitudes held by our prospective first lady...
...A few years later I got a switching for shooting my sister Gloria in her behind with my BB gun, and another time for hiding in my tree house, refusing to answer Daddy's calls, and pretending that I had run away from home...
...Perhaps a closer look should be taken at Kitty and Mike's words and actions before we mark our ballots next November...
...Dukakis arrived to exploit had the decency to confine its mushroom cloud to the outdoors...
...Nevertheless, the headline was, indeed, insensitive...
...President George Bush...
...That's exactly what I understood until I read the entire article, and not a single Greek name was mentioned...
...Rubinstein, who plays the eccentric clairvoyant who battles the spooky apparitions in the "Poltergeist" films, said it was also her first time seeing Heather O'Rourke since the child actor died Feb...
...We Santa Barbarans are fiercely protective of all aspects of our environment, from clean water to the right not to be exposed to another person's cigarette exhaust...
...This is the self-designation of a group of young people, too tender in years to remember the Goldwater campaign or the Vietnam War, who came to Washington in the footsteps of Ronald Reagan...
...The Genesis flood myth is only one of 1,000 stories that relate to the world's destruction by mass flooding, said Alan Dundes, professor of anthroology [sic] and folklore and editor of a new book titled "The Flood Myth...
...1. "It was real painful for me," Rubinstein explained...
...This was followed by an interview with that sublime idiot, Olympia Snowe, and some throwback Democrat from Oklahoma who kept repeating that they had to "keep military pressure on the Sandinistas," which we all know is an excuse for the Contras to use children and women for target practice...
...He suggests more a very, very competent internist (or college admissions director, maybe) than a commander-in-chief...
...This is nothing short of slanderous...
...Right...
...2, the night before the vote on Contra aid, I became convinced that PBS is nothing more than a public platform for right wing murderers...
...President Al Gore...
...Not a word for peace...
...June 10, 1988] Santa Barbara News-Press Philosophical ramblings occasioned by Mrs...
...They started with a supposedly "evenhanded" report from Nicaragua, interviewing at considerable length a large cattle rancher, a right wing member of Congress and a conservative American priest . . . all speaking English...
...Dundes said "men have for centuries had tremendous envy toward women for their ability to re-create...
...I met her when she was 5, and she was 12 when she terminated...
...Kitty Dukakis and her gang have muddied that red carpet and smudged our pride by her selfish and inconsiderate actions in the County Administration Building...
...I admit now that I deserved them, but at the time I resented the severity of the punishment...
...We pride ourselves on being a friendly town that eagerly rolls out the red carpet to all of our visiting dignitaries and VIPs...
...Bessie Sarris Philadelphia Editor's Note: On many campuses, fraternities are known as 'Greeks' because they have Greek-letter names...
...May 14, 1988] Daily Californian Another learned University of California psychopath clears up an old misconception by simple deduction and perhaps a few doses of LSD: The ancient myth of Noah and the ark, about a worldwide flood that destroys the earth and begins the human race anew, evolved from male envy of female reproduction abilities, according to a UC Berkeley professor...
...will probably go down in history as being the most significant personality who not only lived during the 20th century, but who has lived throughout the centuries of the history of mankind," Abernathy said...
...What comes to mind immediately, when you read in bold print: "Florida State Greeks Suspended in Frat House Rape Probe...
...they're friendly...
...When they get some humane and objective journalists, maybe I'll come back...
...I disagree...
...What makes matters even worse is the fact that it appeared right before the primaries...
...I loved that child...
...They show up for Heritage Foundation lunches and "011ie North: American Hero" soirees...
...Not a word for compassion...
...Clearly, Kitty Dukakis seems rather arrogant in her disrespect for our local non-smoking ordinances...
...314J Washington Post The Queen's English put to elegant effect by another astonishing Hollywood intellectual: "Poltergeist" star Zelda Rubinstein, who has been performing at the Arena Stage in "The Cherry Orchard," slipped quietly out to suburban Virginia Friday to see "Poltergeist III...
...The few whippings from him—perhaps half a dozen in all—were truly memorable events...
...They populate the better-healed right-wing think tanks and the Congressional offices of men like Jim Courter and Henry Hyde...
...As we have seen recently, the behind-thescenes activities of a first lady can often embarrassingly overshadow the national agenda...
...And all this just before the Contra aid vote...
...Well, hey, sure—and why not President McLean Stevenson and . . . oh, President Conrad Bain and President Hal Holbrook, while we're at it...
...These stories are similar in the sense that they all use floods as a symbol for urination—the male substitution for the female's amniotic fluid that is produced before the birth of a child, he added...
...Woodrow Wilson: For more serious offenses than pranks like these, I was whipped with a spirea or peach switch...
...They can keep their Buckleys and McLaughlins and McNeil-Lehrers...
...They then had 10 seconds with a low-level Sandinista official speaking Spanish...
...So unforgettable was the experience that I've never stolen anything since...
...Not one word from a peasant or a worker or an American from Witness for Peace...
...Some of them, like Gregory Fossedal, have made themselves a name in boondoggle campaigns like S.D.I., all the while declaiming against the gross public sector...
Vol. 21 • August 1988 • No. 8
