Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM New York Times On the front page of the leading gazette of racially tranquil New York, an apparent call for affirmative action on Death Row . . . or race riots. You figure it...
...Isn't it fantastic that Toronto has something like that to offer...
...So I'm disturbed by the rebellion against political correctness in colleges these days, all those white boys in suits who are upset because there are new values emerging, because they might have to read Virginia Woolf...
...Carter apparently realized...
...You're not eating somebody's pet...
...Moreover, we compromised our libertarianideals at home in order, we were told, to fight Communism...
...He was in Paris...
...So, natural law informed the notion of liberty...
...We mustn't be afraid," one unidentified panelist said...
...Robert S. Pirie New York [August 18, 1991] Kansas City Star The sound of 1968: If I had children, I would explain Pee Wee Herman's arrest by telling them that the police who raid adult movie theaters are fascists who entrap innocent people...
...Who cares...
...killing does not...
...September 7, 1991] Washington Post The inscrutable gibbering that passes for thought at a National Endowment for the Arts grant-making orgy: Nine days before the advisory council met, the review panel was reconvened by telephone...
...During the years of the cold war the United States often seemed to lack faith in the power of its idea...
...If it's merely audacious, I may label it "bodacious...
...The novel's subject matter—a quest for Napoleon's amputated penis—is more accurate than Mr...
...Why not serve it up with potatoes and peas, enriching the gravy with the puppy's own blood...
...Frohnmayer explained that "the record was not as complete as it might otherwise be" with respect to the Hughes, Miller and Fleck grants and said he wanted to deal with "the artistic issues...
...Masturbation comes naturally to children...
...Well why not...
...Though there may be backlashes and pain as a result of this, I really feel it's extremely important that we embrace the arts...
...We need our meat," they'd told him, "we're big guys, we need our protein, we need to be kept pumped up...
...Marines along the Persian Gulf highway are in a hellacious fight tonight...
...As in, "The Army's 101st Air Assault force made a bodacious move into the Euphrates Valley...
...She says it's one of the few places in Toronto where she can find what she's looking for—a man who wants to be controlled...
...It was a phrase popular among boy/men in our part of the country at that time...
...Jefferson understood it...
...September 18, 1991] Vancouver Sun The Vancouver Sun reports on another Toronto tourist trap: Two lesbians, who say they enjoy bondage, order a drink and retire to the club's whipping bench...
...said Linda, "Why not take your puppy, stun it, slit its throat as its little heart still beats and roast it...
...The truth is that George Bush went to the same college I went to, and what he learned about humanism then is reflected in what he does now...
...Spring 1991] The Great Books Series In the greatest autobiographical eruption since Pepys's Diary, Dan Rather reveals himself as essentially a Real Guy: Did I change my identity in the process to edit out my Texas core...
...My talk is still not purged of Texanisms...
...For Gallo, Fetish Night is like a sexual supermarket where she can spend the evening shopping around before making a final selection...
...August 30, 1991] New York Times Book Review Another bizarre communique from Robert S. Pirie, New Age archeologist: I read with interest Angela Carter's review of "Peter Doyle" by John Vernon (July 14...
...I would consider it a good time to talk to them about not feeling guilty when they masturbate...
...You and I have both read—because of our backgrounds, I suspect—we've both read—I won't get into Aquinas and Augustine and all that, but Locke looked back to the concept of natural law as an evolving notion...
...Or, "If you believe that, you'll believe that you can find a stick with one end...
...Or, "If you believe that, you'll believe that rocks grow...
...Little, Brown, 261 pp., $19.95] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1991 51...
...We traduced the First Amendment's promise of free speech and association in order to stamp out anything that certain politicians said was tainted with Communism...
...What am I going to say when one of our critics comes in . . . and says, `Geez, they funded a guy who whizzes onstage?' " A panelist answered: "Who knows...
...September 11, 1991] Federal News Service The Wall Street Journal passes on another oratorical masterpiece preserved by the Federal News Service some time after its point of origin, the Hon...
...If you go to [an average singles club], it's hard going up to a guy and saying: 'Excuse me, do you mind tying me up?' "Here, I'll approach people, find out what they're into and arrange to meet them later if we're in sync...
...McCarthyism has never looked more shameful, or more self-defeating, than it does now...
...Bodacious echo from the past...
...I'm beginning to understand...
...It was OK to eat meat, Man had always eaten meat...
...The heroes I would warn them about would be Schwarzenegger, Schwarzkopf and Rambo...
...I'll say of a faker or fraud, "He's all hat and no cattle...
...Months later, in Tokyo, Paul was reflecting on how certain riggers on the tour had almost rebelled at the idea of being fed the vegetarian diet that we all ate before the shows...
...Joseph Biden, finished his three-martini lunch: Senator Biden: "Okay...
...I remember that when my pals and I went to see The Outlaw with Jane Russell, whose bosoms had been called "hypermammiferous" by Time magazine, one of us, it could have been me, talked admiringly of her "bodacious ta-tas...
...He's big, he's huge, he's pumped up, he's muscular . . . and he eats leaves...
...They take turns thrashing each others' behinds as one at a time they arch their backs over the leather-bound table, securing their wrists in buckled stirrups...
...If something strikes me as super-rough, I may call it "hellacious," which is not in the dictionary...
...And in the third world we repeatedly embraced tyrants in the name of anti-Communism...
...But others who were there writing the Constitution, they talked about it, they had what they wrote—both the Declaration, as you say, in other places and in the Constitution—they reduced these broad notions of natural law—the natural rights of man to this document...
...Sometimes strangers mistake this habit as an affectation...
...Heymes notes that police regularly check the club and have made no complaints...
...The penis eventually came onto the market with other relics from the estate of Abbe Ange Paul Vignali, Napoleon's chaplain on St...
...Helena, and was offered by the Rosenbach Company in a 1924 catalogue where it was item No...
...The penis then found its way into a prominent New Jersey collection and is now owned by a surgeon at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center...
...Nope...
...They're good...
...9—described as "a mummified tendon taken from Napoleon's body during the post-mortem...
...But that's horrible," said the crewman...
...Why," the crewman continued, "it's not as if they're anything but cows...
...I was amused to hear it used years later in the film An Officer and a Gentleman...
...The changes were necessary...
...The film writer used it in the dialogue of a character from Oklahoma...
...When it's suggested that the new values may be displacing equally valuable traditions, that even Virginia may be consigned to the scrap heap of Dead White European Females, Foster shakes her head and, ever so slightly, bristles: "No...
...You're not being cruel to animals by eating beef...
...We're offering a venue for people who are into that lifestyle to show themselves off...
...Foster concedes the point, and stresses her concern for "those who are marginal," a concern mirrored in her choice of roles and advanced during her stint at Yale: "There was a strong emphasis on humanism at that time [the early eighties...
...As in: "U.S...
...from I Remember, by Dan Rather with Peter Wyden...
...Washington consistently undervalued the attraction to people elsewhere of the American system of constitutional government and individual rights...
...Listen guys," said Paul, "do you know what the butchest creature in the animal world is...
...I would also tell them that in the United States people are supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty, but it doesn't always work that way, because it sells more newspapers the other way around...
...IT MADE YOU THINK...
...it was traditional," ran the argument against her...
...Let me ask the very crass and difficult political question," Frohnmayer said...
...But that's exactly what you do with roast lamb," said Linda, "that's how a lamb gets to your dining table . . ." IT MADE YOU THINK...
...September 12, 1991] New York Times The sage, Anthony Lewis, once again quite full of himself, or, as the phrase has it, full of feces: There are ironies for Americans in the victory of democracy over Soviet Communism...
...A gorilla...
...August 13, 1991] Toronto Globe and Mail Miss Jodie Foster, inspired by genius: As we await the dawn of this kinder, gentler era, the gaps between the haves and the have-nots seem to be widening...
...He was marveling at the feminine attributes of a young woman similar to Jane...
...You figure it out: Nearly half a century and at least 1,000 executions since it last happened in the United States, a white person was executed yesterday for killing a black...
...He was probably the only one that fully understood it...
...Montesquieu talked about it...
...It's not...
...The panelists praised all three artists and again voted unanimously to award the grants...
...We relied on weapons to win what was essentially an ideological struggle...
...Vernon or Ms...
...Larry Peugeot Kansas City [August 8, 1991] Club Sandwich A report in the Paul McCartney fan magazine proves that the highest form of civilization is the leaf-eating gorilla: We were in Zurich at the time, early days on Paul and Linda's 1989-90 World Tour, and Linda was backstage debating vegetarianism with one of the roadcrew...
...Napoleon's penis was removed from his body by the surgeons attending at his death...
Vol. 24 • November 1991 • No. 11
