Current Wisdom

...February 1991] Los Angeles Times Another grim excavation of the male mind, this time by Carol Lieberman, a Beverly Hills-based psychiatrist and witch doctor: Only in our male-dominated society and entertainment industry would films be rated more harshly for sex, not violence...

...Yet, Ms...

...Columnist Mary Jo Melon's description of the Tampa police rookies as stupid, and "who barely know how to cross town without help" was unwarranted and cruel...

...Difficulty with "reading, writing and counting" could well result from lack of education, rather than from a deficiency in intelligence...

...It is the best there ever was against a player who has made only five starts in seven seasons as a professional...

...And the more I lost it, the better I felt...

...You know, all that old stuff about blood sacrifice, all those ancient religions did it—down there in the pyramids of Mexico, if they could find virgins, they cut their hearts out...

...Listen to THIS . . "Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, had a wife and wished to keep her...

...To which Mr...

...Weird, man, I'm telling you...

...James Zuiker New Port Richey [September 9, 1990] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1991 43...

...The 49ers will beat the Giants 24-14 because they have quarterback Joe Montana...

...And I certainly hope that we do not have to go to war—that there will be no war...

...The law looks for its next application the way a predator looks for its next meal...

...January/February 1991] New York Times Confessions of a sports fan from the intellectual Miss Anna Quindlen: Sunday the Super Bowl will be played in Tampa and so, inevitably, my thoughts turn to abortion...

...Men Working road signs look ludicrous in these days when women are increasingly found working in the trenches on the side of the highway...

...But when we make a law to solve a problem, the law doesn't go away when the problem does...

...But I want to say to the students and everyone else here that when I ran for office in Minnesota, I was so excited about what I think will be a very different decade in the '90s from what it was in the '80s...

...You don't have to be a brain surgeon to reach this conclusion...

...December 3, 1990] Humanist Upon receiving the "Humanist of the Year" accolade, Mr...

...And I would like to thank you Senator Kennedy for holding this hearing because my introduction, and again I want to speak especially to the students in the back—to the young people—my introduction—and again, I want to speak especially to the students in the back—to the young people—my introduction to the United States Senate has been an unusual introduction...

...I think we will move in our country from a politics of private interest in the '80s to a politics of public interest in the '90s...

...where there are jobs at decent wages, where there's a commitment to health care, and education, and housing, and the environment, and a credible energy policy...

...and THIS .. . "There was an old couple who lived in a shoe, they had so many children they didn't know what to do...

...WELLSTONE: Thank you, Senator Kennedy, for the—those of you who are students in the back of the room, I want you to listen carefully and tell me how I do...

...Senator Simon, I believe, was speaking in that direction...

...Dumb thing to do to virgins...

...It is four Super Bowl rings against none...

...Nobody has to die on the cross for us, with blood sacrifice...

...So whether one wants to attribute it to performance anxiety or testosterone, the male predilection for violence has been affecting the rating system for years...

...by Carolyn If this book had been around eight years ago, Chinaberry Book Service would likely never have come to be...

...Such a sobering time...

...Ted Thrner turns into a hep cat: So, I began to lose my faith...

...January 24, 1991] Progressive The beginning of a column by Mr...

...What's wrong with saying that we're basically good...

...So they gave them some broth and some good whole wheat bread, and kissed them all sweetly and sent them to bed...

...We're all born in sin, and we're so bad that this wonderful person . . . and I'm sure Christ was a wonderful person...

...One student, Lydie Pierre-Louis, asked whether Mr...

...Carter was being too idealistic in preaching that a private citizen in the United States has the utmost authority...

...I probably would have been lulled into thinking that there were plenty of this type of book available if I had run across it back then...

...An apology is in order...

...You do not wonder today, when it is Montana against Giants quarterback Jeff Hostetler...

...Gregory Conniff, possibly on the value of a high-fiber diet, or on changing one's filters, or maybe on how to score with one's girlfriend's mother—actually, by the second paragraph I lost consciousness: Freedom has nothing to do with the efficient systems we set up to dispose of problems...

...This is the first time that I have had a chance to speak here at the Senate...

...Laughter...

...Freedom is messy...

...Violent scenes, on the other hand, enhance men's feelings of power...

...Carter replied...

...Holiday Season 1990] Washington Times The modern journalist in action, Tom Knott: The NFC winner, undoubtedly the 49ers, will do a number on either the Buffalo Bills or the Los Angeles Raiders in Tampa, Fla., next Sunday...

...A time of life and death, and war and peace...

...That's all a part of the future, I think for our country, a country I dearly love, and I'm just delighted to be here, and there could be no better committee for me to serve on in termsof where my passion goes, Senator, and what I believe so strongly in...

...It's a collection of many Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes which have been adapted to reflect no sexism, violence or discrimination...

...October 1, 1990] Tampa Tribune Humanitarian protest from an enlightened Tampan: Re: Around Tampa, Aug...

...Pierre-Louis pressed, this collective consciousness does not include every American...

...January 19, 1991] New York Times Rousseau brought to life by two little pests: "I'm not advocating this, but my daughter Amy's been arrested four times," Mr...

...If they didn't want too many, why didn't they plan...

...And then fmally, as long as we talk about national security, I just know—and some of you will smile, it's pricklings in my fingertips—that in the years to come—and I believe this committee will be crucial in thrusting this forward in the agenda of our country—we will come to realize that a big part of our definition of national security is going to be security of local communities...

...And that is—has to be a priority...

...You don't even have to be an elementary school graduate...

...Such a scary time...

...It is experience against inexperience...

...The vagaries of Federal domestic policies also make it incumbent upon private citizens to get involved, he said, adding, "Let's don't depend entirely on what a future President or Congress is going to do...

...Men feel more uncomfortable about sex scenes than violent ones because sex scenes evoke men's unconscious conflicts, including castration anxiety, homophobia, fears of inadequacy and impotence...

...And I've become more and more convinced as I travel the state of Minnesota and other communities that a fundamental problem and a most important goal is for us to join all the other advanced economies in the world with affordable, dignified, humane health care, a national health care program, which the Senator has taken such a lead on...

...Carter replied, "On Election Day, the potential is there, but you're right...

...CURRENT WISDOM Hearing of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee A historic moment in the life of the 102nd Congress suitable for rebroadcast on "Saturday Night Live" or a documentary prepared by Mothers Against Drunk Driving: SEN...

...But at any rate, he had to come down here and suffer and die on the cross so that with his blood our sins would be washed away...

...And my hope is that during this next decade, we will really begin to focus on key and crucial domestic needs...

...It is the hand holding the law's leash at any given moment that determines what goes on the menu...

...I not only changed many of those words on an impromptu basis, but found out, after research, that much of what we read to our children is inappropriate . . . unless we want them to get messages of violence, sexism and discrimination...

...I didn't come with any notes or prepared to speak...

...SEN...

...Sometimes law isn't the answer to the problem...

...There's only one issue I don't understand...

...KENNEDY: Well said...

...If he was here today, the way his stuff has been twisted around, he'd probably be sick at his stomach to see it...

...The ultimate authority in this country is the collective will of the American people," Mr...

...December 13, 1990] Herald (Everett, WA) On the editorial page of the Herald, a much-needed remonstrance to the guys that work the roads: Signs of 'Men working' are a detour to women How hard could it be to create "Road Crew Ahead" signs for the men and women who work at constructing and reshaping our highways...

...Carter said, in demonstrations against apartheid and against United States policies toward Nicaragua...

...January 7, 1991] Chinaberry Book Service (Spring Valley, California) In a New Age book catalogue of superb gibberings, a notice of still more Orwellian bibble-babble for the dunces: FATHER GANDER NURSERY RHYMES Father Gander (as opposed to Mother Goose) re-written by Douglas Larche illus...

...It was while reading our Mother Goose book to baby Elizabeth that I became aware for the first time how unsuitable many of the words were for young children...

...I mean, it starts out with this notion that we're all horrible...

...I have, as a teacher—and my whole adult life has been devoted to education—become more and more convinced, Senator, that there just can't be, and will not be, any real national security until we invest in the health and skills and character and intellect of our children...

...No issue is an island...

...Sometimes justice in a free society is not as swift as we would like...

...Treated her with fair respect, she stayed with him and hugged his neck...