Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Handbill (California State University, San Marcos) An intriguing handbill distributed to the barnyard animals that attend Cal State, San Marcos, soliciting monographs of righteous indignation...
...It is unfortunate that all the press cannot go the Ms...
...22, page 9 ad for Seabrook Greyhound Park's Turkey Giveaway: I really have to tell you that this ad scrapes the bottom of the barrel...
...The belly was designed to encourage expectant fathers to empathize more deeply with their pregnant partner...
...We saw you...
...Even if this weren't lunatic economics, anyone who has ever gardened knows that allowing someone all of the joy of growing something from seed to fruit and then denying them the final blessing of eating it could only be called cruel and unusual punishment...
...History class by stealing a student's purse...
...Since renouncing his U.S...
...The aim of punishment in Islam is crime prevention, deterrence and rehabilitation...
...The search for a hassle-free life is ultimately an attempt to shirk personal and social responsibilities of all kinds...
...February 1, 1993] North Shore (Peabody, Massachusetts) An excellent culinary recommendation from Mary, reader of Ms...
...He isn't a criminal or a draft dodger, just an outspoken footnote to the Reagan era...
...Magazine route and be beholden to none, but this ad—for me—crosses boundaries that are unacceptable...
...Green seemed to be making fun of Islam and Pakistan...
...This ad is also doubly offensive because it promotes an industry that causes the destruction and misery of tens of thousands of healthy greyhounds each year...
...And they are also stormbirds, early-warning systems on the seismic fault-lines of the Multiculture, before the cognitive dissonance and the underground tremors convulse us...
...they still think the purse is rightfully Nikki's...
...What students don't know is that their textbooks have, by omission or otherwise, lied to them...
...Take a deep breath in and blow it right out...
...Slater renounced his U.S...
...Mary de La Valette Lynnfield [November 29, 1992] Washington Post Syed Rizwanuddin Ahmad writes to say that Allah is merciful, or at least big on crime prevention, or better yet, a believer in the gold standard: As an admirer of Ralph Nader, I want to congratulate Mark Green for his excellent piece "Caveat Emptor and Then Some" [Business, Nov...
...If we could imagine what they will do next, we wouldn't need them, and we do, not only for pleasure and beauty, or to bind up our psychic wounds, but to bear witness and discover scruple and imagine the Other—all those archeologies of the unspoken and enciphered...
...3) He must not be hungry while committing a theft...
...And it would give artists a way of brushing up against one another in a place that allows for more unorthodox behavior than the academy does...
...For the benefit of your readers, no thief has had his or her hands amputated in Pakistan—although constitutional amendments that allowed this punishment were made in 1985...
...They saw me take the purse off the desk so they protest: "That's not yours, it's Nikki's...
...March 1, 1993] Santa Barbara News-Press The onerous price of patriotism, paid by Mr...
...To be born a turkey in our society sentences a living creature to a short, miserable lifetime of unspeakable horror...
...As a Pakistani citizen living in this country for about two years, my general impression of average Americans is that they have very little knowledge of Islam and Muslims...
...Bill Clinton has a vacation home here, and maybe he can reinstate my citizenship with an executive order...
...Most students are fair-minded...
...This could revitalize some blasted urban areas—historically, artists have moved to unsavory places and turned them in the public mind from derelict to chic...
...There are certain important criteria that have to be met before an Islamic punishment can be carried out...
...Papers and performances are welcomed in all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences...
...You took it...
...2) He must not have been compelled to commit a theft...
...The topics of AIDS or gay rage, women's rage, the rage of ethnic minorities or working class rage particularly are encouraged...
...Indeed, this bit of historical lore may be the only knowledge class members share in common...
...That's why I started my U.S...
...If two persons jointly steal the equivalent of 1,058 grams of gold, then neither's hands are amputated...
...As the year opens, my students may not know when the Civil War was fought or what James Madison or Frederick Douglass did, but they know that a brave fellow named Christopher Columbus discovered America...
...There are seven couples gathered in Ms...
...So," I ask...
...Briefly, the punishment of amputation of hands is applied after the following conditions are fulfilled: (1) The person who has committed a theft must be a sane adult...
...Similarly, the stolen property must be valuable, owned by someone, must be in possession of the thief and must value at least 1,058 grams of gold...
...December 10, 1992] Nation On a cool, clear winter day, the famously banal mind of John Leonard beholds The Artist, who becomes magician, thence a problem child, a hedonist, no, an aesthete, no a shrink—hold on—archaeologist, no, a "storm-bird," and finally John Leonard, insufferable fool that he is, comes down with the shakes...
...undated...
...The Empathy Belly is made of waterproof canvas, weighs 12 kilograms and, according to the manufacturer, enables the wearer to experience more than 20 of the typical symptoms of pregnancy...
...But I was shocked and disappointed by the reference to "Pakistani justice," in which he mentioned chopping off hands...
...citizenship in Australia in 1987, Slater has been deported by various countries four times...
...Handbill (California State University, San Marcos) An intriguing handbill distributed to the barnyard animals that attend Cal State, San Marcos, soliciting monographs of righteous indignation from all corners save Ross Perot, Rush Limbaugh, members of the VFW, and the other 99 percent of the American people who have had enough of this 1960s tommyrot: RAGE...
...These difficult people constitute an antimarket: Their business, instead of selling short, is to surprise us...
...A little laughter is my reward, but I don't get any takers...
...Artists should be given housing and studio space in major cities, and subsidies to enable them to live there...
...The first thing men do is have a quick feel of the breasts," Ms...
...citizenship five years ago after American forces bombed Libya...
...Dixon...
...This is Reagan's backyard, and I renounced my citizenship under Reagan," Slater said Wednesday...
...Why not eat eagles...
...The daily civic experience of waiting for buses, filling out forms, caring for your own kids, even having your own mundane thoughts is the stuff of which some kind of civil equality is made...
...Thus it corrupts the notion of equal citizenship even more effectively than mere disproportionate accumulation of wealth...
...I sometimes have to remind the women that we're not looking for revenge," says Ms...
...It looks and feels like a cross between a flak jacket and Madonna's stage suit...
...It should be at least a misdemeanor to let this literary catastrophe anywhere near a writing instrument, even if his infantile excursus is printed only in the Nation: A vigorous nation invests in the arts not because it's cost efficient (a sort of seeding for a gross national product of mystery and magic) but because that's how we dream our Republic...
...Why do we say that Columbus discovered America...
...But dissent doesn't come cheap...
...Dixon, a 31-year-old mother of three, has used the belly with about 100 couples over the past year...
...Dixon's farmhouse in Somerset, in the west of England, for their weekly prenatal class...
...I announce that the purse is mine, obviously, because look who has it...
...Are we so desensitized that we no longer understand that turkeys, too, are living, sentient creatures whose ancestors once lived free, satisfying lives in wild nature...
...The deadline for submission of 30 minute papers, performances, or a one page abstract for either is March 1, 1993...
...She is transforming him into a pregnant man with the help of an Empathy Belly...
...So I begin class by stealing a student's purse...
...It is a pregnancy simulator for men...
...It is only a cultural and speciesist bias that permits the murder each winter of millions of turkeys...
...November 21, 19921 Spare Change (Boston, Massachusetts) The curious boasts of an obvious sexual harasser who will come to no good end despite his devotion to progressive educational techniques and the New Darkness: Most of my students have trouble with the idea that a book—especially a textbook—can lie...
...I make one last try to keep Nikki's purse: "What if I said I discovered this purse, then would it be mine...
...Now hold onto your bulge while I position your breasts," childbirth educator Kate Dixon tells David, a 29-year-old insurance underwriter...
...A new world order—if it comes to pass—must include the animals, too...
...December 12, 1992] Nation Mary Gordon limns an exquisite plan of New Age Urban Renewal that has the added benefit of ridding our society of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of parasitic artists through the human expedient of street crime: In a move that could connect public works programs with the support of the arts, the NEA should change its system of funding...
...Dixon remarks as David gropes at his new form...
...Eric Konigsberg, leading light among the Angry Young Twits: Money is no longer enough...
...He's now in Santa Barbara: Home to the man he blames for turning America mean and the vacation spot of his possible savior...
...The newest public university in the United States, California State University, San Marcos announces a Call for Papers and Performances for a conference on "Rage Across the Disciplines" to be held at CSU San Marcos on June 11-12, 1993...
...Joel Slater, embodiment of the Spirit of 1776: Joel Slater dismissed the United States and now he's paying the price...
...They don't know, for example, that on the island of Hispaniola, an entire race of people was wiped out in only 40 years of Spanish administration...
...It was a passionate moment of free speech—almost an echo of the spirit that sent tea into Boston Harbor and fueled the American revolution, he said...
...Wearing it for 10 minutes or more can lead to backache, shortness of breath and increased blood pressure...
...February 6, 19931 San Francisco Chronicle With sarcasm and prim reason, the ever thoughtful Kathleen Clark prescribes Brussels sprouts and endive for those unfortunate carnivores now resident in San Francisco County's hoosegows: Let me see if I understand this correctly—the county of S.F...
...uses inmate labor to grow vegetables to give away to charity, and then uses tax dollars to buy prepared meals that are more expensive and less nutritious to feed prisoners...
...David's heavily pregnant wife Yvonne looks on with evident glee...
...Please submit all abstracts or completed papers, projects to: Terry Allison and Renee Cury Rage Conference The College of Arts and Sciences California State University, San Marcos San Marcos, CA 92096-0001 This Conference is funded in part by the CSUSM Multicultural Center and by the California State University's Affirmative Action Grant [Winter 1993] New Republic The gruesome after-effects of overexposure to undergraduate sociology, as exhibited on the printed page by Mr...
...February 1, 1993] Toronto Globe & Mail The primordial rites of fatherhood as practiced in progressive Somerset, England, by David, an obvious lunatic: The womb compartment is filled with four litres of hot water and two lead weights...
...FINDERS KEEPERS...
...and distinguished member of one of old Peabody's most ancient and armigerous families: Re: North Shore Sunday, Nov...
...Hassle-avoidance is the privilege that most effectively distances the individual from the necessities of democratic living...
Vol. 26 • April 1993 • No. 4
