Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
New York Times The pitiable mental condition of Our President when during nationally televised press conferences the words "original deadline" are directed his way: Q. Mr. President, the original...
...Oh shame...
...I don't know...
...generous, lavish in giving...
...Guinier without first reading her legal articles carefully...
...Black Sparrow, $13...
...And could I, in good faith, wear them...
...Which side of the conflict would I be supporting by my action...
...She asked me to please try to say loreperson' because maybe that would help them think about selecting a woman...
...Or Iraq, where thousands were incinerated to "send a message" to Saddam Hussein...
...May 27, 1993] Oklahoma Gazette In a lusty, gutsy, macho column on l'affaire Hill-Thomas, University of Oklahoma Professor William W. Savage, Jr...
...The judge was struck by her blend of mental firepower and common horse sense...
...Yet when the Carnegie Foundation did a study of America, they found that with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes...
...Best of all, they were comfortable and an ideal accessory for the months ahead...
...There is a tendency, in fact, to flip into a state of uncontrollable, wolfish rage—lyssa was the ancient Greek word for it—whenever the slightest opportunity arises for the exercise of lethal force...
...Who was the biggest bleeding-heart liberal of them all...
...For what...
...He liked the way she analyzed a case, and he liked that she often went dancing...
...Clift: But she doesn't have them all at the same time...
...I didn't wear the shoes...
...June 5, 1993...
...I remember that kind of sensitivity and that discreet way of letting me know...
...I doubt if he would ever approve of welfare cuts to the poor...
...displays a memorable example of the New Sincerity that has swept Academe, revealing college profs not as nerds and fuss-budgets as had hitherto been their estate but as masters of the Primeval Howl, as Stanley Kowalskis with hairy chests and bushy nose hair, as genuine toughies: Brock's book is hooey...
...Excuse me, no disrespect intended, but the religious right doesn't own Jesus...
...Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) selects an unsettling rhetorical prop for use before a basically heterosexual audience: Mr...
...What had happened to the factory and the people who worked there...
...But by late April, winter had passed, and it was definitely time to take the sandals out and wear them...
...I wish the American people could see this tie...
...And he spoke with ill-concealed bitterness about what he described as "a campaign of right-wing distortion and vilification" in the news media, mentioning with particular scorn an April 30 Wall Street Journal op-ed article by Clint Bolick, a longtime associate of Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court...
...June 7, 1993] McLaughlin Group At the American equivalent of the Oxford Union, Mr...
...Barnes: I'll tell you—no, I'll tell you what it was...
...Guinier, would set department policy, and wrong to let political pressures build to the bursting point before deciding what he ought to do...
...The Jesus I know was no Bible-thumper...
...I watched those hearings...
...The oracle of Spotsylvania County, Miss Catherine Schaffner, reveals the true identity of yet another Clinton Democrat, to the displeasure and embarrassment of the religious right: Liberalism has been blamed for all of society's ills short of natural disasters...
...A uniformed American with firepower is much like a 3-year old with a garden hose: someone in whose presence no one can expect to remain dry and composed for long...
...On the one hoof he acknowledges that he was wrong to nominate a person whose perverse writings he had not read and on the other hoof he says that those who had read and remarked on their perversities are guilty of "right-wing distortion and vilification"—the sentiments of a perfect ass: He acknowledged that he had been wrong to nominate Ms...
...They were made of richly polished, smooth leather and reasonably priced...
...June) [May 24, 1993] Congressional Record In the course of another historic debate on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, the Hon...
...Summer seemed so far away...
...Sometimes, they can swallow easily, sometimes they cannot...
...President, the original deadline for the unveiling of your A. I'm sorry...
...I can't...
...ISBN 0-87685-899-X...
...Jesus Christ, that's who...
...You have to learn how to master your gag reflex and suppress it...
...Armed overkill has become the rule...
...But the weather turned cold again and the sandals languished in their box until I, the ultimate shopper, contemplated returning them...
...wrong to assume, when they caused controversy, that she could still be confirmed because people would know that Attorney General Janet Reno, not Ms...
...May 6, 1993] San Francisco Chronicle On the op-ed page of a great American daily, another neurotic lectures: On a false spring day months ago, I bought a pair of sandals...
...As I unwrapped the tissue paper, I suddenly noticed the stamp on the soles: "Made in Bosnia...
...not intolerant or prejudiced...
...She seemed such a well-rounded person, and so nice...
...But my colleagues on the other side have gone it one better: they have a gag reflex they can turn on and off...
...Well, I was reading a book the other day about how things are done, and it talked about how to become a sword swallower...
...May 21, 1993] Publishers Weekly PW announces the forthcoming publication of more infantilia from one of the untutorable dopefetchers of the 1960s, the 1960s, the 1960s, and on into their absurd dotage, which generally hits these wretches when they turned 35: HYMN TO THE REBEL CAFE Edward Sanders...
...Look, this woman has had four hairdressers...
...Later, there was a note on his desk...
...The poems are still irreverent, still laced with an easygoing, goofy comic quality ("The cafes come/The cafes wane/but the best and the final rebel cafe/is inside the human brain...
...What is a liberal anyway...
...In his writing, he has consistently concentrated on social inequities, the environment and violence while gossiping cheerfully about like-minded poets such as the late Ted Benign or Jerome Rothenberg...
...Populists don't have four hairdressers in three months...
...Go ahead, I'm sorry...
...If you were neighborly to the least of these, you were neighborly to me...
...Think of Panama, where hundreds—thousands?—were killed in the process of a single arrest...
...Apple reports on a recent conversation with Our President in which this great big lovable lug of a pol displays his amazing capacity to have it both ways...
...He followed the spirit, not the letter of the Bible, and he had but one test for righteousness—the test of neighborliness: "Did you feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit those in prison, heal the sick...
...Inasmuch as I'd been around the block a couple of times and could almost always recognize a slimeball when I saw one, I figured he wouldn't be squirming like a toad on a stick unless she was right on the money...
...I just lost it for a moment...
...One day, said Keith, he was instructing a jury and told them to retire to the jury room to choose a foreman...
...cloth $25 -900-7 Sanders, founder of the rock group The Fugs and editor of F--- You/A Magazine of the Arts, has been connected with almost every aspect of the counterculture...
...In fact he wasn't even a biblical literalist...
...Fred Barnes suffers a severe set-back from the cerebral Miss Eleanor Clift, leading proponent of the American school of illogical positivism: Mr...
...May 24, 1993] Washington Post Someone by the name of Keith poeticizes on someone by the name of Guinier in the Style section of the New Age: Guinier clerked two years for Keith, the middle years of the 1970s...
...My dictionary defines "liberal" as "favoring progress or reform...
...The Clintons have tried to present themselves as these down-home folks from Arkansas—they're populists...
...This volume is not significantly different from his earlier work...
...They're back in their box, in my closet, waiting...
...June 1, 1993] The Nation Sentimental flapdoodle from Miss Barbara Ehrenreich, author not surprisingly of The Worst Years of Our Lives, essaying the historic record of that hellish country that, not long ago, developed such breakthroughs in military science as "limited war" and "graduated escalation": Americans are not known for their restraint in matters involving armed confrontation...
...That's a great tie...
...June 4, 1993] New York Times Times reporter R.W...
...Could there really be factories in that distant land where shoes were being made while anarchy reigned...
...I saw that twitchy little tub sitting there, eyes spastic, sweat beading upon his brow, claiming to be a victim of a high-tech lynching...
...Why do you suppose that is...
...I stared in disbelief...
...June 18, 1993] Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, Virginia) Oh horror...
...And I watched her, calm, dignified, stating the unpleasant case...
...His message—"The worst drug/is the culture of greed, demolishment /& destruction of open land"—isn't subtle, but it's hard to disagree with...
...Speaker, we have heard a lot about the gag rule...
Vol. 26 • August 1993 • No. 8
