Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
New York Times Anna Quindlen, retiring cacograph for the New York Times, once again displays her literary gifts as she beholds a "moral compass" with a "prospect," a "terrifying prospect": This is...
...16 Bulletin that "We must make our own burgers" bemused me...
...In Indianapolis, police had to bring out SWAT team members...
...In due course, it becomes apparent that this is a shtick vice presidential belch, not a real vice presidential belch, and the vice president's guests are ultimately chuckling appreciatively...
...They literally were throwing things—tomatoes—spitting, making vile and vulgar gestures...
...Because when Newt Gingrich becomes Speaker of the House, that puts him third in the line of Presidential succession, after Mr...
...While not arguing for virtue in infanticide, I have to argue at least the plausibility of withdrawing maternal care...
...the famous Big Mac...
...Foreign aid, support for governments in El Salvador that slaughter people, gay rights, reproductive rights—you name it...
...Lorena's carnivorous diet made hervery excitable, sexually aggressive, and regularly drove her to anger...
...It wasn't just anti-Bill and anti-Hillary and anti-health care...
...One tries to figure out how to put this to oneself," says a Kennedy aide...
...Anger is coming from an overburdened liver and spleen, making one bilious and splenetic...
...Pushing your children into a lake is hardly that...
...November 10, 1994] 84 The American Spectator January 1995 Amherst Bulletin In the enlightened pages of a college town gazette, the Rev...
...Instead of making their lives permanently miserable, she drowned them...
...Economic adviser Gene Sperling grieved especially over the loss of New York Gov...
...No doubt this kind of hypocrisy is an element of democracy throughout the world, but it really does seem worse in America these days...
...It's a very depressing day...
...Louis Toodle-oo and Lull at Dawn and Things Ain't What They Used to Be and Blood Count...
...Harris Wofford lose, or Governor Cuomo lose...
...I was hoping we would have come through a little better than we did...
...Or Jesse Helms on anything...
...and you just hurt as a person...
...As the buses approached, a white Dodge Caravan blocked their path and gun control opponent Linda Thompson jumped out, wearing a shoulder holster with a loaded Colt .45...
...They are acknowledging their own limitation...
...November 14, 1994] Washington Post A medley of nonsensical bathos from Democrats in defeat, and published as a public service to demonstrate to taxpaying Americans that the National Endowment for the Arts is not needed to ensure the existence of amateur acting in America: There was no bigger winner-loser than Kennedy, who managed a stunning come from behind victory but won't be chairman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee anymore...
...You would prize him just as ardently if you were deaf...
...Gore...
...I am certain that I do not hear these pieces the way a black man hears them...
...November 16, 1994] Washington Post The Vice President of the United States speaks out, somewhere above Arkansas: "Anyone want some Vitamin C?" the vice president of the United States inquires...
...Michael Kinsley, instructs the British reader: The real American value on display in this election is hypocrisy—and I mean of the voters, not the politicians (well, the voters and the politicians...
...Simpson...
...New York Times Anna Quindlen, retiring cacograph for the New York Times, once again displays her literary gifts as she beholds a "moral compass" with a "prospect," a "terrifying prospect": This is my new motto: Keep Al Gore Healthy...
...I'm not saying that's not a part of it, but there's got to be more to it than that...
...Not bothering to doff his blue pin-stripe suit jacket, Albert Gore Jr...
...They were calling me communist, faggot, all kinds of things," he says...
...I've gotten a laugh with that since sixth grade," Gore confides...
...November 5, 1994] New York Times Good News from the prissy Anthony Lewis: With victory, would Newt Gingrich move from street fighter to statesman...
...And no one better exemplifies this new dietary behavioral syndrome than O.J...
...The enormous pressure behind her eyes, causing them to protrude so much, is coming from dietary excess, and shows her whole nervous system to be under immense strain...
...November 7. 1994] The American Spectator January 1995 85...
...Simpson had just gone to McDonald's for a Big Mac an hour or two before the murders took place...
...A lot of the people were just seething with hate...
...I can't imagine it is very much...
...How much can you hate a president...
...I knew Democrats would lose, but I had already digested in my own mind that Governor Cuomo was safe," Sperling said in the East Room before the president arrived...
...I don't know," the vice president replies...
...Donna Schaper, a certified minister from the United Church of Christ, makes this messy business of life comprehensible: We have a cat named Hudson who killed off a litter last month...
...with no reference to what we were trying to do, which is reform health care," says Ed Emerson, who organized a disastrous event in Springfield, MO...
...Demonstrators would show up with vicious signs...
...Ultimately it's sad, especially when they bring their kids...
...They want guaranteed health care—but they don't want to pay any more for it, or be inconvenienced in any way...
...etc.—as long as their tranquillity isn't disturbed...
...is wedged snugly behind the vice presidential worktable in the vice presidential cabin aboard Air Force Two...
...In parts of Missouri and Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, I feared for the lives of the folks that were on the tour," says trip organizer Kevin Howard...
...He is holding out a bottle of chewable tablets to the two lonely national reporters—the first to travel with him in many a day--who've come to find out just where he's been keeping himself these last few weeks of the 1994 campaign...
...November 11, 1994] Amherst Bulletin A glimpse at the kind of cerebral dialogue that is carried on in historic Amherst between such intellectual giants as Father Donna Schaper and Harold Kulungian, founder of the anti-hamburger movement: The ideas put forward by Rev...
...In one of her photos, her face was so tense that her eyes were virtually popping out of her head...
...Lorena' s favorite food, indicated when she was released from her 45-day psychiatric surveillance, in answer to a reporter's question: "What are you going to do now that you are free, Lorena...
...Let's take just a couple of recent celebrity cases, to observe the effects of the Big Mac Way of Life in America...
...It is, as regular people often say, "for the best...
...Yet Schaper finds some sort of philosophical consolation in the "do-it-yourself" independent approach to burgers...
...I blame Ronald Reagan...
...There is a strange, cruel mercy in the act...
...What is the difference in the contents, and in the effects, of burgers that we make at home vs...
...Donna Schaper in the Sept...
...I felt they were just using this issue, health reform, as a vent...
...The first place I'm going is to McDonald's . . ." she exclaimed joyfully...
...Elizabeth's mental hospital writing under the pen name Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of the New Republic: I sit in my room, a white man, and listen to East St...
...They want the United States to strut as the world's only remaining superpower and to preen as the great champion of democracy and capitalism—as long as this can be done with no risk of American blood or treasure...
...On a personal level it's a great victory, but that's narrow thinking," says another...
...Won't they cause stomach acid...
...October 29, 1994] New Republic More arty thoughts from patient #3741 of St...
...Inside the van police found another pistol and a military-style assault rifle with 295 rounds of ammunition...
...Often animal mothers and human mothers who refuse care know exactly what they are doing...
...The voters want lower taxes and smaller government—provided that doesn't include any government benefit they happen to be receiving...
...Mario Cuomo—who had been his boss and mentor before he joined the Clinton campaign...
...People in politics have all gone through the ups and downs at some point in their lives, but I think the sadness I feel is the kind I felt even before I was in a political government job," Sperling said...
...You could see the whites of her eyes both above and below the iris...
...November 11, 1994] Washington Post The venerable Post reports on what is to be encountered by health care cmsaders when traveling through the American Midwest: Daniel Lumley, a student from Seattle with a particular interest in health care—he'd lost an arm and a leg in a motorcycle accident—says he encountered abuse all along the way...
...But I am also certain that I hear them rightly, that I hear them as music...
...She had a litter in the spring and enjoyed herself immensely...
...When the second litter came in the fall, she refused to care for it at all...
...They want `change'—they're fed up, they're against the 'status quo', they're not going to take it any more, etc...
...He spills a few of the tablets on the table...
...It only took a few days to learn the answer: No...
...November 28, 1994] The Spectator (London, UK) America's Cromwell, the Rev...
...When Lorena Bobbitt was on trial last spring for cutting off her husband's penis, you could see in her some symptoms that are actually widespread in our society...
...Think of Orrin Hatch on the Anita Hill hearings...
...If you prize Ellington for the reason that he was a black man, you do not have to listen to him...
...I don't know what it was they hated so much," says Howard...
...You see people you really admire like (Pennsylvania Sen...
...Then he emits a most vice presidential belch...
...one of the reporters asks...
...But Susan Smith was making an announcement: she couldn't care for her children...
...And that is a terrifying prospect for the moral compass of this country...
Vol. 28 • January 1995 • No. 1
