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Arizona Republic
Harsh words for an apostate from the celebrated E.J. Montini, the Republic's resident bleeding heart and racial neu rotic: Jackie Robinson was born a Negro, staffed in sports,...
...Orrin Hatch is Attorney General...
...January 2, 1995] 76 The American Spectator March 1995 SPE Newsletter (Society for Photographic Education) More evidence of the intellectual excitement that enlivens the American left, holding out the promise that an ideological replacement to Marxism may be just around the corner: SPE 32nd NATIONAL CONFERENCE MARCH 16 - 19th, 1995 CALL FOR WORK "Women and Animals: Oppression, Representation and Resistance," For possible inclusion in the March 1995 SPE National Conference presentation and possible exhibition entitled "Women and Animals: Oppression, Representation and Resistance...
...These bodies are sold on every corner and the merchants get good business around this time of year...
...War is peace...
...They are taught nothing at all, in their opinion, except sex (how to do it), drugs (how to use them), and condoms (where to put them...
...According to these men, public schools are responsible for everything from Roseanne to Whitewater...
...Montini, the Republic's resident bleeding heart and racial neu rotic: Jackie Robinson was born a Negro, staffed in sports, and went on to become an unwavering campaigner for civil rights...
...Homosexuals are forced to wear pink triangles...
...Rush Limbaugh is Minister of Culture...
...Fall 1994] Sarasota Herald-Tribune The brutal reflections of Miss Christina Talley, who apparently goes by the nickname Chrissy and leads a melan choly life: Christmas is such a beautiful time of year...
...The state of public education is to blame for all of society's problems, and therefore is responsible for solving them...
...November 3, 1994] 77 The American Spectator March 1995...
...I'm impressed...
...Perhaps Halloween could better be celebrated by dressing up in ethnic costumes that teach kids about other cultures, about tolerance...
...John C. Greeley, a future chancel lor of the University of California at Berkeley, paints a portrait of the post Newt apocalypse: President Dole and the Republican majority have all but eliminated the welfare state, with social security only for Congress...
...Hillary doesn't back down on what she believes...
...We were scoring on Reaganomics...
...November 27, 1994] Time Once again the gruesome thoughts of a typical psychopath from the horripilating Christian Left: When Congressman Newt Gingrich was a graduate student at Tulane University, I baptized him by immersion into the membership of the St...
...Merry Christmas, and party on...
...It is often argued that "recreational fear" serves as a desensitizing exercise...
...Or, in memory of the past, wear costumes that remember the heroes that have gone before us...
...The middle-class moral highwaymen claim that children are no longer taught val ues, reading, spelling, morals, math, religion, writing or science...
...I think the Reagan announcement on Friday (that he has Alzheimer's) is basically what did it...
...Deadline: January 5, 1995...
...Carols ringing through the air...
...All of a sudden, sympathy set in for the guy...
...You're probably thinking, "I surely can't be taking part in these crimes," but these corpses are not human or even animal...
...How would we feel if, every day, we read yet another whiny opinion, telling us that everything is our fault and that we are doing a lousy job...
...The military budget has been tripled to help defeat the last Eskimo resistors...
...In their opinion, public education alone causes abortion and teen-age mothers, drugs and gun violence, divorce and gay people...
...December 9, 1994] New Republic The historic response, certain some day to appear in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, by Democratic chieftain Tony Coelho as to why his party suffered so dreadfully on November 8, proving that dementia is the price one pays to be a Liberal nowadays: "I haven't seen this written anywhere...
...So thanks, teachers...
...Given our collective concern for violence and crime, now would be a good time to stop dressing children in horrific clothing and calling it entertainment...
...January 4, 1995] Washington Post Bold philological reflections of a dys peptic nature elicited by Our First Lady's general nastiness and tendency at state dinners to spill food on those seated nearby: "Yes, I would say Hillary is a bitch, and I mean that with all admiration...
...Specifically looking for photo-based or related work by women artists that deals with issues of animal oppression, the animalizing of women and the sexualizing, and implicit feminizing of animals...
...She wrote her book after being stood up on a date and it dawned on her that many women suffered from "toxic niceness," also known as the doormat syndrome...
...In "S/He," Jane Comfort examines sexual and racial roleplaying in a series of sketches, a procession of characters and situations that is set to music by Mio Morales and incorporating text by Ms...
...Hilts, 38, edits two weekly newspapers in suburban New York...
...it was all over the evening news...
...Each year, thousands are killed just before the holidays...
...Comfort and excerpts from the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas...
...The top 1 percent of the nation now holds 97 percent of wealth, and the rest, working for beans and potatoes, are happy as clams...
...December 30, 1994] Santa Cruz County Sentinel Mr...
...Not now...
...December 12, 1994] New York Times Jennifer Dunning gives rapturous notice of a play certain to bring Frank Rich back to theater: The Altogether Different festival opened on Tuesday night at the Joyce Theater with a program that was certainly different and even more a puzzle...
...We should all thank Newt Gingrich for that...
...Now they are busy gutting it for the fish fry...
...Arizona Republic Harsh words for an apostate from the celebrated E.J...
...G. Avery Lee New Orleans [December 5, 1994] Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan) Another member of the Christian Left makes a moral pronouncement: Finally, we have somebody fun to hate...
...In other words, acting like a man...
...Everyone laughs to think there were once such things as unions...
...Charles Barkley was born a Negro, starred in sports, and has gone on to become a rich, spoiled, selfish Republican...
...Public floggings and hangings are considered fun...
...I think it really stopped us...
...I don't know what else could have happened...
...It's behaving assertively, with one's own best interests in mind...
...The vast majority of these bandwagon heroes are peevish, right-wing white males who are bubbling over with righteous froth and stewing with indignation...
...It amazes me that teachers still show up for work...
...Most of these bodies end up taking up scarce landfill area or just rotting in the front of people's houses, waiting for the garbage man to take them away...
...The people cheer and cheer and cheer...
...Please send slides, statement, resume, any supporting materials, and SASE for return to Karen vanMeenen, c/o Afterimage, 31 Prince St., Rochester, NY 14607...
...And a corpse in your living room...
...We were in danger of sanctimoniously drifting to the end of the century, compromising as we go...
...Snuggling next to a loved one near a toasty fire...
...Being in touch with your inner bitch doesn't mean behaving poorly, screaming and yelling," she says...
...Our polling showed the numbers were moving with us...
...Regardless of whether or not you believe there is a satanic connection with Halloween, we know that today's children will face such horrors as homicide, suicide, drugs, teen pregnancy and AIDS, either in their own lives or the lives of their friends while they are still children...
...Any woman who's in politics-any bitch who's worth her weight in politics-has got to have the courage of her convictions...
...They are displayed by consumers in their homes, covered in bright lights and plastic decorations...
...Dan Quayle is Minister of Education...
...Children playing in the snow...
...She is truly a role model for me," says Elizabeth Hilts, author of "Getting in Touch With Your Inner Bitch," a newly published handbook...
...But even worse, public education is to blame for stupid people-even though stupid people were around long before there were any public schools...
...As a mere parent of actual real live, public-school children, it's hard for me to believe that my children seem to have learned to read, write, do math and science and even some spelling...
...And the country reacted...
...Now that communists have been subdued by armies of Big Macs, these critics couldn't wait to get their hooks into the next enemy...
...The Rev...
...January 5, 1995] Free Lance Star (Fredericksburg, Virginia) Out there in Stafford, Virginia, the legitimate voice of the truly stupid is finally heard: If I were a public school teacher, I would find tiresome the windbags who bash public schools...
...January 12, 1995] New York Times Belles lettres as perpetrated by Robert Lipsyte, expert on race relations and sexual hygiene, on the sports page of the Times: The people Simpson seemed to have made feel good, including those TV and advertising executives who trailed in his testosterone spray and winked at his "roguish ways," are now, hopefully, uncomfortable...
...By act of Congress the words "liberal" and "soft" have been eliminated from the language...
...They hauled up public education...
...He plays golf with Dan Quayle, chats with Rush Limbaugh, has lunch with Clarence Thomas and talks about how he wants to run for the Alabama Governor's Office in 1998 as a Republican because he doesn't like paying a' rich man's taxes and believes the Democrats haven't done anything for African-Americans in the past 30 years...
...Ignorance is strength...
...Corporations, no longer restrained by whining environmentalists, now dump their poisons wherever they please...
...They are trees...
...Now we have Newt...
...Someone unfamiliar with our customs and traditions might perceive this holiday as a sort of sanctioned communal exercise in child abuse...
...Comfort and a towering, lushly endowed woman played by Andre Shoals lip-synch their way through a bit of rap banter that both espouses and shifts traditional sex roles...
...The panel discussion, led by feminist vegetarian author Carol Adams, artist and educator Susan kae Grant, and Afterimage editor Karen vanMeenen, will historically identify a cross-mapping between the feminist and animal rights movements...
...The closing number features a white male Anita Hill, a white female Clarence Thomas and a quartet of finger-popping black female Senators...
...I'm shocked to discover from these learned gentlemen that this sort of thing is going on at taxpayers expense...
...And I am out of here...
...In the schools, corporal punishment and prayer are now mandatory...
...But we were being very careful not to attack Reagan the man...
...The sick, the poor, the homeless are now where they belong, in prison or dead...
...We rationalize that small children should learn to confront their fears and a good way to do this is for trusted adults to fabricate morbid imaginary characters...
...Sally O'Keefe Stafford [December 20, 1994] Irvine World News (Irvine, California) Five days before Liberation Day 1994, an outburst from another reductio ad absurdum of progressive reform: Someone unfamiliar with our customs and traditions might find it peculiar that every last day of October, American adults find it festive to purposely frighten their children, dress them up as ghouls, ghosts, witches and monsters, and feed them unhealthful foods...
...But when he announced he had Alzheimer's...
...Charles Avenue Baptist Church...
...An early segment for eight seated performers promisingly explores male and female attitudes toward space and how to occupy it...
...Freedom is slavery...
...In the witty opening number, a tiny, scruffy man played by Ms...
...Perhaps I didn't hold him under long enough...
Vol. 28 • March 1995 • No. 3
