Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" Washington Monthly Within the Gloom of the Washington Monthly's editorial chambers, Hilaritas alights, and to delightful effect. Editor Peters, you card, you: After worrying about...
...As Burke puts it: "Here is a guy who really knows firsthand, up front, what health care can do for you...
...Upon goggling at their first syllabus, students realize that their reading load in their first college course alone will eclipse their reading for all of high school...
...However, what really disturbs me is the fact that many of us don't seem to care...
...It occurred to me that this high frequency may be the result, in large measure, of the center concrete divider...
...Conversely, any life out there may also be monitoring our radio and 'TV emissions into outer space...
...OCTOBER 3o, 1995] New York Times A shiny-faced child of the TV age makes bold to declare his proud philistinism — quoth Frank Rich: To me, a fledgling news junkie growing up in Washington in the 50's and 6o's, they were unmistakably giants...
...3. The notion, among some, that it doesn't matter...
...President Clinton is one sweet man, and he is for the common man...
...OCTOBER 30, 1995] Gorbachev Foundation "State of the World Forum" Mikhail Gorbachev reveals himself as a long-time reader of the editorial page of the New York Times and, let's face it, somewhat of a nincompoop: Q: Mr...
...4. A general ignorance of our symbiotic relationship vis-b-vis all creation...
...OCTOBER 28, 1995] Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) A great American newspaper goes out of its way to prove that a leading American feminist actually wears underwear and gets no credit, alas: As a long-time reader and subscriber as well as local citizen, I want to register my concern and indignation over the Nov...
...In the past few days, I've noticed several dead animals, at the side of and on the freeway...
...This balance of power virtually prohibits marriage, which is everywhere based on the provider role of men counterbalancing the sexual and domestic superiority of women...
...To tap into nature and unleash the human potential that we have inside of all of ourselves, and to see our intimate connection with our environment which has been eroding since the Industrial Revolution...
...Radio astronomers may now pinpoint their monitoring of "broadcasts" from such areas...
...Editor Peters, you card, you: After worrying about the issue for years and going back and forth on it more times than I would like to admit, I have finally come to agree with Clarence Thomas that affirmative action —to the extent it leads to the advancement of the unqualified—is wrong...
...And these are not mere pamphlets, mind you: more often than not, these tomes resemble Ulysses more than The Cat in the Hat...
...Gorbachev, you made it quite clear in your book Perestroika that your solution for the problems of the USSR was not to abandon the Marxist-Leninist course but rather to adapt it to modern times, and interpret it more accurately...
...I have written several letters to the President in support of him, and to think he authorized his staff to send me his photograph pleases me to no end...
...As Newt Gingrich and company stir up national anxieties about the future of medical care, viewers are very much in the mood for watching tales of crisis and stabilization...
...OCTOBER 30, 1995] Vevay Reveille-Enterprise (Vevay, Indiana) Ms...
...The problem with most organized religions is that their intolerance towards others leads to ignorance of the real world around them, and this leads eventually to war...
...CURRENT WISDOM Washington Monthly Within the Gloom of the Washington Monthly's editorial chambers, Hilaritas alights, and to delightful effect...
...Here's an answer you haven't heard: "The key problem of the welfare culture is not unemployed women with illegitimate children...
...2. Man-made systems which do not take into account our four-legged friends...
...The bad news for them is, man has by his lack of understanding and/or concern blocked their rights of passage...
...Today I received a picture of President Clinton, 8 by to and in full color...
...Additionally, I do believe that there is a spiritual vacuum that we must find a way to fill and I do believe that all systems have something to offer the world as we become more and more globally interdependent and have systemic convergence with one another...
...OCTOBER 20, 1995] New York Times Whilst reviewing "Chicago Hope" and "E.R.," the resident couch potato of the Old Gray Lady takes a stoic turn: Can prime time support two successful hospital shows...
...Absolutely...
...Can any of you Democrats blame me for feeling the way I do...
...NOVEMBER 27, 1995]The Nation An inscrutable communique discovered in the "Letters" page of the venerated Nation: A great lesson of the Simpson trial is that even a rich and popular black man cannot buy himself a fair trial...
...The decision to print that photo offers nothing to the reading public except the obvious: The Morning Call has now bought into this sleazy undercurrent which is tearing down our institutions, ruining the social fabric of our country and rendering as worthless the respect for civility needed to hold our nation together...
...I've come to the conclusion that this also applies to our furred brothers and sisters who by to live 24 hours a day in what was once their natural habitat...
...Dole, after all, spent 39 months in a hospital recovering from his war wounds...
...Journalists with a sense of responsibility don't do that...
...Ida of Switzer Square, back by popular demand: I am one proud and happy woman...
...My feet aren't touching the floor...
...In a nuclear world, this is our only chance of survival...
...NOVEMBER 6, 1995] San Francisco Examiner Another pearl from pundit Hillary, about travels to South Asia last spring with her daughter, and forget about animal rights: We had an unforgettable time everywhere we went...
...And also knows what it was like not to be able to pay for it...
...Gorbachev: My general beliefs have not changed...
...Support PBS...
...It is the women's skewed and traumatic relationships with men and boys...
...Given the quality of our radio and TV broadcasts, is it reasonable to assume that beings on another world would consider us an "intelligent species...
...2 photo of Hillary Clinton's unfortunate and accidental display of her undergarments...
...SEPTEMBER 27-OCTOBER 1, 1995]Lansing State Journal A patriotic recommendation on behalf of the whole planet Earth by T.G...
...Yet, in the past, the way in which those beliefs have been interpreted, applied to diverse cultures and forced along by man, instead of History, has been awful...
...What has resulted is the impossibility of finding courses in some departments which require fewer than ten books for the semester...
...Indeed, it has become fairly disturbing to consider the breadth of the reading loads demanded by an ever-growing number of courses at Yale...
...NOVEMBER 1995] San Francisco Examiner In her last column of Injun Summer, the fair Hillary again reveals herself an insufferable spoilsport: When I began this column more than three months ago, I hoped to respond occasionally to the many people who write...
...These harriers make it impossible for animals to traverse the highway, which for them is a means of egress...
...Clearly somewhere along the line various faculty members became jealous of this moniker and proceeded to endow their own courses with the same stature...
...I almost don't want to mention the source of this arresting notion—conservative George Gilder writing in the conservative American Spectator (June 1995) — for fear that the name and affiliation might lead some readers to suspend thought...
...IDA M. PETERS Switzer Square, Vevay [NOVEMBER 2, 1995] Washington Post After quoting another sagacious passage from the work of the esteemed George Gilder published in one of the great literary forums of Christendom, columnist William Raspberry says what has to be said to pass the censorship board at that unhappy asylum otherwise known as the Washington Post: What's wrong with welfare...
...Robert Dole's crafty campaign against hospitals is brilliantly revealed for the hypocrisy it is: The Dole camp's decision to block any health plan was no minor triumph of politics over principle...
...OCTOBER 30, 1995] Santa Barbara News-Press Proof that a lunatic can still compose exquisite prose: For those of us who love nature, and her creation, trails are and can be a source of travel and a hope when lost...
...May he win the 1996 election...
...There is not better proof than Justice Thomas himself...
...I also believe it is a great mistake to say that the West won the "cold war...
...I'm saddened by the sight of death under any circumstances for all creatures...
...We wore shalwar kameez, the native dress of Pakistan, to an exotic dinner in an ancient fort illuminated by candles, where we were entertained by dancing camels...
...Ben Bradlee, rising from the ashes of Camelot, refurbished a newspaper worth reading mainly for its comics with peppery new urban voices who finally woke up Washington's sleepy provincial culture...
...Capitalism is responsible for as much evil as communism ever was and we must now put that behind us and concentrate on our similarities, on how we can all move forward together without any dogmatism on any side...
...In a reversal of the usual pattern in civilized societies, the women have the income and the ties to government authority and support...
...I base this conclusion upon four factors: i. Excess speeds on all our highways and roads...
...Slime does that...
...NOVEMBER 10, 1995] 80 January 1996 • The American Spectator Yale Daily News A crisis in higher education at Yale, remonstrated against by the alert Jame Donath, an Eli senior and beloved Daily News columnist: Yes, books are indeed integral to life at Yale, a fact that usually hits home sometime around the beginning of Freshperson year...
...Do you still generally believe that the way for the world to perfect human nature is by eliminating the corrupting influence of the capitalist economic environment or do you now disagree with what you wrote in Perestroika...
...And Watergate was still to come...
...David Brinkley, who happened to live around the corner, turned TV news into a compulsory nightly ritual by bringing wit and skepticism to a trade in which most of the competitors sounded like ham actors auditioning for the role of Moses...
...NOVEMBER 12, 1995] Washington Post What passes for a historic first in the Clinton administration, as noted by Shalala, a local rock group: Shalala bragged that this is the first administration in which a policy can percolate from the bottom of a bureaucracy to the Oval Office "without ever touching a man's hands...
...It used to be the case some years back that English 129 was known as the "Book of the Week Club...
...SCOTT CURT Bethlehem [OCTOBER 6, 1995] New York Times Magazine Sen...
...One of my personal heroes is Gandhi...
...RICHARD S. GRALEWSKI Santa Barbara [OCTOBER 22, 1995] The American Spectator January 1996 81...
...So far, I have received more heartwarming and thought-provoking letters than I can count, and a few angry letters inappropriate in a family newspaper...
...The men are economically and socially subordinate...
...Smith of Lansing, Michigan: The recent news about finding a planet orbiting a sun in the constellation Pegasus has encouraged astronomers about the possibility of finding intelligent life elsewhere in this universe...
Vol. 29 • January 1996 • No. 1
