Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" Men's Confidential Noted in one of Liberalism's foremost intellectual reviews, a historic day that Our President surprisingly failed to observe, or...
...The White House has been saying, D'Amato, Dole, all this stuff,' and I have never made any comment...
...If you're a liberal, you're a bleeding heart...
...Manhood in America (meaning white manhood, he admits) is "less about the drive for domination and more about the fear of others dominating us, having power or control over us...
...It all started with the American Revolution...
...Not faux pearls, not humidors...
...Since acquiring legal protection in 1979, the whale population has failed to recover from a low of Soo...
...They believed that by owning something that touched the flesh of the Kennedys in a continuous and intimate way, they were achieving a continuous intimacy with the Kennedys—especially Jackie, who represented not only glamour but also dignity, serenity and courage...
...Dole said today...
...As a result, the St...
...Lawrence belugas have a lower birth rate than their Arctic brethren, as well as the highest incidence of cancer of any marine mammal...
...If the court rules in favour of P, the transsexual, all transsexuals in employment will be protected under the EC's Equal Treatment Directive...
...MARCH 30, 1996] New York Times Mary Gordon, the novelist, caught in deep reflections of an earnest and puerile nature on the Times op-ed page, where columnist Frank Rich also writes in pursuit of his own improved mental health: All this said, the Kennedy auction seems rather a special case...
...I've just sort of stayed out of it...
...A case known as P v. S and Cornwall County Council, currently before the European Court of Justice, is being seen as a landmark test by the transsexual community...
...MAY 27, 1996] The American Spectator • July r 99 6 85...
...MAY1996] Detroit Free Press Manhood in America: A Cultural History, perhaps the Das Kapital of the Men Wear Tutus Movement, gets a proper reviewing from Lev Raphael, author of the strangely uncelebrated Coming Out of Shame: Alexis de Tocqueville, one of the most famous foreign observers of American life, observed in 1832 that American men were "restless in the midst of abundance...
...The tears flowed...
...Nearly a decade ago I shut the door to a possible presidential race...
...Jackie will open the door any moment now and show us the narrowness of her measured waist, any second JFK will light up a cigar...
...What were people buying...
...Now tell me, what good is all this going to do when the state system kicks me out the gate...
...Democratic women might try this trick, but the frail vessel shtick doesn't work so well with their colleagues...
...Americans have survived their own unprecedented wickedness—many times...
...They were buying a spirit, an aura...
...Enid Waldholtz gets brisk analysis from one Hanna Rosin, in the revered TRB column of a sacred American sheet, who then commends the stupendous dignity of another Liberal crybaby: The point here is not that "Republican woman" is an oxymoron...
...Lawrence estuary...
...They can believe abortion is a sin...
...In an era when many poorAmericans struggle extraordinarily hard, the preachers blame them for their own poverty, turn them on one another, turn Americans against themselves...
...When Kimmel started his research, he was guided by the feminist perspective that defined manhood as "the drive for power, domination and control...
...They haven't left us...
...On the evening news and for days afterward, I got pilloried...
...If you're the current serving president, you're accused of being all of the above, depending on what day it is...
...I had asked to go to a halfway house, so that I would be able to make a couple of hundred dollars to be able to support myself until I could improve myself...
...Under a brilliant blue sky, I looked out across the open amphitheater in downtown Denver at hundreds of my supporters, many holding "Run Pat Run" signs...
...What all that moralizing does is to organize American rhetoric against social justice against progressive politics, against national community altogether...
...It is what Americans do to their own society in the name of arresting moral decline...
...Mine and theirs...
...I mean, I have learned a trade in bricklaying and took all kinds of classes, 12 weeks of stress and anger classes (one hour per week), 52 weeks of drug and alcohol classes, which the taxpayers paid for...
...MAY-JUNE 1996] The Independent The world-wide movement on behalf of disgusting people takes to the courts in the Old World: Within weeks Britain's transsexuals will know if they are entitled to protection under European sex equality law...
...Historian and sociologist Michael Kimmel says American men have always been restless because for centuries, we've been hying to prove our manhood...
...In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, reliquaries, encrusted with jewels, were created to provide appropriate containers for these precious objects, allowing a display at once reverent and making a point about the wealth of the owner...
...Patricia Schroeder chronicles the lachrymose disintegration of a presidential career that would have meant endless laughter for the combined readers, writers, and editors of your favorite monthly magazine of the arts: Crying has become so commonplace in politics, as all-American as red-white-andblue bunting, that it's now part of the furniture...
...APRIL 28, 1996] New Republic The shocking scandal of the Hon...
...Pierre Beland discovered that adult belugas eat fish loaded with lead, mercury and organochlorides, chemicals that become concentrated in their blubber and in the milk that sustains their calves...
...One professionally sound way to celebrate: Enter the Good Vibrations "Top 10 Reasons to Masturbate" contest...
...As I announced I was not going forward with a presidential bid, I could see the faces of my friends change, every one of them crestfallen...
...The moralizing routine was already old when the Synod of 1679 published its list of sins...
...Although we don't think our boss would be too understanding if we came in an hour late on May 7 in celebration of National Masturbation Day, we applaud the basic concept...
...For this they said, "No, you can't help yourself by going to a halfway house...
...The real threat is not moral decline...
...If you're a liberal, you're a bleeding heart, and if you're a conservative, you have no heart," Clinton said...
...These were believed to be very powerful...
...For Beland, the plight of the St...
...they can even, like Bay Buchanan, be single mothers running campaigns for candidates who think women should be housewives...
...I haven't commented on Whitewater since Day 1, so I won't comment on today's whatever," Mr...
...Geraldine Ferraro, too, claimed she knew nothing about her husband's questionable investments, but at least she did it with dignity...
...The story of moral depravity is well worn...
...Prayers said before them carried special efficacy, could even release souls from purgatory...
...MARcH 28, 1996]The Nation Another obtuse Nation writer reflects on the excesses of one of nature's great oafs, cites its dissipated lifestyle, and acquiesces in precisely the wrong conclusion — classic left-wing dyscogitations: Dying beluga whales beach themselves at an alarming rate in the St...
...Not all women have to be pro-choice, tree-hugging feminists...
...They called me names like 'dirty transvestite' and when I explained my situation, they said they wanted to see my breasts...
...And if you're the wife of the current sitting president, well, you just better make sure your hair is in place...
...What do you think—do you think that would meet anyone's approval...
...One poor victim is going to see my bad side, because I'll need to rob him to eat and break into his property to sleep at night to get out of the cold...
...MAY 17, 1996] 84 July r 9 9 6 • The American Spectator New York Times The McDougal-Tucker verdict is announced, and Citizen Dole declares he's innocent of all charges of wrongdoing, and maybe never ever been to Arkansas: Senator Bob Dole, the likely Republican candidate for President, was cautious in his response to the verdict...
...MAY 1, 1996] American Prospect The dark achievements of a moral perspective exposed by Professor James A. Morone, playboy political scientist at swinging Brown University: Despite the thunder, American spiritual life is not going to hell...
...And if you're the wife of the current serving president, you have to worry about your hair a lot...
...The brainchild of Good Vibrations, a sex-toy store and mail-order catalog, the holiday will give solo sex long-overdue recognition...
...Do we think that if we can live with something that belonged to them, we are denying their deaths...
...In fact, "American men have been haunted by fears that they are not powerful, strong, rich, or successful enough...
...Lawrence beluga is a metaphor for the death of wilderness at the hands of industrial progress...
...Are these classes going to put the food that I need in my mouth, or the shelter that I need around me...
...But Kimmel found the historical record revealed something very different when he examined contemporary sources...
...MAY 29, 1996] International Herald Tribune Our ghastly First Lady takes her patented whine to ever higher levels of egregiousness as an audience at Drew University sits agape: Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a commencement address at Drew University in New Jersey: "One of the great dangers at a time like this is to seize upon easy answers, to use generalizations and stereotypes to describe the world and to describe people who are unlike ourselves...
...if you're a conservative, you have no heart...
...MAY 20, 1996] Washington Post The Rt...
...When one of your readers falls victim to me—and one of them will fall victim, because of my need for survival—that person should understand it was nothing personal...
...And if you're the current sitting president, you're all of the above, depending on what day it is," she added...
...It was not always so...
...All that I have learned while in prison is pretty irrelevant now...
...This primitive desire to be close to an object that touched the body of a worshipped figure makes me think of saints' relics: chips of bone or fingernail or even pieces of cloth that touched the holy body...
...Sonia Carmichael, 34, a male-to-female transsexual, could not find employment as a woman, but was hired as a male kitchen porter...
...If you're over 40, you're a self-indulgent baby boomer...
...I did what I did because I had to do what I was forced to do by the state system...
...The first week was fine, but then the women started asking me questions," Sonia says...
...MAY 24, 1996]Pittsburgh Post-Gazette More cerebrations on good and evil by Ed Orleski of the State Correctional Institution at Cresson: I am in Cresson awaiting to get kicked out on my max date, with nowhere to go, no money in my pocket...
...411 Cpd 11101 — '111,(,11111 CURRENT WISDOM Men's Confidential Noted in one of Liberalism's foremost intellectual reviews, a historic day that Our President surprisingly failed to observe, or did he...
...But there's something creepy about enjoying all the power and prestige that accrues to a highly successful female politician and then trying to evade the drawbacks—like public scrutiny—by resurrecting the delicate woman image...
...Maybe I could also sell drugs to his children, so I could support myself...
...MAY 20, 1996] Washington Post Our ghastly First Lady takes her patented whine to even higher levels of egregiousness as an audience at the University of Maryland sits agape: "If you're under 25, you're an apathetic Generation X-er...
...But it was denied by the State Correctional Institution in Cresson because I owe money to the magistrate for fines which I was paying previous to coming to jail...
Vol. 29 • July 1996 • No. 7
