Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" Associated Press Our President, appearing yet again before an Arkansas jury, apparently after his threemartini breakfast: Q: Can you tell the jury why you appointed...
...And what about the already appalling problem of human overpopulation...
...The New York Observer ran column after tedious column about this non-event in its July 8-15 edition...
...JUNE 19, 1996] Evansville Press The good old days as recollected by Bill Webb, doubtless a university professor: I don't like the direction Newt and his boys want to take this country...
...Markham was detained by store personnel after setting off the anti-theft alarm...
...MARJORIE L. HILLS Moraga [JULY 3, 1996] 92 September r 9 9 6 • The American Spectator New York Press From the pen of the late Alexander Cockburn, once nutritional adviser to Jeffrey Dahmer, shocking prurience lodged against Michael Kinsley, Liberalism's Red Skelton: Microsoft's Slate, edited by Kinsley, must be the most overhyped amalgam of electronic sewage in the history of communication...
...They struggle to give their kids a decent life...
...JULY 2, 1996] The American Spectator . September r996 93...
...It appears he wants to go back to the days when one percent of the population had 99 percent of the money and when a family was lucky to have a cabbage to feed their family while rich people were building mansions while paying their employees $3 a week...
...Is it mere coincidence that Hollywood's current idea of a good time is cooking up a vicious and conspicuous enemy-literally an "evil empire," to use an '8os catch phrase -and then whipping up our emotions with enough military hardware, us-against-them rhetoric, and explosive nuclear destruction to win a dozen wars...
...Must we throw away the wise and caring only to be replaced by the greedy...
...Wake up before it's too late...
...One, because eternal storing of male sperm of endangered species may mean the ability to restore almost-extinct animals in the future, but where will we put them when their habitat will have long been usurped by us humans...
...The notion that a woman makes 72 cents to a man's dol lar is completely unacceptable," said Anne Ellison, president of the local NOW chapter...
...We've witnessed in scarcely more than a generation a plague whose decimation of young men, nearly a third of a million and counting, is rivaled in U.S...
...Krauthammer questioned the portrayal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his wheelchair by saying, "Does it justify violating the self-image, the pride, the intentions of the man whom we are ostensibly honoring...
...JULY 8, 19961 Darien Times (Darien, Connecticut) In a moment of the utmost urgency, M. Sherwood of Norwalk applies a lesson doubtless learned in his sex education class and, alas, is clapped into the calaboose: Markham Sherwood of Norwalk, 19, was charged with sixth-degree larceny after allegedly stealing a pack of condoms from CVS, 964 Post Road, at 4 p.m...
...And the strippers, "they're heroes," Demi says...
...JULY 21, 1996] Toledo Herald The art of feminist price-gouging: Charging men $1.25 more for the same ser vice, the local chapter of the National Orga nization of Women sent their message straight to the wallets of Toledo residents Saturday with a "Pay Equity" carwash...
...Leading the attack is our illustrious speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich...
...Our whole nation goes down when good leadership is attacked and lingering doubts left in its wake...
...It's not really about taking your clothes off," Demi Moore, whose savagely tanned behind is available for viewing throughout, had said earlier...
...JUNE 20, 1996] Los Angeles Times Rachel of L.A...
...According to that poll, 87 percent of the journalists in America voted for Bill Clinton in 1992...
...Is Michael Kinsley truly the only virgin ever to have appeared on Crossfire...
...Rather, today's strip clubs are capital-intensive female-empowerment zones...
...Markham reportedly told police he took the $3.99 pack of Trojans because condoms are given away free at college...
...Supporters will argue that it's just for fun, but fun can be revealing...
...Surely this is food for thought...
...The male arrogance of our species makes me shudder and induces vomiting...
...JULY 17-23,1996] ABA Journal In one of the sole remaining organs of the Communist Party of the USA, jesuitry worthy of a Hiss: The advice of Georgetown law professor Mark Tushnet in a law review article that concludes Justice Clarence Thomas lied during his confirmation hearings: "[C]itizens should not regard cases decided by the Supreme Court by a vote of 5 to 4, with Thomas in the majority, as law at all...
...Civil libertarians have long been concerned about the Government's extensive files on Amer ican citizens, but have been thwarted, most ly by Republican judges and politicians, in their attempts to rein in the Federal Gov ernment...
...history only by the Civil War...
...seems to be losing it: I am extremely disturbed by the implications of Ralph Brinster's discovery of "biological immortality...
...I think we should take a second look...
...Appreciate the leadership and compassion of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, both at home and abroad, in economics, health, education and crime...
...MARCH 1996] New York Times At long last, from Rutgers law professor Frank Askin, the real lesson of Filegate: "Filegate" may have a silver lining...
...One woman I met," says Demi, who did gobs of research for her role, "was a single mother with two children, both attending private Catholic school...
...In the same essay a poor choice of words, well, at least of one word...
...MAY 2, 1996] Christian Science Monitor Hortatory sentiments of movie critic, David Sterritt, an obvious agent of the country's growing left-wing militia movement, which has chapters in many urban health food stores and the occasional "adult" bookstore: Seen in this context, "Independence Day" is a great leap backward to '5os-type paranoia...
...To the generation of gay men now entering middle age, AIDS never strays too far from consciousness...
...JULY 15/22,1996] Evansville Courier Sophisticated calculations from Mr...
...Are females not carriers of "superior" eggs...
...Like love and death, both of which it partakes of, the subject of AIDS seems bottomless...
...It's a comedy about a woman fighting for her 7-year-old daughter...
...There isn't a soul alive who couldn't be put exactly in her position given the money spent and the venom and the hate generated by the opposition...
...He further suggests that any chair but a wheelchair for FDR is acceptable...
...JULY 8,1996] The Nation Death on the field of honor as seen by a reviewer for the venerable Nation: The flood of gay memoirs this season is a marker of survival in perilous times...
...Has he ever enjoyed sexual congress with anyone, anything, even his own hand...
...But as Demi says, "It's about time that people forget that image of strip clubs as seedy places...
...Whether Krauthammer is disabled or non-disabled, his usage of able-ist (disability prejudice) descriptors such as "afflicted" and "wheelchair-bound" may reflect his own fear and negative attitude toward disability...
...JUNE 27, 1996] Chicago Tribune The esoteric twaddle of a progressive crank: As a woman sculptor who has a disability and uses a wheelchair, I would like to respond to Charles Krauthammer's commentary headlined "Defining the image of FDR" (Op-Ed, June 17...
...Lawrence, but is this really a mature male of the species...
...If 87 percent of these people voted for President Clinton, I think it proves the right man got the job and should be re-elected...
...Time was, men went to strip clubs because they liked watching naked women...
...Enduring his self-satisfied jabber reminds me of Ed Koch, and for the same reason...
...Two, if this technique is used to "immortalize" humans, it will be the sperm of males...
...Robert Blowers of Gentryville, Indiana, lead to an unlikely apotheosis: As a viewer of CNN and a concerned citizen, I was watching CNN on April 24 and saw the latest poll about the voting record of the news media...
...JULY 19, 1996] New York Teach your children well: "You know what-dancing and nudity was not what the movie was about," Bruce Willis was saying last week at the New York premiere of Striptease, the movie in which his wife dances naked for men but you don't really get to see her new breasts until she takes a shower about 36 minutes into the film...
...Republicans are perceiving this as proof that the media are liberal-biased...
...An FDR portrayed without his wheelchair in his memorial sculpture will justifiably reflect historical and contemporary societal ableism...
...Will only male traits be preserved...
...JULY 2, 1996] San Francisco Chronicle The splenetic Marjorie L. Hills, cerebrating on the correspondence page of a venerated sheet of record, reminds us of how appealing Hillary Milhous Clinton will look in jailhouse stripes: Editor-A brilliant, wise and caring individual is being unfairly maligned for political gain by the Republicans...
...Thursday...
...Media people are professional and are accountable for their coverage of the facts, figures and everything they report in the political arena...
...Hell on earth would be to fetch up on a desert island with nothing to read but [Maureen] Dowd and no one to listen to but Kinsley...
...Paul Monette's Borrowed Time, published six years ago, was the first memoir to situate the epidemic at its heart, but these new accounts are hardly redundant...
...The FDR memorial sculpture wheelchair controversy illuminates how deeply societal disability stereotypes are symbolically embedded within the wheelchair...
...Differences such as gender, race, ethnicity or disability are not value judgments...
...But a person uses a wheelchair for mobility purposes, similar to a person who uses an automobile...
...CURRENT W1 SDOM f(RWei Associated Press Our President, appearing yet again before an Arkansas jury, apparently after his threemartini breakfast: Q: Can you tell the jury why you appointed Herby Branscum to the Highway Commission in January of 1991...
...A: I appointed him because I thought he was the best person under consideration because-and I thought it was an important appointment and I needed someone who would do a very good job with the job, which I thought he would do, because he worked on the Claims Commission, as chairman of the Democratic Party, University of Central Arkansas board...
...She worked at nights so she could spend time with her kids...
...I don't want to sound like D.H...
...JUNE 28, 1996] Buffalo News Columnist Hillary Rodham Clinton pays tribute to the late Virginia Kelley: My late mother-in-law was a chain smoker for most of her life...
...It seems to me that therefore they would be the most informed and objective people in America...
...Now that Republicans are out raged that the Clinton Administration obtained FBI files on more than 300 promi nent Republicans, maybe the average Amer ican citizen can finally get some protection...
...These differences are integral aspects of one's identity and experience of the world, and do not need to be overcome, hidden or silenced...
...Whenever she came to visit us at the Governor's Mansion in Little Rock, she always had to go outside to smoke...
Vol. 29 • September 1996 • No. 9
