Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post Fresh from accusing Jesse Helms of having "a brick for a brain," the gentle Richard Cohen proffers war stories of other hellish Republicans he has faced in the...
...Here are a few...
...We still teach school-age boys to fight back, not to tolerate bullies...
...We glorify war...
...What you need at that moment is time to think, so you'd exercise your right to use some of your 24 hours...
...It's strictly for people who need just a little more time here and there...
...Some of them give birth to boys and girls they do not love...
...You tell us we can't swim in the river because Cal-Am is the king...
...The rich man damns the river and tells the poor man he can't swim...
...We still teach school-age boys to fight back, not to tolerate bullies...
...For just an extended moment, you'd realize your true nature and gift...
...we tell boys...
...Lord knows we've seen you force your subjects to do the same in one trial or another...
...It might just be me...You tell me that I am poor, but I know that I am rich, I gaze at the earth and realize nature has provided everything we need...
...a boy who believes his pride is at stake may not...
...These issues will include topics such as poverty, institutional racism, the contemporary African American experience and the role of white supremacy in these issues...
...The system sounds feudal—it is because it is...
...SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1997] Chicago Reader A much appreciated resurrection: Last week I mistakenly described saxophonist Kalapanisha Maurice McIntyre as "late...
...Cashorali makes us take a second look...
...A boy with self-esteem can walk away from a fight...
...Sociologists have known it for decades: We use tough words with boys and sweet words with girls from the day they're born...
...The class will discuss Tupac Shakur's life...
...The intimacies of old-style town democracy would flourish under "Oakland Ecopolis," a draft that Brown has postedon the Web site for his We the People organization...
...The Ecopolis, the plan says, is no less than Oaklanders "striving to negotiate a common life of equity, balance and tolerance...
...We glorify war...
...The audiences at those forums seemed to shimmer with hate...
...Before you have to move on and discount the compliment with feelings of guilt for all the things you haven't accomplished, you stop time...
...Faber & Faber...
...NOVEMBER 18, 1997] The American Spectator • January 1998 77...
...If the book's premise seems odd (do we really need a "Jack and the Penis...
...Your definition of "mack" was correct—but you used it wrong...
...1997] Coast Weekly Inscrutable correspondence among Californians: I was reading your "Movies" column a week ago and noticed your "New Screenings" part...
...For example, you could find yourself in a heated argument with someone you love...
...It's the first indication the former governor has given for what he has in mind for Oakland since announcing his candidacy Tuesday and the best glimpse so far of how he would function as mayor...
...But most of the time, it's used as a noun, like in Mark Morrison's song, "Return of the Mack" and the rapper Mack Just to fill you in...
...I am just a being walking along with the rest of you, but if you do not see what's coming it's going to be the test of you...
...The African American Studies department will offer a new upper-division course during the spring semester, 1998...
...Between Quint, Cal-Am and Stonepine the peasants have been banned from gathering at the river...
...Ooh, you're a tough guy...
...But most of the time, it's used as a noun, like in Mark Morrison's song, "Return of the Mack" and the rapper Mack Just to fill you in...
...we coo at them when they raise their tiny fists, as babies do...
...NOVEMBER 10, 1997] The Sun (Monterey, California) In the "LETTERS (and prose)" section of a distinguished Monterey gazette, the reflections of a promising Hillary Rod-ham Clinton wannabe: We work from nine to five for the corporation goal...
...DENISE "D...
...Cashorali makes us take a second look...
...we coo at them when they raise their tiny fists, as babies do...
...To ignore that is to censor history —and, and, beyond that, to say that the painful African American experience is not worth mentioning...
...OCTOBER 24, 1997] Popline (World Population News Service) A leading sexologist sees the big picture: "It is really unbelievable that it takes only a few seconds to become pregnant but almost two decades to raise a child to become an adult...
...Cashorali's tales assume the naturalness of men loving other men, and he treats even the most painful difficulties of gay life with delicacy, tact, humor and empathy...
...George Washington owned other human beings—sold them, bred them and, in ways then considered unremarkable, mistreated them, if only by keeping them illiterate...
...Is it controlling all, owning all, abusing all...
...Before you have to move on and discount the compliment with feelings of guilt for all the things you haven't accomplished, you stop time...
...Let us ask ourselves how much is enough...
...we tell boys...
...No one else could intrude on your hours, nor could you share your time with another soul...
...So come on with your systems, your courses, a freeway and the dam and that which propels all this, your never ending greed...
...The rich man damns the river and tells the poor man he can't swim...
...NOVEMBER 4, 1997] Branding Iron (University of Wyoming) Quality of propaganda enlivening the curriculum at the Harvard of the West: Former hip-hop singer Tupac Shakur is still alive at UW...
...We sold our souls for rock and roll...And you want to pay us with a bulls—t rap...About a balanced budget, more golf courses subdivisions, a freeway to an unneeded dam and all the other crap...
...Fight for your rights...
...Schoolchildren, particularly in black and Latino neighborhoods, would build their own simulated cities on Oakland-customized computer software...
...We are collectively implicated in their deaths, and every other episode of domestic violence, in dozens of ways that seem too small to matter, but do...
...NOVEMBER 4, 1997] Branding Iron (University of Wyoming) Quality of propaganda enlivening the curriculum at the Harvard of the West: Former hip-hop singer Tupac Shakur is still alive at UW...
...Imagine how you could carry on facing the challenges of life once you've re-engaged time after that...
...The system sounds feudal—it is because it is...
...Makes me wonder where all the good times have gone especially when I see people in need, which brings us back to corporation greed...
...CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post Fresh from accusing Jesse Helms of having "a brick for a brain," the gentle Richard Cohen proffers war stories of other hellish Republicans he has faced in the course of his professional life: Years ago I used to attend an event called the National Review Forum...
...Imagine how you could carry on facing the challenges of life once you've re-engaged time after that...
...OCTOBER 28...
...You'd think over what to do or say and then re-engage life...
...Between Quint, Cal-Am and Stonepine the peasants have been banned from gathering at the river...
...It's the first indication the former governor has given for what he has in mind for Oakland since announcing his candidacy Tuesday and the best glimpse so far of how he would function as mayor...
...I apologize for the error...
...The intimacies of old-style town democracy would flourish under "Oakland Ecopolis," a draft that Brown has postedon the Web site for his We the People organization...
...The class will discuss Tupac Shakur's life...
...Makes me wonder where all the good times have gone especially when I see people in need, which brings us back to corporation greed...
...OCTOBER 30, 1997] Washington Post The feline Richard Cohen abandons himself to another of his goody-two-shoes screeds—this time on the late George Washington—and again reveals the slovenliness of his mind...
...In Brown's ecological metropolis, the rich and well-connected yield power to individual citizens set free to collaborate on transcendental solutions to such problems as crowded streets, ugly architecture and work that saps the soul...
...The African American Studies department will offer a new upper-division course during the spring semester, 1998...
...When "mack" is used as a verb, its tense doesn't change...
...According to a source at Delmark Records, which last year reissued his Forces and Feelings (197o), McIntyre is alive and well and performs frequently for the benefit of New York's subway patrons...
...What you need at that moment is time to think, so you'd exercise your right to use some of your 24 hours...
...It was clear they believed their opponents lacked not only a cogent ideology but legitimacy as well...
...Here are the Princes Charming and Fairy "Godmothers" kept so vigilantly out of the nursery—ready to flesh out, in a "normal" vocabulary, childhood fantasies usually treated as abnormal...
...At any moment you could stop the entire world—everything would sort of freeze—and you could take some time to do whatever you'd like to do by yourself...
...The new course, "Tupac Shakur: A seminar," will cover Shakur's life, films, music and poetry...
...Schoolchildren, particularly in black and Latino neighborhoods, would build their own simulated cities on Oakland-customized computer software...
...The city would lead the way in creating parks, bike paths and in buying vehicles that run on electricity or natural gas...
...NOVEMBER 18, 1997] The American Spectator • January 1998 77 Detroit Free Press More carnage in America's battle between the good girls and the bad boys, this time provided by Susan Ager, quotidian columnist for the venerable Free Press: Two young women were murdered this week, 15 miles apart, by men who claimed to love them...
...George Washington owned other human beings—sold them, bred them and, in ways then considered unremarkable, mistreated them, if only by keeping them illiterate...
...Even boys who are dearly loved get coached early...
...The Ecopolis, the plan says, is no less than Oaklanders "striving to negotiate a common life of equity, balance and tolerance...
...SHASTA BODHISATTVA Cannel Valley [AUGUST 21, 1997] 76 January 1998 • The American Spectator Detroit Free Press More carnage in America's battle between the good girls and the bad boys, this time provided by Susan Ager, quotidian columnist for the venerable Free Press: Two young women were murdered this week, 15 miles apart, by men who claimed to love them...
...That claims to decide for my friends and I. If thou art god lets see you walk on water...
...It was on those evenings that I made a discovery: Conservatives can be mean...
...Say a friend or loved one just said something about the essential goodness you provide to the rest of the world, and it touched you...
...Not everyone will be convinced, however...
...It might just be me...You tell me that I am poor, but I know that I am rich, I gaze at the earth and realize nature has provided everything we need...
...19.95 (16op) ISBN 0-571-19926-7 Los Angeles author and performer Cashorali follows up his Fairy Tales with this collection of 13 fables adapted to speak to contemporary gay men...
...Lord knows we've seen you force your subjects to do the same in one trial or another...
...You'd think over what to do or say and then re-engage life...
...You'd fully drink in what you mean to someone else...
...Men who avoid combat we distrust and deride...
...Who art thou sitting most on high...
...Fight for your rights...
...You're quite a fighter, aren't you...
...The city would lead the way in creating parks, bike paths and in buying vehicles that run on electricity or natural gas...
...At any moment you could stop the entire world—everything would sort of freeze—and you could take some time to do whatever you'd like to do by yourself...
...Faber & Faber...
...In selecting a model for a better Oakland, Brown would contrast not Oakland and a comparatively healthy city such as Pasadena, but Oakland and the Italian hill town of Perugia—an urban community that has sustained its integrity over hundreds of years...
...nor does the rest of your prissy sentence follow: In fact, the argument could be made that until African Americans and other minorities started protesting, history was perversely distorted, although no one much complained...
...You charge us $5.0o for an adventure pass that was given us free when we exited the womb...
...Your definition of "mack" was correct—but you used it wrong...
...You're quite a fighter, aren't you...
...The audiences at those forums seemed to shimmer with hate...
...Sociologists have known it for decades: We use tough words with boys and sweet words with girls from the day they're born...
...According to a source at Delmark Records, which last year reissued his Forces and Feelings (197o), McIntyre is alive and well and performs frequently for the benefit of New York's subway patrons...
...OCTOBER 29, 1997] San Francisco Chronicle Renewed life in a famous American cartoon character: Newly announced mayoral candidate Jerry Brown is constructing an environmental plan for Oakland in which solar generators quietly hum, eco-farmers grow food and "sustainable fishermen" haul in their bounty...
...We sold our souls for rock and roll...And you want to pay us with a bulls—t rap...About a balanced budget, more golf courses subdivisions, a freeway to an unneeded dam and all the other crap...
...Is it controlling all, owning all, abusing all...
...These issues will include topics such as poverty, institutional racism, the contemporary African American experience and the role of white supremacy in these issues...
...Even boys who are dearly loved get coached early...
...To ignore that is to censor history —and, and, beyond that, to say that the painful African American experience is not worth mentioning...
...In the king's river we cannot swim because he now says it is his...
...Young man, one cannot "ignore" history and then "censor" it...
...For just an extended moment, you'd realize your true nature and gift...
...Who art thou sitting most on high...
...Studying Shakur's life is not only a study of a hip-hop gangsta rap star, but also a look into serious and controversial issues, course instructor Omawale Akintunde said...
...A baby smiles and a flower grows," the plan says...
...You ban mother nature's most sacred herbs then fill us with your prophecies of gloom...
...You'd need to be particularly careful how you'd word your case...
...As for the conservative debaters, they were a skillful lot, but they were also smug...
...When "mack" is used as a verb, its tense doesn't change...
...As for the conservative debaters, they were a skillful lot, but they were also smug...
...We teach boys pride, which can be dangerous...
...DENISE "D...
...A boy with self-esteem can walk away from a fight...
...No one else could intrude on your hours, nor could you share your time with another soul...
...SHELLAN" CAN Monterey [SEPTEMBER 21, 1997] Daily Times-Call (Longmont, Colorado) Pensees, Rocky Mountain High—style, from Paul Flanders, a sadly under-appreciated scribe: In my version of a fantasy world, everyone would be given 2.4 extra hours a year...
...Here are a few...
...It was sponsored by the National Review magazine and often featured its star writers, including the founding editor, William F. Buckley Jr...
...You'd need to be particularly careful how you'd word your case...
...You tell us we can't swim in the river because Cal-Am is the king...
...You ban mother nature's most sacred herbs then fill us with your prophecies of gloom...
...One guy in particular used to stomp his cane on the floor and seethe whenever the name Roosevelt was mentioned...
...So come on with your systems, your courses, a freeway and the dam and that which propels all this, your never ending greed...
...We teach boys pride, which can be dangerous...
...OCTOBER 24, 1997] Popline (World Population News Service) A leading sexologist sees the big picture: "It is really unbelievable that it takes only a few seconds to become pregnant but almost two decades to raise a child to become an adult...
...Studying Shakur's life is not only a study of a hip-hop gangsta rap star, but also a look into serious and controversial issues, course instructor Omawale Akintunde said...
...Ooh, you're a tough guy...
...Another possibility would be to use the time to extend an exquisite moment...
...In Brown's ecological metropolis, the rich and well-connected yield power to individual citizens set free to collaborate on transcendental solutions to such problems as crowded streets, ugly architecture and work that saps the soul...
...NOVEMBER 10, 1997] The Sun (Monterey, California) In the "LETTERS (and prose)" section of a distinguished Monterey gazette, the reflections of a promising Hillary Rod-ham Clinton wannabe: We work from nine to five for the corporation goal...
...Another possibility would be to use the time to extend an exquisite moment...
...Some of them give birth to boys and girls they do not love...
...Say a friend or loved one just said something about the essential goodness you provide to the rest of the world, and it touched you...
...OCTOBER 28...
...We make it hard for poor women who don't want babies to end their pregnancies...
...The new course, "Tupac Shakur: A seminar," will cover Shakur's life, films, music and poetry...
...SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1997] Chicago Reader A much appreciated resurrection: Last week I mistakenly described saxophonist Kalapanisha Maurice McIntyre as "late...
...For example, in Tony Toni Tone's song "Let's Get Down," DJ Quik raps "...you know you wanna mack this...
...OCTOBER 29, 1997] San Francisco Chronicle Renewed life in a famous American cartoon character: Newly announced mayoral candidate Jerry Brown is constructing an environmental plan for Oakland in which solar generators quietly hum, eco-farmers grow food and "sustainable fishermen" haul in their bounty...
...A baby smiles and a flower grows," the plan says...
...We tell girls, "Stand up for your rights...
...Shakur was the leader of the west coast rap movement up until his untimely death in 1996 in Las Vegas, Nev...
...You charge us $5.0o for an adventure pass that was given us free when we exited the womb...
...19.95 (16op) ISBN 0-571-19926-7 Los Angeles author and performer Cashorali follows up his Fairy Tales with this collection of 13 fables adapted to speak to contemporary gay men...
...SEPTEMBER 5, 1997] Publishers Weekly Still more dirty tricks committed against the "Gay Community" by the shadowy conspiracy that inveterately strives to represent the homosexual as not fully mature...or, for that matter, sane: GAY FAIRY & FOLK TALES: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men Peter Cashorali...
...SHASTA BODHISATTVA Cannel Valley [AUGUST 21, 1997] 76 January 1998 • The American Spectator CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post Fresh from accusing Jesse Helms of having "a brick for a brain," the gentle Richard Cohen proffers war stories of other hellish Republicans he has faced in the course of his professional life: Years ago I used to attend an event called the National Review Forum...
...We tell girls, "Stand up for your rights...
...In selecting a model for a better Oakland, Brown would contrast not Oakland and a comparatively healthy city such as Pasadena, but Oakland and the Italian hill town of Perugia—an urban community that has sustained its integrity over hundreds of years...
...It was sponsored by the National Review magazine and often featured its star writers, including the founding editor, William F. Buckley Jr...
...1997] Coast Weekly Inscrutable correspondence among Californians: I was reading your "Movies" column a week ago and noticed your "New Screenings" part...
...I am just a being walking along with the rest of you, but if you do not see what's coming it's going to be the test of you...
...Let us ask ourselves how much is enough...
...I apologize for the error...
...In the king's river we cannot swim because he now says it is his...
...Shakur was the leader of the west coast rap movement up until his untimely death in 1996 in Las Vegas, Nev...
...Cashorali's tales assume the naturalness of men loving other men, and he treats even the most painful difficulties of gay life with delicacy, tact, humor and empathy...
...Not everyone will be convinced, however...
...It was clear they believed their opponents lacked not only a cogent ideology but legitimacy as well...
...SHELLAN" CAN Monterey [SEPTEMBER 21, 1997] Daily Times-Call (Longmont, Colorado) Pensees, Rocky Mountain High—style, from Paul Flanders, a sadly under-appreciated scribe: In my version of a fantasy world, everyone would be given 2.4 extra hours a year...
...For example, you could find yourself in a heated argument with someone you love...
...We are collectively implicated in their deaths, and every other episode of domestic violence, in dozens of ways that seem too small to matter, but do...
...If the book's premise seems odd (do we really need a "Jack and the Penis...
...It's strictly for people who need just a little more time here and there...
...The moment would freeze as if you hit the pause button on your VCR...
...We honor men who fight, and pin medals on the chests of those who lead fierce battles...
...Here are the Princes Charming and Fairy "Godmothers" kept so vigilantly out of the nursery—ready to flesh out, in a "normal" vocabulary, childhood fantasies usually treated as abnormal...
...You'd fully drink in what you mean to someone else...
...nor does the rest of your prissy sentence follow: In fact, the argument could be made that until African Americans and other minorities started protesting, history was perversely distorted, although no one much complained...
...That claims to decide for my friends and I. If thou art god lets see you walk on water...
...a boy who believes his pride is at stake may not...
...We honor men who fight, and pin medals on the chests of those who lead fierce battles...
...The moment would freeze as if you hit the pause button on your VCR...
...SEPTEMBER 5, 1997] Publishers Weekly Still more dirty tricks committed against the "Gay Community" by the shadowy conspiracy that inveterately strives to represent the homosexual as not fully mature...or, for that matter, sane: GAY FAIRY & FOLK TALES: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men Peter Cashorali...
...Men who avoid combat we distrust and deride...
...OCTOBER 30, 1997] Washington Post The feline Richard Cohen abandons himself to another of his goody-two-shoes screeds—this time on the late George Washington—and again reveals the slovenliness of his mind...
...For example, in Tony Toni Tone's song "Let's Get Down," DJ Quik raps "...you know you wanna mack this...
...One guy in particular used to stomp his cane on the floor and seethe whenever the name Roosevelt was mentioned...
...We make it hard for poor women who don't want babies to end their pregnancies...
...It was on those evenings that I made a discovery: Conservatives can be mean...
...Young man, one cannot "ignore" history and then "censor" it...
Vol. 31 • January 1998 • No. 1
