Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Time Monica Lewinsky— but another American victimized by child abuse, as revealed by her as yet unindicted lawyer, the incomparable William Ginsburg: "I was there at the beginning....
...I can't stand all this moralizing...
...We are at war with ourselves and it hurts...
...Every time I read Beetle in your paper and Sarge had beat him up, I was upset rather than amused...
...Would not every Nineties American girl want a mate like that...
...I'm not a whiner, I don't sit around thinking about how I don't get invited to this or that party, but there is an element in conservative Washington that demands ideological purity of writers and commentators...
...Why is this...
...I tried damn hard...
...While many Christians forgo meat on Fridays during Lent, PETA is calling on them to make a permanent change to a compassionate diet...
...As the remaining letters became few and all but a male friend and I were still playing, I discovered that I had six letters left — VAGINA—and if I used them I would win the game...
...A: You're hoping I will say 'going with a prostitute,' aren't you...
...President Clinton wondered whether the office was worth the abuse...
...Jesus-Online visitors can learn why PETA believes that Jesus was a vegetarian, find out where to read more about Jesus' vegetarianism, get the answers to popular questions about the campaign and even link to a site of essays on Judaism and vegetarianism...
...Q: What's your idea of heaven...
...If you "kill off" this American warrior, Bill Clinton, if you break his spirit, you will kill the spirit in us all...
...MARCH 2, 1998] You (magazine of London's The Mail on Sunday) Charlie Sheen, actor and connoisseur of prostitutes, waxes philosophical during a cultural tour of London after dark: Q: Is it true you ask people to call you Charles now, instead of Charlie...
...Ensler's path reminds me of the consciousness-raising phase many women like me went through in the early 1980's, the result of which was to no longer suppress our feminine identities and to wish as well as act wholeheartedly for equality...
...Q: What went wrong with your marriage to model Donna Peele...
...Well, this is what it was like for some in the service 40 years ago, and I would be naive to believe it doesn't still occur...
...Because finding Jesus is as easy as surfing the Internet these days, PETA is hoping its new Jesus Web site, located at WWW.JESUS-ONLINE.COM, will make Christians the latest converts to vegetarianism...
...PAUL WAGNER Saline [MARCH 5, 1998] The American Spectator • May 1998 89...
...But we called in the divorce lawyers six months after our honeymoon in France was over...
...The preacher counseled the president—be a man of the light...
...A: I really did try to stick at my marriage...
...A mate who combines chivalry and romance with unforced political correctness and pushes her to make the best of herself...
...A: It's part of the new me—the me that wants to earn respect and be treated accordingly...
...Here you show the person with the power doing what is not acceptable and we are supposed to think this is somehow humorous...
...For years I have wondered what you folks found comical about someone with authority punching out someone under their control...
...For the record, if the president stays or leaves of his own accord or is pushed out by Kenneth Starr and his hateful regime, I will always love and honor this president...
...Women are a pleasure...
...I kissed that girl's inner thighs when she was six days old —I said, 'Look at those little polkas.' I truly am the avuncular Mr...
...When I talk to women about dental dams all they seem to recognize is that they should use them, but they aren't...
...I look forward to Ensler's Los Angeles appearance...
...First, I find Anita Hill's story believable, including its perfect conformity to what we know about women's behavior in sexual harassment situations: the way one represses things, the way one tries to go on, the way people try to preserve in a distanced way a relationship...
...Why not a strip about a policeman pounding a suspect, a drunk beating his wife or girlfriend...
...If people don't like it, that's their problem...
...A lot of it's subtle, snide little comments and gossip and all that, but you know, it all adds up to a feeling...
...Then a wise friend, a Pentecostal preacher and his wife, rode the bus from Louisiana to Washington, bringing solace...
...They can also read the letter PETA sent to all 449 U.S...
...When performing oral sex on a man, the only safe way to go is protected...
...This sends the message that if you step forward, especially against someone who holds power, you will be victimized again by his friends and allies...
...11) by Josh Getlin was a delight to read...
...She shares Lind's view that the intellectual right has become nearly as ossified as the left, and for that reason she is skeptical about the future of intellectual ferment in America...
...It's just a pity the boys aren't too...
...Oral sex is one of the safer sexes, but anytime fluids are coming in contact the risk factor is extremely high...
...I remember an evening in 1961 when I was playing Scrabble with several people...
...FEBRUARY 24, 1998] 88 May 1998 • The American Spectator Monterey County AIDS Project Newsletter The glamour and mystery of modern carnality as elaborated in old Monterey County's finest literary achievement since Steinbeck: Safer sex means using latex barriers during sexual acts...
...That is until now...
...At the same time, your very reluctance to step forward will be held against you...
...Which raises the question: How are they holding up, what is life like in a tempest, what is their focus, who do they believe is creating the storm and how and when do they think it will end...
...A: I spent a lot of my time and money on prostitutes, and I'm not sorry...
...FEBRUARY 17, 1998] Washington Times Whilst White House Communications Director Ann Lewis abominates the unfortunate Kathleen Willey's belatedly reported romantic moment with the Groper, the Good Times exhumes Miss Lewis's earlier alibis on behalf of the martyred Anita Hill: • "When Anita Hill stepped forward to talk about sexual harassment, she found herself savagely attacked...
...Seriously, I never really believed there was a heaven until I saw what I can only describe as a UFO...
...MARCH 12, 1998] Ann Arbor News A cartoon aesthete offers some constructive suggestions on possible future comic strips bound to attract a wide audience among civilized aficionados of the art...
...By turns conspiratorial and reckless, respectful and teasing, sexual (but always equal), it offers a fully acceptable road map in girl-boy relations to emotionally confused and sexually hung-up Americans...
...Catholic bishops, archbishops, and cardinals, and find out more about PETA 's efforts...
...In time, he said, people will come to see who are the forces of darkness...
...They might learn about the sort of companionable devotion their girlfriends will now expect...
...MARCH 18, 1998] New York Press Shocking loss of self-esteem suffered by the erstwhile dominatrix of conservative commentary, Laura Ingraham, alas, and boo hoo: Even Ingraham, whom Atlas described in '95 as the consummate neo-con insider, has experienced "laissez-faire censorship" in the last three years...
...Well, I'm not...
...Yet Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr has made sex and lies the oval eye of the tempest now buffeting the White House and its occupants, Bill and Hillary Clinton...
...Q: What about the revelations in the trial of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss that you'd spent more than £3o,00o on her prostitutes...
...In hindsight, the wine region of Medoc probably wasn't the best place to stay...
...It's only a comic strip...
...MARCH 8, 1998] Gainesville Sun On the wail page of a great American daily, Linda in the raptures reveals how it can be that William Jefferson Clinton is America's post-feminist guy, the love president: I feel that the president and his wife have stated it pretty neatly—this is a right-wing conspiracy to destroy Bill Clinton and cause him to leave in disgrace...
...Performing oral sex on women is slightly less risky than on men, but the fluids are still present...
...I debated for a minute then decided, "Oh, what the heck...
...Condoms have been used for vaginal and anal sex, but are oftentimes neglected for oral sex...
...And Jack is the ideal partner: encouraging adventure and self-reliance, displaying leadership and resourcefulness but also restraint and need...
...They are brimming with ideas for a more equitable balance that doesn't punish success By the time the short, dark days of winter lengthen into the warm light of summer they both expect the current storm to dissipate and blow away There was an ebony hour—the first, frenzied 48 hours of the Monica Lewinsky controversy, coming at the end of five long years of partisan battering...
...JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1998] The Independent (London) Why America's teenage girls can't get enough of Titanic—and why America's teenage boys would rather spend their movie money on pinball and Big Macs: Something similar goes for the developing relationship between Jack and Rose...
...No wonder the girls are out in force for Titanic...
...Using a dam when giving and/or receiving oral sex is the safer way...
...and placed them on the board after which I fled the room feeling embarrassed as well as elated...
...We spent most of the time visiting vineyards, sometimes more than four a day, and drank ourselves stupid the whole time we were there...
...MARCH 11,1998] Press Release Another bizarre press release from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals reveals the malefic intellectual consequence of devouring bad meat as a child, or worse, none at all: Norfolk, Va...
...Eve Ensler has taken a path most women would be too shy to travel...
...Good show, Paul!: At last I have been driven to write to you...
...her integrity, morality, sanity called into question by the very same people who wanted to know why she didn't step forward sooner...
...So what...
...The windows are so open to ushers, uniformed guards, staff and Secret Service that it would be like having sex on the front lawn...
...Maybe something is wrong with my thinking, but this has not set well with me, and I'm glad to express my feelings...
...His last words to Rose, as she sinks into a watery Liebestod: Tell her never to let go, to make something of herself...
...I had won but at what cost...
...Recent visitors have found them in good spirits, apart from allergies that afflict both, eager to talk policy—such as theunfair way the global economy favors the wealthy and educated over the working class...
...Why should I be...
...The wine was great, sure...
...MARCH 17,1998] Chicago Tribune More terrifying reports on the gravest dangers to be brought down on an American president by true villains since November 22, 1963, one of the bus-borne clerics who brought hope as reported by National Public Radio commentator H. Brand Ayers, who really exists: Former presidents could testify that it would take the speed and agility of gymnasts for amorous adventures to happen there...
...The preacher reminded the president that the devil lives, that there are dark forces in the world and dark men...
...MARCH 4-101998] Los Angeles Times Correspondence from Joan of Redondo Beach to anyone out there who will listen: "Not the V Word" (Feb...
Vol. 31 • May 1998 • No. 5
