Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM San Francisco Chronicle Another bull from columnist Adair Lara, presumably before it was revealed that what began with Boy Clinton's turbulent libido found its way to the tip of...
...Choices like that come up daily, whether we're aware of them or not...
...The canvases are hung on the wall or stacked as sculpture...
...My world became a terrifying place filled with anguish and turmoil...
...Then the turboprop hit some turbulence, and we rocked around in midair for a few minutes...
...I said I was sure the plane was safe...
...if I found some, but not for national pride...
...Instead, Linder uses them as a journal of his bike-riding experiences...
...We are not supposed to be able to tolerate having two valid, opposing goals—say, that the president of the country should set an example for the rest of us and be faithful to his wife, and that what a president does in his personal time is really no business of ours, especially if we are charmed at how he's running the country...
...In several speeches before about 200 students, faculty, journalists and veterans of the movement, UC Berkeley embraced the man who had eloquently challenged the school's authority 33 years ago from the very same steps...
...We've been through job losses, moves, family illnesses and deaths, and we raised a couple of wonderful kids...
...She had indeed, but unlike me, had the good manners not to gawk...
...Native sons include Buddy Holly and Mac Davis, and it's so flat that if Columbus had been born there, the possibility that the Earth was round might never even have occurred to him...
...SUSAN GONZALES Troutdale [MAY 9, 1998] The American Spectator • July 1998 85...
...Initially, there were days of anger and frustration, but the history we sharedand his growing willingness to accept the changed me has enabled us to stay together and forge a supportive friendship and create a more equal partnership in our marriage...
...A bronze plaque, reading simply "Mario Savio Steps, Dedicated 1997," was placed at the top of the first flight...
...The media regard it as a sequel to the O.J...
...Lubbock is a conservative West Texas town of big box department stores and restaurants with drive-through windows...
...APRIL 22-28, 1998] Colorado Daily (University of Colorado, Boulder) An important notification of political awareness from "CU student" Yoon Park: Again I will say that most things in life are political...
...His puddle splashes are the paint...
...The Vice Chancellor and Provost Carol Christ described how Savio had "galvanized a movement" and helped secure for students and faculty alike the freedom to exchange political ideas...
...If we were feeding people, we were also erecting the structure of a deadly Cold War competition...
...I asked if she'd seen who was on theplane with us...
...He stretches the shirts over canvas, giving them a smooth wax-coating...
...Good presidents don't cheat on their wives...
...Well, I must confess," she said, "if this plane were to go down right now, it wouldn't be a total loss...
...MAY 5, 1998] Boston Globe Nearly a decade after the Great Republic's peaceful victory in the Cold War, a Globe columnist recalls the Berlin Airlift from the point of view of the woefully misunderstood progressive Joseph Stalin—Liberal guilt to the utmost: But what else were we doing...
...It was a landmark occasion and deserved to be celebrated...
...SPRING 1998] SF Weekly The filth that is art in the famed City by the Bay: Brian Gross Fine Art "Historical Marker (with perforations)," new sculpture by Charles Linder (through 5/16...
...The Berlin Airlift was a far more ambiguous event than we allowed ourselves to believe...
...Where are the proposals to compensate the generations of men such as all those in my family, who as innocent newborns were excruciatingly robbed of their sensitive and essential penile foreskins...
...APRIL 21, 1998] Washington Post "Humanism," crushed by the Republicans' scowl, as reported by the Hon...
...When artist Charles Linder gets back from a muddy mountain-bike ride his mommy doesn't "shout out" the grimy stains from his Tshirts...
...Yes, as it turns out, we can tolerate it...
...I ended up picking the non-pink underwear and went home feeling crappy...
...Even the most inconspicuous act holds some political undertone...
...I find myself having to take inventory on my closet, cupboard, and medicine cabinet every couple of months to see what I shouldn't buy anymore...
...The Clinton sex scandals have changed this country—for the better...
...It can get overwhelming when there's news about a dif84 Ju ly 1998 • The American Spectator ferent corporation that you should boycott being circulated almost every day...
...In the present gilded age in which the New York Stock Exchange is more important than the White House and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is taken more seriously than the President, it is easy to regard the Clinton story as a light, if crude, entertainment...
...It gets frustrating, even for someone who doesn't own that much stuff to begin with...
...Marion Barry during a singularly slippery interview with the Post's gullible Courtland Milloy: "You listen to some of these Republicans over the last three years, and what they say goes beyond personal disrespect toward me," Barry said...
...Together, my husband and I have weathered good and bad years...
...She said she didn't like what Starr was doing, that President Clinton was doing an OK job and that his sex life wasn't relevant...
...Misguided religion frightens parents into disregarding their instincts to help their sick children...
...Still, we found our own special place...
...MAY 18, 1998] Oregonian On the howl page of a great western daily a new civil rights movement is born: At the same time that lawmakers are advocating the right of sick children to medical treatment that might help them ("Church controls all, ex-follower says," April 26), they are neglecting to discuss children's civil rights to be free from unwanted medical intrusion...
...Established medicine has for generations frightened parents into disregarding their instincts to protect their children's integrity...
...Where are the lawmaker/advocates when once-healthy children suffer permanent dysfunction or die because of these assaults...
...If her reply was at all representative of Middle America as the Clinton scandals play themselves out, Starr should take note...
...Once I identified myself, we began to grow separately rather than as a couple...
...OK, I thought, do I exploit the workers in Honduras or the workers in Taiwan...
...I would've bought undies made in the U.S.A...
...I ended up picking the "evil of two lessers," as Michael Moore put it when he came to campus last month for a special preview of his latest documentary, "The Big One...
...And speaking of under, let me tell you that buying underwear is a political act...
...We were on the brink of parting several times, but something deep down kept reminding me what a nice guy he was, and I became determined to try to find some way to make my marriage work in a more realistic light...
...I was buying underwear the other day, and I had a moral dilemma...
...One day while we were talking, I looked at this woman I had known for two years and suddenly my heart began to race...
...Where is the impulse to protect children, such as me and all my schoolmates, from routine injections of viruses and neurotoxic preservatives in an ironic attempt to prevent disease...
...More surprising, given her generally conservative views, were her feelings about our celebrity passenger...
...Where is the outrage for little ones, like me, who were violently robbed of their tonsils...
...MAY 22, 1998] Berkeley Magazine More evidence that a chump can be wrong about every major issue of the past thirty years and still be exalted in Academe, as solemnized by a professor whose courses are not to be missed: On a blustery gray afternoon in early December, the steps in front of Sproul Hall were renamed the Mario Savio Steps in honor of the beloved and infamous student leader of 1964's Free Speech Movement...
...because at least I'd be keeping the exploitation within bounds where I can take more direct action against it...
...We're an idealistic, sort of teenage people, famous for our strong moral stands, our black and white vision, our tendency to thump a Frye boot on the table and say things like, "By God...
...It is a collective disrespect of all citizens, a disregard for humanism, just when you think we had gotten past much of that racist history, and I think a lot of it is racial...
...Carren Stock of New York discusses yet another route to fame and fortune in the late Twentieth Century Kultursmog: One year later, during my 25th year of marriage, I fell in love with my best friend...
...Coming out to my husband was extremely difficult for both of us...
...We raised our glasses to the new friendship that much talk and open communication had helped us to establish...
...We typically name buildings after financial beneficiaries, and we confer status on athletes and their coaches," History Professor Leon Litwack said...
...CURRENT WISDOM San Francisco Chronicle Another bull from columnist Adair Lara, presumably before it was revealed that what began with Boy Clinton's turbulent libido found its way to the tip of a Chinese missile after appropriate deposits of cash to the Democratic National Committee: We Americans aren't supposed to be capable of living comfortably with contradictions...
...That is the real import of the often farcical tribulations of Bill Clinton...
...The woman would qualify as a "social conservative...
...49 Geary, 788-1050...
...So there's the rub...
...APRIL 27, 1998] Salon In the pages of the Clintons' own Der Stiirrner, a Clintonista reports on meeting another genuine Middle American repulsed by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and doubtless ready to vote one more time for the Dorian Gray of American politics: On the plane, the woman next to me was returning to visit her family in Lubbock...
...I'd buy "made in the U.S.A...
...Checking the tags, I compared the locations where the different companies made their products...
...Mario Savio gave as much to the life of our campus as any financial contributors, athletic coaches or even Nobel Laureates...
...The day I told him, we cried, then sat together on the couch long into the night, neither of us moving to turn on a light...
...Four years ago, when our 3oth anniversary arrived, we shared it with family members...
...It was at Jeff's party that I realized we had changed and would never again share the picture-perfect relationship our friends did...
...Stalin's complaint was that the British and Americans were resurrecting the German economy and nation less out of humanitarian motives than to serve as a bulwark against the Soviet Union....The Berlin Airlift ended all chance for East-West compromise...
...Around the table in our favorite restaurant, we acknowledged the difficult times we had gone through and thanked our loved ones for their support, for not choosing sides and for not abandoning us during our struggle...
...Simpson saga, except that this time the chief protagonist's pants keep falling down...
...MAY 19, 1998] Newsweek On the "My Turn" page of a famous American weekly, Mrs...
...She didn't like big cities, for example, because they were the epitome of bad values...
...APRIL 16, 1998] Toronto Globe and Mail More proof that Bill Clinton will be remembered as the greatest American chief of state since Warren Gamaliel Harding, who played a better game of golf: The American presidency is a fragile, endangered institution...
Vol. 31 • July 1998 • No. 7
