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CURRENT WISDOM Santa Barbara News-Press In the historic News-Press, revelations of yet another serious crime committed by the monstrous Judge Starr pursuant to his shameless defenestration of our...
...Now that the American-Statesman has run an article trying to label a poorly understood segment of society as "weirdos," I suggest in the name of fairness and truth that an intelligent, open-minded reporter contact the sadomasochistic community here in Austin for a more truthful and rational view of a poorly understood, emotionally charged practice...
...Clinton a lot of apologies...
...JULY 2, 1998] The American Spectator • September 1998 89...
...I believe and hope that most of his detractors who have compiled a reputation for mean-spirited, self-serving bigotry and hypocrisy will be around to see it...
...From July 1996 to April 1997, attendance records show Waggoner went to to of 22 meetings and left three early, which count as absences...
...Have you read the piece...
...One by one the twigs have slipped away...
...He was undeterred...
...Gallinot said he believes it was for sleeping in a bush...
...And why should she...
...I started feeling queasy...
...David Dart, whose pantheon of "our great presidents" apparently extends from Warren Gamaliel Harding to Ulysses S. Grant: William F. Buckley Jr., drowning in his own acid bath of anti-Clintonism, has been buoyed up for years by four twigs: White-water, Paula Jones, Webster Hubbell, and now, Lewinsky...
...JUNE 5, 1998] Our Times (An L.A...
...When he called back, I decided my only defense would be to give him a quote thatwould knock his socks off...
...What better example is there of the media's mania for scoops and sales at the expense of truth and reputation...
...Jameson had a featured role in Howard Stern's "Private Parts" and will star in the Hollywood feature "Dirt Merchant" later this year...
...I pointed out to Howard that American jets had bombed an Iraqi radar station in southern Iraq that morning...
...She has appeared on the cover of 5o men's magazines and starred in 36 adult movies in just over four years, including "Conquest" and "Satyr...
...Clinton has shredded what remained of the welfare system, and enthusiastically accelerated the corporate takeover of the body politic...
...I like to keep my professional life and my home life apart...
...They were planning to quote from the Mirabella essay and apparently wanted to run a picture of me next to it to let readers gauge for themselves whether I was babe material...
...Such thinking also fuels a war on drugs that has completely re-aligned national priorities, draining money from education and infrastructure to pour it into prisons...
...These close-up images of bed linens are saturated in more ways than one...
...They are also stained with urine, blood and semen, and burned with cigarettes...
...JUNE 22, 1998] 88 September 1998 • The American Spectator Salon In the store-front church of the Clintons' holy-rollers, another of the faithful lets out a desperate shriek: Ted Cup justly condemns Time and CNN's shameful jettisoning of journalistic standards in their lust for a journalistic coup...
...All day long you have the sick feeling that you will vomit...
...When I go home I don't want my boyfriend telling me, 'oh baby, you've got a great body.' I just want that love between two people, and that's really hard to find when you're an adult film star...
...I am empathetic toward the writer's children, and feel shame, that I am associated by locality, with the type of person who would write such a diatribe and send it to a public forum...
...When you finally do, you feel much better...
...She was in Pittsburgh not long ago to perform at the Edison Hotel's Club E...
...Gary Gallinot of the Santa Monica Police Department said officers routinely ask the homeless to move out of parks and other public areas...
...He is sustained only by the hope that Monica can be somehow used to bring down the president (Column Right, July 5 ). It seems to me that, no matter how l'af- faire Monica turns out, Buckley and others of his ilk, scores of reporters and newspapers (including the Times), owe President and Mrs...
...I hear you wrote an article about your legs," he opened, with a small snicker...
...Dead...
...The May 3o Associated Press article on the Cherry Hill, N.J., drowning of Michael Wann's daughter and her possible abuse used an association fallacy to improperly imply an evil nature to sadomasochistic activities...
...A day or two later, Mr...
...He said he did not think Waggoner had been approached by police in recent months because they have been looking for her since two warrants were issued for her arrest for failing to appear in court on citations...
...Waggoner said a major reason she cannot attend meetings is because she is unable to get enough sleep because police constantly wake her up and ask her to move...
...What's the Herald going to do next...
...The stuffy National Journal called, looking for a picture of me...
...Santa Monica police issued one to her for destroying park foliage...
...Insert the American Spectator into its Sunday supplement...
...The Clinton presidency has done little to ameliorate the trend...
...Such simple-minded reporting is insulting to my intelligence and fuels my continued and growing contempt for the mass media...
...JIM CRUTCHFIELD Norfolk, Va...
...I think American women should be lining up with their Presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs...
...While the diversity of people involved in sadomasochistic practices is broad enough to involve all types, including the irresponsible and criminal, the vast majority are good, responsible citizens just like the rest of society...
...It is a fine display of the irrational and obnoxious venomous poison that has grasped the right wing in America...
...Will these enthusiastic members, knowingly or unknowingly, of the right-wing conspiracy to sabotage the president actually apologize...
...Kurtz rang...
...So when Howard asked whether I could still objectively cover the President, having found him so attractive, I replied, "I would be happy to give him a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal...
...JUNE 14, 1998] New York Observer The suddenly-famous former Time magazine writer explains how she became so famous, after a lascivious encounter with the Groper, America's leading occasion of sin: Knowing you are going to be savaged by people like Howard Kurtz and Maureen Dowd is like having the flu...
...The first symptoms actually came several days after Mirabella hit the street...
...CURRENT WISDOM Santa Barbara News-Press In the historic News-Press, revelations of yet another serious crime committed by the monstrous Judge Starr pursuant to his shameless defenestration of our student body president: This is America...
...The pale shades of the sheets fill the frames of these photographs, becoming a world unto themselves...
...I don't think they have the courage or the character...
...Clinton will soon be universally regarded as one of our best presidents...
...Filled with the common prejudices but open-minded enough to learn, I was pleasantly surprised to find a group of people with a higher degree of compassion, sensuousness and communication skills than I have found elsewhere...
...JULY 11, 1998] Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In another effort to bring its readers "news you can use," the fabulous Post-Gazette interviews the hugely successful Miss Jenna Jameson and finds —mirabile dictu — a paradigm of family values: Jenna Jameson is one of the reigning queens of the adult movie industry...
...I found their dedication to trustworthiness, sensitivity and intimacy to be well above average...
...They chart the life of the body, in bed and often unconscious, secreting and expelling and leaving its mark...
...Q: Is it hard to have a normal relationship...
...I also wanted to test the Post's new "sizzle" —the paper's post-We Broke the Lewinsky Story advertising hook...
...Times weekly supplement) In progressive Santa Monica, political repression sure to be deposited on the agenda of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, probably by Sen...
...JUNE 21, 1998] Boston Globe Globe art critic Cate McQuaid explains why no sensitive American attending Mr...
...Jim McDougal trusted Kenneth Starr and where is he now...
...He is right to point out similar lapses by the New Republic and other journals...
...This immature and disdainful letter insults every intelligent reader of the Herald...
...This kind of poor logic encourages bigotry and has been used to spread racism, sexism and hatred of communists, gun owners, alcoholic beverages, Republicans, Democrats, religions and anyone else targeted for scapegoating or in a minority...
...He admitted he had not, but planned to do so and would call me back...
...Susan McDougal being paraded in chains because she refuses to discuss her president with a man she can neither respect nor trust...
...He may very well be an irresponsible, abusive, child-molesting, illegal drug-user who deserves severe punishment, but his and his wife's interest in sadomasochism is not directly connected and doesn't reflect on other practitioners...
...JULY 20, 1998] Austin American-Statesman W. Phillip Shurtleff sends a daft wake-up call to the readers and writers at a distinguished Texas daily and demonstrates the dangers of listening to too much National Public Radio: Just this year I was introduced to the sadomasochistic community here in Austin...
...JULY 8, 1998] Monterey County Herald Rhetorical dramaturgy of a gorgeous and fantastical nature, trembling upon the pages of Cannery Row's beacon of truth: I am shocked at the distaste of "Hiding From Clinton," which appeared in the Letter Box on June io by G. Lewis of Salinas...
...JAMES MASON Monterey [JUNE 17,1998] Boulder Camera In the austere pages of a venerable Rocky Mountains gazette, columnist Juliet Wittman delivers a fierce pummeling to "the Christian right" before acknowledging that Boy Clinton has done some good—or as the phrase has it, "made a difference": The punitive mores of the Christian right have distorted public discourse for almost two decades now, suggesting that poverty is the fault of the poor women should return joyfully to their second-class status, immigrants are a curse, private morals should be legislated and children rigidly controlled...
...I pity the writer...
...JUNE 21, 1998] Los Angeles Times The world from the point of view of Hillary, as reiterated by Mr...
...Barbara Boxer: Members of the city's Social Services Commission are asking the City Council to remove longtime homeless activist Jennafer Waggoner from the panel because of her poor attendance...
...I asked...
...And yet, I'm glad the Herald printed it...
...The commission, which aims to voice the concerns of homeless and other underrepresented people, voted June 22 to ask the council to remove her...
...Chad Joiner's mixed media exhibition should enter without carrying an air-sickness bag: Take Chad Joiner's series of photographs, "Abject and Adolescence...
...But I am surprised that he did not connect this general debasement of journalistic ethics with the media's enthusiastic publication, particularly in the past several months, of unsubstantiated, dubious and plain false stories about President Clinton...
...It's both compelling and discomforting—someone else's dirty laundry made into art...
...While I don't share the same level of desire to engage in such activities, I did find their dedication to safe, sane and consensual behavior—counter to guilt-ridden shame-based sexuality—to be refreshing...
...A: It really is...
Vol. 31 • September 1998 • No. 9
