Current Wisdom

...Well, now that straight white men are getting to be the new minority, we'll have to see about this kind of outrage...

...Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., continues to explain his membership as a young man in the Ku Klux Klan...

...It was that thousands of people of all races, religions, sexual orientations and socioeconomic backgrounds celebrated the UConn victory together...

...If they succeed, America will be virtually defenseless against their extremist agenda...

...CARL DE VILLAR Destin [MARCH 22, 1999] Hartford Courant The multicultural ecstasies engulf Mary from Rocky Hill: A beautiful thing happened in Hartford on April 17 [Page 1, Apri118, "Parade Of Champions...

...And we've tried to do a lot of things in that regard over the last few years— having a zero tolerance for guns and drugs policy, putting new community police officers in schools where they're needed, trying to support more counselors in schools, more after-school, more mentoring programs, more conflict resolution programs...

...Tyrell [sic], revealing just how desperate the Clinton Democrats must be to save Amerika from Trent Lott's Gestapo: Dear Mr...

...Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds," he wrote...

...And indeed, I think that some of the people joining us today are from Paducah, Kentucky, and The American Spectator July 1999 81...

...SPRING 1999] Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) An urgent missive from the First Woman to a Mr...

...So I hope you will understand if I get right to the heart of a matter that concerns me, and should concern every Democrat in our country...

...And I think that's a larger problem we really have to fight, because you look around this room—of course, we're in perhaps the most diverse school district in America today—but this is a great opportunity for us, as long as we lift other people up, and recognize the inherent dignity and worth of all individuals and all ethnic, religious and cultural groups—they had the wrong reaction to the fact that they were dissed...

...So I want to talk a little about all of that...

...We've tried to help school districts and students and teachers who wanted to do it to have—for younger children, elementary and junior high school, using school uniform policies or dress code policies where they wanted to implement those things...

...MARY L. KALENCIK Rocky Hill [APRIL 25, 1999] San Francisco Examiner In the mellow pages of the Examiner by the Bay, the benignant musings of a likely prospect for the Clinton Kamikaze whensoever it might be needed: I would not find it hard to explain to children President Clinton's common, though sad, failing...

...Byrd, 81, said he did not recall writing the letter...

...Williams H.S.: First of all, we're here, obviously, because of the terrible tragedy in Littleton, Colorado, and because, even though it is the worst example of school violence we've seen, it is by no means the only one...

...It was truly a beautiful thing...

...Black steel bands played in one part of the parade while white fife-and-drum corps played in another...

...It wasn't just the celebration of the University of Connecticut Huskies' victory...

...The Clintons have done more good than I've ever managed, and they're not allowed to be merely human and no doubt like the rest of us, occasionally dumb and rotten...

...White Shriners drove their mini-cars while Hispanic Boy Scouts marched with pride...

...The Clintons have endured a brutal scrutiny, a merciless and ceaseless psychic pounding beyond anything I could imagine weathering I am agog that you can so coldly and righteously declare that the Clintons have sown anything that deserves the horror that has been heaped upon them...

...Must be, since they can't even spell "girl" correctly...

...It wasn't just that Hartford was alive on a Saturday morning...

...I think it's important that, all over America, students and teachers have a chance to discuss their feelings about this, their ideas about what we should do...

...Even the President— (laughter) —sometimes, especially the President...

...80 July 1999 • The American Spectator Yes, we did celebrate UConn basketball, but we also celebrated Connecticut's diversity...

...Bunzl is Aaron and Robin Fischer Professor of Jewish Culture and Society and Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

...APRIL 22, 1999] William Jefferson Clinton Another valuable communiqué from somewhere in outer space delivered through the suave medium of the 42nd President to the relatively peaceful students of T.C...

...What is this, some kind of good ol' boy message that "real men don't cook...

...I cringe to imagine my worst behavior and most wretched fantasies being exposed or wormed over by a stephanop or a kevinstarr [sic...

...Grove, $20 (272p) ISBN o8021-1648-5 With the claim that "the penis itself has come into fashion," the author embarks on a sprawling examination of the male organ in art, religion, American pop culture, ancient Greece and, of course, the bedroom...

...An accomplished journalist, Paley ranges from a discussion of the art of Cynthia Plaster Caster, who molded the organs of famous rock musicians, to the Egyptian legend in which a god creates the world by swallowing his own semen and then spitting it out...

...This time, it was a 54year-old letter published in the New Republic that brought Byrd back to a subject he said he would rather forget, the Charleston Daily Mail reported Thursday...

...MAY 3, 1999] Northwest Florida Daily News Proof that the progressive's conscience can be amusing: It's a girl) thing I couldn't believe my eyes when I first drove by, but there it is again today: The sign outside a Destin restaurant that reads "Girll Cook Wanted...

...Tyrell [sic], I'm not known for mincing words when it comes to issues I care deeply about...

...so they can always say, well, I may be dissed at school, or I may be subject to disrespect in some other environment, but at least I'm not them...

...Theodore Bilbo, a notorious segregationist, Byrd said he would refuse to fight in an integrated armed forces...

...Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Studies in Women and Gender (formerly Women's Studies...

...APRIL 1999] Women's Center Upcoming Events (University of Virginia Women's Center) The life of the mind as lived nowadays on a great American campus by nitwits: Friday, May 8 The Prague Experience: Gay Male Sex Tourism and the Neo-Colonial Invention of an Embodied Border Based on ethnographic fieldwork among gay Austrian men, this paper explores "Western" chartings of post-transition "Eastern Europe...

...and from the definition of a "Prince Albert" piercing ("through the urethra at the base of the glans on the underside") to the best masturbation Web sites...

...In a 1945 letter to the late Mississippi Sen...

...And by the way, not making use of the term "female" to avoid the heartbreaking insensitivity of age and species discrimination is simply begging for even more trouble...

...I would find it impossible to explain the depravity of that quisling, that lindatripp, that stephanop, that Benedict Arnold: George Stephanopoulos...

...12:10 p.m., Minor Hall Room 225 [ SPRING 1999] Publishers Weekly In the booksellers' Bible, a solemn announcement of a forthcoming tome sure to be popular in Bill Clinton's White House and Monica Lewinsky's think tank: THE BOOK OF THE PENIS Maggie Paley...

...The Republican Party and its powerful right-wing allies, having repeatedly demonstrated how far out of touch they are with the American people, are now going all out to strengthen their grip on the U.S...

...This is something that you see a lot, around the world and throughout human history, that people who themselves feel disrespected, instead of developing an enormous sympathy for other people who have been subject to discrimination, instead look for someone else to look down on...

...Hey, look, everybody gets dissed sometime in life...

...WENDY 1'1E1'1 Mountain View [MARCH 21, 1999] Jonesboro, Arkansas —at least those two communities which had examples of school violence last year...

...Suppose my dear cat became a stephanop and laid bare the several pathetic, weaselly fights my husband and I have had, shrill and juvenile in spite of our brilliant educations and 25-year marriage...

...Multicultural high school bands entertained us, and spectators from all walks of life cheered for a mixed-race basketball team...

...There is really nothing more important than keeping our schools safe...

...And it's especially important for younger children, who might be quite traumatized, and wonder whether they are, in fact, safe at school...

...You'd think that after all the talking and writing and marches and stuff over the past few decades, this kind of ugly discrimination would not still be with us...

...I spent a lot of time thinking about this, but I wantto say, last night and today I thought about the work that my wife has done on this for many years, and I went back and re-read the chapters in her book...