Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Washington Post The fabled Post's crack investigative team lays down hitherto little known facts of the open road: ...congestion reflects the fact that so many of the region's roads are...
...But I do regret the fact that I wasn't straight with the American people about it...
...The Arkansas Drug Shuttle," published in the Spectator in 1995, was a fanciful tale of cocaine smuggling, the CIA, and black cargo jets told to Tyrrell by former Arkansas state trooper L. D. Brown-who happened to be on the Spectator's payroll at the time...
...gravity claws at you whenever you move...
...Lewinsky...
...They knew that when the candle went out, that was the time to make as much of a mess as possible and tapdance on my head...
...I just don't know...
...It is always cold and damp...
...Hardison extends the treatment to new victims: My, how the marchers wail when someone threatens to puncture the rose-colored balloon in which they've encased their heads[ But something I neglected to mention renders all their insults impotent: I was in the military...
...Hill was never truly dry during her two years in Luna...
...Washington Post The fabled Post's crack investigative team lays down hitherto little known facts of the open road: ...congestion reflects the fact that so many of the region's roads are carrying heavy volumes of traffic...
...DECEMBER 20, x999] 72 Marc h 2o o o _9 The American Spectator The Herald (Monterey County, California) Miss Jane Haseldine, the Herald's top investigative journalist, spots a rising hate group: From Marina to Monterey, they're trying to fight city hall...
...Fine, who gave Bride's staff members that small vibrating massager as a gift in reward for their good work...
...Fine is actually the former publisher of Bride's and now holds that same title at a Cond4 Nast Publications stablemate, Glamour...
...Lawrence, and not Ms...
...And what they did was in that ease and generally was completely overboard and now rational retrospectives are beginning to come out-with people who have no connection to me-talking about what an abuse of power it was and what a threat to the American system it was...
...PRESIDENT CLINTON: I don't know...
...Jane Fonda was expressing the constitutionally protected opinion of many that we had no business in that doomed war in the first place...
...immigration authorities that the boy should be returned (the deadline was actually yesterday) to his biological father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who very much wants him back, as he recently told ABC's Nightline...
...The Jail" restaurant, co-owned by Taiwanese TV star Jacky Wu, was designed to give diners the feeling they are eating in a prison...
...The custody matter--with no evidence of abuse in the family-is undeniably clear...
...Was she so passionate about fleeing Castro's dictatorship...
...On Friday, Elian's stepmother was among the tens of thousands of Cuban women-many visibly pregnant, others mothers with small children-who demonstrated in Havana, demanding the boy's repatriation...
...lo edition of this [Media & Society] column incorrectly reported that the publisher of Bride's magazine was Deborah Fine...
...What constitutes civic abuse...
...Whatever their cause, be it to make the government spare cypress trees in Marina or preserve Carmel's historic buildings, there is a place to turn when the bureaucrats don't seem to be listening: The Support Group for People Civically Abused...
...Nina Lawrence is the current Bride's publisher...
...It was Ms...
...Bush and his puppet Ronnie Ray-gun are traitors, and Bush Jr...
...19 letter in which he stated the definition of a liberal: "Someone who has nothing and wants to share with everybody...
...Jane Fonda is an American patriot...
...O'Connor, the person from Florida Power who has relocated hundreds of nests of these federally protected birds, has been blowing cigarette smoke in their faces for the past 11 years...
...Luna's trunk was her sidewalk and exercise treadmill...
...Any time government turns its back on you, according to Barbara Evans who is spearheading the group...
...DECEMBER 13, 1999] Clearwater Times Another of Philip Morris's many undercover agents is apprehended spreading the nicotine curse: Couldn't help but feel good about your Clearwater front page article on Dec...
...Or a shorter version: "Someone who is mean-spirited...
...The founding document of our country, which obviously they have never read, guarantees the right to freedom of expression...
...The restaurant's manager, Stone Cheng, said the owners and designers spent months planning the business's interior and never thought pictures might offend some diners, especially members of Taipei's tiny Jewish community...
...Those Cuban-Americans won't let Elian go, they insist, despite last week's decision by U.S...
...JANUARY 19, 2000] New York Observer In the pages of a leading weekly gazette, evidence that the eminent Dr...
...In retrospect, if you had answered that differently right at the beginning-not only just my question, but all those questions at the beginning-do you think there would have been a different result and that, in fact, you might not even have been impeached...
...DECEMBER 15, 1999] Florida Today On the pages of a great daily, Dian Hardison, a lOO% American, makes the case for giving the hellish Reagan and Bush the Pinochet treatment: Those who continue to gripe about Jane Fonda's protesting the Vietnam War debacle are themselves poor excuses for Americans...
...President...
...I don't know...
...She learned survival tricks up there, such as seldom washing the soles of her feet, because the sap helped her feet stick to the branches better...
...But included in the mix is a wall mural based on photos of starving women and men bunched together behind a barb wire concentration camp fence...
...I wonder more about the maternal instincts of a woman, the boy's mother, who would have subjected a young child to such a risky excursion in the first place...
...Undoubtedly this was a governmentscripted affair, but that doesn't mean the sentiments were not genuine...
...Or was she merely going along with her boyfriend...
...I do not regret the fact that I fought the Independent Counsel...
...I wonder what the effect of secondhand smoke (although from the pictured proximity it could almost be firsthand) has on these poor creatures...
...Most of the decor- mug shots, prison bars, shackles--are from lradifional jail scenes...
...But the thing I regret most--except for doing the wrong thing-- is misleading the American people about it...
...JANUARY 17, 2OOO] Associated Press What happens when a forward-looking restaurateur is stung by the United Colors ofBenetton ad bug: Customers at a Taipei eatery can dine on spicy crab or steamed chicken legs while the emaciated, tortured faces of Nazi death camp victims stare at them from photographs and murals on the wall...
...If private citizens did either they would be facing long jail sentences and possible execution...
...And it is cramped...
...And I'm glad that our people stuck with me and that the American people stuck with me, and I was able to resist what it was they attempted to do...
...Nobody has explored the woman's reasons for abandoning Cuba...
...Another picture...shows victims crammed together on bunk beds, while one man with protruding ribs stands nearby...
...SHEILA COLE, Clearwater [JANUARY 4, 2000] The American Spectator _9 March 2 0 o o 73...
...one of the first three women, in fact, to be selected for Explosive Ordnance Disposal training (alongside some Navy SEALS), and an officer in the submarine tracking command, about which author Tom Clancy was so sappily wrong...
...Well, I, too, would like to give a definition, only mine is that of a conservative: "Someone who has everything and doesn't want someone who has nothing to have something...
...It was something I was ashamed of and pained about, and I regret that...
...and John McCain are multibillion-dollar thieves, and the lot of them should be in a non-country-club prison for life...
...Gould it be that K.D...
...But, in fact, these actions were sponsored and cornmired by two of the highest elected officials in our country...
...If you're so "offended," then put your money where your mouth is and help support veterans through any of their good organizations, as I do...
...And when city hall fights back, they seek a few kind words, support and advice from each other...
...They make and break politicians, they're hysterically anti-communist, and they have nurtured Gold War sentiments while the rest of the country has moved on to a more modern era...
...We sat--you and I-two years ago-almost to the day-and I - i t was the day that the Monica Lewinsky story broke in the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times--and you denied that you had had an improper sexual relationship with Ms...
...It is aggressively vertical...
...Joycelyn Elders's Masturbation Movement is spreading even to the Republic's intellectual elites: The Jan...
...I wish I knew the answer to that, but I don't...
...Hill lived on two six-by-six-foot platforms...
...JANUARY 26, ZOOO] The American Prospect Alas, more tabloid sleaze: The drug-smuggling charges in Tyrrell's and Evans-Pritchard's books, for instance, were first aired in the pages of the Scaifefunded American Spectator, the hysterically conservative magazine of which Tyrrell is editor, founder, and chief polemicist...
...Ronald Reagan and George Bush are traitors, not just to every veteran, but to every American...
...JANUARY 17, 2000] New Era (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) In the correspondence section of the intellectual New Era, a suave riposte to Know-Nothingism: I am writing in response to Daniel Jury's Dec...
...Her company, for the most part, was the wildlife that inhabits the upper canopy of Western coastal forests...
...Selling American weapons to enemy powers, on the other hand, definitely comes under the definition of treason...
...DECEMBER 1, 1999] Two weeks later, Ms...
...I did my best not to tame them, but the flying squirrels found every (food morsel) I dropped," she recalled with a laugh...
...And the fact remains uncontested that George H.W...
...JANUARY 24, 2000] San Francisco Chronicle After two years of riotous living in a rentcontrolled redwood tree known to its tenants as Luna, Miss Julia Butterfly Hill recalls the good times and some wild roommates: The top of a redwood tree is an exceedingly hostile environment for human beings...
...Circumventing laws against import of banned substances in order to profit a secret cabal is a criminal action...
...A large sign over the restroom entrance reads "Gas Chamber," and the bathrooms are decorated with open pipes and valves...
...DECEMBER 23, 1999] Toronto Star Miss Rosie DiManno decries the antired hysteria while taking solace in Cuba's promising New Pregnancy Movement: Any reporter who's ever had the misfortune of covering even a mildly political issue in South Florida knows how very powerful and how very well-organized is the expatriath Cuban community down there...
...DECEMBER 16, 1999] NewsHour With Jim Lehrer Proof that mental illness can be amusing: JIM LEHRER: A difficult question, a matter of history that I feel compelled to ask you, Mr...
...z 7 about moving the osprey nest, until I took a closer look at your photo...
Vol. 33 • March 2000 • No. 2
