Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post America, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, as seen through the eyes of an hysteric, writing on the "Style" page of an entertaining American daily: Isn't there...
...He became the first rookie in Golden State's history to set down at least 1,ooo points in a season, A workhorse, he led the team in minutes played...
...His parents divorced when he was young, and he moved around a lot...
...The best way for me to get there was basketball or football...
...Don't tell me Gore's wrong about global warming...
...Back home in Milwaukee, in high school, he says, "I was to myself until I played basketball...
...I'm more the type that's defensive...
...1, 1997, when Sprewell throttled [Golden State coach] Carlesimo...
...Wroe said the creature would have died out as a result of being outcompeted by another animal or the climate and habitat changing...
...TARIA BLACK Lancaster [MAY 29, 2000] Washington Monthly Seven years into the Clinton morass and idealistic Charles Peters, the Don Quixote of the esteemed Monthly, remains a sucker for Bill's blab and Toobin's tosh: I owe Susan Schmidt and Peter Baker a partial apology...
...It's a highperformance tire- and wheel-shop featuring lots of things that make you go zoom...
...I have taken to carrying verb conjugation charts in my purse, along with the tiny notebook I've always kept for jotting down book ideas, overheard conversations, language detrius, phrases that pop into my head...
...FRANS SOEDE Patong Beach, Phuket [MAY 20, 2000] An Australian scientist believes he has uncovered evidence that giant killer ducks prowled the country more than 12 million years ago...
...He was one of the first politicians to talk about the greenhouse effect...
...If you're pushing me to the wall, I'm going to come out the corner swinging hard...
...He was also wrong to state that Lewinsky had not asked Linda Tripp to lie...
...In our March issue I said "read pages 284-85 of [Jeffrey Toobin's A Vast Conspiracy] for a devastating demonstration of the high percentage of falsehood and misleading innuendo in a February 5, 1998 story by Susan Schmidt and Peter Baker in The Washington Post...
...AemI~ 13, 2000] The American Spectator _9 July~August 2000 97...
...Like a besieged unfaithful lover, I'm trying to appease them both...
...DR...
...That's why I'm voting for him...
...For Sprewell the NBA was the goal of somewhat fanciful- or incredibly prescient--career planning...
...These qualifications will be of utmost importance to the well being of the whole world...
...Australia had a very different climate 12 to, 4 million years ago.., it was significantly wetter with large inland lakes and rivers...
...Having kids so earlyl pushed me toward wanting to do something with my life...
...Is this perhaps more acceptable than the lesser consequences of a fight between two well-conditioned athletes supervised by a referee and physician because it is a Caucasian-dominated activity with well-distributed revenue, where boxing is the domain of racial minorities and comparatively maldistributed profits...
...He plays basketball, he says, for six reasons: his three girls and three boys...
...I drive all the time," he says...
...Constitution from Frans Soede, beach bum: After President Clinton leaves the White House in the beginning of zoo1, the USA Government should propose to the Securi~' Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations a modus vivendi, whereby Bill Clinton would work jointly with Kofi Annan to reorganize and run the United Nations until the beginning of 2oo 9. By that time AI Gore may have finished his second term as President of the USA and Clinton can succeed him in accordance with the US Constitution...
...My girlfriend [at the time] was pregnant with my oldest daughter, so I needed to go to college," he recalls...
...I think there is little doubt now it was eating flesh," said Dr...
...I have a hunch if oilman George W. Bush is elected, his solution will be for us to sell a few stocks and seek plastic surgery...
...Seriously...
...It is unarguable that auto racing claims vastly more lives than boxing...
...But a specimen found in the Northern Territory two years ago has provoked a rethink...
...I stop--sleep in the car for a couple of hours and then back on the road...
...Every day I try to learn a little more Ojibwe...
...Until recently, it was thought the bird, weighing about 3ookg, the same as a medium-sized bear, was a herbivore, using its giant beak to rip through branches and nut shells...
...He didn't actually play organized hoops until his senior year...
...MAY 17, 2000] Arkansas Democrat-Gazette While boasting of his recent monograph on the absurd, Clinton catamite Gene Lyons explains how our ithyphallic President was "ruined" by one little intellectual review--subscription price, $46.95: Among other things, the book documents the Spectator's use of paid sources to spread crackpot charges of drug-smuggling against the president, as well as the so-called Arkansas Project, a $2...
...In my senior year good players left the hoop team--a perfect opportunity for me to go out...
...Fidel Castro betrays the sad effects of reading too many New York Times editorials: HAVANA--Cuban President Fidel Castro made a new attack on the world's capitalist system yesterday, telling a summit of the world's poor nations that the economic order had caused suffering comparable to the Nazi Holocaust...
...Sprewell excelled, went to junior college and then to Alabama and ended up 241h pick in the 1992 NBA draft...
...With this arrangement Clinton will become the most experienced US president in international affairs ever...
...He's unmarried but active in their lives, and he often shows up (late, sometimes, even on game day) at the Garden with four or five of them in tow...
...MAY 15, 2000] Washington Times Estimable economist Dr...
...Their story was totally defensible as accurate reporting...
...The Bullockornis planei, standing twoand-a-half metres and more closely related to the duck family than to emus or ostriches, is regarded as the most fearsome predator since the dinosaurs some 5o million years earlier...
...But I don't pick fights...
...MARCH 31, 2000] New York Times On the Arts page of America's newspaper of record, authoress Louise Erdrich takes bilingualism to the outer Iimits of the preposterous in a precious dithyramb for Gotham's intellectualoids: For years now I have been in love with a language other than the English in which I write, and it is a rough affair...
...So it comes back, as itso often does, to Dec...
...Steve Wroe, a mammalogist at the Australian Museum...
...And this is one of the reasons why the large majority of Americans increasingly tune out this realm, watching it from afar as a distant, faintlv antiquated culture...
...MAY 21, 2000] South China Morning Post Famed mammalogist Dr...
...Near his home in Los Angeles is Sprewell Racing...
...D'Alemberte face extraordinary pressure...
...But don't sue the doctor if it goes wrong...
...MaY 22, 2000] NewYork Times An innocent young Times reporter speaks of "lofty" standards from Academe, where Rape Awareness Week is a must and dank young minds are raised to Renaissance plateaus by classes in The History of Rock & Roll and Comic Books lo1: When outstanding athletes or popular coaches get in trouble, college presidents like Mr...
...S. Wroe avers evidence that sometimes the extinct species get what they deserve: The Nation (Thailand) From the exotic Orient, bizarre interpretations of the U.S...
...Then, with quiet weight, Sprewell says, "I'm a fighter, definitely...
...Referring to war crimes trials after World War II, the Cuban leader said: "We lack a Nuremberg to judge the economic order imposed Upon us, where every three years more men, women and children die of hunger and preventable diseases than died in the Second World War...
...The words "devastating," "high," and "falsehood" were ill-chosen...
...CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post America, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, as seen through the eyes of an hysteric, writing on the "Style" page of an entertaining American daily: Isn't there enough abuse in our society...
...Lately, my unattractive choice has been coming sooner rather than later...
...MATT BOW~N Charlottesville [MAY 21, 2000] Time During the very same month that the temper tantrums of basketball coach Bob Knight are abominated, the assault and battery of basketball player Latrell Sprewell is romanticized- inscrutable America: In social situations, Sprewell has always had a disposition to solitude...
...But he was suspended twice for missing a practice and for "conduct detrimental to the team...
...Auto racing is furthermore unique to "sport" in grossly mocking at least two of the major social ills for which our society has exhaustively pursued curative measures in the past 30 years, those being environmental pollution/conservation and driving safety...
...Moreover, where in boxing an instance of death or severe injury is invariably limited to one person, the nature of auto racing also lends to simultaneous multiple deaths and major injuries not only to drivers, but to crew members and spectators as well...
...1 spectator-attended and corporate-sponsored recreation involves watching fossil fuel devouring, off-the-decibel scale noise generating, crashing, burning, killing and maiming 2oo mph cars plastered with beer logos...
...At 171 was, like, 'O.K.,you've got a kid-you've got to make a way.'" That he has, and it allows him a second love, the open road...
...America's No...
...I've driven from California to Milwaukee by myself three times...
...MAY 26, 2000] 96 July~August 2000 . The American Spectator Los Angeles Times Some don't like it hot: Despite my aging body, every summer the heat forces me sooner or later to wear shorts and go braless...
...May 24, 20_9 Washington Post Columnist Marjorie Williams explains why some 50 percent of adult Americans eschew the smelly gymnasium that is politics and, come election day, repair to their local mosques, or whatever the hell she thinks goes on in America: Politics and government form one of the last great bastions of traditional, he-man achievement...
...For it is one of the great shifts of our lifetime that the old models of significance are more and more seen for the incomplete constructs they are...
...Now that little notebook includes an increasing volume of Ojibwe words...
...4 million operation utilizing the resources of the magazine and the non-profit "educational" foundation which publishes it for harebrained schemes aimed at ruining the Clintons...
...We live in a nation in which women get battered by boyfriends, children get mistreated by day-care providers, senior citizens get mugged by drug dealers...
...Toobin's book, on which I relied, was wrong in stating that there was no internal inconsistency or evidence of Glinton's culpability in Lewinsky's late January proffer of testimony...
...My English is jealous, my Ojibwe elusive...
...JUNE 2000] Washington Post On the Sports Page of the venerable Post Dr...
...Matt Bowen deposits the literary remains of another failed therapy session in anxiety management: The argument that boxing is more brutality than sport applies much more so to auto racing...
...I used to drive back and forth to school-to my junior college in Missouri, then from Alabama to Milwaukee...
...I enjoy driving...not as much as basketball...
...they must weigh the lofty moral and educational standards of their schools against students, sports fans, wealthy alumni and donors demanding success on the playing field...
Vol. 33 • July 2000 • No. 6
