Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
C U RR)EN T W ! S,D O:M Wall Street Journal Albert R. Hunt, one of the Democratic Party's most gifted claqueurs, accords A1 Gore the benefit of the doubt with the kind of frenzied abandon that...
...JULY 13, 2ooo] Omaha World-Herald I can't imagine how anyone can chew on a drumstick again after watching the animated movie "Chicken Run," which opened last week to great critical acclaim...
...The delightful British film recounts the story of a group of brave hens plotting to escape from a factory farm...
...The story is both poignant and funny, and the characters quickly earn their empathy...
...It has been our daily sundowner for so long now that one wonders whether we will ever, so to say, sober up and climb on the wagon...
...The real post-Berlin wall peace dividend would have been knowledge--self-knowledge, above all--for to know would be to object, as the keepers of secrets understand...
...The delightful British fihn recounts the story of a group of brave hens plotting to escape from a factory farm...
...Let's call it an Americano...
...I was impressed with how these animals, which we view as food, share our quest for life and liberty as well as most of our feelings of joy, affection, frustration, sadness and pain...
...In Maine, three high schools use the nickname for their sports teams--Scarborough, Sanford and Wiscasset...
...There is nothing wrong with people expressing themselves--that is why we live in America...
...The story is both poignant and funny, and the characters quickly earn their empathy...
...from Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership: Nixon to CliTzton, by David Gergen...
...This policy change also extends to our coverage of professional sports...
...I was impressed how these animals that we view as food share our quest for life and libe l as well as most of our feelings of joy, affection, frustration, sadness and pain...
...That was only to appear in subsequent newspaper accounts of Bill's court case: An incident occurred in December of that year that I noxx look back upon--perhaps mistakenly--as significant to health care...
...Stories about these teams will use the town names instead of the nickname...
...The problern is that cocktail...
...C U RR)EN T W ! S,D O:M Wall Street Journal Albert R. Hunt, one of the Democratic Party's most gifted claqueurs, accords A1 Gore the benefit of the doubt with the kind of frenzied abandon that ensures for him a hallowed place in the Goebbels Museum of Modern Propaganda: He has made indefensible concessions in electoral politics, getting close to sleazy contributors ]ike Nate Landow, currying favor with the K Street lobbying crowd and raising few objections when his associates traded offtheir connection with him to get rich off questionable deals...
...That was true throughout the cold war, of course, and has been grimly true since...
...In a dysfunctional democracy such as ours, public ignorance (and its sibling, indifference) is essential to the exercise of power-to the principle that in dealing with others we have no principles...
...Clinton and her hnsband was deep in her doghouse...
...I look froward to exploring the many cruelty-free, healthful dietary options that are available...
...In the next few days, it became obvious that the stories had privately humiliated Mrs...
...Thankfully, my local supermarket carries a selection of delicious "mock chicken" foods, which unlike dead chicken flesh are free from saturated fat, cholesterol and salmonella...
...Gore has betrayed any public trust or compromising principles in governance...
...Does this make me a bad person...
...Perhaps I am wrong, but over the next several weeks, I sensed that he was in no mood-and no position-to challenge her on anything...
...Businesses that ban people who have tattoos, body piercings, or wear hats will suffer a great loss...
...We would never have included such salacfty as "kiss it...
...AuOUST 7h4, zooo] Maine SundayTelegraph Progress radiates from the pages of the venerable Maine Sunday Telegraph as documented by editor Jeannine Guttman (but would not "Guttperson" be preferable...
...Simon & Schuster, 382 pages, $26] Washington Post Irony from belletrist Molly Ivins, and one who may never forget that diabolical Mining Act of 1872: The media have Important things to worry about, like the new grand jury investigating Bill Glinton's love life because it hasn't been investigated enough, so no wonder they don't have time to look into how the drug companies stole the public's cancer research and made money offit, or how pathetically undertaxed corporate, industrial and mineral property is, or illegal toxic dumping, or the giveaway of the digital TV spectrum, or the ongoing effects of the 1872 MiningAct...
...We will refer to the National Football League franchise as the Washington, D.C., NFL team...
...And many of those metaphors are still with us...
...T1NA GARRISON Partlow [JULY 21, 20001 76 0 c t o b e r 2 o o o _9 The American Spectator The Nation What passes for intelligible thought on the pages ofye olde Nation, where American resistance to the Soviet Union remains very controversial: Americans, like evevone else frostbitten by the cold war, pay dearly for their ruptured relations with history...
...The delightful British film recounts the story of a group of brave hens plotting to escape from a factory farm...
...Having tattoos or body piercing or wearing hats does not show any signs of danger...
...As so often, the victimizers turn out to be victims, too...
...ALEx HERSHAFT Bethesda, Md...
...I was impressed how these animals that we view as food share our quest for life and liberty as well as most of our feelings of joy, affection, frustration, sadness and pain...
...IDLY 9, 2000] (From the Great Minds Think Alike Department) Chilling evidence of the intellectual conformity that afflicts bunny-food eaters who know not the nutritional value of a plump Perdue oven-stuffer roaster: Portland Press Herald I can't imagine how anyone can chew on a drumstick again after watching the animated movie "Chicken Run," which opened last week to great critical acclaim...
...The American Spectator and then the Los Angeles Times both broke stories alleging that Arkansas troopers had been used by thenGovernor Clinton to procure women for him...
...As the New Year opened, we were heading into the most important months of the health care fight with a president who was tiptoeing around the person in charge...
...I cannot recall him publicly confronting her on any health care issue after that...
...Like a bouncy golden retriever who has pooped on the living room rug, he curled up and looked baleful for days...
...After several months of discussion and consideration, the newspaper is changing its policy regarding the use of the word "redskin" in our sports coverage...
...The 1995 screening of"Babe" the talking pig led a number of people to drop pork from their diet...
...The story is both poignant and funny, and the characters quickly earn our empathy...
...No one foresaw that the Spectator piece would encourage Paula Corbin Jones to file suit against Clinton...
...But there is no e~ idence that Mr...
...In keeping with our newsroom policy guidelines, it will no longer be published in our news pages...
...Thankfully, my local supermarket carries a selection of delicious "mock chicken" foods, which, unlike dead chicken flesh, are free of saturated fat, cholesterol and salmonella...
...We've agreed with those who say the word is an offensive racial slur...
...We will instead refer to those teams by their hometowns...
...BmL L. Pmc~ Portland [Maine] [JULY I7, 20001 USAToday I can't imagine how anyone could chew on a drumstick again after watching the animated movie Chicken Run ("Here a chick, there a chick, everywhere...," Life, july 5...
...I look forward to exploring the many cruelty-free, healthful, dietary options that are available...
...AuGuST 17, 2000] NewYorker A painstaking interview with M-Gore, America's Muslim vice president, reveals why he so frequently has that grim look on his face: "I became interested in more complex metaphors and their explanator) power when I was writing 'Earth in the Balance.' In particular, in my effor~ to ~ to understand the origins of our modern world ~iew, and its curious reliance on specialization and ever-narrower slices of the world around us into categories flint are then themselves dissected, in an ongoing process of separation, into parts and subparts--a process that sometimes obliterates the connection to the whole and the appreciation for context and the deeper meanings that can't realh be found in the atomized parts office whole--and in e~loring the roots of that way of looking at the world, I found a lot of metaphors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that came directly from the scientific revolution into the world of politics and cultnre and sociology...
...I also was impressed to see how these birds that we view as food share the human quest for life and liberty- as well as most of our feelings of joy, affection, frusScation, sadness and pain...
...But he is not a hater and has genuine personal honor...
...Starting today, we will not use the word to describe teams featured in our sports stories...
...The delightful British film recounts the story of a group of brave hens plotting to escape from a factory farm...
...The t995 screening of"Babe," the talking pig led a number of people to drop pork from their diet...
...AuGuST zz, 2ooo] Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, Virginia) One of Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz's brightest students demonstrates how she has preserved her intellect and grasp of constitutional quiddities while raising her two pups in bucolic Partlow, VA, just outside historic Fredericksburg, out by the gas station: I'm a mother of two little girls, ages 22 months and 2 months, and I have three tattoos...
...Banning people from expressing themselves is discrimination, and we the people of America have a Constitution that protects that right...
...JULY 31, 2000] The Great Books Series In the first volume of what is bound to be a multi-volume political memoir, David Gergen, known by Washington insiders as melonhead, chronicles how this venerable intellectual review saved America from Hillary's socialism and more dog droppings on the White House carpets--though his account of our Paula coverage is inaccurate...
...JoY PEDROIA Perris [JULY 14, 2000] The American Spectator _9 0 c t o b e r 2 o o o 77...
...Thankfully, my local supermarket carries a selection ofdelicious"mock chicken" foods that, unlike dead chickens, are free of saturated fat, cholesterol and sa}monella...
...NANCY LYNN Lincoln [JULY :2, 20001 The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) I can't imagine how anyone can chew on a drumstick again after watching the animated movie "Chicken Run...
...As a candidate, he has blatantly distorted his opponents' positions and misrepresented his own on nmltiple occasions...
...We are flee to do as we feel...
...One of them, the Spectator said, was a woman named "Paula" who was brought to the Governor in a hotel room where he exposed himself and asked that she "kiss it...
...People without tattoos can cause trouble just as well as someone with tattoos...
...I look forward to exploring the many cruelty-free, healthful, dietary options that are available...
...Thankfully, my local supermarket carries a selection of delicious "mock chicken" foods, which unlike dead chicken flesh are free from saturated fat, cholesterol and salmonella...
...The stories were so salacious that I could not believe tl~ein, and I joined the effort to knock them down...
...The story is both poignant and funny, and the characters quickly earn our sympathy...
Vol. 33 • October 2000 • No. 8
