Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CU R R E N T W I S D O:M: Washington Post At a state dinner for the leader of India one of Our President's foreign policy advisers speaks truth to microphones: Said model and...
...Is she seeking companionship or an instant intervention from local mental health authorities...
...The smooch A1 Gore planted on Tipper after his convention speech Thursday night was a seven-second lip-lock that had delegates nudging, winking and some gasping...
...MARGARET G. HOLT Amherst [JULY 5, 2000] Washington Post Anatomy of a conspiracy (possibly treasonous) proffered by Post columnist Richard Cohen, the moral bladder of a nation: ~ for the "vast right-wing conspiracy," there was one...
...SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 9, 2000] NewYorkTimes On the esteemed Times op-ed page Miss Nora Roberts, "author of ~35 romance novels," proves that there is a sucker born every day: We had a glimpse inside the heart when Mr...
...We attracted a diverse segment of the peninsula populous [sic], from toddlers to seniors, homeless to executives, gay teens to Hell's Angels, breakdancers to the rhythmically challenged...
...Oh sure, I can always justify it by saying that my victims really deserve it...
...She had not yet decided wheflmr she would run for the Senate...
...OCTOBER 2000] San Francisco Chronicle Stud muffin...
...And which, politically speaking, is not altogether good for his wife That night at the White House, my husband and two children were asleep at one end of the hall, in the Lincoln Bedroom, the Queen's Bedroom, and the Queen's Sitting Room...
...That heart took one long, public moment to express love for a woman...
...In between our two sleeping spouses, the president and I sat in a corner of the big ceremonial study, two people with marriages in trouble...
...He said he was sorry...
...That charge, later thrown out in court, led ultimately to Clinton's having to testiS-to his private life...
...In fact, beginning with his sponsorship of the Supercomputer Network Study Act in 1986 and the High-Performance Computing Act in 1991 (which Gore first introduced in Congress in t989) Gore had been a leader in legislative initiatives to develop the Internet...
...Gore embraced his wife before he addressed the world as the Democratic presidential nominee...
...Big Sur Bottled Water, Inc...
...I sure do...
...Before he went to sleep, my son asked me whether Daddy and I were going to get a divorce...
...Staying at the White House should have been a great day, a once-in-alifetime experience...
...My legislators could stop funding this murder, but they're busy rigging tax breaks for rich people or making sure we all have the right to our own private arsenals...
...AuGuST 19, 2ooo] Newsletter (Monterey County AIDS Project) An exciting report from the Democratic National Committee's candidates to replace the Boy Scouts of America: Liquid Latex went off without a hitch on Sunday, April 30...
...Eight DJs spun house, techno, and trance from noon until eight o'clock...
...But when I read the papers and discover that some of the people I'm killing are innocent, or only teen-agers or retarded or schizophrenic, it makes me feel pretty bad...
...His stayed together...
...These donations were distributed freely to all those in attendance at the event along with condoms, female condoms, dental dams, lubrication, testing coupons, and informational resources at a booth manned by volunteers from Seaside High School...
...She had never been Bill Clinton's girlfriend, Miss Jones said, but instead had been sexual b harassed by him...
...with C.E...
...The Hebrew Bible" and "the Christian Bible" are better names for the Old and New Testaments for obvious reasons...
...I particnlarly like two fairly recent examples...
...I know I do...
...At the other end of the hall, in the residence, Hillary had come home, said good night, and gone to sleep...
...REBECCA BELL-METEREAU mbe~@yahoo.com [AuGusT 24, 2o00] George The President of the United States acting in his constitutional role as marriage counselor, as reported by Susan Estrich, or is this another of George's tasteless efforts at comedy: Hillary's husband called me as soon as he heard...
...Does Shaka's death arouse our outrage and sorrow as if he were our son or brother...
...First came the Internet smear...
...With fnnding from Richard Scaife, the American Spectator set out to dig up dirt on Clinton...
...AuGusT 2 3, zooo] San Diego Union-Tribune Proof that Rocky" Velgos of Vista, California, has too much time on his hands: Even though the phrase "political correctness" is ridiculed in some quarters, I'm in favor of the concept...
...The sky was blue, the sun was warm, and the wind kept things exciting...
...Perhaps the most common and logical example is the use of"person" in place of the gender-limited "man...
...And historians and anthropologists are leading the way in replacing A.D...
...A lot of us may pay more attention to Mr...
...ROCKY VELGOS Vista [JUNE S, ~ooo] 92 ;November 2000 - The American Spectator American-Statesman (Austin, Texas) You will note that this belletristicallyinclined lunatic swanking on the correspondence page of the A-S includes her email address...
...It's frequently nothing more than exercising some kindness, consideration or sensitivity...
...There is a haunting question about the Nazi Holocaust: How much did fire German people know about what was happening...
...Its sto o about his woinanizing prompted a certain "Paula" to come fonvard and denounce the magazine's reference to herself...
...Gore's words because of that quick, endearing and romantic impulse Will it add up to more votes in November...
...donated 144 bottles of water, Wholefoods donated a box each of organically grown oranges, pears, and apples...
...Old false charges about the 1996 campaign mingled with new false charges that, though quickly disproven, took on a life of their own...
...I certainly do not...
...after all, they're murderers, too...
...SEPTEMBER r9, zooo] American Prospect Princeton historian Scan VVilentz, fresh from his three-year campaign to prove that William Jefferson Clinton is a sexual Puritan, auspicates his new campaign to prove that N-Gore is the George Washington of our time--though free of any unfriendly, acts against cherry trees: A wave of new stories about Gore's supposed propensig, to lie began appearing in March i999, almost immediately after the Senate cleared President Clinton of impeachment charges...
...Is an editorialist for the famed Chronicle of San Francisco defaming the Vice President as a stud muffin...
...This was the AIDS Awarehess week youth kick-offat the Window to the Bay Park in Monterey...
...That night she'd gone out to dinner, while he ate with us...
...Even though I have others do the actual dirty work for me, I keep wondering if killing someone every couple of weeks isn't wrong...
...It took far less than ~9 years to change Gary Graham from a poor, thoughtless 17year-old into a mature Shah Sankofa, devoted to truth and justice for himself and others...
...Diversity can go too far: It was not your standard political air-kiss nor the usual convention cheek-peck...
...And it looked like the real thing...
...The Food Not Bombs crew of Monterey County set up a table and distributed information and promotional materials as well...
...and B.C...
...Don't yon wish we could kick the killing habit...
...Thank you Big Sur Bottled Water, Inc., Wholefoods, Food Not Bombs, The City of Monterey Department of Recreation, Positive Theory, and all who made this event possible...
...I told him notto be, that this was better...
...In the tightly-scripted extravaganza, that lingering osculation-and the embrace that accompanied it-was the sexiest incident during four days of political palaver...
...Rather, he should receive a life sentence...
...All this killing is expensive, too, and it gives my fellow murderers and me a reputation for being barbaric among all the other industrialized peoples of the world...
...Which is not necessarily what I would have predicted just over a year ago, when we sat in the White House one night whispering about our marriages...
...There is some possibili b, that time on death row might move him toward change from a power-hungry politician toward becoming an informed and genuinely compassionate human being...
...My marriage fell apart...
...the Common Era) and B.C.E...
...Before the Common Era...
...This eliminates the unnecessarily narrow, religiously sectarian implications while maintaining the longestablished time frames...
...He lied--but to questions irrelevant to his job...
...SEPTEMBER 18, 2000] Union-News (Springfield, Massachusetts) The case for moving moral education from the public schools to Death Row as made by Miss Margaret G. Holt, idealist: On June 2z, an innocent man, Shaka Sankofa, better known to the public as Gan" Graham, was a victim of murder in the first degree by Texas Governor George W. Bush...
...But unhappy marriages don't necessarily get better just because the surroundings improve...
...Do you ever get tired of murdering people...
...CU R R E N T W I S D O:M: Washington Post At a state dinner for the leader of India one of Our President's foreign policy advisers speaks truth to microphones: Said model and political-environmental activist Christie Brinkley, dressed in dropdiamond earrings and a body-clinging beige dress: "It would be great if India and Pakistan could find friendship like this and save us from nuclear destruction...
...Do we seek the death penaI~ for Bush...
...For a brief shining moment, the public display of affection on the Staples Center stage melted the vice president's dull, robotic image and even lent him the dashing air of an aging stud muffin in earth tones...
...I guess it's just apathy that keeps me in this same old routine...
...It was a wonderful day...
...How much do we, the American people, know about our candidate (candidates) for president...
...On March 9, I999, questioned by CNN's Wolf Blitzer about what distinguished him from his Democratic primary opponent, Bill Bradley, Gore remarked: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet...
...Using "developmentally challenged" to describe some children previously called "slow" probably was a good idea, although it spawned an unbelievable variety of joke spinoffs, such as "vertically challenged" for short people...
...The kiss was a warm--dare we say passionate?--moment between a husband and wife, still interested after 3 ~ years of marriage, four kids and a hectic schedule...
...If we like what we hear, maybe it will...
...Peace, -- DONOVAN VENTRESCA Youth Outreach Coordinator [JULY -SEPTEMBER 2OOO] The American Spectator - No v e m b e r 2 o o o 93...
...Newspapers were reporting that relations between her and her husband were strained, and that they were engaged in intensive counseling...
...But this change was brought about by profound thought, extensive shldy and communication with others inside and outside of prison-and was based on a native intelligence that seems to be lacking in Bush...
Vol. 33 • November 2000 • No. 9
