Current Wisdom: Al, Al, and Anthony
Jackasses, Assorted
(she's in her 30s).You just want to hug the poor thing but her boyfriend's nearby, so one makes do shoving a significant portion of one's expense money into the tip jar. A warm feeling ensues,...
...So we spent several hours of Sunday morning getting processed at the local police station and waiting for our bitterly disappointed parents to come pick us up...
...As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee he worked to block the confirmation process, without a hearing, of any judicial nominee he suspected of the faintest liberal taint...
...13 California), who wanted me to write a tearful essay about the tragic loss ofJohn Lennon...
...He won nearly 600,000 more votes nationwide than Mr...
...As does she...
...It is a beautiful moment, and inspires another stray thought: Here's to you, Carl...
...I did write some dumb thing, but only after having spent most of the day goofing around in the library with Ellen Leppek, who a few years later wrote me that in her job as a London call girl she'd had sex with Moammar Gadhafi...
...Real courage or mettle in foreign policy, despite the reputation of poll-driven benign neglect...
...It hadn't been circumcised, and probably it was criminal...
...These include: An excellence of appointments unsurpassed since the Roosevelt administration...
...But that's another story...
...December 28, 2000) SALON.COM The associate managing editor of Saloon, King (yes, King...
...Bush...
...December 3 O, 2000) NEW YORK TIMES The Liberal Mind revisitedma distinguished progressive voice solemnizing on the op-ed page of the esteemed Times dethrones the John Birch Society, replacing it with a truly alarming institution: Astonishingly, and for the first time in twelve months, the election news was about something other than A1 Gore's hairstyle or George Bush's English springer spaniel...
...January 21, 2001) NEW YORK TIMES In the incunabular pages of Bush H attorney general nomineedohn Ashcroft's bona fides are confirmed by no less an authority than Anthony Lewis, BS: Senator John Ashcroft of Missouri is on the extreme right of American politics...
...My friend Stacy Flanders called me up and said,"Kind of a shitter of a week so far, huh...
...Our songstress ascends the stage as the barmaiden slips her bikini shots back in their envelope, singing in a voice of stunning purity, "Oh come let us adore Him...
...And for all Mr...
...Few of the people in the broadcast studios were old enough to remember ever having seen such a thing as democracywthe living organism as opposed to the old paintings and the marble statues--and judging by the startled expressions in their faces, they didn't like the look of it...
...Tuesday I got called out of class by the newspaper advisor, who was really the cheerleader advisor (this was post-Prop...
...The band begins tuning up.Another beer here, another round of rum over there, and above us all drift the final strains of a Christmas carol...
...January 13, 2001) HARPER'S Observations physiological and aesthetic of the last election for the off-beat readers of Lads Lapham's musky column in an American museum: racy that does not award the presidency to the winner of the popular vote...
...Clinton's morality crises, this was, for the most part, an administration of exceptionally high standards...
...M NEW YORK TIMES The Constitution be damned, the estimable Times of Liberal orthodoxy ends a report on Al-Gore's departure from a conquered redoubt with what has become for the orthodox an id6e fixe" Today, Mr...
...A warm feeling ensues, reminding us that the Lord loves a cheerful giver...
...Xavier Becerra (D-California): "Are you going to shoot your wad on Linda Chavez and then let John Ashcroft sneak in the back door...
...December 8, 2000) RIVERA LIVE Toilet talk from Geraldo Rivera to the Hon...
...Such moments are worth traveling long distances for...
...January 8, 2001) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 9 March 2001 109...
...I was sitting in the back of a car in the parking lot of a mall in Bred, Calif., smoking marijuana with two buddies before a midnight movie showing of...I forget what...
...sentence, Lennon was killed...
...It recently devoted its entire editorial space, 40 inches long, to demand that he be indicted after he leaves oflqce for false statements about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky...
...On Monday, as I served the first day of my grounded-for-LIFE...
...January 2001) WALL STREET JOURNAL AI Hunt, peerless practitioner of Reverse Journalism, devotes himself to his craft in which everything he reports is precisely the reverse of the truth: But there are a number of other weighty but less recognized Clinton successes...
...Gore left the Capitol with little pomp, but surely with questions about a democ, AI, and Anthony The leading voice of the far right, the editorial page of the Wall StreetJournal, attacked the president relentlessly for "scandals...
...Kaufman, engages in the kind of shameless name-dropping that has earned Saloon its upscale audience: The day before John Lennon got shot, I got arrested...
Vol. 34 • March 2001 • No. 2
