CURRENT WISDOM: Viagra Good For The Environment?
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Viagra Good For The Environment? WALL STREET JOURNAL The mysterious decline of the Canadian seal hunt in the chilly waters off historic, tilting Newfoundland, explicated and laid to the Giant...
...And often I'm just making it up...
...They are the pathological white-hot center of the right wing...
...As more and more gay guys adopt straightgirl dating strategies (no sex without dating), people like me are getting less and less sex...
...The Vietnamese had no designs on our turf...
...Mankoff is a sociologist: The Vietnam War was fought with criminal brutality on all sides...
...I myself don't know what I am doing a good forty percent of the time...
...April 25, 2001) GUARDIAN Proof that our genial conservative president is a great American fiom Miss Polly Toynbee of London, England: He is the most rightwing president in living memory...
...Though it be noted that Mr...
...And somehow words do emerge, and my listeners somehow accept them as an answer representing thought and knowledge, and I alone, apparently, know that no thought or knowledge was involved...
...That's why I'm so furious at my girlfriends...
...April 26, 2001) NEW YORKER On the correspondence page of the American literateurs' weekly, someone finally has the guts to put in a good word for one of the world's last communist dictatorships...
...I am now the kind of white-haired, thick-waisted, superficially presentable male who people give responsibility to and ask directions of on the street...
...Radiating out from that center, next come the extreme conservatives, the rabid Clinton-haters and Biblethumping doomsayers, the angry zealots for whom business-as-usual Republicanism is too moderate--the group normally thought of as the true-believer Republican "base...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 9 June 2001 99...
...I know how many classes we skipped, how much we partied, how much TV we watched...
...The reason is, nothing kills sexual attraction more than having dinner with a guy so dull that even the corn on the cob covers its ears...
...His foreign policy is a calamity, brilliantly uniting Russia and China with gratuitous offence and threat...
...A few years ago, Mr...
...Speak for yourself, pathetico: I am a few years younger, but I belong to the same generation as W. Bush and Quayle...
...I have a generational sense of the vacancy in their state because I share it...
...My mouth moves and words come out, propelled perhaps by pure syntax or by momentum of language, while I watch from a distance, as curious as anybody to hear what I'm going to say...
...In the past, hunters benefited from a market for seal penises, which some Asians believe to be an aphrodisiac...
...In less than 100 days he has turned America into a pariah, made enemies of the entire world, his only friends the dirty polluters of the oil industry who put him there...
...Chung says he would sell 20 or so penises a year, and he has had to lower the price to about $70 down from more than $103...
...WALL STREET JOURNAL The mysterious decline of the Canadian seal hunt in the chilly waters off historic, tilting Newfoundland, explicated and laid to the Giant Pharmaceutical industry: A recent report prepared by the Canadian government by a panel of marine experts points to another unexpected cause of the decline...
...If this is compassionate conservatism, what does the other sort look like...
...April 4, 2001) SALON.COM Michael Alvear, writing in Saloon, sends a zoological dispatch from Bill Clinton's favorite journal 0f Kultur: Straight women are ruining sex for gay guys...
...It was the United States, however, that sabotaged peace talks, invaded Vietnam, and turned the full force of its weapons of mass destruction on the land and its people...
...McVeigh and his fellow extremists burn with rage, are consumed and obsessed by it...
...Chung points to a leathery 10-inch seal penis on display in the glass case, which he says has been sitting unsold for more than four months...
...May/June 2001) SALON.COM Gary Kamiya, executive editor of Saloon, takes time out from his anger management therapy to discourse on what others have so limpidly termed a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: There is a common ideological thread that runs from Timothy McVeigh to bedrock Republicanism, and the shared emotional leitmotif of that ideology is anger...
...April 23 & 30, 2001) MOTHER JONES Midst a supremely haughty assault on the intellectual assets of George W. Bush and Dan Quayle, MJ'S resident sage Ian Frazier stumbles into an embarrassing episode of what the shrinks call "projection...
...I'm from the old school...
...The situation is one I've become quite familiar with--I'm asked a question, no answer presents itself in my brain, and I begin to answer anyway...
...What distinguishes America's worst domestic terrorist from Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay and George W. Bush is the intensity of that anger...
...Had ours been the ravaged country, I wonder how well their captured soldiers would have fared...
...I think it's Viagra," he says...
...After this suburb, you cross the city limits into mainstream conservative territory--and the distinction between the city and the suburb is pretty blurred...
...The report cites "the increased use of Viagra as a substitute for seal penises" Sales are "way down" from a few years ago, says Sang-Jo Chung, who runs an herbalremedies shop in Toronto's Korean district...
...I believe in sex before dating...
Vol. 34 • June 2001 • No. 5
