Public Nuisances
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
D o my eyes deceive me? Is that surly fellow staring from the front page of the good old Drudge Report, wearing a Confederate general's uniform, a United States senator? It is indeed, and not...
...He has not lost his touch...
...Such depredations continued for centuries...
...Frankly, it is my judgment that the docs who prescribe psychiatric medications to America's youth are not only fine doctors...
...A couple of centuries ago the children would be at home with adults and with household chores...
...Race should no longer be exploited by the bloodless poll of either party...
...They are as much at risk from weapons of mass destruction and terrorism as are we...
...My estimate is that Senator Byrd is trying to send racists all over the country a message...
...I am with you, fellows"—that is his message, and he probably is...
...The movies also feature tremendous explosions across the screen, automobile chases, various slow-motion blood lettings...
...Now they, with their northern Liberal allies, have used and abused the African American vote as one of their last holds on political power...
...If you were a young person today, would you not be a little blue after a day in the classroom...
...They seem to have missed the terrorists' boasts that angry Islam is at war with all Western countries...
...This additional source of France's reluctance to fight Saddam is anti-Semitism, and it goes back in French history to at least the twelfth century when King Philippe Auguste, an otherwise distinguished French king, found himself sorely pressed to pay the bills...
...T his city under a gray winter sky does not see the morning light until eight o'clock, and nightfall is here by five...
...Mention that they have a proclivity towards genteel anti-Semitism and they change the subject, or confess but insist it causes no pain...
...Today the Democrats take warm pride in calling him the great orator of the Senate...
...Just the other night I attended About Schmidt, a movie starring Jack Nicholson that was advertised as a movie that would make me laugh...
...It is indeed, and not Senator Trent Lott, the Democrats' vision of Pitchfork Ben Tillman reborn...
...The senior senator from West Virginia—a border state!—has a cameo role in Gods and Generals, a film forthcoming from Warner Brothers...
...A year later, as a member of the West Virginia state senate he wrote that he would "never submit to fight beneath that banner [the American flag] with a Negro by my side...
...MOODY BLUES -WASHINGTONF rom 1987 to 1996, researchers tell us, the number of children and adolescents taking prescribed psychiatric drugs has more than doubled...
...It is worth noting what researchers on the editorial page of the venerable Wall Street Journal dug up this week...
...You and your husband did very well politically in those regions...
...I know the teachers have more esoteric terms, but the topics themselves are pretty gruesome...
...But they are hobbled by old prejudices...
...He is clutching a sword...
...We shall worry about the consequences later...
...At any rate, it is very depressing—bereft of drama or heroics...
...Is it time we send Senator Byrd into the same opprobrious pit we sent Senator Lott...
...You lived there for two decades, and I have not heard of your complaints about the indigenes of those back roads, not when they were voting for your husband...
...He acted in the White House about the same way he acted on the back roads...
...Still, Paris is supremely beautiful, the cheeriness of more clement seasons being replaced by the cheeriness of Christmas decorations everywhere and Beaujolais Nouveau...
...Senator Byrd is the same galoot who last year erupted with "There are white niggers...
...Yet is it all that amazing...
...Equally depressing is the study of government (read oppression) and literature (read depravity...
...That was in 1180...
...Readily available divorce has also assisted in making the home a barren place...
...Of course there are other reasons that our children and adolescents are in need of psychiatric medication...
...All of the middle-class members of the audience sat in quiet reverence...
...They have apparently not read the reports that terrorists have targeted monuments and buildings in their capital...
...Mention their responsibilities to defend the West against the angry threats now mounted against us, and they slip away behind complaints that it is all about Israel...
...Somewhat more surprisingly, they are prescribing anti-psychotics, which is to say, mood stabilizers, for suppressing various manias and aggressions...
...There are the movies, full of idiot jokes about underpants and belly buttons, plus instructions on theavoidance of sexually transmitted diseases and babies—the disadvantageous aspects of good sex...
...In the suburbs around France's major cities, they have grown increasingly ardent for militant Islam and are perpetrators of frequent acts of vandalism against Jewish properties, cemeteries, and synagogues...
...In the years following the Holocaust, French anti-Semitism has become more subtle...
...The adolescents would be at work, for adolescence is a modern creation...
...and the Jews...
...No change in the present condition of young people is likely as I see it...
...Actually the French have gotten much nicer over the past two or three decades...
...Now I would suggest they expand their targets to include adults, at least those who are addicted to popular culture...
...So he had the Jews of Paris, who had amassed large commercial holdings, arrested, imprisoned, and forced to pay for their freedom...
...Even the Clintons would agree with that...
...Two years later, he kicked them out of France, and, by the way, grabbed their property...
...And for that matter so should all those who play the race card today much as old Bobby Byrd played it in the late 1940s...
...They made up the Dixiecrats...
...Bubba should talk of back roads...
...How could Senator Byrd and Warner Brothers be so insensitive...
...Their lives are sedentary, spent in front of luminous screens, while their energies build and build...
...Even after Byrd left the Klan he wrote to its Imperial Wizard in 1946, "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia...
...The only reason that the Middle East's leaders are all tyrants (except for Israel's) and that its youth occasionally transform themselves into suicide murderers of Westerners is aggressive Israel...
...Adult movie critics proclaim its dramatic grandeur...
...But it does...
...Hillary publicly pronounced that what Senator Lott "did was state publicly what many of them [Republicans] have stated privately over many years in the back roads and back streets of the South:' And Hillary spent a lot of time in the "back roads and back streets of the South," chasing down her errant hubby...
...Husband Bill was singing the same song: Lott "embarrassed them [Republicans] by saying in Washington what they[Republicans] do on the back roads every day...
...From all I can tell, the American classroom today is a dreary place...
...I left halfway through...
...By the twentieth century, out and out stealing had fallen into disfavor, but the bigotry remained, becoming particularly invidious in the 1930s and taking a grisly turn with the Nazi occupation...
...My dinner companion was telling me why the French are reluctant to go to war against Saddam Hussein...
...So let them take medications...
...What are the French going to do...
...If the French squelched their anti-Semitism, they would take serious action against the vandals and bigots in their midst...
...Rather than bringing the nation together and noting that race is no longer a major issue, these Democrats make it an issue, to the discredit of the nation and to the pain of black people...
...What with all the controversy about the Stars and Bars flying over southern state capitals, there has to be more to it...
...They are humanitarians...
...So long Bobby, and for that matter so long Hillary and Bill...
...I occasionally attend movies, and I can tell you that most of those in the audience should be heavily medicated...
...Those young people who defiantly reach for a good old book are dismissed as nerds or conservatives...
...No adult is home, not even a grandparent, occasionally not even a foreign-speaking attendant...
...Perhaps middle-class life is mindless...
...Hey wait...
...So are the Clintons with me...
...It begins with such jarring stuff as rap, hip-hop, and such vacuous figures as Eminem...
...Both Clintons were superb during the Trent Horror...
...Young people increasingly grow up without the oversight of loving adults...
...The reason is Israel...
...I am serious when I say I see a need for these medications...
...I do not want to use that word...
...But Democrats such as Senator Byrd have used such words for years...
...Does that not send a chill...
...Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan realm of W. Va...
...The rat race that adults so eagerly leap into has left the children without companionship...
...A few days in Paris at this time of year are as memorable as "April in Paris," though as I sat in the Café Fiore, sipping espresso and reading of the blase French response to terror and the weapons of mass destruction, the old line echoed through my mind about how grand France is except for the presence of the French...
...Moreover they would stand by us in the looming war with Saddam...
...But, Hillary, what were the monsters saying in those unlovely purlieus...
...I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time, if you want to use that word...
...According to the infelicitously titled medical journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, doctors with growing frequency are prescribing Ritalin for attention deficit disorder as well as several antidepressants...
...No, the Senator in Confederate drag is Democrat Robert Byrd...
...Then there are the entertainments that our youth have to endure...
...The polite French wring their hands and say they' will not tolerate it...
...But the depredations continue...
...For one, their homes are often lonely places...
...Nicholson appeared to be happily drugged...
...Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds...
...But it remains and now serves as the mood music for a new overt form carried by French-born Arabs...
...It turned out to be a tedious regurgitation of all those novels, beginning somewhere in the nineteenth century, whose mission it is to lecture us on the mindlessness of middle-class life...
...It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the Union...
...But, I think the Clintons will agree with me that it is time that he go...
...I encountered a manifestation of this during an elegant meal in a posh Parisian apartment with a view of the Arc de Triomphe so intimate that I thought I might reach out the window and touch the great luminous heap...
...Will the Clintons join me in asking Senator Byrd quietly to resign his office before the Republicans break out in full cry against this act of racial callousness...
...Yet some of their unpleasant facets remain...
...Perhaps there is something to it...
...Yes, apparently were it not for Israel, the Middle East would be a peaceful paradise of democracies and smiling Mohammedans...
...They are among the most reluctant of our allies to support us in war against Saddam Hussein and the terrorists...
...Then we move on to the really depressing stuff: sex education, conflict resolution, problem solving...
...You can be sure that the weekly news magazines and TV talk shows will be abounding with alarums for months to come...
...Had I been happily drugged I might have stayed...
...They represent the party that enforced Jim Crow...
...Little history is taught, and when it is, the history is a tale of man's inhumanity to man, or rather person's inhumanity to person, or is it person's inhumanity to minorities...
...Fie on both Warner Brothers and the Senator, who incidentally is the only sitting member of the United States Senate to have once served as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, a group whose civil rights record has been even more unsatisfactory than that of the modern Republican Party...
...The air is chill and damp...
Vol. 36 • January 2003 • No. 1
