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Current Wisdom New York Times In discoursing on the film Kinsey columnist Frank Rich eliminates two more plausible explanations for his unfortunate mental condition: [In] the...
...My religion has nothing to do with President Bush's war...
...If you come across published nonsense worthy of submission for this page send it on to us at "Department of Current Wisdom," and if we agree and entomb it on this page we shall send you an AmSpec desk calendar, printed in New Orleans, Louisiana, in an authentic women-owned, union print shop...
...And that to me is hot' _Rhea ' what America is about.' , Sail trteisCd (November 6,1984) , (September 14,198 $) _-1f iage Voice Another inscrutable-passage served up for the woebegone gorse model's of the Voice: Febi -cry 2005 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 69...
...There's also the fact that, on a personal level, I despise him with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns...
...You represent horrible ideas...
...The only ones who take universities as seriously as universities take themselves are activists on the right...
...Big Brothe}.realty is watcl g,- f£' I say I ppcse...
...But 58 million have not...
...While I hesitate to criticize our troops, that soldier should not have displayed a religious symbol on his or her weapon...
...When Harvey Mansfield, a Harvard conservative, was asked about the difficulty conservatives had getting tenure, he sighed ironically, "Well, I guess they'll have to go to Washington and run the country...
...You should all burn in hell...
...And she left her office number at WHYY in the message last Tuesday...
...Wanna get` that bastard out I November general election...
...Editor- l eagap and his cabal rust be removet1 at the 'Damn sure have...
...901 Arlington, VA 22209 the difficulty of transcending her point of origin: I grew up in Missouri and most of my family voted for Bush, so I am going to be the one to say it: The election results reflect the decision of the right wing to cultivate and exploit ignorance in the citizenry...
...God hates you and he [sic] wants to kill your children...
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...Absolutely, the Wisconsin State Journal should not have published it...
...Want to talk real power...
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...The image just gives fodder to those who characterize this war as another Christian crusade against Muslims...
...December 4, 2004) Slate Jane Smiley, "author of many novels and essays," demonstrates BE A SPECTATOR ACTIVIST...
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...What I'm saying is, advocating Bush is kind of tricky...
...I wanted to tell you that you're evil, horrible people...
...I have been against the war in Iraq from the get-go, but I don't think anyone in this country has ever tried to justify it on religious grounds...
...from Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plains Thoughts From the Heart of America by Garrison Keillor, Viking Books, 237 pages, $19.95) Tram the Archives Timeless Tosh from Current Wisdoms Past: ' San Francisco Chronide Ralph B Elias, a sadly unaccolad aT scholar and reader ctf &tn Francisco's famed Chronicle, re-As his case: j smell ttiefear I don't like it `''Have you registered to voter Mark asked...
...1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb and dangerous...
...I think he's bad in a way that redefines my understanding of the word "bad...
...Republicans: The No...
...As a Catholic, I am outraged and offended...
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...Well, almost 58 million—my relatives are not ignorant, they are just greedy and full of classic Republican feelings of superiority...
...GlariCing lithe women {bettdetluatelydescribed...
...Liam Neeson stars as the pioneering Indiana University sex researcher who first let Americans know that nonmarital sex is a national pastime, that women have orgasms too and that masturbation and homosexuality do not lead to insanity...
...And if you want to talk about civility, let's exchange college professors with a median salary $88,591 for Fortune 500 chief executives with a median compensation of $7.1 mil-lion...
...I suppose the good news is that 55 million Americans have evaded the ignorance-inducing machine...
...Now, my "bad" category consists entirely of George W. Bush, with every previous president redefined as "good...
...The American Spectator Dept...
...If the faculty clubs are blue, corporate management offices are red...
...As an American, I am disgusted...
...You're awful people...
...After all, the higher the stakes, the less vicious the politics...
...November 16, 2004) 68 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR February 2005 CURRENT W I S D O M Los Angeles Times More evidence that a writer can become famous and admired by asseverating the moronic and despicable, this time from young Jonathan Chait who lived happily in the time of Clinton: To say that I consider Bush a "bad" president would be a severe under-statement...
...November 4, 2004) Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wisconsin) In the correspondence section of a great American gazette, Miss Patty Sommer inadvertently proffers testimony to the triumph of Donald Rumsfeld's unisex fighting force: Your front-page photo of the soldier with the rosary hanging off his or her gun shocked and appalled me...
...C U R R E N T W I S D O M New York Times In discoursing on the film Kinsey columnist Frank Rich eliminates two more plausible explanations for his unfortunate mental condition: [In] the acclaimed movie "Kinsey...
...Rachel is Rachel Buchman, 25, a regular reader of Laptoplobbyist's e-mail newsletter—and a reporter with public radio station WHYY-FM (90.9) for about three years...
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...history had many bad presidents...
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...December 12, 2004) Philadelphia Inquirer The quality of mind and spleen employed by a typical public radio station, as reported by the es-teemed Inquirer's fearless columnist Michael Klein: A voice-mail message left last week at the Virginia office of Laptoplobbyist.com, a conservative Inter-net site, went like this: "Hi, my name is Rachel, and my telephone number is...
...November 30, 2004) Washington Post The ironic sensibility as manifest by witty-witty Ellen Goodman, inventor of the dry martini: I find the attention to campus politics rather charming...
...October 8, 2004) The Great Books Series Bellestrist Garrison Keillor's word processor goes out of control at high speed: The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A- Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk...
...In the name of diversity, let's trade some liberal sociologists for conservative oil executives...
...I continued, You know, vOiat bothers e trot is the 0, Any American who-votes to retain Reagan and his mate is such that it really seams Me to say what I think...
...Certainly his or her commanding officer should not have allowed it...
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