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CURRENT WISDOM Boston Globe A Globe reporter ventures out to historic Lexington, Massachusetts, to interview Kerry diehards on the eve of GWB's second Inauguration andfinds a patriot about to...
...How can the same package attract such a diverse audience...
...The ceremony at the Nazi death camp was outdoors, so those in attendance, such as French President Jacques Chirac and Russian President Vladimir Putin, were wearing dark, formal overcoats and dress shoes or boots...
...Quite a reasonable question, isn't it...
...Dorothea Halliday Bridgehampton, N.Y...
...We're suffering from national Alzheimer's disease...
...68 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR March 2005 CURRENT WISDOM And this trad but funky set-up suits the Monday Night Football crowd just fine (as the risque locker-room visit by one of the show's stars, Nicollette Sheridan, attests...
...January 19, 2005) A special thanks to Frank Ferguson for this lovely submission...
...I'm trying to look for an organization that is well organized to utilize people like me...
...Both dismayed and energized by Bush's re-election, Thompson has joined the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women since election day...
...These sexy suburban sisters don't have faggot friends—or careers, like most women in sitcoms today...
...CURRENT WISDOM Boston Globe A Globe reporter ventures out to historic Lexington, Massachusetts, to interview Kerry diehards on the eve of GWB's second Inauguration andfinds a patriot about to become an urban guerrilla, varicose veins and all: Yet out of this despondency a renewed activism seems to be stirring...
...And indeed, the vice president looked like an awkward boy amid the well-dressed adults...
...Four-fifths of the adult population in the country took part in discussing the 1977 Constitution of the USSR...
...The American Spectator Dept...
...January 28, 2005) From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past: Mother Jones An obligato reassurance from David Osborne, MJ's political affairs expert and prophet-in-residence: Yes, Ronald Reagan was reelected by a landslide, but so were Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson...
...Why are women to be accorded equalitywith them and not vice versa...
...In short, they were dressed for the inclement weather as well as the sobriety and dignity of the event...
...The lessons of November 6, 1984, in other words, should be drawn with care...
...But we must not lose sight of the equal, if not greater, importance of investigating the story itself and not just the faulty journalism...
...You know what's going to happen to Social Security...
...January 1, 2005) Washington Post Our Vice President suffers sartorial sniffs from the fashion plates of the gallant Post: At yesterday's gathering of world leaders in southern Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the United States was represented by Vice President Cheney...
...Terkel recalled an earlier era: "It's who's more likable...
...Who is Bill Burkett, the source of the allegedly forged documents...
...Did he think he was going to have to hike the 44 miles from Krakow—where he had made remarks earlier in the day—to Auschwitz...
...election was panned as an embarrassing fiasco, reeking with pregnant chads, purged registration lists, butterfly ballots, and a Supreme Court that preempted a recount...
...Among those seated at the breakfast table in Lexington is Lisa Thompson, 52, the chief information officer at Risk Management Foundation, who is married to Baughman...
...Speaking of the recent presidential debates, Mr...
...As a result, changes were made in 110 out of the 173 articles in the draft of the Constitution...
...He didn't have to...
...It reminded one of the way in which children's clothes are inscribed with their names before they are sent away to camp...
...So Nixon was unshaven and Kennedy was shaven...
...In this case, the beneficiary of the story is certainly George W. Bush...
...Richard Goldstein, who, The Nation tell us, "writes about the connections [sic] between pop culture, politics and sexuality," until he can write no more: The first pop phenomenon since the election is that salacious howler of a prime-time soap called Desperate Housewives...
...It was a lie when he went to war against Saddam...
...That fact alone should caution us against reading too much into Reagan's sweep, for both Nixon and Johnson proceeded to lead their parties over a cliff...
...January 2005) The Nation A sociological mystery of the present moment elucidated by Dr...
...January 12, 2005) BE A SPECTATOR ACTIVIST...
...Ronald Reagan's victory will have a lasting impact, will create the historic realignment of which Republicans dream, only if his policies work...
...You know what's going to happen to health care...
...11): It is important that CBS took steps to correct the gross lapses in journalistic standards that led to the flawed report on the documents regarding President Bush's National Guard duties...
...The final version of Article 35 now reads: "Women and men have equal rights in the USSR...
...Let's hope that there are nevertheless still some indomitable journalists who have the courage to investigate and report the truth...
...Despite its gleeful attitude toward fornication, this show is popular in Bush country...
...There was no yesterday...
...Four months later, after two centuries as a modal democracy, the U.S...
...The allegedly left-leaning Dan Rather and his team—the same journalists who first broadcast the pictures from Abu Ghraib—are now disgraced and neutralized...
...the work to draw up Soviet laws is carried on at government levels with the participation not only of competent jurists, but also of broad sections of the population...
...What are his connections...
...January 1985) Soviet Life In the pages of a superb publication, abundant with all the generous sentiments so plentiful in the socialist motherland, a patriot makes one more effort to undo the decades of slander...
...At this writing, it's the top-rated show on television, and the media are galvanized by its success at a time when red-state reverence is seeping into everything...
...It even grabs men who never watch such sudsy stuff...
...After nearly two centuries of election fraud, Mexico's presidential election was praised universally by its political parties and international observers as free, fair, and professional...
...For example, the draft of Article 35 read: "Women in the USSR have equal rights with men...
...Because it was cold and snowing, they were also wearing gentlemen's hats...
...One reason is its subject: babes behaving badly...
...One woman wrote: "Why have men been chosen as the principal standard...
...And she says she is just getting started...
...New York Times On the famed Howl Page of a sacred American institution, still more proof that insanity can be amusing: Re "CBS Dismisses 4 Over Broadcast on Bush Service" (front page, Jan...
...Did a Bush hater's plan go awry, or did a Bush supporter's plan work all too well...
...I can't believe I'm back fighting for issues I fought for back in college...
...Yet Housewives also appeals to gay men and feminists: The Sex and the City set...
...January 3, 2005) New York Times Paleontological note: Interviewed by an amanuensis from the esteemed Times, Mr...
...I'm way past the venting," Thompson says in an earlier interview...
...It is also worth mentioning that Cheney was wearing hiking boots—thick, brown, lace-up ones...
...The story that CBS failed to investigate still needs to be investigated...
...The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower...
...901 Arlington, VA 22209 The American Prospect Welcome to The American Prospect where Mexico is a democratic exemplar, America is a banana republic, and the cow jumps over the moon: Few noticed, but in the year 2000, Mexico and the United States traded places...
...Did he act alone...
...Cheney stood out in a sea of blackcoated world leaders because he was wearing an olive drab parka with a fur-trimmed hood...
...Even more remarkably, how can it succeed in such a chastened cultural climate...
...There was no Depression...
...Studs Terkel considers the recent election and demonstrates that the faculty of speech can be maintained by dinosaurs even after the fossilization process is long underway: "Something happened to people, I'm sorry, something happened to them that elected President Bush...
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...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...
...December 1984) March 2005 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 69...
...And, frankly, there is little chance of that...
...It may be useful to consider the question, Who stands to gain...
...It is embroidered with his name...
...She has written 75 letters on such issues as abortion and civil rights to members of Congress and political groups...
...So there you have it...
Vol. 38 • March 2005 • No. 2
