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CURRENT WISDOM Meet the Press Senator Jean-Francois Kerry caught again in patriotic delirium: Mr. Russert: Ten seconds. The most important thing you learned running for president? Sen....
...February 26, 2005) From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past: TV Guide The grim accusations of the otherwisef lirtatiousJoyce Carol Oates...
...But the cost of living does and most of us just want to live normal lives...
...God bless...
...Still I haven't taken them off...
...What's more, a lot of other people apparently feel the same way that I do...
...Bush didn't win the vote for president-he bought it...
...Thank you for your views...
...They know they can't be fired so they become little Ayatollahs...
...Although the election was three months ago, I haven't taken mine off either...
...One more small comment...
...2042...
...And we're the good...
...Calls abounded for Churchill to be fired from his home institution, the Universityof Colorado, and he has already resigned his chairmanship of the department of ethnic studies...
...Not to be outdone, Bill O'Reilly, in a column on his website, called the entire tenure system "a dastardly con that protects teachers for life...
...Maybe that's why dying looks good to some of us...
...I'm sporting the bumper stickers bow and stern, and they are as much a part of my car now as the extra lipstick I keep in the glove compartment...
...Why stir up a political hornet's nest...
...They don't think tolerance is a virtue," Dean said, adding: "I'm not going to have these right-wingers throw away our right to be tolerant...
...I will be dead by then...
...When does the program go belly up...
...Rob Simmons, a Republican solon from Connecticut, ponders the President's Social Security reforms and, as the poet Yeats so prettily put it 'foresees his fate...
...And concluding his backyard speech with a litany of Democratic values, he added: "This is a struggle of good and evil...
...Spellings is conducting a witch hunt against Buster or that James Dobson has taken aim at SpongeBob SquarePants, there's a method to their seeming idiocy: the cartoon surrogates are deliberately chosen to camouflage the harshness of their assault on nonanimated, flesh-and-blood people...
...He could only get close and that doesn't count...
...Washington Post The Hon...
...we KerryEdwards supporters show our stickers...
...when there is no urgency...
...But it can create public policy that discriminates against anyone on the hit list of moral values zealots...
...I never sported a bumper sticker before-not in 31 years of driving, not even for causes I strongly supported...
...December 16, 2004) Muskegon Chronicle The thoughts of Judy Johnson of 1051 Calvin Street, apparently just hours before pulling a Hunter Thompson: I have just a couple of questions...
...Kerry: How great, how unbelievable the American people themselves are...
...The buttons and T-shirts may be packed away for history, but the bumper stickers are out there still, doing their job...
...Inane as it may seem that Ms...
...Maybe that was because the old bumper stickers left a residue and I worried about the resale value of my car...
...When it seems that things might be more peaceful when you die, it has to be better than this...
...February 13, 2005) 64 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR April 2005 CURRENT W I S D O M London Review of Books From the land of exquisite pastas and hearty cheeses comes another nut philosopher: The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben does not want his fingerprints taken and, unlike like most European critics of the evil empire, he has been willing to forego an academic visit to the United States in order to prevent it happening...
...We have moved from Athens to Auschwitz: the West's political model is now the concentration camp rather than the city state...
...February 21, 2005) Courtesy of Mike Wernstrom of Twin Lake, Michigan...
...CURRENT W I S D O M Meet the Press Senator Jean-Francois Kerry caught again in patriotic delirium: Mr...
...That campaign cannot really banish salaciousness from pop culture, a rank impossibility in a market economy where red and blue customers are united in their infatuation with "Desperate Housewives...
...For Agamben, fingerprinting is not just a matter of civil liberties: it is symptomatic of an alarming shift in political geography...
...February 6, 2005) Washington Post In the "Outlook" section of the Post Miss Risa E. Sanders provides law enforcement officers with a new and non-intrusive way to identify drunk drivers: They aren't disappearing...
...Rob Simmons (Conn), who represents a competitive district...
...the body's biological life' part of the system of state control...
...They are still prevalent not only in the Democratic strongholds of Reston and Fairfax but in my traditionally conservative community of Great Falls as well...
...said Rep...
...we are no longer citizens but detainees, distinguishable from the inmates of Guantanamo not by any difference in legal status, but only by the fact that we have not yet had the misfortune to be incarcerated-or unexpectedly executed by a missile from an unmanned aircraft...
...And I think that, you know, this is an amazing country, and I came to love it even more...
...January 11, 2005) Lawrence Journal-World Tolerance as propounded by Dr Howard Dean whilst discoursing to a gathering of politically endangered species in the great state of Kansas: "Moderate Republicans can't stand these people (conservatives), because they're intolerant...
...And though it is hard to see how fingerprints, as opposed to the monstrous Other in a passport photo, might constitute an aspect of anyone's subjectivity, Agamben's unwillingness to share this information with the American state is still a significant refusal...
...Take care...
...February 28, 2005) New York Times Frank Rich checks in again from the planet Pluto: That our government is now both intimidating PBS and awarding public money to pundits to enforce "moral values" agendas demonizing certain families is the ugliest fallout of the campaign against indecency...
...Our income doesn't rise as fast...
...January 30, 2005) The Nation In her zany column, "Diary of a Mad Law Professor," Professor Patricia J. Williams inveighs against a double standard we can all applaud: Meanwhile, over in the groves of academe, Native-American activist Ward Churchill was disinvited from a speaking engagement at Hamilton College because of an essay in which he called the CIA office workers who died in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns...
...May we suggest Yoga, Congressman?Yoga in the nude?.• Most alarming to White House offi cials, some congressional Republicans are panning the president's plan-even before it is unveiled...
...First, what hare-brained scheme does Bush have for the people of the United States now...
...December 8,1984) April 2005 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 65...
...Second, where are all the seniors, disabled, low income people supposed to find the income to meet all the additional expenses (utilities, insurance and normal living expenses...
...No such fate has been suggested for the powerful, corporate-sponsored O'Reilly...
...He couldn't win in horseshoes, either...
...But this sticker was fully removable and could have disappeared without a trace of glue or any evidence of my defeat...
...Russert: Senator John Kerry, we thank you for joining us...
...Yet in the context of American literature, this is simply to accuse Hemingway of being a male writer...
...Fingerprinting makes `the most private and incommunicable aspect of subjectivity...
...What is at stake, he explains, is the `new "normal" biopolitical relationship between citizens and the state...
...Dolphins use echolocation to find one another...
...They are just-the courage of the American people day to day blew me away...
...First of all, the raises in costs for all aspects of normal living, and not trying to fix something that isn't broken-Social Security...
...More than one acquaintance of Hemingway's made the observation that, despite his several wives and liaisons, he seemed to dislike women, and since he rarely wrote of women with sympathy, and virtually never with subtlety and under standing, feminist charges of misogyny are surely justified...
...I can't even afford a newspaper anymore, and I liked the paper...
Vol. 38 • April 2005 • No. 3
