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CURRENT WISDOM The Hill At Brown University, Senator Jean-Francois Kerry is caught speaking in tongues, this time the tongue of a catatonic imbecile: Michael Brown is to Katrina what...
...These heads would bob up and they'd start coming closer...
...I was at home with a sick child when Reagan was shot in March 1981, and my first, or second, reaction was to worry that his assailant might be black or a member of some other unpopular and easily targeted subgroup—a homosexual, a Rastafarian, a Hasidic Jew, or a freelance revolutionary of the left...
...I, as a white man, feel that a little reverse discrimination is in order for many years to come...
...His entire legal career appears to be about making sure those folks don't have the same rights everybody else does...
...September 11, 2005) BE A SPECTATOR ACTIVIST...
...C U R R E N T W I S D O M The Hill At Brown University, Senator Jean-Francois Kerry is caught speaking in tongues, this time the tongue of a catatonic imbecile: Michael Brown is to Katrina what Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq...
...We'd sing Over the Sea to Skye and it was very interesting...
...CNN Dr...
...what George Tenet is to slam-dunk intelligence...
...So I was profoundly relieved when it turned out that the would-be assassin was a blond young man with wealthy Republican antecedents and white-supremacist leanings...
...That's why my foundation is bringing care and treatment to children and adults with HIV/AIDS in the developing world and why I continue to promote religious, racial and ethnic reconciliation in the troubled areas...
...It was absolutely riveting...
...what Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning...
...August 23,1985) New Republic Miss Barbara Ehrenreich reveals the kind of profound relief that can only be experienced by a New Age termagant, with a dab of "Hegelian" thrown in to give it that special scholarly sheen: All of us like to talk about what we were doing and how we reacted at the time of a presidential assassination...
...Publication Date: March 2006) From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (November 1985): New Statesman Another sex-starved English gal travels to fabulous America and applies herself to political commentary for the venerable New States-man, voice of the United Kingdom's shanty intelligentsia: One of the characteristics of the macho style in American politics has always been a paranoid fear of being penetrated in the rear...
...This is the new wave—to really look at bathrooms," said Deborah Abbott, director of the Lionel Cantu Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex Resource Center at the University of California at Santa Cruz...
...That's probably not the right thing to do two weeks after a disaster, where certain members of society clearly did not have the same protections thateverybody else did because of their circumstances...
...what Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy...
...There are those who could make a case for sex being bad, or a way of separating us from God, but I don't agree with them...
...The same culture that had given us Ronald Reagan had, with Hegelian wit, produced his would-be killer...
...Maybe we like to feel implicated in the great dramas of public life...
...BBC During an otherwise unexceptional interview on the esteemed BBC, Prince Charles of a sudden shows his oblivious side: "And my grandmother, I've never forgotten...
...This usually surfaces during the nuttier episodes of right-wing government...
...RON WEISSENBERGER Provincetown (September 5, 2005) Respectfully submitted by an anonymous Spectator reader...
...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 Politics & More, a collection of AmSpec hits from the past decade...
...August 5,1985) NOVEMBER 2005 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 81...
...901 Arlington, VA 22209 80 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 2005 C U R R E N T W I S D O M Boston Globe The editor of the correspondence section of BG ventilates the thoughts of Ron from Province-town for the consideration ofBean Town's idealists: This nation was established by rich white men who perpetrated a holocaust upon Native Americans via guns and germ warfare, enslaved and brutalized millions of Africans to work their land, and denied the basic right to vote to women for 144 years...
...June 20, 2005) Courtesy of Mr...
...September 25, 2005) The Monterey County Herald In faraway Monterey County, another cutting-edge issue arises that is sure to be on the agenda at the 2008 Democratic National Convention if Howard Dean has anything to say about it: The Saturn—a gay-friendly vegan/ vegetarian eatery that has been a Santa Cruz institution for a quartercentury—is not just the place to go for the quintessential Santa Cruz dining experience...
...And that's also a big part of why I believe we've got to act now to turn the tide of childhood obesity in America...
...When we unite our bodies, we worship the divine...
...what Tom DeLay is to ethics...
...Americans are fair people and they want a sense of justice...
...Mark Verbonich, long-time AmSpec subscriber and well-wisher...
...Ste...
...September 9, 2005) The God Factor In a promotional brochure for Miss Cathleen Falsani's forthcoming book, The God Factor, one of the book's interviewees, Miss Laura Esquivel, writer and sage, proves once again that Sexual Earnestness is funnier than Hillary Rodham Clinton on roller skates: I believe our bodies have to be the means by which we can extend love properly...
...The American Spectator Dept...
...When we were small—my sister and I—she used to take us down, stand on the cliff there, and we'd sing to seals...
...The Laurel Street restaurant is at the heart of a small but growing movement aimed at making transgender and "intersex" people—those born with genitalia that aren't typically male or female—feel more comfortable using public facilities...
...of Current Wisdom 1611 N. Kent St...
...and what George Bush is to "Mission Accomplished" and "Wanted Dead or Alive...
...This is a democracy...
...what Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad...
...or maybe we sense, unconsciously, that it's a good idea to have an alibi for the most Oedipal of public crimes...
...Howard Dean, the widely respected holy man and Vermont mystic, comments on the latest Hitlerite to be foisted upon us by Halliburton: John Roberts's legal career has been about taking away every protection for young girls and women who want to participate in sports, for African-Americans and Hispanics, who want the equal same right to vote as everybody else, for taking away for women who believe they should determine what kind of health care they have, instead of having politicians do it...
...A "new wave" in bathrooms may seem like something that could happen only in Santa Cruz, but the issue is being taken seriously by the mainstream gay and lesbian community...
...To make love, to really make love, using the body while being totally connected spiritually, can be a very enriching, fortifying experience...
...September 20, 2005) Parade Bill Clinton, caught in the same god-like mood that Monica came to know so well: The older I get, especially following my own brush with mortality, the more determined I am to try to pre-vent anyone younger than me from dying...
...That is why the lovemaking in my work is always surrounded by a lot of natural elements—flowers and incense—making this an act of worship in the truest sense...
...Perhaps it just might make up for the crimes against humanity manifested by Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, et al...
...I'm not sure he loves the American people...
...I know Judge Roberts loves the law...
Vol. 38 • November 2005 • No. 9
