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Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Nation Thirty-seven lonely years after Woodstock, the wretchedAlexander Cockburn has yet another humiliating LSD relapse, and some imbecilic editor at Old Faithful is fool...
...There are millions of follicle fetishists out there, and at the first hint of tint they find you and ogle your albino tresses like a hot pair of buns...
...January 9, 2006) Rolling Stone Twenty-five years after the martyrdom of John Lennon one Mikhal (sic) Gilmore proves on the marmoreal pages of RS that one does not have to be a university professor to write badly and think vacantly: The Beatles set something loose in their time: a sense of generational transformation that moved quickly from the blissful to the artistic to the political, and for a few remarkable years, it seemed irrefutable...
...Indigenous people have offered such a model...
...The Nation His mind still swinging gently in the hammock of the good old days, historian Gore Vidal explains the last 160 years of America's dreadful decline: Starting with our war against Mexico in 1846, which was to acquire California, we've been in a serious, naked grab, grab, grab imperial mood...
...Never at ease before the cameras, he now has the hunted blink and compulsive nasolabial twitch of the mad dictator, a cornered rat with nowhere left to run...
...November 11, 2005) Uncovered by longtime subscriber, based in Dallas, Texas, Mark Goodwin...
...So we got somethingwhen we had John Lennon, and we lost something when his voice was killed...
...We left a legacy at Yale which today's straight and narrow students look back on with envy...
...Any rebuttal from Reaganites or grade-grubbing graduates will be printed pursuant to the equal time rule...
...September 27, 2005) American Prospect Dr...
...Until next fall, vale...
...James B. Luther right after Thanksgiving 2005...
...Where will the penis go and will it feel the same to my husband...
...Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was blessed by those we hold up as our heroic Founding Fathers...
...January 2006) Houston Chronicle From his padded cell at the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Journalism, Professor Robert Jansen beholds the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, from the perspective of a turkey: One indication of moral and intellectual progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Daywith a National Day of Atonement...
...June 1985) Indianapolis Star Let us face the facts...
...The late Sixties and early Seventies at Yale were a golden era when higher values than grade grubbing and financial competition motivated us...
...The ill-fated bird flew into an exposition center Monday in the northern city of Leeuwarden, where a TV crew had worked for weeks setting up more than 4 million dominoes in an attempt to break the official Guinness World Record for falling dominoes...
...Dear Reader: Even if the surgical route for removal of the uterus and ovaries is through the vagina, awoman's vagina remains after the operation...
...Through it all, he told us to keep faith, to keep courage, to defy our hurt, our fear, to find love and hope and to fight for their meaning...
...November 14, 1985) FEBRUARY 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 81...
...Then the gray began to sprout...
...The endangered sparrow was chased into a corner and shot by an exterminator with an air rifle...
...Notwithstanding the journalists'boasts about their unparalleled daring and candor, one finds more frankness and controversy on the how-to pages of a conservative newspaper than on the op-ed pages of the great liberal dailies...
...November 7, 2005) Dallas Morning News The Associated Press reports every birdwatcher's worst nightmare: AMSTERDAM, Netherlands--The Dutch animal protection agency demanded prosecution Tuesday for the shooting of a sparrow that knocked over 23,000 dominoes during an attempt to set a world record...
...In those cases where the cervix (the opening into the uterus, or womb) is also removed, the vagina may be shortened but should remain able to accommodate a penis...
...establishment to contemplate a limited scaling down of America's struggle for world dominance, even when the maximalistversion of that goal has been clearly shown to be unsustainable...
...From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (February 1986): Yale Alumni Magazine The historians of the Yale class of'74 depart from the usual chronicling of marriages, births, and herpes to deliver a well-rehearsed homily: It seems appropriate to close out this year's series of columns with a cautionary note recently received from Char|ie Finch: "I couldn't let Rurik Ingram's passing remark that we had been 'spoiled as undergraduates' (by comparison to the Wharton School) go by without a comment...
...We would be better to think about the constricting effects on the day's mythology on our minds...
...since 1970 they have marked the fourth Thursday of November as a Day of Mourning in a spiritual/political ceremony on Colas Hill overlooking Plymouth Rock, one of the early sites of the European invasion of the Americas...
...Anatol Lieven, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation and polyglot, writes in his most recently acquired language without benefit of editor: Michael Mandelbaum's latest book is a superficial symptom of the grave, even potentially deadly disease: the inability of the overwhelming majority of the U.S...
...One could sayit's like Reagan becoming president but I don't feel that way about it at all...
...Reinisch: I'm scheduled to have my uterus and ovaries removed but still don't understand how my husband and I will have sex afterward...
...And that a knownothing swishy, pale, really profoundly inarticulate guy like Andy Warhol can change art history...
...December 10, 2005) CNN.com The disturbing ruminations of CNN's prospective Walter Cronkite, Anderson Cooper, who isprematurely gray: Goinggrayislike ejaculation.Youknowit can happen prematurely, but when it actually does, it's a total shock...
...CURRENT WISDOM The Nation Thirty-seven lonely years after Woodstock, the wretchedAlexander Cockburn has yet another humiliating LSD relapse, and some imbecilic editor at Old Faithful is fool enough to publish the byproduct: Start with Bush...
...We lost somebody as f[---led up as us, who worked his whole life to overcome himself, and, in doing so, his creativity would help us overcome the madness of our t i m e s - a t least for a while...
...Nonetheless one could saythatAndyWarhol's arrival as a kind of faux artist and being confused with a real artist was like this weird phenomenon of a fool like Reagan or Arnold Schwarzenegger being taken for a politician, but there's something kind of funny on a conceptual level about it, but deeply scary...
...I had brown hair until I was 20...
...June Reiniseh Dear Dr...
...As Americans sit down on Thanksgiving Day to gorge them80 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 2006 CURRENT WISDOM selves on the bounty of empire, many will worry about the expansive effects of overeating on their waistlines...
...November 23, 2005) BespecO~ully submitted by Mr...
...In the Eighties era of $350 billion Pentagon budgets, conspicuous consumption, deficits financed offthe backs of poor we can see the true spoiled and the spoilers: The Reagan revelers sucking up the spoils of greed and selfishness...
...December 15, 2005) "Studio 360" (Public Radio International) Two decades after the Reagan administration ended stagflation and the Cold War, the illustrious Wayne Custenbaum, biographer of Andy Warhol, continues his boycott of history books written after 1981, or for that matter anything else written after 1981: It seems a moment, a great sigh of relief that a certain ponderousness and pompousness of 1950s American art was finally over...
...Nixon looked the same in his last White House days, and so did Hitler, according to those present in the Fiihrerbunlcer...
...Behold this syndicated wisdom: The Kinsey Report by Dr...
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