CURRENT WISDOM
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT W I S D O M Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. NRDC Senior Attorney In a membership solicitation sent to the residence of an editor of this family magazine, Robert E Kennedy Jr., National...
...May 11, 2006) The Nation After the most benign winter in decades and with a radiant spring underway, the neurotics at The Nation publish this bilge...
...Professor Wilentz is the same man who ardently defended Boy Clinton before the United States Senate and has not an uncharitable utterance about Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Baines Johnson, or even MiUard Fillmore in his historical rankings...
...April 30, 2006) Times-Picayune From New Orleans, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Times-Picayune reports on the adventures of a local RobinHood, Mr...
...Because the Bush White House is quietly putting radical new policies in place that will let its corporate cronies poison our air, foul our water and devastate our wildlands for decades to come...
...I'm a Mexican...
...And I ain't have nothing to do with no murders...
...If anyone should be impeached, it is Cheney...
...The sunrise ofanewday...
...My fellowDemocrats, it's time to restore America's hope again, time to be on the nmrch again...
...Those challenges include globalization at almost every level of human society, the deeply troubling evidence of climate change, and the linked threats of international terrorism and proliferating weapons of mass destruction...
...Another comic moment in Liberalland: [Fuentes:] She is intelligent...
...B-Stupid, complete with an eloquent declaration of innocence in his native tongue: Shackled and clad in an orange jumpsuit, Ivory Harris, suspected of murders in New Orleans and Houston, was shuffled out of Central Lockup Monday and paraded before reporters and police officials who gathered to witness the jailing of the city's most wanted murder suspect...
...It took one woman we interviewed 28 years ~md three divorces before she became consistently orgasmic...
...Some women catch on real quickly, and some are helped by a very important partner, a key partner...
...It seems obvious," says Marc Meshorer, "that this is a normal response, it's in the body, it's in nature...
...Solomon:] If you talk about a woman being interesting for her legs in this country, you risk being stoned, and deservedly so...
...Our time has come...
...Fuentes:] I can say it...
...May they suffer frostbite in autumn and next, hypothermia: As A1 Gore's pivotal soon-to-be-released documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, makes clear, George W. Bush's darkest legacy in the long run may be his unmitigated assault on the environment and his campaign to cover up the immediate threat of globalwarming...
...Roiling Stone Thus begins an assessment by historian Scan Wilentz of a president whose economy is growing at a rate of roughly 4 percent, who is remaking the Supreme Court, and who has rather successfully confronted terrorists in two Islamic fastnesses...
...Here is a small sampling of what they're looking to accomplish for their corporate allies over the next critical months-unless we succeed in stopping them...
...Cyril M. Lagvanec, who writes, '7 lost everything to the hurricane, including 20+ years of the AmSpec...
...NRDC Senior Attorney In a membership solicitation sent to the residence of an editor of this family magazine, Robert E Kennedy Jr., National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) senior attorney, reveals the nefarious alliance that the evil W. has perpetrated to enrich the Giant Oil Corporations (GOP) and our nation's greedy allergists: Dear Fellow Environmentalist, The next several months will be "do or die" for America's environment...
...presidents...
...It's not something you either got or you don't-it's something you learn to get in touch with, to free...
...She is capable of nuance...
...For that matter, he has nary a good word for RonaldReagan: George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace...
...She seems to have something more behind her facade than one would suspect...
...and declares: "They made me reach beyond myself...
...May 15, 2006) New York Times Magazine Questioned by Miss Deborah Solomon, Manhattan Puritan, about his high regard for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, novelist Carlos Fuentes is distracted by President George W. Bush's anatomical parts--to the furious tut-tuttings of la Solomon...
...Harris, known on the streets as "BStupid," looked skinny and frail, almost too sickly to have committed the violent crimes he's suspected off kidnappings, killings and carjackings in Houston...
...May 1986) Washington Post Even more echolalic blather from the Hon...
...Now on to a few one-liners about the assassination of JFK andperhaps some raucous facetiae on the attack at Pearl Harbor: The thing is, the White House Correspondents' Dinner, held at what is often referred to as the Hinckley Hilton, an irreverent reference to an unfortunate historical event, is basically a good excuse for allegedly dignified journalists to act the fool...
...Marc and Judith Meshorer, sex philosophes and authors of Ultimate Pleasure: The Secrets of Easily Orgasmic Women, excite the cerebrations of Sarah Crichton in the pages of an old fcavrite: MeshorerMoral Number2: If you don't make yourself responsible for your own orgasm, nobody else will do it for you, nobody else can...
...Vice President Dick Cheney does...
...May 4, 2006) New York Review of Books Former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations Brian Urquhart, just before accepting his conversion to holy Islam and handing over his womenfolk to the purdah: It is nothing less than disastrous that a United States administration should have chosen to show disrespect for the 72 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 2006 CURRENT WISDOM international legal system andweaken it at a time when the challenges facing the planet demand more urgently than ever the discipline of a strong and respected worldwide system of law...
...JUDITH M. KIRCHNER Louisville 40217 (March 25, 2006) Courtesy of William Charles Farmer...
...Not be afraid of it...
...Why...
...Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September Uth, after which the public might rally wound the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S...
...Martin Luther King Jr...
...April 30, 2006) Louisville Courier-Journal On the howl page of a great American daily, Judith M. Kirchner lets our Machiavellian president off easy: Impeach Cheney ..An observation: President Bush does not have the brains to have masterminded the deception that put us in Iraq, nor any of the accompanying abuses of power that have so far come to light...
...And I think it's time for us as Democrats to touch the soul of the country again...
...I would bet dollars to doughnuts that sufficient evidence for Cheney's impeachment would be found in the minutes of his secret energy meetings held long before 9/11 ever occurred...
...The scope of the coming attack is staggering...
...But a partner can't train a woman: a woman has to train herself, and sometimes that takes time...
...April 2006) Washington Post Another stab at irreverent humor in the iconoclastic pages of WP...
...And I know what his legs look like because I have seen him falling off a bicycle in shorts...
...Lift it up, with a soaringand singing sensation...
...Now she regularly has dozens...
...They're trying to excuse ExxonMobil and other behemoths from a key provision of the Clean Air Act and allow them to spew vastly more pollution into our air--dramatically increasing asthma and heart attacks, hospitalizations, and premature deaths...
...She has better legs than Bush...
...Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history...
...Joseph ~ Biden, Jr.: Biden quotes from John and Robert E Kennedy and the Rev...
...March 21, 2006) Courtesy of Dr...
...Put verysimply, it's time to get American moxSng again, l,et us begin...
...They made me feel good about myself and my party...
...Few Americans even know about it, much less grasp what it will mean to our health and heritage...
...Bush is merely a cheerleader with a megaphone and funny hat, drawing attention away from Cheney...
...the murder on Mardi Gras...
...And to challenge it...
...But you need to know what is at stake, And once you do, I trust you'll join with me in working to thwart the Bush Administration's dangerous plans...
...March 3, 1986) JUNE 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 73...
...And that may be the bestcase scenario...
...Nothing...
...The streets," Harris said...
...From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (June 1986): Ms...
...How did you get the nickname" a reporter asked Harris, jamming a microphone into his face...
...She dresses well...
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