CURRENT WISDOM
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Guardian Proof that the inimitable charm of foraner Vice President Al-Gore travels well-like strychnine: A1 Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush...
...But just as the spanked child who has a defining moment of refusing more mistreatment, the world will have its defining moment with us...
...There is much more to come...
...America today holds out not a torch but a blowtorch to the world, tIumanity's friend has undergone a horrid sea change into humanity's bully...
...Certain men of uncertain will...
...May 31, 2006) New York Sun . ~ The indispensable Daniel Johnson harvests two humanitarian communiquds from the Hon...
...Sam Abrams delivers to President Hugo Chavez a blow beneath the belt: To the Editor: Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez (front page, May 20), sounds just like an American president: interfering in the internal affairs of neighboring countries, targeting foreign aid to win influence, setting up trading blocs, broadcasting propaganda...
...has attacked and declared "victory" against a slew of nations, set up brutal puppet governments and devastated people for generations...
...Soviet history has been falsified for over a half-century...
...On the Jews:] "The descendants of those who crucified Christ...
...Since the violence of terrorists is ultimately aimed at the mind and spirit of a nation, the nation can thwart them with a mental and spiritual response...
...The "weakness" that invites our destruction is not a measurable, structural weakness of nations...
...But it is for just this reason that a nation can effectively oppose terrorism without necessarily exterminating it...
...CURRENT WISDOM The Guardian Proof that the inimitable charm of foraner Vice President Al-Gore travels well-like strychnine: A1 Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current U.S...
...Men who wish to restrain the natural urges of natural men, to smother initiative and stifle competition beneath the suffocating pleats and ruffles of the Nanny State...
...Now we try to persuade foreign nations by nuclear missiles and aircraft carriers and by the arrogant insistence that we know their interests better than they do...
...And he adores Judy Garland...
...From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (July & August 1986): New Yorker The ratiocinations of an editorial writer with a terminal case o f New Yorker Kultur: Both nonviolent resisters and terrorists address themselves to civilians-whom the former help and the latter kill...
...And most of the male protesters I knew held strong moral convictions against the war...
...But as the war in Iraq rages on I keep asking myself.- Where are the young people this time around...
...Men without guns or guts or glory...
...We have met the enemy...
...The U.S...
...For one thing, as a young woman who was passionately against the war, I knew that wasn't my motivation...
...Where are the campuses...
...No wonder he stirs up resentment...
...Hopefully they will have mercy on us...
...June 2006) The American Prospect From the tap-tap-tap of writer Francis Wilkinson, a perfect specimen of the inscrutable blogorrhea inflicted on the comatose readers of AmPros when its line editor takes a holiday-oh shut up, Francis/ Like its religious counterpart, political liturgy does not reward literal interpretation...
...Men who lack the grit and determination to command other men to expend their grit and determination in battle...
...Men who cut and run...
...There was virtually no support for the war (except for the offspring of a few famous neo-cons) but neither was there serious organized activity to try to stop it...
...Unmanly men...
...SAM ABRAMS ROCHESTER, MAY 20, 2006 (May 27, 2006) The Progressive From a leading journal of Homo ridictdus more evidence that Darwinian evolution is operating in reverse: I don't know about you guys, but I am so sick and tired of these lying, thieving, holier-than-thou, right-wing, cruel, crude, rude, gauche, coarse, crass, cocky, corrupt, dishonest, debauched, degenerate, dissolute, swaggering, lawyer shooting, bullhorn shouting, infra-structure destroying, buck passing, hysterical, criminal, history defying, finger pointing, puppy stomping, roommate appointing, pretzel choking, collateral damaging, aspersion castiflg...
...Denying that his politics have shifted to the left since he lost the court battle for the 2000 election, Mr...
...We tried, by living up to our own ideals at home, to create a society whose virtue would attract and convert others...
...12,1938...
...For the past four months, I was at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, surrounded by idealistic young people and their liberal professors...
...GROVER FUm~ MONTCt,~aR, N.J Courtesy of David Witter from Pittsburgh, PA...
...Girly men...
...Men who snuggle before the domestic hearth of the Mommy Party...
...Men who fuss and fret over Mother Nature (when what she really needs is a good drilling...
...Men whose weakness abases and undermines the rugged individualism and frontier can-do that made the United States Numero Uno...
...New York Times In the correspondence section of the controversial Times Mr...
...has committed the most destructive, egregious acts in modern times, with pride...
...Millions" did not "die as innocent victims" in the gulag The famine of 1932-33 was not "artificially induced" nor confined to the Ukraine...
...May 30, 2006) Pittsburgh Tribune-Review A surprisingly obscure professor of English from progressive Montclair State University in the correspondence section of the PTR sets the record straight on the achievements of his fellow progressive, Joseph Stalin, just before the FBI closes in...
...May 5, 1986) New York Asked to comment on our refurbished Statue of Liberty, frumpy Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., bawls and bawls': Is our contemporary America still a beacon of hope to suffering humanity...
...May 12, 1986) JULY/AUGUST 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 81...
...Men who are effete...
...Once we tried to persuade foreign nations by our example...
...nor did "six or seven million" die in it...
...All evidence points to the guilt of the defendants in the Moscow Trials...
...In my own research, I am simply popularizing a little of the exciting new research on the Soviet Union that recently has been produced in Russia...
...Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, to his grateful public: [On Our President:] "the biggest perpetrator of genocide the world has known.., an assassin.., an immoral man who should be put in jail by an international court...
...It is 80 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY/AUGUST 2006 CURRENT WISDOM more insidious than that...
...Edward J. Vanisko, Jr...
...May 18, 2006) The Herald News (Joliet, Illinois) On the op-ed page of a great American gazette columnist Miss Rhonda Goebel displays the powers of ratiocination that could make her a leading candidate for the presidency of Harvard State University: The U.S...
...And there is no evidence for this absurd claim that Stalin "was responsible for the death of 45 million peopleY Stalin did not sign "death warrants" at all, much less for "3382 victims on Dec...
...In this waywe gain compliance in the world...
...have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands...
...It is the weakness of men...
...Where are the new Tom Haydens and Sam Browns and where are the Noam Chomskys, William Sloane Coffins, and Daniel Berrigans...
...June 2006) CBSNews.com At Harvard State University the excellent Dotty Lynch hits rock bottom: I have always hated the explanation that student protests against the Vietnam War were motivated by young men who didn't want to serve...
...In an interview with the Guardian today, the former vice-president calls himself a "recovering politician," but launches into the political fray more explicitly than he has previously done during his high-profile campaigning on the threat of global warming...
...wedding party bombing, clearcutting, torturing, jobs outsourcing, torture out-sourcing, election fixing, women's rights eradicating, Medicare cutting, uncouth, spiteful, boorish, vengeful, jingoistic, homophobic, xenophobic, xylophonic, racist, sexist, ageist, fascist, cashist, audaciously stupid, brazenly selfish, lethally ignorant, journalist purchasing, genocide ignoring, corporation kissing, poverty inducing, crooked, coercive, autocratic...
...April 13, 2006) Courtesy of longtime subscriber, Mr...
...administration as "a renegade band of rightwing extremists...
...Gore says: "If you have a renegade band of rightwing extremists who get hold of power, the whole thing goes to the right...
Vol. 39 • July 2006 • No. 6
