CURRENT WISDOM

...However, anybody can help, even kids like me...

...In the review, I read that if Earth keeps on getting warmer like this, we won't have time to do a whole lot...

...We urge all Maine people to do the same...

...In addition, we have each agreed-our teen-age daughters included-to limit the use of hair dryers to five minutes per day (with some exceptions for special occasions...

...Liam Harvie, who points out (understandably) that al-Gore (naturally) is responsible for such outbursts...

...Instead, he has been profligate with our resources, failed to protect the homeland, diminished our military and moral authority, and bullied North Korea and Iran into being more desperate than ever to gain a seat at the nuclear table...

...The gamma rays can't get through the blubber, same way actual conditions in the outside world bounce off the impenetrable dome of imbecility sheltering America's political leadership...

...Rather than "North Korea's folly," it would be more aptly termed "Bush's folly...

...If it looks different than usual, consider not using it if you can...

...Don't you all understand...

...I don't want to die...

...New York Times & Washington Post In the Howl Columns of two great progressive citadels, evidence of the astonishing intellectual reach of the Sage of Rochester, Miss Georgianne Arnold, the callipygian Miss Georgianne Arnold: (New York Times) When George W. Bush made an example of Iraq, establishing our intent to engage in pre-emptive strikes for any perceived threat, did he think that the world would cower instead of seeking to protect themselves...

...We are now terribly troubled by the proposed nuclear disposal site...

...It's your choice...

...Behind ramparts guarded by a coalition of liars extending ~ from Rupert Murdoch to the New York Times, from Bill O'Reilly to PBS, America is totally shielded from truth...

...GEORGIANNE ARNOLD Rochester, N.Y...

...But we need your help...

...Yes, what follows is from the semi-regular column of Alexander Cockburn, a Communist without a country: The frayed threads anchoring the American government to reality have finally snapped, just at the moment radiologists are reporting that Americans are getting too fat to be Xrayed or shoved into any existing MRI tube...

...Regardless, this is one gay church organist who will no longer play for any wedding until the time when I can play for all weddings...

...The main thing is to drive less and try to use less electricity...

...For example, when I saw the Washington Monument illuminated by fireworks, the last thing that came to mind was George Washington...

...This is not paranoia...

...We would sit, eat and dance together with the other wedding guests...

...I would be sure to attend with my boyfriend...

...In fact, it's more like a choice of life or death...

...If you read the review for the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," you'd probably know what I am talking about...

...President Bush might have prepared us for difficulties with North Korea and Iran by protecting our ports and borders, strengthening our military and brokering a world consensus against torture, terrorism and nuclear proliferation...

...From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (September 1986): Washington Post Columnist Courthmd Milloy testifies that he, for one, was not fooled by the Fourth of July brainwash: It is not easy to fight a patriotic tingling, but if you're black in America you get more than your share of help...

...DENWAnD W. COLLINS Hicksville, N.Y., July 7, 2006 (July 8, 2006) Harper's At federally funded Club Gitmo three Mohammedan lunkheads leap into the febrile arms of 216 halitotic virgins, and to this delightful orgy how does young Luke Mitchell, "Senior Editor of Harper's Magazine" and God knows how many other clinical conditions, respond...

...Actually, we'd have only about 10 years...

...Twenty-three years after one of America's stupidest Presidents announced Star Wars, Reagan's dream has come true...

...9 Payattention to what your drug looks like once its cooked...

...I want to live a whole life, and I'm sure many others do, too...

...In June, as we all know, three prisoners in that facility, all of whom had failed in their attempt to starve, managed instead to hang themselves with their own bed sheets...

...Should I, as a gay man, in all good conscience, attend the weddings of family and friends when marriage is denied to me...

...July 6, 1986) Maine Sunday Telegram A family of New Agepatriots takes drastic measures: When my husband and I moved to Cape Elizabeth from New York, we sought a more pastoral existence, free from the turmoil and squah)r of the city and industry surrounding it...

...An alternative would be to accept any invitations I receive...

...refrigerator, tYeezer, microwave oven, VCR, washer and dryer...

...People using after being incarcerated or after a substantial period of time not using need to be especially careful...

...GEORGIANNE ARNOLD Rochester, July 5, 2006 (Washington Post) The influence of the far right is apparent in the WholesomeWear swimsuits ["Ultimate Coverup" Style, July 14...

...At all times inject small amounts slowly to allow yourself time to judge the effects of the drug...

...L o t t i e l)ahr Cape Elizabeth (March 16, 1986) SEPTE;~'19ER 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 81...

...To me, it looked like a hooded Ku Klux Klansman with blinking red eyes...

...Please listen to me...

...July 6 and July 22, 2006) 80 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 2006 CURRENT WISDOM The Nation An historic moment in Amerikan history passes unnoticed, except at that quaint dog patch oflefl-wing dementia where Alger Hiss remains innocent, the Soviet Union much misunderstood, the last two presidential elections decided by grand larceny, and Ronald Reagan could neither read nor write...

...We believe, however, that we are part of the problem and, as a family, we have decided to confront the situation by conserving our own use of energy...

...We purchased an entirely new set of energy-efficient appliances: stove...

...We can change all of this...

...June 21, 2006) From Brooks Hughes, still one of "32 right-wingers" in that bluest of blue towns, Ann Arbor, Michigan...

...And although I'm only a kid, I have to admit I'm scared...

...August 14, 2006) San Antonio Express-News A promising neurotic rising up on thepages of a great Texas gazette: I wrote this letter to ask everybody a favor...

...It's you who makes the difference...

...If we want to reverse our actions (which we never will be able to do completely), we'll have to work hard, and it won't be easy, of course...

...August 2006) Ann Arbor News Salubrious advice to cosmopolitan AnnArbor's recreational drug set and to members of the University of Michigan "s humanities faculty-and, oh yes, always buckle your seatbelt: _9 It is safest to use your own syringes and not inject alone...

...That protects you from injecting something harmful, and also allows you the opportunity to get the other person to an emergency room or call 911 if needed...

...Melisse Anderson, 11 (June 25, 2006) From Mr...

...My response to an invitation would be that I decline since I am denied marriage...

...Do you want to die and know it's all happening because of us humans, or try hard and change all of this...

...Abig favor...

...If we continue on this path, the concept of American women in burqas no longer seems as unimaginable as it once did, does it...

...If you inject with another person, wait to make sure they are OK before you inject yourself...

...This would mean the very real possibility of missing my niece and goddaughter's wedding one day...

...We already rely principally on solar and wood heat but we will no longer use our swimming pool other than in the summer months...

...Which would send a louder, clearer message...

...The Puritan bursts into a gullywasher of tears: At Guantfinamo, the preemptive forcefeeding continues, but, like shock and awe and missile defense and everyother doomed attempt to remove fear and ambiguity from our fallen world, it has failed to achieve its end...