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CURRENT W I S D O M Marie Claire Another fashion magazine falls under the spell of the animal rights movement and in an historic cover headline booms jeans for the common donkey: PERFECT...
...We went to all these gay bars and gave speeches in the evening, but who wants to listen to political speeches on a Friday night...
...Among lesbians-the group from which most transgendered men emerge-the increasing number of women who are choosing to pursue life as a man can provoke a deep resentment...
...Her news was not well received...
...July/August 2006) Fresno Bee Vincent of Fresno files his doubts regarding a famous international obit thanks to his Nation magazine addiction: When will the Associated Press, along with other major Western media outlets, admit once and for all that nobody was killed in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on the night of June 4,19897 The seven lines published in The Bee on June 4 describing the Tiananmen Square protest are filled with so many errors that space does not permit me to address each...
...What areas did you cover...
...He looked like someone doing a really bad Eminem or Vanilla Ice imitation on YouTube...
...Carter, in your new book you write that only the American people can ensure that the US government returns to the country's old moral principles...
...Besides learning more about the country, we were able to help out-we went to the camps and the nutrition centers, where we loaded syringes and so forth...
...You know, especially from me-who the hell am I? But Teddy had a lot of support in the gay community, so I didn't mind...
...If you come across published nonsense worthyofsubmission 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...
...We took a trip to Africa, which was powerful...
...If readers are interested in pursuing this issue, I refer them to The Nation magazine, June 11, 1990, to an article written by Robin Munro entitled, "The Real Story of the Slaughter in Beijing...
...Many called for the Max character to be killed off next season...
...SPIEGEL: For example...
...July 1986) California Review Still more bad news for a hard-luck group of fellows i f ever there was one: One of the sad side effects of the AIDS crisis is that women won't take the sperm of gay men...
...Even today, with Bush's approval ratings on the shadowy side of one-third and his coalition unraveling, they leave much of his malfeasance and that of his entourage barely noticed...
...August 1986) OCTOBER 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 81...
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...VINCENT J. LAVERY FRESNO (June 11, 2006) Courtesy of AmSpec friend and subscriber, doing yeoman's work in California, Mr...
...Der Spiegel In an interview with Der Spiegel Jimmy Carter, for whom his passport is an increasing embarrassment, reveals the moral benefits of the Pearl Harbor attack: SPIEGEL: Mr...
...It just saddens me to see so many of our strong butch women giving up their womanhood to be a man" one friend said...
...Carter: Under all of its predecessors there was a commitment to peace instead of preemptive war...
...VL: I went up to New Hampshire with my cousin Kara, and to Detroit and California, where I worked with the gay community...
...CURRENT W I S D O M Marie Claire Another fashion magazine falls under the spell of the animal rights movement and in an historic cover headline booms jeans for the common donkey: PERFECT JEANS THEY'LL MAKE YOUR ASS LOOK AWESOME (August 2006) The Nation In its solemn introduction to The Nation's first ever symposium on food, the Adonis-like editors adumbrate the coming Marxist-Leninist food fight: In keeping with the spirit of the forum, this issue, The Nation's first (though we hope not last) on food, seeks not only to expose but to inspire...
...The reaction to the fictional character captured the bitter tension that can exist over gender reassignment...
...In the run-up to war, they gave him the benefit of many undeserved doubts...
...The sentiment was a tamer version of what many other women wrote on lesbian blogs and Web sites in the weeks after the episode was broadcast last spring...
...Are you suggesting that the current US administration of George W. Bush of acting immorally...
...September 11, 2006) New York Times The cultural proclivities of Maureen Dowd, high-brow political columnist for the illustrious Times: It would be easy to make fun of Mr...
...August 20, 2006) American Prospect From Professor Todd Gitlin, a sublime road apple deposited on the pages of one of the few surviving organs of the Communist Party USA: It will come as no surprise to readers of these pages that the galloping pack of Washington journalists has spent much of the last five and a half years rolling over for an alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) fanatical, inept, mendacious, and clueless George W. Bush...
...Thus, while there are articles investigating the grueling labor conditions on organic farms and in meatpacking plants, others explore how food justice activists are working to shift Harlem's food consciousness and change the nature of school lunch...
...August 23, 2006) New York Times More cultural commentary in the Times, and alarming evidence that it's still a man's world: In the most recent season of the lesbian soap opera, "The L Word," a new character named Moira announced to her friends that, through surgery and hormone therapy, she would soon be a new person named Max...
...In his "A Star Is Not Born" moment making his big-time singing debut on Fox's "Teen Choice Awards" introduced by his wife, Britney, in Maxim magazine maternity wear, Kevin Federline managed to be even more deliciously atrocious than anticipated...
...They buried their doubts and when the time came for apologies disB E A SPECTATOR ACTIVIST...
...When they do unearth telling dots, they soon reinter them unconnected...
...Too easy-shooting tuna fish in a can, as they say...
...W. Edward Chynoweth...
...Linking many of the pieces--on subjects ranging from Wal-Mart to world hunger-is the theme of access to good, healthy food: How can it be democratized?As severalofthese articles attest, a veritable movement is arising to address this issue, which has all the more currency with the recent mainstreaming of the organic food industry...
...of Current Wisdom 1611 N. Kent Street, Suite 901 Arlington, VA 22209 80 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 2006 CURRENT WISDOM played remarkably little curiosity as to how they had acquired so many sins to apologize for...
...When he claimed to accomplish his mission, they saluted...
...My offer of $10,000 still stands for any individual who can show that one person died in the square that night...
...The Associated Press should immediately correct the errors...
...Spears...
...Carter: There's no doubt that this administration has made a radical and unpressured departure from the basic policies of all previous administrations including those of both Republican and Democratic presidents...
...August 15, 2006) From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (October 1986): Interview A Kennedy of the rising generation, Victoria Lawford, reveals how they cut their political teeth nowadays: GC: Tell me about campaigning...
...It is 17 years since this fabricated event-and that is what it was, fabricated-was presented by Associated Press, Reuters, Time and Newsweek magazines and ABC TV and others to the world as truth...
...Our country always had a policy of not going to war unless our own security was directly threatened and now we have a new policy of going to war on a preemptive basis...
...Another rising Kennedy--Kara, daughter of Teddy--makes a difference: I've traveled with my dad to the Soviet Union and China...
...One suggested dispatching him "by testosterone overdose...
...In Ethiopia, we saw children starving...
...Another sign of food's political potency: the hundreds of passionate responses we received to our e-mail request for readers' testimonials about their most beloved food institutions...
Vol. 39 • October 2006 • No. 8
