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CURRENT WISDOM New Yorker Despite the presence on the premises of scores of the New Yorker~ fabled "fact-checkers," all presumably wide awake and sober,, here is how this magazine for the...
...They seemed so grateful for the hands-on care...
...And no one is doing anything about it because the incumbents, who are our masters, and their masters-who are corporate America--like things the way they are, and want the wars to go on and on, tobe extended into Iran and even further...
...People loved it and they would keep coming back...
...As a constitutional lawyer, devoting mylife to civil liberties, I was overjoyed at Adrian's revelation...
...Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded...
...They're going to be decided by Diebold, by Sequoia and by Election System & Software [ES&S], electronic machinerywhich, each time, is going to be fiddled with...
...Five needles would be placed in each patient's ear, a treatment that brings a sense of calm, she said...
...He will remain as an inevitable point of reference for revolutionaries, including those who have participated in the unprecedented political realignment of the past few years in Latin America, and as an indispensable boogeyman for the right...
...And you particularly don't have a republic if the votes for president-two presidential elections back to back-are stolen...
...The result is that people will have a greater respect for gay individuals...
...A most reliable barometer for measuring the level of tolerance and enlightened benevolence of a given society is the degree of magnanimity offered to those with sexual preferences that are at variance with the majority of people who compose the society...
...The group, 80 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 2006 CURRENT W I S D O M which formed in response to Katrina, had been down there since October...
...Famous for his endurance, he could recuperate and live to contend with an eleventh US President and, who knows, a twelfth...
...Edward Tabash Beverly Hills, CA (August 1986) NOVEMBER 2OO6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 81...
...These elections are not going to be decided by votes for or against" he says...
...They cite historical analogies...
...But if you have a press which is not going to cover anything that is critical of a regime, you don't have a republic...
...call it McCarthyism with a clean shaven face: By now, the President's relentless exploitation of September llth has made even non-partisan Americans skeptical of his claims...
...In the Administration's current public-relations blitz, Bush has invoked Hitler, Lenin, and wars for civilization, while Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld compared Iraq-war critics to Nazi appeasers circa 1938...
...They do hate us though...
...14) in a Berkeley restaurant, I turned to two men in their early 20s at the next table, and showing them the article, asked them: "What do you think can be more important news than this...
...Death by design...
...Or not...
...For the public to have to perceive such a fierce fighter in the context of being gay is for the public to acknowledge that great physical prowess can accompany avowed homosexuality...
...If you go to the Midwest or Florida you'll find lots of people saying 'there's no global warming!'" Sometimes it seems as if only I and a small number of people know that life on Earth, as we know it, is coming to an end...
...September 10, 2006) From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (November 1986): Pro Wrestling Illustrated A learned epistle in the correspondence section of a respected cultural review, Pro Wrestling Illustrated, the grapplers" Bible: About two months ago, I was watching the WWF's TNT telecast...
...October 9, 2006) San Francisco Chronicle High drama in a Berkeley eatery just before the crack of doom: After reading your front-page story, "Even in winter, Arctic ice melting" (Sept...
...The irony is, it doesn't matter if Fidel Castro dies, because he already has achieved a kind of immortality...
...We know that and we're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons...
...The purpose of the rhetoric is not to persuade--if the Administration believed in argument on the merits, Bush would have to defend torture--but to make reasoned debate impossible...
...We have to do it I suppose but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us...
...Adrian, on camera, admitted to being gay...
...tIELPING HANDS: "Mostlywe treated people for post-traumatic stress, depression, insomnia, anxiety, and pain," said Kirchoff, an acupuncturist for the past decade...
...I think they're so thrilled at the White House to see the end of the American Republic" (August 17, 2006) Boston Globe The Globe heaves up yet another profile in courage: VCItO: Karen Kirchoff, 49, of Roslindale WHERE: New Orleans WHEN: 10 days in February WHY: To volunteer with Acupuncturists Without Borders...
...Adrian Adonis was being interviewed byVince McMahon...
...May 7, 2006) Needlework kindly brought to AmSpec ~ attention by Stephen Bates, professor of journalism and media studies at UNL V. New Yorker An earnest editorialist for the polite New Yorker explains how the devious Bush and Bumsfeld "make reasoned debate impossible...
...Adrian Adonis is to be congratulated for his political and social courage...
...History may or may not absolve him-it depends on who writes the history-but he will not disappear, any more than Che Guevara did...
...Adrian is indisputably a very tough man...
...Tolerance for and acceptance of gay rights and matter-of-fact acknowledgment of the hill humanity of gay men and lesbian women is still desperately needed in American culture...
...We seem so nice to ourselves...
...CURRENT WISDOM New Yorker Despite the presence on the premises of scores of the New Yorker~ fabled "fact-checkers," all presumably wide awake and sober,, here is how this magazine for the urban sophisticate describes an evening at the July 9 World Cup final when under the spell of Bill: On a clear spring afternoon in Berlin, Bill and Chelsea Clinton rode to the World Cup final in the front seats of a bus...
...In a climate of fundamentalism and the accompanying horror of religious intolerance, it is heartening to see someone like Adrian Adonis force the public to dispense with its stereotyped notions of gay people...
...Religious fanatics, these self-proclaimed real estate brokers of heaven, pronounce their hateful disdain for all who are different or who depart from their narrow dogma...
...It was a really moving experience to expose people to something they seemed to get a lot from...
...Sometimes adolescence comes with age, in his case, girlish adolescence: The disaster on September llth.., was manmade...
...The group had treated 400 people, "and there's still so much need," she said...
...Americans are puzzled over why so many people in the world hate us...
...As a lifelong wrestling fan, I am proud that my favorite form of sports-entertainment is at the cutting edge of social change...
...EXPIRED LICENSE: Kirchoffwas on the final team of Acupuncturists Without Borders, as the ruling that allowed them to practice without a Louisiana license was rescinded, she said...
...Laughing, one of them said, "You think it's bad here in Berkeley...
...September 18, 2006) The Nation The perfervid not to say hysterical progressives at The Nation grow serene not to say mellow at the thought of one aged humanitarian, Fidel Castro, keeper of the Cuban calaboose: Through archival clips and soundbites, Cubans have continued to hear Fidel's voice while he has been away...
...ELENA E. MAROTH Kensington (September 19, 2006) New York Review of Books From columnist William Pfaff, another example of the Hangover Theory of History: Iraq now seems all but certain to be left broken as a state, immersed in sectarian violence and terrorism, in far worse condition than it was under Saddam Hussein's secular dictatorship (which would have come to an end when Saddam died, or when he was overturned by a coup, or a revolt, as has happened to all of modern Iraq's previous leaders...
...It's a horror story...
...Soon...
...Most of the people we treated had never had acupuncture before the group went there...
...September 18, 2006) 60 Minutes Andy Rooney shows once again that wisdom does not always come with age...
...Yet people still don't seem to take it seriously, driving their SUVs...
...October 19, 2006) Pasadena Weekly The anile Gore Vidal reveals the progress that the John Birch Society mentality has made in the geriatric wards of the left intelligentsia: On the other hand, Vidai believes that party politics have little or no significance in elections that he is convinced are now on the way to being wholly rigged...
Vol. 39 • November 2006 • No. 9
