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CURRENT WISDOM TheNation.com The Anus in the Morning controversy evokes still more tough-guy talk, this time from the callipygian Miss Barbara Ehrenreich—“step outside with me,” indeed:...
...But if I ate eight or sixteen pork chops per day, I’d be put away, quite rightly...
...As Christine...
...Aptheker is the by Sand City, California, for doing his daughter of Herbert Aptheker, leader of part to revive the Red Scare...
...I can call my sister “bitch” in a jokey, tough-gal, way...
...NFL columnist...
...Of course, if I have no pork chops, I would most definitely want one...
...in front of Tommy Trojan yesterday, volunteers from the School of Pharmacy handed out 1,600 condoms and distributed pamphlets about sex, AIDS, and drug abuse...
...A flood of bikes in the past four months has helped the campaign almost reach its goal of 1000 bicycles...
...And I might want two tomorrow...
...of Chris Rock doling out Fwords...
...Thursday in Lecture Forum day at Monterey Peninsula College...
...As difficult as this is to contemplate, it is clear, if you are willing to look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated in the United States by the Bush administration...
...April 26, 2007) The Great Books Series Young Naomi Wolf details President George W. Bush’s ten-step program for turning these United States into downtown Bangkok, complete with monarch: Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand...
...April 30, 2007) Mother Jones The Pork Chop Theory of Capitalism as propounded by Joanne Forman, a vegetarian...
...April 9, 2007) Los Angeles Times History in the making on the sports page of a great California gazette by sportswriter Mike Penner, organ donor: During my 23 years with The Times’ sports department, I have held a wide variety of roles and titles...
...Within a matter of days, democracy had been closed down—the coup leaders declared martial law, sent armed soldiers into residential areas, took over radio and TV stations, issued restrictions on the press, tightened some limits on travel and took certain activists into custody...
...At the end, there were false claims that Clinton staff members trashed the White House on their way out...
...The eventual discovery in each case that there was no there there, if reported at all, received far less attention...
...The effect was to make an administration that was, in fact, pretty honest and well run—especially compared with its successor—seem mired in scandal...
...Olympics writer...
...of women-dissing rappers—one listens to the fuss about Imus and thinks, OK, but this is only one tiny square in our dirty national quilt...
...McKibben gets to the heart of the matter...
...But it is always effective...
...The condoms were donated to the university by Mayer Laboratories, and the literature was supplied by the Student Health Center and the Red Cross...
...Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote a feminist book called Bitch, and there’s a feminist magazine of the same name...
...a profaner of the Prophet...
...Aptheker will discuss her book, For information, call 646-4276...
...to 1:30 P.M...
...That blueprint has been used again and again in more and less bloody, more and less terrifying ways...
...If you look at history, you can see that there is essentially a blueprint for turning an open society into a dictatorship...
...As the Greeks put it, “Nothing too much...
...In many developing countries, bicycles, tricycles, and carts are among the most appropriate transportation modes for moving people and cargo short distances, yet they are often ignored by those setting transportation policies...
...Angels beat reporter...
...Chelsea Green Publishing, 144 pages, $12] Virginia Tech Department of English Thirty-two innocents perish in a Virginia Tech campus massacre and Miss Nikki Giovanni, “Poet in Residence” and lady of the left, remains “on message”: We do not understand this tragedy We know we did not deserve it But neither does a child in Africa Dying of AIDS Neither do the Invisible Children Walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army Neither does the baby elephant watching his community Be devastated for ivory Neither does the Mexican child looking For fresh water Neither does the Iraqi teenager dodging bombs Neither does the Appalachian infant...
...But you can’t call her that, not if you’re a guy, unless you want to step outside with me...
...From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (June 1987): Bikes Not Bombs A hand-out sheet, intercepted by our agents in Washington, D.C.’s pestiferous Lafayette Park, vindicates this venerable journal’s abiding suspicion of the bicycle and the la-di-da types who pontificate about them: Over 900 bicycles have been sent to date by the Bikes Not Bombs Campaign to aid Nicaraguan development workers...
...ism with a human face… and the old She developed and has taught femifeminists’ scowl: nist studies courses at UCSC and her introductory course at the university Bettina Aptheker, professor of feminism draws almost 500 students annually...
...Essayist...
...May/June 2007) New York Times Times columnist and former Enron adviser Paul Krugman tests the outer limits of his readers’ credulity and the amnesia of his editors, assuming this insufferable gasbag has editors: The Clinton years were a parade of fake scandals: Whitewater, Troopergate, Travelgate, Filegate, Christmas-card-gate...
...Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, (February 21, 2007) Fought for Free Speech and Became a Special thanks to Ned Anderson of nearFeminist Rebel...
...In a sense, they did...
...government sends weapons and organizes war,” said Michael Replogle, national coordinator of the group.… The Bikes Not Bombs Campaign is part of a growing movement promoting affordable and environmentally-sensible transportation that meets human needs...
...Sports media critic...
...at the University of California, Santa Her presentation is scheduled for Cruz, will be a featured speaker Thurs-7 P.M...
...killed By a boulder Dislodged Because the land was destabilized...
...March 12, 1987) Daily Trojan In the salubriously named newspaper of the esteemed University of Southern California, auspicious news of sexual hygiene and gymnastic love: “Show how much your care...
...Each pseudoscandal got headlines, air time and finger-wagging from the talking heads...
...Take the word “bitch,” as applied to any woman with the guts to offend...
...It is very difficult and arduous to create 76 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 2007 CURRENT WISDOM and sustain a democracy, but history shows that closing one down is much simpler...
...At first it stung, but then we appropriated it for ourselves...
...Keep a rubber on hand” was the logo on T-shirts sold Wednesday at the university’s National Condom Day festivities in celebration of National Condom Week...
...The Bikes Not Bombs workshop in Managua now employs six Central Americans and is training new bicycle mechanics...
...CURRENT WISDOM TheNation.com The Anus in the Morning controversy evokes still more tough-guy talk, this time from the callipygian Miss Barbara Ehrenreich—“step outside with me,” indeed: My first thought, when the Don Imus scandal broke, was: What gives a guy with a full-frontal comb-over the right to criticize anyone’s hair?… This doesn’t excuse Imus, because he misses a crucial point: That an insult, used often enough, becomes the exclusive property of the insulted...
...Or simply just another fla-fla reader of MJ under house arrest: My theory exposits the basis of capitalism: I'm supposed to want a pork chop today, two pork chops tomorrow, four the next day, eight the next day, and so on...
...February 19, 1987) JUNE 2007 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 77...
...Today I leave for a few weeks’ vacation, and when I return, I will come back in yet another incarnation...
...From 11:30 A.M...
...From The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf...
...Recent keeper of the Morning Briefing flame...
...Volunteer efforts by North Americans working together in small groups have sent bicycles and organized for peace while the U.S...
...April 13, 2007) The Nation Days after MSNBC and CBS give the old heave-ho to Anus in the Morning, Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn—still not appeased—proffers a Hit List for a More Progressive America: And in the larger context—of Ann Coulter, of O’Reilly the Loofah King, of Limbaugh, of Cynthia Tucker and Juan Williams...
...April 17, 2007) Monterey County Herald At forward-leaning Monterey Peninsula College, midst the nudists and the hoola-hoopers, Commun-the Communist Party in the 1950s...
...You simply have to be willing to take the 10 steps...
...We live in a racist, profit-driven culture that is getting more degraded by the hour...
...a socialist...
...They were not figuring these things out as they went along...
...The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list...
...Tennis writer...
...of blacks paid by whites to dump on other blacks like Cynthia McKinney...
...I am a transsexual sportswriter...
Vol. 40 • June 2007 • No. 5
