CURRENT WISDOM
Jackasses, Assorted
New Albany Tribune Ruthanne of progressive New Albany, Indiana, explains why every staffmemberofthishigh-toneintellectual review drives a Rolls Royce, and Publisher Regnery two...
...In the 1950s, as Cameron was conducting his experiments, the Chicago School was developing the idea that would eclipse the theories of Raul Prebisch, an advocate towhattodaywouldbecalledthethird way, and of other economists fashionable in Latin America at the time...
...The economy still expanding...
...For Klein he was another victim of the "Chicago Boys"whowantedtoimposefree-marketcapitalismontheregion...
...I don't know where you can get leather goods from animals that died a natural death...
...Itisamomentripeforrethinkingthe economy...
...I reason with planning and I make a conclusion...
...Productivity high...
...But conservatives mourn differently from you and me...
...New Albany Tribune Ruthanne of progressive New Albany, Indiana, explains why every staffmemberofthishigh-toneintellectual review drives a Rolls Royce, and Publisher Regnery two Rolls Royces: As for Sen...
...It's immoral...
...In my experience, leather is the best material to make shoes out of...
...September 30, 2007) The Nation An opening monologue from one Rick Perlstein, recently emerged fromsolitaryconfinement: Conservatism's cherished fantasy of American omnipotence has died once again,thistimeinthesandsofIraq,and the grieving process has begun...
...Itellthem[theacademics]:"Iaman engineer and I am a master in calculation and tabulation...
...When I say that, I'm not really serious, but, indeed, if you have to eat animals, why not eat the ones that are already dead...
...October 3, 2007)Countdown (MSNBC) From the Baathist wing of the American commentariat, Mr...
...Keith Olbermann renders yet another philippic against our Beloved President...
...She quotestheChileaneconomistOrlando Letelier on the "inner harmony" between the terror of the Pinochet regime and its free-market policies...
...They [the American government] do notdarewagewaragainstusandIbase thisonadoubleproof...
...That reminds me of a suggestion I have for meat eaters: When you see raccoons and squirrels and dogs and cats that have been hit by cars and are over on the side of the road, why don't they just clean those up and eat those...
...Once there was the military-industrialcomplex.Nowwehavethemercenary-evangelicalcomplex...
...It's impractical...
...John DeGraff, a filmmaker and activist with that rare gift of 20/20 foresight, has organized a campaign andconferencethatwilltakeplacethis weekend at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center entitled, "What's the Economy for, Anyway...
...You have no remainingcredibilityaboutIraq...
...Is unemployment low...
...Prince, a former intern to the first President Bush and a former Navy Seal, is from a well-to-do and well-connected Republican family from Michigan...
...Letelier was killed in 1976 by a car bomb planted in Washington by Pinochet's secret police...
...We've got a broken mortgage system, unaffordable health care, skyrocketing consumer and student debt, andinflexible,stressfulworkplaces...
...They [the Americans] cannot make problemsforIran[Burp...
...Why keep killing them...
...What would an enlightened workplace look like...
...As part of theannualGreenFestival,Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, Bill McKibben (author of Deep Economy), and other left-leaning thought leaders, authors, and activists will explore questions like: What is the ultimate measure by whichoureconomyshouldbeevaluated?Isitprofitforthefeworisithealth for the many...
...For one example, think of billionaire Republican Richard Mellon Scaife, who told a group in 1994: "We're going to get Clinton," Scaife has spent hundreds of millions on The American Spectator and various conservative foundations and "thinktanks"towardthisgoal...
...It's unhealthy...
...Letelier said that Milton Friedman shared responsibility for the regime's crimes, rejecting his argument that he was only offering "technical" advice...
...Clinton's "political baggage"--much of this has been thrust upon her by the well-financed, relentless "swift boaters," who have been opposedtotheClintonssincetheearly days in Arkansas...
...For hours, I write out different hypotheses...
...September 3, 2007)American Prospect Is the stock market closing at record highs...
...I draw up tables...
...They begin with denial, anger and bargaining, just like everyone else...
...Hendrik Hertzberg delivers this alarming vision of the thing: I was standing in the very front of the bowsprit, a tongue of metal that juts out from the boat...
...A man with any self-respect, having inadvertently revealed such an evil secret, would have already resigned and fled the country...
...Banish it all from your sunny mind, and turn to theAmericanProspectontheweb for another depressing interlude of The Hangover View of American History: Ascanoftoday'sheadlinesislikeviewing a potpourri of economic dissolution...
...September 7, 1987...
...Why are you doing that...
...Unfortunately,weknowthattheseanimalswereslaughteredandthere's not a whole lot I can do about it...
...I was then treated to the most majestic sight of all: with great deliberation, a whale swamslowlyacrossthebowoftheship,directlybelowmyeyes.InthetransparentwaterIcouldseehiswholebody.Underhisgray-blackback,hisbelly shimmeredadappled,whitishgray-green.Hewasasbigasa16-wheeltractor-trailerandasgracefulasFredAstaire.Then,breakingthesurfaceafew yardsfromthebow,heletloosewithagreatblow,drenchingusallinwhalemist...
...This was beyond the experience even of Melville's Ishmael, who reports,atsecondhand,thatthewhale'sexhalationisfoulandacrid.Butmy whale'sbreathwasmildandodorless.Astheshipturnedtomakeforport,I feltdampbuthappy,andmuchmoved...
...October 5, 2007) New York Times Book Review As the years of global prosperity spread from one former socialist dung heap to another, Joseph E. Stiglitz reviews The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein, and thrills to the unmasking of the late Milton 8 0 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 7 C U R R E N TW I S D O M Friedman for crimes against humanity and against benighted economists with an affinity for red tyrannies: Inanotherintroductorychapter,Klein offers an account of Milton Friedman--she calls him "the other doctor shock"--and his battle for the hearts and minds of Latin American economists and economies...
...And that's where they stay-forever paralyzed by a petulant refusal toacknowledgetheirfantasy'spassing, asimpleinabilitytoprocessreality...
...He and his father both have close tiestoconservativeChristiangroups...
...August 1987) New Republic A Soviet submarine, probably of the Typhoon class, glides just off our coast and Mr...
...How might the federal budget be altered to reflect realAmericanvalues...
...That's what I ask every meat eater...
...October 15, 2007)C U R R E N TW I S D O M N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 7 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R 8 1 From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (November 1987): Vegetarian Times In a VT interview, rock star Chrissie Hynde of "The Pretenders" demonstrates that the thought and scholarship of James Reston, recentlyretiredresidentsageoftheNewYorkTimes,werenotinvain: VT: What are your views on leather...
...War today, war tomorrow, war forever...
...I reject, I reason...
...However, I wish that the hides were coming from animals that died of natural causes...
...September 4, 2007) Agence France-Presse WhatPresidentMahmoudAhmadinejad told a gathering of learned Iranian academics wondering abouthisconfidencethattheUnited States will not turn him into a stuffed animal after they all had spentafewhoursonthesauce: In some discussions I told them [the inquiring academics], "I am an engineer and I am examining the issue...
...RuthanneWolfe,NewAlbany (October 5, 2007) New York Times Miss Maureen Dowd, a nationally recognized adept in colonic irrigation,notesthetroublingpersistence ofthetwo-partysysteminthesehere UnitedStates: Henry Waxman, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, summoned the 38-year-old crew-cut chairman of Blackwater, Erik Prince, to defend his privatesecuritycompanyyesterday...
...CH: I think people use entirely too many leather goods...
...Why kill new animals when those other ones have already been killed...
...and still the Secret Servicedoesnottakeaction: Everything you said about [withdrawing some troops from] Iraq yesterday, and everything you will say, is a deception, for the purpose of this one cynical, unacceptable, brutal goal: perpetuating this war indefinitely...
...Well, as you can see,I'vegotleatherbootsIuseforstage.(Shepointstotherowofleather boots perched on the top of a cabinet behind her...
...From there I could peer straight down into the water so clear and calm that I could see 20 or 30 feet below the surface...
Vol. 40 • November 2007 • No. 9
