BEN STEIN'S DIARY: True to Life
Stein, Benjamin J.
True to Life B e n s T e I n ’ s D I a R Y HwasHInGTon, D.c....saTuRDaY My wife would be a great addition, too. But, alas, I am here all by my little self. I also feel incredibly sick to...
...It is ancient, as these things go...
...Whatever it is, it’s generating extreme hostility and vicious “reviews...
...True to Life B e n s T e I n ’ s D I a R Y HwasHInGTon, D.c....saTuRDaY My wife would be a great addition, too...
...of course), to San Jose, to Stanford, to Santa Cruz, to Philadelphia, and to San Antonio...
...hardly ever had a clinker or a rude person...
...Most of all, just the kind, nice men and women on the planes and in the airports impressed me...
...Not a misprint...
...But some of it has been to promote and publicize our new movie about suppression of any questions about DarwinAllowed...
...I figure America has a liability in the trillions for periodontal work for the baby boom generation...
...I can get messages...
...It is about the oil traders who can drive up gasoline prices for every driver in America and make diesel unaffordable for truckers as they, the traders, drink from champagne fountains—and about the drug addict wife of the most successful of the traders who spends her days getting high and getting off with her carpenter because her husband cannot take his greedy eyes off the computer screen...
...It is about the fabulously rich financial players of Greenwich, Connecticut, their lives bounded only by imagination, since they have all the money on earth...
...I only wish I could have it on the plane...
...I can see clouds building up over Virginia...
...The movie is called Expelled: No Intelligence B e n J a M I n J . s T e I n directed at myself since I got worse grades in eighth grade than Jerry Akman and Stanley Sitnick...
...I am really a War Baby, though...
...Both are 10 and both are staggeringly gorgeous...
...And heartburn is a very bad thing...
...I can text...
...Well, I will hope I get over it soon...
...The antibiotics, or some damned things, are making me nauseated around the clock...
...All with a smile...
...I also feel incredibly sick to my stomach...
...Maybe, now that I think of it, that’s why I am having this nausea: from mean people criticizing me...
...Their chocolate chip cookies are also great and so are their fried chicken strips...
...It’s as if I told them they had small sex members or were ugly or fat...
...Especially my Brigid, the perfect German shorthaired pointer, and beloved Cleo, our new rescue GSP...
...Just crazy with rage and anger...
...I can call all over the world...
...It counter points the astounding lavish wastefulness of the patriarch’s bond sellers, and the misery they cause by wrecking the home market...
...I am taking powerful antibiotics to make sure I don’t get an awful infection—possibly from the six shots of Novocain I got...
...If someone told me I could never leave the USA again, I would not miss a moment’s sleep...
...Just endless nausea...
...Plus, his nurse took five X-rays in one hour...
...When lightning and thunder erupt, she gets so scared she puts her head on my chest and even on my face to reassure herself that she’s taken care of...
...They claim Darwinist evolution explains gravity...
...We really have to ask what the whole neoDarwinist worldview means if it has nothing useful at all to say about how life began in the first place...
...But Brigid is my secret favorite...
...It has something to do with a deep challenge to their whole worldview...
...It will be as big as Coca-Cola if consumers ever try it...
...5 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R J u n e 2 0 0 8 Ben stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu...
...Why do the defenders and lovers of Darwinism get so angry...
...Earlier this week I had a horrific root canal...
...The driver who drove me five hours from Ft...
...I The kind, nice men and women on the planes and in the airports impressed me...
...They say it explains fluid motion...
...Well, it hurts a lot when people call me a “Holocaust Denier” for making a movie that documents the Holocaust...
...Lauderdale to Orlando in the middle of the night when my American Airlines flights had been canceled...
...The difference in friendliness is night and day...
...Mostly, local places were guaranteed to give you heartburn...
...Maybe not since certain women decided that there was no chance at all I would ever marry them...
...I love this product...
...by Benjamin J. stein ere i am at my little apartment at the Watergate...
...He was friendly, but he kept leaving to make phone calls...
...Of course, it just sells more tickets, but I would rather feel good in my tummy than sell more tickets...
...In Tallahassee, a hotel clerk went through a huge struggle to find me a decent room at two in the morning when the hotel was bursting at the seams...
...Now, I am not a nut about X-rays, but five in an hour...
...And there is more to be done...
...Yes, there were some great spots like the Tidewater Inn in Easton, Maryland, but not many...
...How did that happen...
...But I can read the keys with my old eyes...
...It is about a fabulously powerful patriarch who seems like a model of Connecticut probity— except that he has a “thing” for cute 12-year-old girls...
...But really, the neo-Darwinists are startlingly overbearing...
...It cannot go on the Internet...
...It makes you feel great when you’re tired or short of breath...
...The ordinary American is an amazingly kind human being...
...Speaking of that, I have an idea for a TV series on HBO or TNT or Showtime...
...As I have said, a freshly made cheeseburger at McDonald’s is as good as any food anywhere...
...It is making the Darwinists insane...
...A traveling the most I have ever traveled by far...
...Or, as my smart stockbroker Kevin Hanley said, “You know you’re over the target when you start getting the heaviest flak...
...Now we have fast food at McDonald’s...
...It is almost as if I told them they personally were frauds...
...It is about his mistress, a young-looking college girl whose father became a hopeless drunk when the patriarch’s buyout firm bought and looted his company—and how she plans her revenge...
...But as Bob Dylan said, “There are a lot of people out there who have knives and forks and don’t have much on their plates so they have to cut something...
...Plus, I am traveling...
...Young people don’t remember, but local eateries used to be hellholes...
...It has something to do with a deep challenge to their power and prestige...
...It is the best money anyone could ever spend...
...It went on forever and I feel as if the dentist was drilling for oil in there...
...It is a warm, humid evening...
...I have not seen such anger 5 6 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R J u n e 2 0 0 8 ism...
...I had two visits, totaling about two-andahalf hours, mostly in torment...
...McDonald’s...
...It is about their cheating wives and hateful sons, their mistresses and their scheming against each other...
...sunDaY M i a n i i b d n u f e n e h t y b f f o ng i w o h s f o n i t i a lot of doses of 99 percent pure oxygen t rap o ed by them...
...My little Nokia cell phone...
...Ditto the French and Brits...
...This year, I have been a lot...
...They state that it explains thermodynamics...
...As I have said many times before, if it’s fresh, it’s heavenly...
...I carry a can with me everywhere I go...
...That seems like nyway, my face has been hurting ever since...
...Just recently I have been to Orlando three times, to Jefferson City, Missouri, to New York, to Tallahassee, Florida, to Dallas, to Chicago many times, to San Francisco, to Vegas, to Washington, D.C...
...The J u n e 2 0 0 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R 5 7 B e n s T e I n ’ s D I a R Y lovely pastors and ministers at churches in Atlanta and Orlando who received us into their churches and spoke kindly of our little movie...
...Fifty-two hundred dollars...
...To me, McDonald’s is America’s Home Cooking...
...Except for one snippy little student at a university in a New England state, everyone has been ultra-friendly...
...Gone with the Wind...
...I hardly ever had a clinker or a rude person...
...It’s about America’s new power elite, and how even within a family, fathers and sons fight it out for billions—over the empty homes and boarded-up storefronts of the communities they have pillaged...
...To compare it with what we have now is to cry real tears...
...My dentist was from Iran...
...But, alas, I am here all by my little self...
...The sad thing is it’s true...
...My journeys across the country have been extremely reassuring...
...Plus, the bathrooms were horrific...
...It’s about Gulfstream Vs filled with caviar—and lives filled with fear and dread that the next day’s Times will tell of an indictment against a man who sleeps on Pratesi sheets next to a ten-thousanddollar-an-hour hooker...
...The Germans stare at you, but when you smile, they look away...
...It is about the me w ano spirited ll c o omp r e e g s e m i t e m s d n a s e s u h r i e h t n a l c o h w s n i t i a H a s i h T . n y x B • ore of i O Ben S ge tei n’s B s e i s t: product that packs wife a and child e ren agains o t the — hard o times of th e e - t into a breathing canister...
...That’s for one tooth for one 63-year-old man...
...One day this week when I was on a small flight from Chicago to Burlington, the flight attendant brought me probably two dozen cups of hot water to help soothe my stomach...
...It contains almost every piece of wisdom needed for life, and also looks great and shows great acting...
...It is about men who can make a billion dollars in a week—but can see it all turn against them when someone even more unscrupulous and faster on the draw comes to town...
...Care to guess the tab...
...The ordinary American is an amazingly kind human being...
...Most of this has been for speaking...
...How can that be...
...How did that come to be...
...Bear in mind, I have spent lots of time in Europe lately...
...I call it “The Hedges of Greenwich...
...The radio is predicting torrential rain, with lightning, thunder, and high winds...
...Yes, that’s right...
...But I wish I had my dogs here to cuddle with me...
Vol. 41 • June 2008 • No. 5
