Current Wisdom
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"Current Wisdom" R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., wish to take this nortunity to thank the anonymous pracil jokester who entered a subscription to magazine for Ms. R. E. Tyrrell. "Current sdom" was running short of...
...I just got ripped off by some slick dude...
...Walter Mondale in support of his belief that Democrats will fare well in the 1974 and 1976 elections...
...That re...
...I'm sorry sir," the clerk said...
...Or is it that boys just ask for and receive high wages from the beginning...
...The Democrats, he said, being basically warmer people, have more children...
...September 1974 ON THE COUCH: An intimate glimpse into the budgetary conundrums of a typical Ms...
...Here I done voted twice already and you ain't voted at all...
...quires a revolution in the schools...
...n. You're not sexually liberated...
...Click...
...When a woman ds her emotional support to her band's labors, it is taken for granted...
...That is the way Republicans sometimes get elected, he explained...
...Two active children under five can be pretty hard, taxing physical work, too...
...sive liberalism, an ideology of endles...
...The New Republic June 15, 197,1 SOUNDS OF THE SIXTIES: Professor Jame...
...Most of the baby-sitters, who usually happen to be girls, ask 75 cents an hour...
...But there's a danger in the rule, Mondale observed...
...No one can help but notice you...
...I wish to deny this th...
...Thank you my arch iinist, whoever you are, you are a real —RET MYTH SCOTCHED: An intellectual der of Ms., the journal of the feverish elegantly elucidates "a problem" I lays low a myth: am 16...
...I'll tell you why, Thomas," said a friend...
...While Thomas, a postal worker and follower of Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher, was explaining his plight to a series of convention officials, a young woman approached another Lake County machine and calmly tried to vote under the name of George Adams...
...equal ployment, child care...
...My civil rights has done been violated...
...You too big and ugly to try and vote twice...
...Being basically colder, he said, Republicans have less children...
...Indianapolis Star June 19, 1974...
...A lot of dudes that I into think that a "Women's Libber" is easy piece of ass...
...While Thomas continued his protests, a heavyset Lake County man in a blue shirt and a crushed golf hat was spotted in the voting line for the second time by a friendly opponent...
...On the one hand she's an economically moronic egalitarian zealot, on the other hand she's an obvious Scrooge—and how do you suppose she feels about the minimum wage law when it affects employers beyond herself?: It occurred to me the other day to wonder at the discrepancy in wages that I pay to those high school students who baby-sit and those who do lawn-cutting and gardening for me...
...And is it that child care is, anyway, considered to be "women's work" and not deserving of pay...
...I shall never tin have to rummage through dreadful ff like The Nation...
...It is not," Thomas replied indignantly...
...causes: At 10 or 12, children in really messy situa• tions should have the legal right to petitior for removal from impossible families, anc those rights should be reasonably easy tc exercise...
...This is initely a problem...
...11 can't really be for 'Women's' Lib...
...he fact that I am a virgin and wish to lain so does not contradict that fact that I a feminist...
...Now I ask myself, is caring for my children less important, less valuable, less a responsibility...
...We went Dugh the issues—divorce laws...
...That's why they look so bad all the time," he theorized...
...The fact is women give birth to their children...
...I am a virgin, and I wish to rein a virgin until I decide I am emotion, capable of handling the situation...
...Or is lawn-cutting and gardening considered harder and more taxing physical work...
...September 1974 irCOTT SHOES: The sage of Cherry Hill lly surveys the vast expanse of oppress in America: just saw an ad which advertised two es of Buster Brown shoes...
...h, me, the long way we've come has shown us the long way we have yet to –Ms...
...ANAPOLIS STAR reports a scene Worn the 1974 Indiana Democratic Convention, illustrative of just how close the Democrats are to realizing their pledge to "Wipe out political corruption in our life-time": Irving L. Thomas Sr., a gray-haired Gary man with a "Schreiber" button on his diamond-checked sports coat, approached the table to sign his name prior to entering the voting booth...
...I glad to have my husband and my dochelp, but I would like to take full credit my labors...
...She dropped her voice and talked real deep," an election official said, "but, I could still tell she wasn't really George Adams...
...September 1974 THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: Senator Walter Mondale, the Aristotle of Ceylon, Minnesota, divulges the result of some abstruse researches: There are more Democrats than Republicans because Democrats are basically warmer people...
...I told him I a virgin...
...Most of the "lawn and garden" people, who happen to be boys, ask for a dollar an hour...
...ast summer I mentioned that I was for Equal Rights Amendment and got into argument with a dude about it...
...September 1974 SPIRIT OF LIBERATION: A generous timent blooms on the wonderful pages Is.: et's not bend over backward praising iers who participate in childbirth itherhood," May, 1974...
...San Antonio Express-News March 10, 1974 THE LONG MARCH: On marches progres...
...0. Robertson longs for yesteryear: If men and women are to be treated w equals in adult American society, they muse be treated as equals in the schools...
...and so forth...
...Being basically warm blooded, the Democrats have more of a tendency to fight among themselves and insist on the perfection of their own ideas...
...1 man who loves his wife should be ex-Led to perform the same duty...
...It ain't no laughing matter," he replied...
...I was ,expletive deleted) pissed...
...One he most distressing situations I have run as a feminist deals with sex...
...The boys' as are "Dashers" while the girls' shoes "Dumplings...
...His immediate response was...
...schizophrenic...
...I've been robbed," Thomas said, raising a ruckus as he refused to move out of line...
...That is why there are more of us," he said triumphantly...
...The Republicans, by contrast, he said, are basically colder people, and basically a grouchy lot...
...Hey, James, get out of that line," his friend hollered...
...That man in front of me in line signed my name there...
...Fortunately the shrews of America more resolute...
...Your name is already signed here as having voted...
...The New York July 17...
...Isn't this your signature...
...Current sdom" was running short of goofball heries, for many radicals, ritualistic /ibls, and primitive rightists apparently ye wearied of making fools of themves...
...That was the thesis Saturday of U.S...
...He just up and stole your vote...
...197'1 POST-WATERGATE PURITY: The INDI...
...He didn't understand...
...I wondered why he was doing that...
...and illy got to the issue of sex...
...You a babe in the woods, Thomas," said a fellow delegate, choking on his laughter...
...James staggered sideways, laughing and slapping palms, and allowed as how it was always worth a try...
...This one gazette is such a d mine of delightful lunacy...
Vol. 8 • November 1974 • No. 2
