Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." —Euripides Current Wisdom • THE WELFARE STATE: The realization of Eleanor Roosevelt's hopes and dreams, as reported by the redoubtable...
...Sir, even if you don't ever call me back or want to see me again Thank you for all you have done and all I can say is God Bless you, "Yours Truly, Donald DeFreeze" —New York Post March 3, 1976 CULTURAL NOTES: Proof that cultural advances are running apace with economic advances under the wizardry of Britain's Labour regime: Sgt...
...Euripides Current Wisdom • THE WELFARE STATE: The realization of Eleanor Roosevelt's hopes and dreams, as reported by the redoubtable Associated Press: Some players with the Milwaukee Brewers, though baseball's minimum annual salary is $16,000, have been drawing unemployment compensation in the offseason, their employer has acknowledged...
...New York Times March 15, 1976 GROWING OLD ABSURD: A highbrow Catholic in action: The urban "crisis" is now sufficiently long-standing that it must be regarded as an American institution...
...I don't really understand what I was doing...
...People who hear me think I want my head examined—but Idon't even get a headache after a musical session...
...When I got out of jail, people just could not believe I had ever been in Jail...
...Allan (Bud) Selig, president of the American League club, said players in other cities also draw jobless benefits during winter vacation...
...so cherished that no national commitment has ever been made to cope with it with any of the dedication applied to sending a man to the moon or waging war in Vietnam...
...I started playing with guns and firer works and dogs and cars...
...I was very mad and very hurt...
...I thought that if we had kids or a baby we would be closer, but as soon as the baby was born it was the same thing I had began to drink very deeply, but I was trying to put up with her and hope that she would change...
...I took her back...
...Anthony Lewis disinters still more Nixonian crimes, crimes that the scoundrel had hitherto managed to pin on the, Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's equivalent to the League of Women Voters: The part where it became less easy to smile was when Nixon spoke enthusiastically about his and Henry Kissinger's policy of bombing Cambodia in secret...
...The day after I got home she told me she had had Six relations with some man she meant on the street when I was in Chino...
...I was arrested again and again for guns or bombs...
...But I was wrong again...
...Club comptroller Richard Hoffman said they number fewer than 50 per cent of the roster...
...Then seven months later I came home sooner than I do most of the timefrom work and she and a old boy friend had just had relations...
...I hope you will believe me...
...I wanted to be friends with everyone, this the other inmates would not allow, they would try to make me fright, but I always got around them somehow, they even tried to make a homosexual out of me...
...We were married and things were lovely...
...I started playing with guns, drinking, pills but this time more than I had ever before did...
...Jim Collins amuses his friends at an air force base at Middle Wallop, England, with tunes played by hitting himself on the head with a wrench...
...It "saved American lives," he said...
...The Nation March 13, 1976 36 The Alternative: An American Spectator May 1976...
...At that age, I had Just gotten out of a boys school in New York after doing 21/z years for braking into a Parking Meter and for stealing a car...
...You sent me to Chino and I lied to them and didn't tell them all the truth...
...But I couldn't face anyone any more...
...International Herald Tribune March 16, 1976 THE LEGENDARY NIXON: While repining over a recently retired politician's testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the revered Mr...
...I started drinking more and more and staying at my job late...
...They think I am nuts...
...I could have killed her but I didn't...
...I discovered my musical head when I banged it against another man's head in a rugby scrum...
...For months later she begged me to take her back and she said she had made a mistake and that she really loved me...
...Is it possible that anyone can still defend policies that destroyed Cambodia's society, killed a tenth of its people and led to its present tyranny...
...I remember the Judge said that he was sending me to Jail for boys because he said it was the best place for me...
...To Start a story of a mans life you can start at the end, but at the start, this start will begin at the age of Sixteen...
...But you should not have sent me back to her...
...It was funny but the frights were over the fact that I would not be part of any of the gangs, black or white...
...After 2'h years I found myself hated by many of the boys there...
...I had only two frights, if you can call them frights, I never did win...
...Remember Vietnam...
...I told my wife I would forget all that she had did to me...
...Selig declined to name players who are picking up unemployment checks...
...He branded Fidel Castro an "international outlaw" and called his government "a regime of aggression" for sending troops to Angola...
...I worked hard, I didn't drink or any pills nor did I curse...
...Martin Kestin, State Unemployment Compensation director, said players could be receiving $117 a week for up to 34 weeks...
...Just anything to get away from life...
...I through her out of the house and I got a saw and hammer and completely destroyed everything I ever bought her and I mean everything...
...I was weak again...
...Collins, whose repertoire includes "Deutschland Uber Alles," "Rule Britannia," and "Onward Christian Soldiers," says that each blow on his head with the nine-inch wrench produces an easily recognizable note...
...I was sixteen at the time and didn't have a home, life in the little prison as we called it, was nothing but fear and hate, day in and day out, the hate was madening, the only safe place was your cell...
...I will tell you things that no one has ever before know...
...Commonweal March 12, 1976 UNDER WESTERN EYES: The Nation, keeping its public-spirited readers au courant on the latest atrocities committed by the most flagitious Machiavellian to reign at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since Richard M. Nixon, he of unbeloved memory: The price this country pays for having Gerald R. Ford as President is rising rapidly as the campaign warms up...
...Ford, seeking the votes of no more than 22,000 Cuban refugees who are registered as Republicans in Florida, gave a vicious twist to American policy toward Cuba in a recent Miami campaign speech...
...Donald David DeFreeze, oft-paroled founder of the Symbionese Liberation Army (12 arrests in 10 years), as provided by the very same in a 1970 letter to one Judge William Ritzie: "I am going to talk to you truthfully and like I am talking to God...
...I got around this to...
...I solemnly warn Fidel Castro against any temptation to armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere," blustered the President of us all, threatening "appropriate measures" if that should happen...
...Associated Press March 11, 1976 BELOVED INFIDEL: An aperiu into the fine mind of the late and controversial Mr...
...Sir Don't send me to prison again, I am not a crook or a thief nor am I crazy...
...But as the years went by she never did and she told me that she had been to see her boy friend and that she wanted a divorce because I was not taking care of her and the kids good enough, I was never so mad in my life...
Vol. 9 • May 1976 • No. 8
