Tidbits And Outrages

TIDBITS& OUTRAGES "REMEMBER THE PART WHERE MICKEY WEARS MINNIE'S EVENING GOWN AND HIGH HEELS? WELL, MR. HOOVER JUST DOESN'T THINK THAT'S FUNNY." A new book, Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince by...

...A woman recently wrote to Ann Landers complaining that since the last presidential campaign her husband has become such a devotee of Ross Perot that he won't lend tools to neighbors unless they put up collateral, and in all discussions of the household budget, he uses pie charts and bar graphs...
...AND OSHA IS LOOKING INTO THAT HIT- BY- PITCH THING The FCC fined a Norfolk, Virginia, minor league baseball team $8,000 for using an unlicensed radar gun to clock the speed of pitches...
...A new book, Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince by Marc Eliot, reveals that Disney, in return for being granted permission by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to film inside FBI headquarters, allowed J. Edgar Hoover to make some changes in Disney movie scripts and in an episode of "The Mickey Mouse Club...
...The San Diego Union Tribune revealed that the businessman who asked President Clinton at a local "town hall" meeting what had happened to the middle-class tax cut and who said thatCalifornians could not afford new taxes had been delinquent on or had not paid his federal income taxes for eight years...
...AND HE'S HIRING COMMANDOS TO FIND ALL OUR MISSING SOCKS...
...When no homes in the development were sold, the university made them available to its administrators...
...July/August 1993/The Washington Monthly 27...
...I WAS ASKING ON BEHALF OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE...
...FOR SALE: IVORY TOWER, 4 RMS, TNS CRT, PL, GRT VU The University of California at Los Angeles responded to complaints from faculty about the scarcity of affordable housing by creating a housing project at the Santa Monica marina in which the homes sell for between $438,000 and $659,000...

Vol. 25 • June 1993 • No. 7


 
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