The American Spectator

Current Wisdom

Current Wisdom

By Assorted Jackasses from the October 2008 issue

(Page 4 of 4)

It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current President…. Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been….I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.

(August 19, 2008)

From the Archives

Timeless Tosh from current wisdoms Past

(October 1988)

The Great Books Series

Mr. Tom Hayden, in his lubricious memoir, suggests to all readers of a patriotic cast of mind the positive aspects of birth control and the gruesome side of left-wing amour:

Then, on a spring day in a New York hotel room, fresh from a trip to Vietnam, where she had seen women having children in the face of death, Jane was moved to create life as her answer to numb alienation. With a slight sigh, she stood behind me, naked, and whispered, “I want to have a child with you.” With a tearful smile, I said yes.

(From Reunion: A Memoir, by Tom Hayden, Random House, 1988)

Mother Jones

Anthropological investigations in the first person singular from Dr. Joel Achenbach for all the victims of substance abuse who read Mother Jones and learn from it:

I first sensed that nothing is real anymore a few years back during the Victory Tour by the Jacksons. For complex reasons, I went to see them two nights in a row. The first night was great. The second night was exactly the same. And that was the strange thing: it was exactly the same. The dance steps were exactly the same. The stage chatter was exactly the same. Even the spontaneity was the same. Both nights Michael spontaneously began to cry in the middle of a certain song.

(September 1988)

New Republic

Camelot vs. Orwell in New Orleans:

Pat Robertson…said the Democrats would have us all be in one big family with “Teddy Kennedy as Big Brother.” Nothing wrong with attacking Teddy, but one would have thought that jeering references to his status as a brother would be omitted as a matter of taste.

(September 5, 1988)

Letter to the Editor