The American Spectator

Current Wisdom

Current Wisdom

By Assorted Jackasses from the December 2008-January 2009 issue

(Page 2 of 4)

Tenfold growth in a half-century is probably a fair measure of the explosion of birding in the United States. The United States, however, is not unique. Birding is now expanding beyond its old base in northern Europe and the English-speaking world into Mediterranean and eastern Europe, and beyond.

(November 6, 2008)

San Francisco Chronicle

An urgent communiqué from “Ellen,” high atop the Golden Gate Bridge:

Editor—May the spirits of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lennon be with us. High unemployment, hundreds of billions spent on military misadventures, tens of millions without access to healthcare, homes and habitats wiped out by global warming, trade agreements that benefit American executives and shareholders and rob American workers of their livelihood, foreclosures on families, the threat to national security from the implosion of greed-crazed financial institutions. I have a dream. We invest in alternative energy and pass the National Health Insurance Act (HR676), creating new jobs as we clean up the environment and keep people healthy. Working families can buy houses where their children will grow to maturity. Schools have bigger budgets than prisons. We bring the troops home. We stop being the world’s bully and start being a responsible world citizen. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

—Ellen Karel
Corte Madera

(September 30, 2008)

The Progressive

In the Progressive’s innocent pages, literary critic Ezra Klein brings his considerable experience to bear in reviewing a recent bestseller:

It is testament to Jerome Corsi’s fine reputation that the experience of purchasing his new book, The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, is akin to nothing so much as buying pornography. There’s the moment you find yourself holding it near your hip and far below eye level, there’s the quiet judgment of the store clerk….

(October 2008)

Letter to the Editor