The American Spectator

Current Wisdom

Current Wisdom

By Assorted Jackasses from the December 2008-January 2009 issue

(Page 3 of 4)

New York Times

The newspaper that did so much to familiarize us with the Angry Left now introduces us to the Angry Northern California Psychologist:

But Ellen Kirschman, 68, a police psychologist in Northern California, said she objected to people calling her “young lady,” which she called “mocking and disingenuous.” She added: “As I get older, I don’t want to be recognized for my age. I want to be recognized for my accomplishments, for my wisdom.”

To avoid stereotyping, Ms. Kirschman said, she often sprinkles her conversation with profanities when she is among people who don’t know her. “That makes them think. This is someone to be reckoned with,” she said.

(October 7, 2008)

Washington Post

From distinguished columnist Courtland Milloy, an elaboration on what the Prophet Obama means when he expatiates on building the economy “from the bottom up”:

On Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Southwest Washington, homeless people rummage through garbage cans in search of food. Unemployed men and women congregate near construction sites, only to leave discouraged when told that no day laborers are needed. Others opt to sell drugs; some, their bodies—risking death to survive. “The war is not abroad—it’s here against the poor,” George Robinson, a 51-year-old veteran, told me yesterday after leaving a mental-health counseling session at St. Elizabeths Hospital.

He still sounded depressed. “Prices so high on everything and wages so low it doesn’t even pay to work.” As the nation’s leaders grapple with how to spend $700 billion to stimulate the economy, the concerns of the truly hopeless and despairing people such as Robinson have been given short shrift.

(October 22, 2008)

North County Times

Well, at least Mrs. Palin is not wearing pigtails:

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