The American Spectator

Current Wisdom

Current Wisdom

From the February 2009 issue

Congratulations To Paul Krugman

For, as a Longtime Contributor to This Page, Winning

The 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics

We Look Forward with Relish to Publishing Years More of His Delightful Garbagespiel

Meet the Press

Ted Turner, a historical illiterate in action:

We have an FBI, and we’re not prejudiced against somebody who’s worked at the FBI. It’s an honorable place to work. And the KGB, I think, was an honorable place to work. It gave people in the former Soviet Union, a communist country, an opportunity to do something important and worthwhile.
(November 30, 2008)

Columbia Spectator
(online edition)

 One of the Republic’s great universities is again the victim of an apparent prankster online. Cut the comedy, fellows:

This week, the QuAm will celebrate the end of its annual Queer Awareness Month. The month-long series of events is devoted to raising awareness of sexual diversity on campus and has become a symbol of the University’s openness towards differences in sexual preference. Still, QuAm’s organizers would better cater to students of all comfort levels by advertising the month’s educational programming as much as it does the more explicit revelry of Queer Awareness Month.

Over the past several years, QuAM has grown more visible and active on campus and its Queer Awareness Month has grown in popularity. Indeed, many of the lectures and workshops that they hosted this month were great successes. Academics and scientists addressed students about the details of gay history, more worldly students chose to attend sex-toy workshops, and the rainbow-colored arch of balloons over Low Library was a palpable indicator of the University’s commitment to tolerance. That said, the organization largely focused on promoting events that emphasized sex over awareness. The Genderfuck party--where attendees donned only underwear--bore more of a resemblance to a raucous First Friday Dance than a laid-back affair where people could casually discuss sexuality.
(October 29, 2008)

New York Observer

Jason Horowitz, an obvious patriot, retails some asseverations confided by Dr. Erica Jong, the celebrated Master Baiter, to an Italian daily during the last weeks of the late presidential campaign. Miss Jong did not agree to a urine test: 

The record shows that voting machines in America are rigged….My friends Ken Follett and Susan Cheever are extremely worried. Naomi Wolf calls me every day. Yesterday, Jane Fonda sent me an email to tell me that she cried all night and can’t cure her ailing back for all the stress that has reduced her to a bundle of nerves…. My back is also suffering from spasms, so much so that I had to see an acupuncturist and get prescriptions for Valium….After having stolen the last two elections, the Republican Mafia…. If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it’s not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets…. Bush has transformed America into a police state, from torture to the imprisonment of reporters, to the Patriot Act.
(October 30, 2008)

The Progressive

Letter to the Editor