Hillary’s “Inoculation” in Talk

Written by John Ellis on August 25, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

As “inoculations” go, Hillary Clinton’s interview was reasonably successful, at least for the time being. She not only addressed the issue of her husband’s infidelity and dishonesty, she managed to do so in a way that placed it (and her role in it) firmly in the past. Even more remarkable, she did so in a
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Prince of Jibes; Human Rights; Virgin Shaglantic

Written by Taki on August 25, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Prince of Jibes Oh dear! Prince Philip has gone and done it again. This time, however, he had to apologize. Last week, while visiting an electronics company in Scotland, he spotted a fuse box with wires sticking out and joked that “it looks as though it had been put in by an Indian.” Needless to
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Professor Panic Vs. Drug Hysteria

Written by John Strausbaugh on August 25, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

This is not, Jenkins would agree, a brand-new field of study. Burroughs put one side of the argument succinctly nearly a decade ago: Just Say No to Drug Hysteria. The library on the general topic of The United States Government v. The People’s Right to Get High is vast, and much of it describes how
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The Final Episode

Written by Amy Sohn on August 25, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

“No, donut,” he said. “It’s the tv. I rented the Neil LaBute movie, Your Friends & Neighbors.” I stood up, went into the living room and turned the volume up. Jason Patric was sitting in a steam room with two other guys telling them the best sex he ever had was when he was 12
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Ted Rall’s Bawls

Written by Andrey Slivka on August 25, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

“He made it personal,” cartoonist and writer Ted Rall’s insisting. “So I don’t care. Yeah, there’s going to be people who are like, Oh, Ted Rall’s not punk rock. Yeah well, you know, I never noticed the Dead Boys not having copyrights on their records. I never noticed those people not trying to enforce their
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More on Boy Scouts and Gerbils

Written by None - Do not Delete on August 25, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

But that’s not what’s going on with Hillary Clinton and her randy husband. She’s not defending him out of friendship or sympathy. She’s defending him because without him she is nothing. She’s in it for the power; therefore his enemies are her enemies, and she’s willing to put up with anything from him in order
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El Barrio

Written by Christian Viveros-Faune on August 25, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Sixty-six years later, after congressionally ratified national wars on poverty, the bright but failed promises of the Great Society and a seeming revolving door of state, city and community revitalization projects, the lowdown, dirty misery of being poor in America remains much as Orwell described it in Down and Out In Paris and London:
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Boats, Surfing Wipeouts & KFC

Written by Russ Smith on August 25, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Boats, Surfing Wipeouts & KFC George Will can eat my Bermuda shorts. I’m in the air right now, on a Continental flight returning from a weeklong, sun-drenched family vacation, so I’m missing the roundtable on ABC’s This Week, with Will no doubt tut-tutting the significance of Gov. George W. Bush’s convincing win in the Ames
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God and Mammon

Written by David Corn on August 25, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Both parties are in a money frenzy, however. The collectors at the Democratic and Republican headquarters are each angling to bank several hundred million dollars in soft money (unrestricted donations that mostly come from millionaires, corporations and unions). Moreover, these funds will be used to skirt election laws by financing ads and activities slyly designed
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Is Bush Just a Swaggering Preppy Pig?

Written by Christopher Caldwell on August 18, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

But Talk should be praised to the skies for trying to revive the belief that journalism is an on-the-spot vocation, and that the more reporting you do, the better your article. In her ballyhooed Hillary piece, Lucinda Franks bragged about having visited five different countries with Hillary Clinton (letting drop that the North Africa
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