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/ 13 October 2004
The publishers of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male did not expect much when the study was published in 1948. The author, Alfred C Kinsey, was a scientist highly esteemed among entomologists for his work on the gall wasp — an unsexy little bug. The Kinsey Report, as it became known, turned out to be the biggest scientific bestseller since Darwin and, like The Origin of Species, took a wrecking ball to the established moral order.
The Democrats can count on the sell-out movie (Fahrenheit 9/11); the Republicans, a book (Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry) that is already number one on Amazon’s bestseller list a week before publication. You know the United States presidential election is hotting up when the smear campaigns get started.
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/ 20 October 2003
It was America’s ”virtuous majority” (as they conceive themselves) who made George Bush president. He keeps these core voters sweet by appointing aggressively virtuous subordinates — men whose sole claim to office, as Bill Maher puts it, is that they ”read the Bible and fuck their wives”.
On Ash Wednesday 2004 we’ll find out just how tough Mel Gibson really is.
That’s the day he’s chosen for the release of his film The Passion
depicting the last hours of Christ’s life, writes John Sutherland.
A puzzle for you: name a truly brave politician. One of my nominations would be Robert J Dole. In 1998 Pfizer Corp recruited the senator for the launch of their new wonder drug, Viagra
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/ 22 January 2003
The season for quizzes is over. But try this. What was Jim Morrison convicted for in March 1969? Easy. Waving his ”snake” in front of 13 000 fans (and one lucky photographer) at a Miami pop concert (”D’ya wanna see my cock?” They did.) Why did the Lizard King do this criminal thing?
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/ 24 December 2002
However cramped for space, soldiers have always taken books into battle, writes John Sutherland.
NON omnis moriar, says the Latin poet: not all of me will die. So which body parts do we want to live after us? Thanks to US science you really can cheat death – or bits of you can. At a price, of course.
As Jeffrey Archer goes to jail for perjury, John Sutherland dips into his oeuvre and finds it eerily prophetic.