Email Author Linda Stasi

1998 Stories by Linda Stasi

• We've Got You, Babe

  published December 22, 1998

  It's not the fear of nuclear meltdown, germ warfare, Saddam Hussein, terrorists, STDs, UVBs, L.A., the FBI, CIA, PLO, nor even global warming,... More >>

• Scandalous Beauty

  published December 8, 1998

  Paula Jones has a new face to go with her new hairdo. Hillary Clinton's been done over so many times even she doesn't remember what she... More >>

• Striking Out

  published November 24, 1998

  Last week the sports world was rocked again. This time— hard as it is to believe— the capo di tutti capi of the Mets was accused... More >>

• Slur Blur

  published November 10, 1998

  Let me see if I've got this right. It's OK for candidates to call each other idiots, liars, slackers, and cheats. It's also OK for one pol to... More >>

• The Losers' Circle

  published October 20, 1998

  On the same day the Yanks lost a big one on the field, the Yanks' owner and the mayor lost a bigger one in court. One loss was because of a... More >>

• Make Gender Not Love

  published September 22, 1998

  Aldous Huxley could have written it. Maybe he did. While the whole world was obsessing about the president's recreational sex, science was happily... More >>

• Compromising Positions

  published September 8, 1998

  Fact: I am the only woman in history--aside from Mother Teresa and Janet Reno--who's met the president and not been groped. Why then, do I still... More >>

• Full Court Press

  published August 11, 1998

  Too bad about justice. It used to be just blind, but now it's gone dumb as well.I'm talking, of course, about the various and sundry (or is... More >>

• The Harding Boys

  published July 21, 1998

  Dear Dad:As a mom, I admit I've been worried about the kids' futures. Without an "in," as you know, it's not easy to hop on the fast track to... More >>

• Hormone Imbalance

  published July 7, 1998

  Didn't I tell you that if you let white men in suits run everything, we'd all get screwed--literally and figuratively? Now look what a mess... More >>

• Columns

  published June 23, 1998

  What's a girl to do (besides change the sheets and quit her job) when on one day the Southern Baptists declare women must submit to their... More >>

• Driven Crazy

  published May 26, 1998

  Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the sidewalk, the cab strike ends. If you listened to most New Yorkers last week, the consensus... More >>

• Pop Up Pill

  published May 12, 1998

  Am I crazy, or is there something a little 1984- and Brave New World--ish about insurance companies making policy about whether or... More >>

• Walk this Way

  published February 24, 1998

  What's a crime fighter to do after he wipes out most of the crime in the city? Well, he could sit back and rest on his laurels--go around giving... More >>

• Hands-On Prez

  published February 10, 1998

  It's the oldest story ever told: Poor innocent Adam lost his rib, his heart, and literally the whole world to a no-good apple tart who was rotten... More >>

• City of Grace

  published January 27, 1998

  I had a terrible fright the other day. I turned on NY1, and thought that it had been taken over by the Christian Broadcasting Network. A... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published January 13, 1998

  Maybe Mars was conjuncting Saturn or something. Whatever. Nineteen ninety-seven will go down as the most patently absurd year in all of recorded... More >>