Libertine

This morning, I read an interesting blog post by Paula Reed. Her entry was based on a quote she’d received by email:
“The Left: People who demonize those with whom they disagree.”
My first thought was to think of how so many neocons today are masters at the art of projection: they take what is commonly [...]

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I’ve not so far written about the Tiger Woods story because I viewed it as yet another story about a straying celebrity and that it would quickly become yesterday’s news.  Reports such as these are now rather commonplace and are hardly worth reporting on, let alone commenting on.
But this story outlived its fifteen minutes a [...]

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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
–Bertrand Russell
While trying to come up with something to write about today, I visited a quote site where I found the quote above.  The first thing that popped into my mind was that of religion.   Wars have been [...]

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I woke up this morning to find that President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Prize, which left me scratching my head.
Don’t get me wrong, I voted for the guy and think he shows a lot of promise.   But I think it’s premature, to say the least, to award him such a prize so early [...]

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This morning while idly surfing the net, I read one woman’s rant about the latest sexual brouhaha du jour; that of David Letterman being blackmailed over the many sexual dalliances he’s had over the years with women he’d worked with. In complete indignation, she ripped Letterman up one side and down the other.
She reviled [...]

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Listening to the Neal Boortz show the other night, I heard him ragging on liberals who have decided to boycott Whole Foods because of an editorial Whole Foods CEO John Mackey wrote in the Wall Street Journal where he stated that “universal healthcare is no more a right than [...]

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A recent article on Alternet, For Many, Marriage is Sexless, Boring, and Oppressive:Time to Rethink the Institution? by Amanda Marcotte, asks the question:

Marriage is failing many, many people. Why do we still idealize it?
My response to this article follows below:
Formalized marriage and monogamy began for practical reasons, unrelated to any religious notions of “sanctity”. [...]

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The news is full of stories about the latest political “sex scandal” of the day.
Yesterday, Nevada Republican Senator John Ensign publicly admitted to having an extramarital affair while legally separated from his wife.  His admission was accompanied by the usual insincere, crocodile tears statement:

“Last year I had an affair. I violated the vows of my [...]

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I’ve read about collagen injections and “lip plumpers”, which are designed to make a woman’s lips bigger.   I have to admit I don’t really get the appeal of this; kissing a woman who has done this to herself is kind of a rubbery, blubbery experience.
And when I’m going in for a kiss, I’m not concerned [...]

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