My romantic life is a little bit of a sore subject for me lately.  I got kidded about being some kind of lothario at dinner tonight and it annoyed me.  The thing that makes it such a sore point is that I haven’t had a date since last Thanksgiving — haven’t asked anyone out.  I’m not in any kind of relationship at all and on purpose.  But, I’m like a reformed smoker or drunk.  I’m in the early stages of my relationship sobriety and it still stings to be presented with temptations and jibes.

So, I’m taking myself all seriously and all, as you can tell.  Tonight I ran into a little something called MoanMyIP.com and it made me giggle and guffaw. (yes, I guffaw on occasion.  why wouldn’t I? what’s it to you?)  HOWEVER, please read the whole thing, including the small print. It actually happens to be very very educational about the footprint you leave when you surf the web.

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the above is the title of a speech by a prominent Florida State University professor and it’s damn thought provoking.  If you think it’s going to be a rehash of Maureen Dowd’s “Are Men Necessary”, you couldn’t be more wrong.

A “money” quote:

When I say I am researching how culture exploits men, the first reaction is usually “How can you say culture exploits men, when men are in charge of everything?” This is a fair objection and needs to be taken seriously. It invokes the feminist critique of society. This critique started when some women systematically looked up at the top of society and saw men everywhere: most world rulers, presidents, prime ministers, most members of Congress and parliaments, most CEOs of major corporations, and so forth — these are mostly men.

Seeing all this, the feminists thought, wow, men dominate everything, so society is set up to favor men. It must be great to be a man.

            The mistake in that way of thinking is to look only at the top. If one were to look downward to the bottom of society instead, one finds mostly men there too. Who’s in prison, all over the world, as criminals or political prisoners? The population on Death Row has never approached 51% female. Who’s homeless? Again, mostly men. Whom does society use for bad or dangerous jobs? US Department of Labor statistics report that 93% of the people killed on the job are men. Likewise, who gets killed in battle? Even in today’s American army, which has made much of integrating the sexes and putting women into combat, the risks aren’t equal. This year we passed the milestone of 3,000 deaths in Iraq, and of those, 2,938 were men, 62 were women.  

One of the conclusions he reaches is that we have been forced into a situation in which men are rewarded for large pools of shallow relationships while women have concentrated on deep, close, personal relationships. 

It concludes, among other things, that the pool of our ancestors is skewed towards women because perhaps as many as 60 percent of men never reproduce compared to only 20 percent of non-reproductive women.  Elsewhere, I’ve read that perhaps half of one percent of today’s global population was sired by Genghis Khan on his march West — the great khan preserved for his personal attentions all the most beautiful of the women of every town and village conquered.

Sure hope the Debster reads this.  I’d like to hear how her “there’s too much testosterone in the world today” theory stacks up to this.

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I wish that hedline was a porn boast.  It’s 3 a.m. and I’m wandering around my house like a ghost.

Took MindOverMary to the airport this a.m. and never really got going after that.  I was very sad to see her go.  I adore her and we had so very much fun while she was here.

Mary’s been replaced as far as Mom duties go by Mom’s sister, Marty, and Marty’s friend, Frieda.  Marty’s hilarious and when she and Frieda get going, the Visa cards get all melty.

My 40th high school reunion is this coming weekend and I was class president, so I make it a point to show up, although others do all the organizing and hard work of putting the reunion together.  My friend Rush Riddle is flying in Thursday evening and will be staying with me.  Guess I’ll miss the lovely Juliet’s gay party at the Copa.  Something about a drag show, but I’ll be at the airport.  Rush is from L.A., so maybe he’d like to see a gay drag show, such things being so rare in Hollywood.

Well, gotta get back to stuffing emotions.  It’s hard work and I may have to start outsourcing some of the work.  Anyone you know have any experience with guilt or anger?  How about some good old fashioned non-specific anxiety and stark fear?  I could really use some help with that.  Soon, the garage will be full of the stuffed emotions and I may have to get a storage unit.  Maybe Bookmdano will let me use his pickemup truck to get all the Samsonite (TM) two-suiters and I’ll try to take the duffle bags in my car.

Where did I put that cosmetics bag?  I’ve got a little vanity to stuff as well.

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Those bastards are going to take us to war in Iran.

Here’s a story in The Detroit Free Press about the bureaucratic battle in the Bush White House between Dick Cheney and Condi Rice.  He wants a military solution and doesn’t think diplomacy is/has worked and is ready to go.  She floats this idea to name the Iran Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization, the first national military ever to be so designated.  That may have flopped.

Meanwhile, an article dropped into Guardian Unlimited says the Iranians are shelling Iraqi Kurdistan trying to get to Kurdish rebels operating in their far northwest corner, as they’ve done since forever.

Don’t forget how many battle groups we have floating in the Persian Gulf in the confrontation over the nukes Iran’s growing.

Please read all the way down the Guardian article to the quote from some Kurdish war lord in one of the most remote areas of the world.  No one, including people educated at Oxford and Harvard, talks like that.  That was a written script.  This story has been shopped by someone to this Brit fish wrapping.

I don’t mind using the news media for sending subtle signals, but I’d prefer it be a slightly bit less so crude and incompetent as this.

Oh shit.  I’ve just got this nightmare conspiracy theory thing going on that re-instates the draft and declares martial law and ends with someone being named der Feuher for life and that means I’m going to the camps.

Well, see ya.  It’s been fun.

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P.S.  If you see me and think you’re being followed or that they’re listening in on your cell phone, you can give me the “heads up” by mentioning my good friend, Heywood Jablome.

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Post-Post Script

A Time.com writer and former CIA spook says he’s been told there WILL be an attack on Iran in the next six months, done deal.

Scary.

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In an essay in BoingBoing, a man claims to have possession of the solid gold cockring of Karl Rove’s father as well as pictures of the man’s piercings … and so forth.

I’m sorry.  That’s where real life meets surreal life at an awkward and uncomfortable place, if you ask me.  I don’t know if the story is a hoax or what, but whatever, that’s just way out there on my reality scheme.  I’m at that existential angst place about random information and images buzzing by and all my trees are melting in nausea.  Rhinocerous!  Sorry, No Exit. 

What a loathsome species we can be.  Long live Ubermensch!  Die now, Earthlings.  Resistence is futile!  Bring on the next better predator, the next and future kings that will enslave or eat us.  I hope it’s our own DNA that mutates or evolves or whatever.  Somehow, it would be degrading to be defeated as a species by some hypervirus, cold, emotionless not really alive things.  Let us quickly be on our way about it.  We can’t go ahead and evolve unless all of us get on with dying as quickly as possible.  Oh, Good Christ, the humanity.  Why hast thou foresaken us?  Bring on Mayan eschaton, 2012 can’t get here fast enough.  It’s not enough we’ve trashed the whole globe, but now I have to know that such a thing as Karl Rove’s father’s solid gold cockring might actually exist?  It’s too much to bear.

Exquisitely random.  Piquant whether true or false simply because the topic is so utterly without redeeming value. 

Which is why I feel I have the expertise to make comment.

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A ministorage chain in Manhatten has a new billboard.  I think it’s fair to call provacative.

Wow.  Devastating double entendre.

Please feel free to comment.  I absolutely don’t know what to think and I’d love to hear your response.

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There is something primal about sports.  The sheer strength of bodies, agile and flexible is a wonder to behold simply as image as well as a personal accomplishment of the athlete.  A healthy, athletic body is more likely to be sexually attractive to us as fecund.  We are hardwired by a zillion years of DNA to want the species to survive.  The human form is the veritable center of all art forms, of course, but especially so in dance, the most kinesthetic of the arts. 

We’ve certainly thrilled at athleticism as a species for all the history of which I know — we can only speculate whether children ran races at the dawn of human existence, before there was history, but I expect so.  I know my sisters didn’t hesitate to challenge me physically at games, so I don’t think competition and admiration for athleticism is gender specific, despite any differences in our builds.

So, with all due respect, I hereby present a link to what seemed to be a beautiful and exciting and very fun athletic event.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

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when you really really need one?  Somebody needs to issue a ticket to a couple of German scientists.

You see, Einstein’s special theory of relativity is quite clear on a couple of things.  First, the speed of light is a “universal constant”.   In fact, it’s the ONLY constant.  Light travels at 186,000 miles per in all situations everywhere.  So far, so good.

His theory also says that we can’t break the speed of light.  You see, it would take an infinite amount of energy to attain that speed, his math demonstrates, so that’s the universal speed limit.

No wonder he argued with Max Planck, the father of quantum theory.  Now, those quantum guys have gone and done it.

Two German scientists claim to have broken the speed of light by using “quantum tunneling” to propel a microwave photon faster than the speed of light over a three foot span.

Somebody needs to issue a speeding ticket.

First, it turns out that the whole universe was explained by Isaac Newton but he was wrong, as Einstein proved when he explained the whole universe and now it turns out that Albert, well not so much as we thought.

Seems like next thing you know, we’ll have to admit that UFO aliens might exist since we just lost a powerful argument against them.

What’s a western rationalist to do?

UPDATE:  Or, maybe not.  This guy swears the reporter got it wrong.

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you can’t believe everything you read.  maybe especially a sex survey.  We think somebody’s maybe fibbing just a little.

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John X reminds me that there was a time in America when GIANT NEGROES roamed our city streets. 

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