Ken’s birthday was a hoot. You know you’re in trouble, though in an Indian restaurant when after everyone’s ordered their dishes, the server comes over to add another table nearby for “all those dishes you all have ordered”.
Is there a single word for “so stuffed I can’t move and I feel like puking but simultaneously I feel wonderful?” Satiated?
And then dancing later in Minna was difficult, but not impossible, as long as I waited for my tummy to catch up with me.
New Clone Wars trailer! Well not really a trailer, looks more like a lot of robbed semi-finished footage.
The shot of massed ranks of Jedi nuttahs with laser swords looks oddly like Saturday night at Burning Man with all the glowing Burners. Right on!
Day of surprises. First Pat Buchanan agrees with me, then I find that criminal weasel wannabe Mussolini character Silvio Berlusconi — the current tinpot Prime Minister of Italy — has also been thinking about globalisation and protests…
He says there’s a link between Islamist terrorism and the anti-globalisation movement… a “strange unanimity” between them. Both [are] the enemies of western civilisation.
Well, I wouldn’t go that far. In a positiviely Bush flight-of-fancy, he went on to say that we should be conscious of the supremacy of our civilisation, of its discoveries and inventions, which have brought us democratic institutions, respect for the human, civil, religious and political rights of our citizens, openness to diversity and tolerance of everything.
Ah, that same tolerance that lets him ram through a law in the Italian parliament to avoid being indicted on corruption charges. And that same tolerance that’s letting him to make another law making it possible for him to go on growing his massive business interests while also holding down the part-time job of Prime Minister.
People in the US like to complain, sometimes, about whether or not antitrust laws work. But imagine if Bill Gates was still head of Microsoft and President? How long would rival software companies last?
At least not every Eurotrash is so dumb. The EC President called ex-singer Berlusconi’s remarks racist, inflammatory and uneducated… the EU is based on values such as multiculturalism and the meeting of different civilisations.
I see that Berlusconi’s coalition involves racist and fascist political parties, while he has compared himself to Justinian, Napoleon and Jesus. And Berlusconi, who hides much of his money semi-legally in Switzerland to dodge tax, is keen to make it easier for banks to launder money. Which should come as a relief to all drug barons and terrorists everywhere.
Not bad for a guy who made his fortune selling TV porn and rode the erection wave all the way to political power. But surely he somehow forgot to compare himself Manilow and Sinatra as well, the arch-priests of megalomaniacal crooners.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, 1759
Is sex dangerous? Only if it’s done badly!
My straight college roomie found a woman at a rave who enjoyed dry, raucous sex. Lots of screaming. Quite annoying.
One day the pitch of the screaming changes. It’s him. He comes running downstairs, clutching his groin, blood is pooling in his hands, dripping everywhere. He’s swaying from the shock, rubbing against the wall and leaving odd, red Rorschach patterns on the off-white walls.
He’s ripped his foreskin, basically giving himself an involuntary circumscision, around 25 years after he could have got a pro to do it for him.
Would he go to the ER? No.
Did they use condoms? No.
Was her vagina now liberally doused in penile blood? Yes.
Could he have sex again without excrutiating pain and causing renewed bleeding for a long time? No.
Did that stop him and her from trying? No.
Did they return to unsafe sex? Yes.
Did they end up producing an unwanted conception? Yes.
Did they allow that conception to proceed until a child was born? Yes.
Did they later break up acrimoniously? Yes.
Is straight sex sometimes dangerous and messy and annoyingly fertile? Oh yes.
Someone sent me a note about some “scam” involving land phones and how dialing “9“, “0“, “#” will let someone make long-distance calls using your phone account. Now, usually these chain emails are just plain false and are basically the most primitive form of email worm known. But amazingly, in some limited circumstances (old-fashioned PBX, bad security setup, etc) this can work. This article and this one explain the background. This chain contains the faintest nugget of truth at its core and is therefore probably more pernicious than a completely false one. I am reminded of the old Cancer-Kid-Needs-Cards ones that were so virulent a few years back.
The war Netanyahu and the neocons want, with the United States and Israel fighting all of the radical Islamic states, is the war bin Laden wants, the war his murderers hoped to ignite when they sent those airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Oh My God! I agree with Pat Buchanan. War does strange things to people. I have to go lie down now.
Some things never change. I’m reading this great book on medieval life and there, in the 14th century, there’s a tableaux and description of a game that is basically Truth or Dare! No sign yet of Spinne Ye Goblette, but we live in hope…