A Chicken Is Not Pillage

Programming Notes

1)  Left In The West lives.  No, I'm not the one posting, nor should that influence participation.  It might be at least polite to say hello to Carla Augustad.

2)  I have a fantasy football league that will be hella fun.  The general scoring is set to be prolific.  I've altered the scoring to punish bad play, and have included a whole lot of defensive aptitude.  We're lookng for about 3 more 'team owners'.  If you have an interest just for fun's sake, let me know.  My email addy is easy to find.

3)  The most viewed post I've exposed to the wild in the last 3 years is the post where Stoya has an orgasm.   It's funny to me how many lefty folk claim that ignoring me is wise, and yet their IP addresses seem to have viewed that post.  ~heh~.

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Since that damned Jay Stevens doesn't want to hang around to do it ...

Booman points out that you actually have to give credit to the Republicants for being unbelievable bastards.  Okay, maybe you don't, but America did.

I could go on for quite a while listing the cynical and dilatory and dishonest things the Republicans have done since Obama became president, none of which are easy to credit. But, it worked.

They knew the left would get dispirited and frustrated and start fighting amongst themselves. They knew their own base would love it and reward them for it. They knew the media wouldn't be an honest referee. They knew that in a bad economy, white majority America would respond to their ACORN/Henry Louis Gates Jr./New Black Panther Party/Shirley Sherrod/Health-Care-is-for-minorities/Sharia Law/Ground Zero mosque/illegal immigration themes. And they knew that if they only stuck to the plan, there wouldn't be a damn thing the Democrats could do about it. And there wasn't. They went scorched Earth, and if you're honest, we didn't have the tools to combat them.

CW says that a Speaker of the House who presides over an historical bad election for the party should just step down from leadership.  So why are the Republicants whistling past the graveyard that Nancy Pelosi might become the Minority House leader?  Simple enough.  Common wisdom assumes that people are idiots, as do Republicants.  Modern history shows clearly that Republicants can't fail to contradict themselves.  They've just spent 6 months telling folk that this mid-term is a referendum on Obama, not Pelosi.  Progressives, on the other hand, see some small truth to that, and recognize that Pelosi was a tough and strident ally. 

MSNBC proves itself more full of shit everyday.  Maddow is the only thing worth watching on it anymore.

There is no reason to *not* think the world of Darcy Burner.

Scott Lemieux makes an argument I've made many times, just vastly more eloquently.

Arguments about third party voting, then, generally aren’t arguments about whether any single individual should vote for the Democrats but whether groups of similarly situated individuals should vote for the Democrats. At this level, the advocate of third party voting in a first-past-the-post system has to address the fact that an unwillingness to sully one’s purity with strategic voting has very real downsides (such as hundreds of thousands of deaths and trillions of dollars wasted attacking a country that poses no threat to the United States, fiscal policy that increased inequities and make s future progressive reform much less viable, several decades each of Roberts and Alito, etc. etc. etc.) and no discernible benefits. If third party voting is supposed to be the key to making the Democrats better, well, Nader already succeeded in his goal of throwing the 2000 election to Bush — how did that work out? According to Daniel, not very well — and, remember, this is true! So I’m not sure why the next time will be the charm.

Though it has been said a thousand different times in a hundred different ways, this one is unique.  Mr' President, you simply cannot trust working with the Republicants!

Because to someone in an adult relationship -- whose only experience of such things is a healthy marriage -- the idea that someone with whom you share a life could get so addicted to pure, blind rage and self-loathing that they would put their own well-being at risk -- put the safety of children at risk -- just to see you in pain would be...incomprehensible.

Too bad young Barack Obama never learned the hard lesson that "nice", "accommodating" and "reasonable" absolutely do not work when you find yourself involved with a psycho who wants to punish you for their own failures, set you on fire to silence the voices in their own head, and then piss on your grave to smother the shrieking goblins of their own past.

Because with the Modern Republican Party, that sure as shit is who he's shackled to now.

Heath Shuler couldn't have sucked more as a quarterback.  His Blue Doggy Democrats just got their asses stomped.  And now he wants to lead the Democrats forward?  Is he high?

And a little light-weight wingnut humor to finish.  Teabaggers, in a nutshell.

 

What Ever Happened To Hugs, Talking and Going to Sleep?

This can't be the direction we're headed, can it?

(Link is Not Safe For Work.)

Truth Is Harder

Okay, so, Ted wants guys.  We get that right?  Is the badness that he wants guys, or that he can't find a way to get guys without manipulation?  I tend to think it's the latter, and that's the basis of his whole hypocrisy.  Guys can't get no satisfaction ...

Or so the stupid think.  Notice, it's not stupid that they think guys can't get no satisfaction, but rather that guys ought be able to demand it.  It is a sad ass world when guys have to slave for their slaves to put out:

Many women simply do not buy this, but guys are pretty miserable when they’re working hard and doing all the stuff they’re told to do to be a good husband, and yet aren’t getting sex reliably, or without begging and arguments, from their wives.

As terrific as the take-down from Sadly, NO! is, the quote that struck me is this:

And, just so women know: for most guys, I am guessing that the women they remember the most -- the ones that stick in their minds, the ones they never quite get over -- are the ones that were the most aggressive and accessible sexually. Want to make an impression on a guy that will last forever? It doesn't have anything to do with haircuts or fashionable purses.

Let me be absolutely clear.  Any asshole who remembers his best fuck as the pinnacle of companionship deserves to walk in on his wife doing his best friend and the mailman, both of whom have porn star bodies and large caliber ... bullets.

I've written several times over the last several days about white male privilege.  This is the perfect example of such.  Just because a man feels that he has a right to stick his toolage into a place of soft warmness does not negate a woman's right to having her soft insides invaded by a welcome bit of flesh.  We, people, human beings in a social society, deserve the same respect for our desires as others.  No man, ever, deserves the sexual slavery of his 'wife'.  If he spends his time fantasizing about that terrific pussy that was always grasping at him, then he deserves that pussy grasping at what it wants as well.  Women are more than their genitalia, and that's what they marry for.  Boiling men down to less than that is consigning others to slavish sexual union.  Some of us might call that rape.

Truth out.

RIP, Betty

At the age of 85, Betty Page has died.  I won't affront my more delicate readers with images of her work, but if you'd like to see some, go here.  Let me just say that in a culture that is at odds with itself, both celebrating and dismissing woman-form, Betty will always be unique.  Her appeal (at least to this horny dog) is that she was in like measure powerful in self and offering to share.  She was the picture (many pictures) of self-confidence.  We have many pin-up girls in the world; Hollywood starlets, those who dabble in porn, wev ...  There was only one Betty, worthy of celebration at 30, or in her later years.

"Tear Her Apart"?

Look, I've gotten some offensive spam before.  We all have.  But really, is that what it comes to?  "Tear her apart"?  Who on God's green Earth would this appeal to?  Serial killers?  I don't that's a marketable demographic ... just sayin'.

A Rather High Opinion Of Their 'Prowess'

Amanda makes mincemeat of this Details magazine article, and rightly so.  But what really cracked me right up was the accompanying graphic to the piece.  (No, I'm not going to post the graphic here.  Follow the links.)  I really appreciate the image of fine feminine buttocks, and I get the whole 'tunnel' imagery.  But come on ... a train?  A toy train?  A big-ass toy train?  I laughed my ass off seeing that.  That just puts a whole nuther spin on the legend of John Henry, now don't it?

Amanda used a whole lot of words to say something real simple (and expound on other related topics), but no:  for the record, NO.  It's not right to demand anything sexually ... ever.  You may own the Choo-Choo, boys, but the other gets to decide where you put it.   Let's just be keeping that in mind.

The Internet. What Can't It Do?

So, apparently, the Intertubes can make women pregnant ... at least according to the Chinese.  Okay, that's probably way too snarky even for me.  But in all seriousness, this story highlights the absolute necessity of proper sex education.  I found myself rather shocked by this paragraph:

A survey by Zhang's hospital found that only 7.9 percent of the parents queried talked to their children about sex, and 79 percent of high school and university students said they got their ideas about sex from the Internet.

The Internet is *not* an entity.  It is a collective, a warehouse of the good, the bad and the ugly.  But it serves no one to forget that the crap that gets dumped here comes from somebody; ultimately, it comes back to human beings and human interaction.  Of course the "Internet" is going to tell people to have sex.  Not because the Internet is a danger or an evil, but because it's a resource into the human condition, and we *want* sex.  It's probably the second most pressing biological imperative ... behind breathing.

If you needed any proof that the Internet has changed the world, this ought to be it.  Humans are increasingly connected to other humans; ideas get exchanged (as well as bodily fluids, sometimes.)  China would do well to accept that.  If they do get the idea that knowledge abhors a vacuum and that ideas will come from the whole of human experience, perhaps they'll be able to teach their children wisely about the consequences of random fornication without the personal responsibility (like about using condoms, maybe?).  Hell, if they get that far, it will put them light years ahead of our administration.  After all, one of my favorite Buddhist sayings is quite clear on the matter:  Change is inevitable; to struggle is an option.

I mean, hasn't anybody in China figured out that the Internet is for porn?

As If It Wasn't Obvious

*OF COURSE* Geeks make better lovers.  We've all known that since watching Revenge of the Nerds ...

(Some of this material may not be suitable for younger viewers.  Parental (and spousal) supervision is advised ... or to be avoided.  You choose, okay?)

I Could Stand To be That Sleepy More Often

Let's lighten the mood around here just a tad.

So, why do guys get sleepy after sex?  (NSFW, duh!) 

My favorite quote from the article (probably everybody's):

Dave Zinczenko, the author of Men, Love and Sex: The Complete User Guide For Women, explained the phenomenon to Huffington Post writer Arianna Huffington this way: “Men go to sleep because women don’t turn into a pizza.”