PC Revisited

After anonymous’ comments on last night’s blog, I figured that it would behoove me to do a part 2.

I think that the comment doesn’t invalidate or really even question my initial assertion that this is a case of PC run wild. If the administration of Dallas Academy (the losing school) feels like their girls can compete with the big kids, then they have to be prepared to compete with the big kids without expecting the big kids to hold anything back. It was also stated to me (although I can’t verify it) that the Dallas Academy team hasn’t won a game in four years. All that I can say is that if their athletic department can’t put together a winning team for four solid years, perhaps they should simply abandon their athletic program and start putting the money elsewhere.

Also, I looked at the Dallas Academy website and found that the school caters to kids who have “trouble with concentration and short attention spans”, so were not talking about kids who have to wear football helmets to protect the soft spot on their heads, or kids in braces or wheelchairs here. We’re talking about kids who fidget in class and find it hard to sit still and listen to a teacher for an hour at a time. Teenagers, in other words.

I also tracked down Coach Grime’s comments about his team’s big win on a website. The Coach said that, after they were ahead 25-0 in the first three minutes of the game, he “immediately stopped the full-court press, dropped into a 2-3 zone defense, and started subbing in my 3 bench players. This strategy continued for the rest of the game and allowed the Dallas Academy players to get the ball up the court for a chance to score. The second half started with a score of 59-0. Seeing that we would win by too wide of a margin, running down the clock was the only logical course of action left.” And they STILL managed to score 41 more points. So it sounds like the coach did exactly what anonymous suggested.

So what does this all mean? It means that the coach and the team played a fair game, won their victory fair and square and that firing the coach or asking the coach or the players to apologize is ridiculous.

Peace.

Randal

PC Run Wild!

We have a thing in America called “PC” or “Political Correctness”. This means that you have to be careful of what you say and what you do. This has resulted in things like little league teams getting cakes at the end of a season where they haven’t won one game that say things like “You’re the best team!” so that their feelings get hurt and they never actually have to… you know… improve.

Personally, I think that PC is BS. I think that we have PC in this country so that we don’t actually have to be courteous to one another. It also results in things like ignorant white people saying “How come black people can call each other THE N WORD and we can’t?” My response to that is always “You shouldn’t say it, they shouldn’t say, NO ONE SHOULD SAY IT! IT’S AN UGLY, POINTLESS, HURTFUL WORD!” I vastly preferred the 70’s when young black guys started a terrific, multi-racial tradition of calling each other “brother”.

Here’s why I bring this up…

I saw an item on the news today that I absolutely could not believe.

The girl’s basketball team of a private Christian school destroyed their opponents 100 to 0. Yes, you read that right… ONE HUNDRED TO ZERO! Killed them. Tromped them. But now… get this… wait for it… THE PRINCIPAL OF THE SCHOOL THAT WON FIRED THE COACH BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO APOLOGIZE TO THE LOSING TEAM!

Wait a minute… What? Since when do Americans apologize for winning? That’s ludicrous. Would the principal have preferred that he have his girls play at less than their best? That’s not what we want to teach our kids, is it? “Just do enough to get by, don’t bother excelling. That’s fine.” Balderdash. Or would he have preferred that his girls just call the game when they were ahead by say… fifty or sixty points. Yeah, that would have really boosted the morale of the other team. “Not only are we killing you, but we don’t even think that you’re going to catch up or beat us, so we’re walking off the court.” I say again… balderdash.

To add idiotic insult to insane injury, the principal commented that such a victory was “unchristian”. REEEEAAALLLY. He must be reading a different Bible than I am, because I can’t find anywhere in the book where it says “Be ashamed of your God-gifts.” As a matter of fact, when I was a kid, one of the songs that we learned said “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine. LET IT SHINE, LET IT SHINE, LET IT SHINE!” Now I realize that the light that this refers to is the light of your belief in God, but I think that it applies here, since God obviously chose to allow these girls to shine at basketball.

Now, if the girls had won through cheating or dirty pool, or had gloated after the game, then I can understand asking for an apology. Those things are truly unchristian. But to apologize for winning? NO WAY!

*** NOTE *** - it turns out that the e-mail address that i originally posted was for a DIFFERENT Covenant Christian school in Texas. Turns out that there are several. I am not sure if i can locate the correct one.

Peace.

Randal

What About Free Speech?

“Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech…”

That seems pretty simple. But what, exactly, does it mean?

Early in the last century, the great jurist Daniel Webster spearheaded the first real change to this amendment when he pushed for laws prohibiting speech that would lead to the DIRECT harm of another. Or, as he put it, “Freedom of speech does NOT include yelling “fire” in a packed theatre.” So that seems like a reasonable concession.

In the eighties, the question of free speech for the Ku Klux Klan came up. Very, very interesting debates sprung up around this. They no longer encourage violence in their public speeches, and limit themselves instead to the particular load of horseradish called “racial purity”. (For anyone reading this, when you hear someone in America talk about “racial purity” or “interracial relationships”, they’re talking almost exclusively about black/white. I can’t tell you how many times as racist has told me that MY mix of races (American Indian/Caucasian) is “okay”. Gee… thanks for your approval.) Final verdict, and a verdict that I agree with? The public speeches of the KKK are covered under the first amendment, provided that they do not provoke or incite violence. Same with the ACLU, the JADL, and any other alphabet-soup political organization that you know of.

But starting in the last half of the last century, we started to take the limiting of free speech to some very odd places. The massive bans on pornography that happened from the thirties to really the early seventies. The problem with banning obscene material, as one Supreme Court justice said during the brouhaha over “Deep Throat” “I can’t define obscenity, but I know it when I see it.” He saw obscenity when he watched “Deep Throat”. I did not. So whose perception gets to win out? Why does his perception get to take precedence over mine? And anyone who thinks that porn is a twentieth-century invention needs to look at their history. Erotic stories, poems and images have been available since cavemen drew on walls. You know the famous cave paintings in France? Some of these were downright NAUGHTY. I think that the problems really started with the invention of the printing press first and then the camera. Once you and I could afford erotica, and not just our elected officials, what fun was it for them?

Then when the child pornographer who posted on the internet under the name of R@ygold was arrested, he claimed that HIS garbage was covered by free speech. The problem, of course, is that his “speech” caused direct injury to another human being. You can’t sell videos of an actual murder, either. You can’t profit from the injury of another human being, period. See, here we are in the early years of the twenty-first century, and we’re right back to where we were a hundred years ago. This same reasonable concession seems bullet proof.

I’ve already discussed my feelings about “virtual” child porn here, so I won’t rehash it (if you’re interested, it’s under the post “Australia Has Lost It’s Mind!), but I will say that if we start limiting “virtual” crime, where does it stop? The award-winning novel “Bastard Out of Carolina” featured the very graphic rape of a twelve-year old girl by her stepfather. “Lolita” is a wonderful, complex novel about a fifty year old man in an obsessive sexual relationship with a thirteen year old girl. And you know that wonderful scene in Romeo and Juliet where they spend the night together after they sneak off and get married? Juliet was 13. And that doesn’t even take into account all of the “virtual” murders, kidnapping, rapes and robberies that occupy so much of our popular entertainment today. Honest to God, brothers and sisters, where does it stop? I spoke to a Ukranian friend of mine who told me that TO THIS DAY “Lolita” cannot be read in any of the former Soviet Union. And yet most of the child porn (I mean REAL child porn involving REAL children) comes from the former Soviet Union. Is this where we’re headed? Cracking down on stories and drawings while allowing the real thing to run rampant?

So what do we do? Well, as usual, vote. If your legislator supported legislation that you didn’t like, vote for someone else next time out. Also, write to your representatives. Granted, my Rep (Adam Smith, D.) seems to have a head made of concrete that no logic or reason can penetrate, but they’re not all like that. I envy Minnesotans Al Franken, for instance. He seems to have a terrific, reasonable head on his shoulders. So write to them anyway. And tell them very clearly what you want, why you want it and that losing your vote will be the consequence if you don’t get it. Don’t worry about hurting their feelings… YOU’RE THE BOSS. So don’t be mean, but be clear that if they don’t ship up, you’ll get together with their OTHER bosses and fire their ass.

And fight stupid laws. If your public library has a banned book week, participate. Donate if you can. Find a book that’s been banned somewhere and donate it to them. For instance, when I was a kid there was a character in Huck Finn called “Nigger Jim”. Most of the newer versions of this book have him simply as “Jim”, or, as I think of him, “PC Jim”. Tom Sawyer featured a character named “Injun Joe” who is usually now just called “Joe”, or, worse sometimes, “Indian Joe”. Look, I don’t like the word “nigger” or the word “injun”. Heck, I’d love to see the Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians and ESPECIALLY the Washington “Redskins” change their names, but I’m certainly not going to make an issue about it in court. But with the Twain books, as offensive as thinking persons find the words “nigger” and “injun” (and Twain knew that), they are also correct terminology for the era in which they were written. If you read BEYOND the name “Nigger Jim” in Huck Finn, for instance, what you see is a call for racial equality. Not to ruin the end of the book for anyone who hasn’t read it, but Huck comes to the realization that Jim is just like all the other folks that he knows, despite what the white slave-holders of his generation tell him to justify their lifestyles.

Fight for free speech, folks. Once we lose it, we can’t get it back.

Peace.

Randal

It's How You MAKE It!

I’m reading an excellent book right now called “Michael Tolliver Lives!” One line in the book got me to thinking, though. When the character of Mary Ann returns to San Francisco on her husband’s private jet, Michael thinks “At least she has the good taste to be embarrassed about it.”

My question is that if this guy has worked hard and earned enough money to buy a private jet, why on Earth should his wife be embarrassed to use it?

Another incident along the same lines was when we were watching TV in the breakroom, and there was a “news” story about the most expensive hotel in the world, in Tokyo – something like $1200 per night. One of the guys started spouting off about “damned rich people”, and I turned to him and said “Yeah… you wouldn’t be rich if they PAID you to, would you?” Didn’t really have a response to that.

A former girlfriend of mine talked one time early in our relationship about how she and a delinquent friend of hers years ago had trespassed onto a rich person’s estate under construction and had tipped the port-a-potty down a hill so that it tore up the landscaped yard. She seemed very proud of this subversive action. I asked if she would like to be wealthy. She admitted that she would. I then asked if she would like it if some snot-nosed kid tore up HER yard with a port-a-potty. She mumbled something about it being different, but couldn’t elucidate.

Let’s see if I can cut through some of the junk about wealth here.

I think that the problem with wealth is NOT how much you make, but how you MAKE it. We’ve come to the understanding over the last thirty years that wealth is good, therefore any way that you make wealth is good. Mr. Bush even stated “What’s good for business is good for America.” Granted, he was quoting someone else – I think that it was Rockefeller. But this statement, when you examine it beyond a purely superficial level, is utterly wrong. Child labor, for instance, is great for business, but piss-poor for America. Unless it’s someone else’s children, of course. We’re perfectly okay with letting someone else’s kids be enslaved for us. Same with sweat shops. Hey, for Chinese dairy farmers, putting Melamine in their milk was GREAT for business… at least until those whiny kids started complaining about their insides being coated with hardening liquid plastic.

I think that there’s nothing wrong with being wealthy. I’ve known some perfectly nice wealthy people and known of others who are doing wonderful things with their wealth.

Some examples of ill-gotten wealth? A landlord who will evict a family instead of doing whatever he can to help them. Phil Knight, who maintains his Nike wealth by enslaving Chinese kids. Insurance companies who make money by denying health care to the sick.

Follow the logic? If your money was made at the expense of someone else, then you really don’t deserve it, and shouldn’t enjoy it.

And also remember that I am a Christian. As such, I encourage people to tithe ten percent or greater of any wealth that God sees fit to give them. And no, you don’t need to tithe it to the church. Tithe it to a neighborhood food bank or something. Whatever you’re into that will do good for someone else.

Peace.

Randal

Bitching is NOT Acting

Let me start this blog off by saying that I hate Wal*Mart. Honestly. I think that they are evil. The only time that I ever shop at a Wal*Mart is when I visit my folks in Arkansas, because in Arkansas there IS nothing but Wal*Mart. And I’m not saying this as some weirdo who lives a million miles from any Wal*Mart. I have a Wal*Mart within easy walking distance from me. Right next to the car dealership where I get my car’s maintenance done. Whenever I drop off Jhmes (that’s my car’s name) for maintenance, as a matter of fact, I walk through their parking lot as a shortcut to come home. I STILL don’t shop there.

Having said that…

I don’t understand why people feel the need to picket chain stores or even pass local laws to prevent their being built. Trust me, brothers and sisters… whether it’s a Wal*Mart, a Starbucks or a McDonald’s, these things cost a LOT of money to run on a day-to-day basis. So if you don’t want them there, DON’T SHOP THERE!

I just finished watching a documentary called “Mom and Pop America” about the impact, both positive and negative that chain stores are having on locally-owned stores. For instance, in one segment, some teenage girls circulated a petition to prevent Hollywood Video from opening up a store right next to a locally-owned video store. Opening your chain store right next to a small competitor is what’s called a “dick move” by the way. The petition failed, Hollywood opened and, some months later, the narrator informed us ominously, the small video store closed.

First off, please allow me to say that I think, as far as chain stores go, Hollywood is “one of the good ones”. They practice censorship only to the extent that you can’t rent graphic pornography there. You can still rent Martin Scorsese’s excellent “Last Temptation of Christ”, which you can’t at Blockbuster, because of pressure from narrow-minded religious groups.

Second off, if people didn’t want the Hollywood to succeed, why did they ever set foot in the store? I mean, you might be able to get a movie rental at Hollywood for $3.99 that’ll set you back $6 at the local, but isn’t it worth that much to keep the money in the community?

A similar thing happened back when I lived in the Capitol Hill district of Seattle. We had both a Hollywood Video AND a Blockbuster. There was also a small, boutique video store, locally-owned, called Vertigo Video and another called Broadway Market Video, and one on 13th that I forget the name of that set up shop in an old fire house. As far as I know, Broadway Market Video and the one on 13th are both still there – Vertigo shut down. I went into Vertigo once, about a year before they shut down, and frankly wasn’t happy with their selection, so never got a membership or rented there. When they were in the process of shutting down, a bunch of kids (twenty somethings) from the neighborhood started circulating flyers to try to keep the business open. When one pretty young punk girl tried to give me a flyer, I looked at the flyer and asked her “Do YOU rent videos at Vertigo?” She shot me a look of pure contempt and venom and said “That’s not what it’s about!”

Yes.

Of course it is.

Businesses… ALL businesses are in the business of doing one thing. MAKING MONEY! That’s it. They may do good things or bad things on their way to that bottom line, but that bottom line is why they’re there.

So look, brothers and sisters. If you don’t like Wal*Mart, don’t shop there. If you don’t like Blockbuster, as I don’t, then don’t rent there. Netflix has been a miracle worker in putting a stake in Blockbuster’s heart. If you don’t know Netflix, go to their website, Netflix.com, and get a free trial membership. They’re awesome! And if there IS no competition to the chains in your area, then take out a small business loan and open one. Or do like this community on the film did… with a minimum investment of $500, the members of the community opened up their OWN department store. Not only does that put the money from the store back in the community, but each investor is entitled to share in the profits. How cool is that?

I guess that my bottom line on this, as it is on so much else, is that if you’re not willing to take action, don’t bitch.

Peace.

Randal

Self-determination: The Sequel

One of my readers, BigMark243, whose blogs can be found here http://starslikegrainsofsandinmypocket.blogspot.com/ and here http://afriendonthebackroadsoflife.blogspot.com/ made a comment about my blog on self-determination that I would like to reproduce here and comment on…

Big Mark said “This was another of your usual thought provoking entries. Of this entry, I have always wondered, what is it that I can do, since I am not going to actually 'do it', you know what I mean?

For instance, giving money to ACLU, is that enough? Voting against laws that I don't agree with and legislators are another.

Where is the front line for fights of liberty? And now with the patroit act, and the 'you don't love america' folks having squeezed all the toothpaste out of the tube, what is it that I can do?”

First off, thank you for your compliments. I enjoy writing, and am glad that it brings others new thought or pleasure.

Second off, this is a great question. I’ve been pondering it since you posted it, trying to formulate an answer.

So what is the answer?

I think that the most important thing is to pay attention. My parent’s generation, between Viet Nam, Watergate, the Bay of Pigs and whatever else went on came to view the “government” as something to be at best mistrustred. (Not MY parents, mind you. They may not have been active, but to this day they pay attention to what politicians are doing and can speak intelligently on it.) The result of this is that, up until this last federal election, voter turnout has been more or less steadily declining since 1960. This year, sources say that the voter turnout was 61%, higher than any year since 1964.

The second most important thing is to PAY ATTENTION! I mean, everyone knows that the Bush years brought us the worst attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor, a total of three wars, an economic crisis that may end up rivaling the great depression and a steady erosion of our civil rights, because the national media covered all of this. Endlessly. What many people do NOT realize, however, is what’s happened to our “free” press. Mr. Bush appointed Michael Powell, the son of Colin Powell as FCC Chairman. Mr. Powell immediately started shifting press power away from small, independent media groups to the “major” media. One of these tactics has been to increase postage duties on independent media outlets, while keeping it the same for Time, Warner, Fox et al. You know those seats that you see in the Press Room whenever Mr. Bush or Ms. Perino gives a press conference? That packed room of reporters? I don’t know how many seats there are, but it’s a lot. The problem? More than ¾ of those seats are controlled by one of SIX national media outlets. SIX!

These same six outlets control almost every major media outlet in the United States. Let’s say, for instance that you think that CNN is too biased, so you go somewhere else for your news. Say to Time magazine. Too bad. They’re both owned by Time Warner. Time Warner controls almost 18% of cable programming. NewsCorp, on the other hand, the pet project of Australian troll Rupert Murdoch, controls everything with the Fox logo on it, as well as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and TV Guide. So when you want the news, seek out an independent source, or even foreign sources. If you split the difference between F-word news and Al Jazeera America, you’ll probably be pretty close to the actual facts.

Another thing that’s vitally important is to turn on your bullshit detectors. There was a saying when I was a kid that I think that we would do well to remember now… “If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.” Same goes for bad. In the build-up to the mess in Iraq if ANY of our national, corporate-controlled media outlets had had the wit to say “Wait a minute… this doesn’t add up” then we might not be in the fiasco that we’re in now over there. If something that you hear or see just don’t look or sound right, research it. Turn off “moment of truth” long enough to look this stuff up. The internet is a marvelous resource for that. A guy at work who read my blog on Sarah Palin’s convention speech asked me how I managed to find out that she was telling so many lies and factual distortions. I replied that each one of them took me about a minute to research on the ‘net.

And Big Mark hit another nail right on the head that’s connected to that… VOTE! And don’t trust campaign mailers or media spots. Actually research your candidates. If it’s an incumbent, their entire voting record is available on-line for you to look at. And if they voted for something that you didn’t like, vote against them. Vote for their opponent. And do everyone a favor, would you? Look beyond party loyalty. If you’re a republican for instance who wishes that jobs would return to America, and the republican candidate wants to continue merrily outsourcing our economy (like John McCain), then vote for the Libertarian (Bob Barr) or the Democrat (what was his name? Oh, yeah. Barack Obama). I upset a LOT of my liberal friends when I said that I would vote for John McCain over Hillary Clinton. When they asked why, it was pretty simple for me. Ms. Clinton voted for the war in Iraq. She voted for the “Patriot” act, and then voted for it AGAIN when it came up for renewal in 2005. Yes, I know that John McCain did as well, but I expected that.

Finally, I would like to say that we need to change our language. When we change our language about something, we change the way that we think about it. For instance, if you catch yourself talking about “THE GOVERNMENT” as an entity outside yourself, you are distancing yourself from it. In fact, we have a government “Of the people, by the people, for the people.” In other words, brothers and sisters, WE are the government. YOU are the government. I am the government. Instead of “the government”, try saying “our government”. That way you feel the ownership that you have. And stop talking about how all elected officials are lying, selfish sacks of shit, okay? If you truly feel that way, vote new people into office. We currently re-elect incumbents at around an 80% rate. If we don’t like what they’re doing, we need to fire them. Another thing that I did that pissed off my liberal friends was to discourage them from voting for Maria Cantwell in the Washington primary. She has supported the Bush agenda from the beginning, and I hate that. I wanted to see her replaced by someone new on the ticket. But the democrat’s desire to see that seat remain in their hands was so strong that they supported a candidate who DIDN’T support the liberal agenda.

Peace.

Randal

What's "News"?

Let me ask you two questions…

1) Sad as it is, how does Jett Travolta’s death or the outcome of his autopsy effect you?

2) Sad as it is… and it is very, very sad… how does Kaylee Anthony’s death effect you?

Seriously.

Beyond being sad, what effect do either one of these stories have on your life?

None?

THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY ON THE NATIONAL “NEWS” 24 HOURS PER DAY?!

As far as young Travolta goes, I know the answer to that – we think that we OWN celebrities. By God, we make them celebrities and pay their salaries… what right do THEY have to mourn their son’s death in private? And then there’s the fact that, being scientology nutjobs, they didn’t get medicine for their kid, just prayed for him. I mean, that’s complete bullshit, they DID provide him with very powerful anti-seizure medicine, but what difference does that make? I’ve heard this information repeated every day since the “news” first presented it as a possibility about a week ago. And the LAST thing that Americans do is let something as paltry as a fact influence what we know.

And little Kaylee Anthony. Poor little dead Kaylee Anthony. Probably killed by her mother. Poor kid.

Who cares?

Honestly.

It’s sad, but who cares? Back in the good old days of three networks, this would have been a blip on the national news prefaced with the words “On a sadder note…” We would have all been allowed a few minutes to mourn for this poor little girl that we never knew, but who should have had a fuller life, then we would have GOTTEN ON WITH OUR OWN FUCKING LIVES!

But instead we obsess over every little detail of each one of these stories as if they ACTUALLY MATTERED! That disgusting, carrion-eating gore crow on CNN… you know the one that I mean… if Earnest Borgnine and Leona Helmsley’s meaner, uglier sister had a baby it would be… oh, yeah Nancy Grace actually ran the mother’s interrogation tapes. Ms. Grace, I thought that you were a legal expert. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF CONTAMINATING A FUCKING JURY POOL?! Whether you like this woman or not, whether you think that she’s guilty or not, she deserves a fair trial under our constitution and shit like this stunt prevents that from happening. Same thing happened in the Michael Jackson case. I mean, what are you going to do, ship in the twelve Eskimos from the one square mile of the Arctic that DOESN’T get Direct TV to have an unpolluted jury?

Ignore the vast majority of American news folks. I’ll apply my mantra here that I took from the last broadcasted concert of my hero, George Carlin… it’s all bullshit, and it’s all bad for ya.

Peace.

Randal

Self-determination

The heart of America… the very CORE of what the founding fathers were attempting to do with both the declaration of independence and the Constitution was to establish a society based upon self-determination. As Thomas Jefferson said about other religions, "But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." The same goes for intoxicants. Or sex. It does you no injury for your neighbor to shoot smack. It doesn’t break your leg. Or if you neighbor chooses to be married to someone the same sex as they are. It doesn’t pick your pocket.

So at what point did we become comfortable letting others make our decisions for us?

And I’m not talking about stuff like the double-nickel speed limit imposed on the country in the seventies. My old dad raised HELL about this when it passed. Has kind of a lead foot. But if some half-asleep nutjob with one hand on his cell phone and the other hand holding a Whopper with cheese smacks into you at 120 MPH, it DOES pick your pocket… and maybe breaks your leg. Same with mandatory insurance.

But what about seat belt laws? Okay, I buy that you should be able to fine me for not having my child secured, but what about me? I’m mildly claustrophobic. I HATE seat belts. Why should I have to wear one? Or a motorcycle helmet? And let me be clear here that I won’t even SIT on a two-wheeler without a helmet on. That doesn’t mean that Gary Busey should be forced to.

I guess that what I’m trying to get at is this… I’ve talked a lot over the last couple of years about the Bush administration shredding our bill of rights… but our rights have been slowly eroded away over the course of the last couple of decades, and I, for one, am sick of it.

So let’s fight for our rights.

Even if you are not an imbiber, fight for the legalization of marijuana.

Even if you are not gay, fight for gay rights.

Two things to keep in mind…

“When they took the 4th Amendment, I was silent because I do not deal drugs. When they took the 6th Amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the 2nd Amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the 1st Amendment, and I can't say anything at all.” - Anonymous

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." - Thomas Paine

Peace.

Randal

A Quickie Followed by Orgasm

First, a quick note.

I’m thinking that the tone of my blogs may shift over the next year from more political to more social. I’m feeling optimistic about our government in a way that I haven’t in my adult life. Feeling more like it’s there to serve me and less to fuck me. I feel like we have repeated the 1920’s almost note-for-note. If that’s the case, then it’s time for the hard but rewarding 1930’s, and a repeat of the glory years of the 1940’s and 1950’s, but hopefully without the catastrophic wars.

Having said that… LET’S TALK ORGASM!

I watched a documentary recently called “Electric Love” about a doctor named Stuart Maloy, who, while working with a female patient on pain relief through implantation of spinal electrodes, discovered that these can also prompt an orgasm in certain patients. As far as I know, he has about a one in three success rate so far.

What frankly shocked me about the show was the number of psychologists, both male and female, who took the time to come on and say that women shouldn’t focus on orgasm as a sexual objective.

Beg pardon?

You know, I can’t help but wonder… if 25% of men couldn’t achieve orgasm for whatever reason, I wonder if there would be any psychologists there to reassure us that it really wasn’t THAT important. With the number of hard-on pills on the market, I kind of think not. I mean, I can’t speak for all men, of course, but the very REASON that I want a hard-on is so that I can HAVE AN ORGASM!

Someone also presented the outdated and puritanical opinion that female orgasm serves no purpose other than “just pleasure”. First off… SO? Second off, completely wrong. About ten years ago, we discovered God’s amazing design of the cervix, so that when a woman is having an orgasm, the cervix actually dips down like a bird to collect any stray semen. So, even though it is not necessary for reproduction (just like the male orgasm), it DOES facilitate it.

I guess that what I’m asking, guys and brainwashed women… can we please STOP telling non-orgasmic women that it isn’t all that important and that they’re not missing anything? Can we PLEASE continue work like this… maybe even help fund it, so that it proceeds more quickly and efficiently? After all… a screaming orgasm is a terrible thing to waste.

Peace.

Randal

Imagine....

Try this on for size…

One day a large multinational force led by… say… Germany came into America and said “Hey, guys… you know what? We know that your ancestors have been living here for hundreds of years, but really, this land was promised to the Indians by their gods yonks before you guys got here. But don’t worry, we’re not going to drive you out entirely, we’re just going to chase you East of the Rockies. Everything west of there belongs to the Indians now, and if you come over here, they’re within their rights to kill you. And we’re going to be giving them weapons to do it with.”

Not cool, huh?

But that’s more or less what we did to the Palestinians when we decided that we were going to use force to give the Israelis a “homeland”.

One good thing that’s come out of this latest iteration of WWIII in the Middle East is that it’s at least got us TALKING about why we’re supporting Israel over there.

Peace.

Randal