A Rant About Women,  he titles it, which is like dangling raw meat right there—or should I say, holding it out on a very long stick. Like they do at the zoo.

So Shirkey realizes he’s been conned, and by a bright student, and the realization makes him rather pleased. For is not his male student a reflection of himself? Read the rest of this entry »

“I failed in a very important way in my personal life.” via CNN.com.

Eliot, baby.  Sweetcakes. This is not an apology. This is not making amends. After all, we have it willingly or no, imbedded in our brains, fuckhead, that you had sex with a hooker with your socks on. Stylish, silk business socks? Little clocks up the side? Were they the kind that stay up by themselves (no pun intended) or did you wear little garters, Eliot. Cookie-baby.

Not that I want to know. I think that’s the point.

“I think one of the largest, most difficult tasks that he has is to control the outrage that is brewing in the public, sympathize with it and garner it, but use it to get good policy, not policy based upon anger …”

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Ben Hammersley: Validation porn has had its day. Enough about the brushes already: give me some beauty.

You know, it is just so true.

Execrable taste does bespeak a lack of moral intelligence—as well as vice versa.

Doug’s Darkworld writes: “Israeli militants have decided the time has come to destroy their enemies in Syria and Iran. In a desire to create a fantasy world where no Israelis can ever come to harm. Why is this a fantasy world? Because it is also a world where Israel is free to kill and maim their Arab neighbors any time they please.”

Sounds like my marriage.

All this war crap. Nothing but male umbrage, out of control.

Nothing more important to it than that.

Poor sods/stupid fucks. Take your pick.

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“When you say to a woman you know what you know, there’s not a woman on this planet that doesn’t have an inner voice. One that she’s learned to disregard because of patriarchal censorship. Like when people say to a girl, why did you get in the car with him? And she says, ‘A voice inside me was telling me not to.’ Only she’d learned to disregard it. That’s what knowing what you know means.”

—Eve Ensler

Who must have a brain in her head after all. Read the rest of this entry »

One of Zinni‘s responsibilities while commander-in-chief at Centcom was to develop a plan for the invasion of Iraq. Like his predecessors, he subscribed to the belief that you only enter battle with overwhelming force.

But Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld thought the job could be done with fewer troops and high-tech weapons.

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