If there's one thing about Americans that really bothers me it's our hypocritical, uptight, sexual attitudes. We are among the most sexually active people in the world, and yet we are among the most hung-up about sex. It's a consequence of who we are. We are the descendents of boat people - of common, working poor. We are the descendents of people who fuck all week long and then go to church on Sunday and vehemently decry fucking. The descendents of people who fucked so much, and so many, that we overpopulated the Old World and overflowed into the New World. America is the land of the people who fucked too much.
Think about it. Let's imagine you're the son of an early 18th century German, tenant, mud farmer. What else is there to do? There's no TV. No computer. No radio. No record player. Nothing. You're not very literate. On Sundays you go to church where you are told to abstain from any kind of fun, work like a dog for the grace of the Lord, and tithe what little money you have to be told that. All you have for fun is dirt, booze and women. What else is there to do? Now you see why we have such dirty, drunken sex today!
So, sure, Anthony Weiner did something really stupid, and for that he probably just threw his political career out the window. But what we really lost here is that rare man who had the guts to stand up and speak truth to power. We lost that to our goofball tradition of fucking and then lying about it. What a stupid tradition.
JMJ
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Gotta agree with you on this one JMJ. Though Weiner is a just another left wing, MSNBC starring, rhetoric spewing dick in his day job, I don't care if he spooges on his blackberry while sexting. Even if he did so in his taxpayer provided big comfy congressional chair.
If NYC wants to elect him Mayor, as is/was his ambition over the ever so qualified Alec Baldwin then let them have the left wing dick they choose. I do think though that Alec should show what he's got as Anthony has already shown us he has a dick big enough to step on.
I'm sad to see him fall. We need dicks in congress. It's what I liked about him. He was nobody's man. He was his own. And it undid him.
JMJ
I don't know about being "nobody's man" JMJ. He looked like just another politician with a power fetish to me. The reason he should resign has nothing to do with his schlong pics but because he is just another sleazy politician in love with regurgitating falsehoods and half truths on the political talk shows in attempt to get face time. His congressional stint is just like Rahm's in that it is just a resume builder for the bigger job he really wants. He is not there to serve anyone but himself.
He and the other "dicks" in congress ARE the problem and as long as they are willing to kill themselves off politically it is fine by me. Most likely his replacement will be just another ambitious greaseball but at least it will not be this particular ambitious greaseball.
I follow congress like a sports fan. I'm a C-Span junkie. I catch all the best poltical talk.
You can't help but pay attention to Anthony Weiner, if you follow American politics. After all, like you pointed out, he tends to grab at the spotlight like a cheetah on a gazelle's neck.
But I liked most of his positions. And that's what's more important to me. I don't care if his intent is power if his result is a better world, as long as he never gets too much power... ;)
He is pretty independent, refreshingly brutal, and he always has represented his district very well. You can disagree with him on broader issues, but he is a product of Brooklyn. If you don't like New Yorkers? Well, you probably wouldn't care much for Anthony Weiner.
JMJ
JMJ - For Christ's sake {and I am an atheist} why do you feel the need to use gutter language? A man of your apparent intellectual capabilities.
It must be a progressive thing huh? Makes you sound less intelligent and sophisticated than you really are.
By the way, I have instructed my webmaster to add your site to my "Progressive Blogs Up For A Fight" lineup.
And while I am at it thanks for being a regular at RN USA!~
Well, Les, I figured it sort of fit the theme. We're so uptight, yet we are so gutteral. I thought it drove the point home.
As for it being "progressive"? Well, maybe, though most liberals would also find it offensive. They can be just as uptight.
Not that you are. You do allow me to enjoy RN, after all!
I love your site, Les. The pleasure is all mine. Thanks for the add.
JMJ
I wouldnt give a fuck if his wife wasnt so fucking gorgeous !!!
If she were some dog I might understand it. But dude, shes beautiful and looks sweet enough be dragged down into his narcissistic little penis tweetfest.
Oh well, Happy Fathers day asshole
"he tends to grab at the spotlight like a cheetah on a gazelle's neck."
Looks more like a fucking psychotic bitch "Horsehack from Welcome back Carter"... on the rag if you ask me.
When he went off over that 911 1st responders issue on the floor and was asked nicely umpteen times to compose himself and started pointing fingers and "fuck" this and "fuck" that....
...I'd of bitchslapped him and his fucking Vienna Sausage "package" right back into his car seat
"lost the tradition of fucking and then lying about it"
Hmmm... think the only person he really fucked was himself.
And if he did speak truth to power he'd of said what you said.
He'd of got up there on his little soap and told everyone what a bunch closeted freaks thet are and just havent got caught yet.
When I was about 9 or 10 my dad busted me wearing my moms bra, as most kids did at one time just for fun (her heels wouldnt fit)
heh, at least it wasnt fathers day.
He was always a little apprehensive about me for a while after that until he walked in on me losing my virginity to "Susan Sweet"
Shit you not, swear to God, true story.
Who knows, maybe I should thank him for struggling with his homosexuality long enough to sire me.
Erics blogs all fucked up again.
First its impossible to log in. Then when you do whether its IE,AOL, Google or Firefox the fucking comment wont stick unless its just onr sentence.
Is this just me or is it happening with you to ?
I mean Dan Lev writes fucking books, so whats up ?
A list of plants which cause abortion was provided in De viribus herbarum, an 11th-century herbal written in the form of a poem, the authorship of which is incorrectly attributed to Aemilius Macer. Among them were rue, Italian catnip, savory, sage, soapwort, cyperus, white and black hellebore, and pennyroyal.[16]
King's American Dispensatory of 1898 recommended a mixture of brewer's yeast and pennyroyal tea as "a safe and certain abortive".[37] Pennyroyal has been known to cause complications when used as an abortifacient. In 1978 a pregnant woman from Colorado died after consuming 2 tablespoonfuls of pennyroyal essential oil[38][39] which is known to be toxic.[40] In 1994 a pregnant woman, unaware of an ectopic pregnancy that needed immediate medical care, drank a tea containing pennyroyal extract to induce abortion without medical help. She later died as a result of the untreated ectopic pregnancy, mistaking the symptoms for the abortifacient working.[41]
Tansy has been used to terminate pregnancies since the Middle Ages.[42] It was first documented as an emmenagogue in St. Hildegard of Bingen's De simplicis medicinae.[16]
A variety of juniper, known as savin, was mentioned frequently in European writings.[3] In one case in England, a rector from Essex was said to have procured it for a woman he had impregnated in 1574; in another, a man wishing to remove his girlfriend of like condition recommended to her that black hellebore and savin be boiled together and drunk in milk, or else that chopped madder be boiled in beer. Other substances reputed to have been used by the English include Spanish fly, opium, watercress seed, iron sulphate, and iron chloride. Another mixture, not abortifacient, but rather intended to relieve missed abortion, contained dittany, hyssop, and hot water.[34]
The root of worm fern, called "prostitute root" in the French, was used in France and Germany; it was also recommended by a Greek physician in the 1st century. In German folk medicine, there was also an abortifacient tea, which included marjoram, thyme, parsley, and lavender. Other preparations of unspecified origin included crushed ants, the saliva of camels, and the tail hairs of black-tailed deer dissolved in the fat of bears.[31]
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" But what we really lost here is that rare man who had the guts to stand up and speak truth to power"
Huh? Weiner lied to gain power. He had one of the worst legislative records, and could be counted on to vote against the interest of the people most of the time.
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