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   kmp Posted 1:36 pm
   20 Mar 2008

   Taken in

   by the classic Booth Babe.

   Oldest trick in the book, David - I'm ashamed of you.

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   David Roberts Posted 1:50 pm
   20 Mar 2008

   Human, all too human.

   grist.org

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   GRLCowan Posted 1:52 pm
   20 Mar 2008

   Maybe it's not global warming after all,

   just a slight summer glau ... I mean, the seventh of nine warm years ...

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   amazingdrx Posted 3:50 pm
   20 Mar 2008

   Ugly lobbyists?

   A contradiction in terms.

   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

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   amazingdrx Posted 4:14 pm
   20 Mar 2008

   If she knew

   If she read this blog maybe she would have realized how dangerous it is to talk to you, hehey.

   Maybe that's it, the exxonmob sent in a mati harri to take you down.  

   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

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   kmp Posted 12:00 am
   21 Mar 2008

   There are advantages

   to being a female (heterosexual) scientist....  they never send in the Booth Hunk.

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   Pangolin Posted 1:02 am
   21 Mar 2008

   Hell hath no fury.....

   like a guy who's realized his chain has been deliberately yanked. That monday morning burn can lead to some serious grudges.

   Watch out Exxon.

   Put the Carbon Back

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   caniscandida Posted 1:41 am
   21 Mar 2008

   I admit it, I am sexist.

   That is, I expect too much of women; I maintain a double standard.

   After many long years of observation, I have (not happily) accepted that some very cute guys are very very bad when it comes to politics, society, the environment, etc.  I have learned, with great pain, that it remains necessary, alas, to repeat the venerable English proverb, "Handsome is as handsome does."

   But I have always hoped that women are different.  And so, when a presentable and well-turned-out woman speaks up for one or another right-wing or conservative cause, it gives me the creeps, followed soon thereafter by nausea.  It is as though I am witnessing a hideous, unnatural experiment gone wrong.  "Women ought to know better!," I cry, down in the depths of my soul; "they ought to be our better angels!  We men are blind and foolish and mad, but at least we ought to be able to trust that women will always be there to hold up their pure lanterns of truth and guide us!"

   Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

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   amazingdrx Posted 2:02 am
   21 Mar 2008

   Me too Canis

   Some of my women friends have warned me on this point.  Self loathing is a powerful motivating force for badness, for either sex.  Superbad!

   Maybe it's one major reason why the war between the sexes seems to be so vicious in these troubled times?  Might as well quote Leonard Cohen yet again:

   Leonard Cohen - There Is A War

   There is a war between the rich and poor,
   a war between the man and the woman.
   There is a war between the ones who say there is a war
   and the ones who say there isn't.
   Why don't you come on back to the war, that's right, get in it,
   why don't you come on back to the war, it's just beginning.

   Well I live here with a woman and a child,
   the situation makes me kind of nervous.
   Yes, I rise up from her arms, she says "I guess you call this love";
   I call it service.

   Why don't you come on back to the war, don't be a tourist,
   why don't you come on back to the war, before it hurts us,
   why don't you come on back to the war, let's all get nervous.

   You cannot stand what I've become,
   you much prefer the gentleman I was before.
   I was so easy to defeat, I was so easy to control,
   I didn't even know there was a war.

   Why don't you come on back to the war, don't be embarrassed,
   why don't you come on back to the war, you can still get married.

   There is a war between the rich and poor,
   a war between the man and the woman.
   There is a war between the left and right,
   a war between the black and white,
   a war between the odd and the even.

   Why don't you come on back to the war, pick up your tiny burden,
   why don't you come on back to the war, let's all get even,
   why don't you come on back to the war, can't you hear me speaking?

   even better, hear the man sing it.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56hiB4eTzBE

   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

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    amazingdrx Posted 2:02 am
    21 Mar 2008

    Me too Canis

    Some of my women friends have warned me on this point.  Self loathing is a powerful motivating force for badness, for either sex.  Superbad!

    Maybe it's one major reason why the war between the sexes seems to be so vicious in these troubled times?  Might as well quote Leonard Cohen yet again:

    Leonard Cohen - There Is A War

    There is a war between the rich and poor,
    a war between the man and the woman.
    There is a war between the ones who say there is a war
    and the ones who say there isn't.
    Why don't you come on back to the war, that's right, get in it,
    why don't you come on back to the war, it's just beginning.

    Well I live here with a woman and a child,
    the situation makes me kind of nervous.
    Yes, I rise up from her arms, she says "I guess you call this love";
    I call it service.

    Why don't you come on back to the war, don't be a tourist,
    why don't you come on back to the war, before it hurts us,
    why don't you come on back to the war, let's all get nervous.

    You cannot stand what I've become,
    you much prefer the gentleman I was before.
    I was so easy to defeat, I was so easy to control,
    I didn't even know there was a war.

    Why don't you come on back to the war, don't be embarrassed,
    why don't you come on back to the war, you can still get married.

    There is a war between the rich and poor,
    a war between the man and the woman.
    There is a war between the left and right,
    a war between the black and white,
    a war between the odd and the even.

    Why don't you come on back to the war, pick up your tiny burden,
    why don't you come on back to the war, let's all get even,
    why don't you come on back to the war, can't you hear me speaking?

    even better, hear the man sing it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56hiB4eTzBE

    http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

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    caniscandida Posted 3:03 am
    21 Mar 2008

    "I call it service"

    Leonard Cohen is absolutely brilliant.  It is wonderful how he uses the language of religious devotion to explain sexual arousal and activity.

    In Hebrew and Arabic, the concept of being a worshiper of God (Yahweh, Elohim, Allah) is expressed as "service," or even "servitude," "slavery."  All the proper names in Arabic beginning "Abdul" or "Abdel" mean "Slave (Worshipper) of," with either "Allah" or a title of God appended.

    Remember this X-rated bit from Cohen's 1992 song, "Light As The Breeze":

    <<
    She stands before you naked
    you can see it, you can taste it
    but she comes to you
    light as the breeze
    You can drink or you can nurse it
    it don't matter how you worship
    as long as you're
    down on your knees

    So I knelt there at the delta
    at the alpha and the omega
    at the cradle of the river
    and the seas
    And like a blessing come from heaven
    for something like a second,
    I was healed, and my heart
    was at ease
    >>

    "The alpha and the omega," the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet (the triangular delta is the fourth), is a Christian reference to Jesus in the Book of Revelation.

    "For something like a second" is bitterly pessimistic -- is it misogynistic, though?  I do not know.  But the complaint, about the vulnerable, confused, abused, deceived male lover, is similar to what "There Is A War" says.

    Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

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