DISQUS

I heard this story where all the sexually-transmitted diseases in the world are propagated by truckers. They have these trucking routes. Well, I fancy myself the syphalitic trucker of the social networks :)

We consider "too big" to be the ultimate compliment, whether or not it really is a good thing. Oh, and it should work, too. Right?

I woman would totally have said, "She had gained about 100lbs," even if she gained 5. It is a woman way of speaking. Womanspeak: Actual weight gain, doubled, adding an extra zero: 5lbsx2=10+1 Zero=100. See the logic there, mate?

My lover in Helsinki was amazing but she was a one-trick pony. It was all, "take me up against the wall! Up against the wall!" Those crazy Finns.

Dude, thanks:

popskank.com

Woohoo!

What should we do with it?

I can't believe it wasn't taken!

:)

"98% of women would rather have a sensitive lover than one with a big penis."

Complete bullshit. Yes, I have been an honorary chick enough times with hot women that there has been a willing admittance that size does matter.

Sorry guys.

Mostly, women won't admit it if they know you have a small penis. Women share that kind of info the way we share if you put out and if you give good head.

Totally! But, I like "fat" Lindsay.

You'll enjoy it... you should stop and visit with the mysterious and elusive Wendy... her practice is in Reston!

There is an enormous difference between Israel defending itself agaist aggressors and the United States pursuing interventionism. Israel and the USSR have always been known for improportional retaliation against unfriendlies. This is the way they are and noone should be at all surprised by any of this.

The conversion rate has always been one suicide bomber equals the suicide bomber's family's city block razed to the ground by an Apache's gatling gun. So, that is the offer on the table. It always has been.

Texas ain't got nothing on Israel. Don't mess with Israel.

That said, interventionism is even worse.

Is is possible to depressurize a plane with big strong hands against the exit door or is there a "flying" lock safe gap?

Yes, I would rate it as "the single most significant experience" of my life. In fact, once I knew the way in, I can get in any time I want, without help. It taught me to believe in the Other.

Why thank you.

Oh, and there is way too much money to be made to let the whole sustainable energy market become institutionalized. Agribusiness can ignore a lot of backyard personal gardens -- can suffer them without the flattening of growth -- but when the point of pain happens, then agribusiness might not be so kind.

The important thing to try to do is to find a replacement profit center for these investors -- sort of a methadone -- who are now invested in fossil fuel.

Organics worked for agribusiness. What will the methadone be for energy?

Everything is tied together. Gold is flying as high as oil. Copper, too. The Chicago exchange is having a hayday. Don't just look at who is making money on oil, look also at who is making money on contracts, on services, on shipping, and on commodities. That is where it is fun to look.

Follow the money.

Harry is right. Sustainable energy is just stealing from Peter to pay Paul.

It will aid the individuals who are early adopters, but when these initiatives become national or global solutions, there will be just the sort of blowback that Harry mentions.

The market is too smart -- and is too interconnected -- to fall for the "sustainable energy" solution.

"Does refusing junk food delicately make you healthier than just plain refusing it? I don't think so."

We are not talking here about health so much as appeal. Forcefeeding yourself like a champ at the dinner table is not attractive on men or women.

It is appealing for men to be masculine and it is appealing for women to me feminine.

N'est-ce pas?

I don't recommend doing a message board. I don't recommend them because they're time sinks and they don't communicate into the blogosphere like blogs do. Maybe there can be some sort of threaded comments, but I really believe that what is there is perfect! It is linear and easy to read and there is little chance of "getting missed" so please do not fall for becoming a message board moderator/facilitator. You wull rue the day.

I am amused. Why? Well, let's say that someone decided to eat 900 calories of french fries. I am looking at you, you "potato chip vegetarians." It requires a lot of thought and a lot of discipline to make that 900 calories-a-day diet actually work nutritionally. If you follow the Kelly Ripa "I can eat all the Altoids I want" diet then you will become sick. If you hoard your calories for one-sane-meal-a-day then you will become sick. If you don't make one of your major hobbies your care and feeding and your nutricional balance then you will get sick. As a comparison, if you eat one peanut as someone who is allergic, anaphylaxis. So, a rigorous 900 calories-a-day is possible but more realistically, we need to eat lots of different things -- most of it waste and fat and garbage -- in order to, without intent and forethought, keep ourselves out of nutritional debt, out of nutritional danger.

Just because you are a vegan doesn't mean you're healthy. And just because you're a feminist doesn't mean you're right. And just because you're sick doesn't mean you can't get well. And you just because you can't become a size 1 doesn't mean you shouldn't try to become as healthy as you can, gievn your genetics, socioeconomic level, activity levels, and current health.

I am amused. Why? Well, let's say that someone decided to eat 900 calories of french fries. I am looking at you, you "potato chip vegetarians." It requires a lot of thought and a lot of discipline to make that 900 calories-a-day diet actually work nutritionally. If you follow the Kelly Ripa "I can eat all the Altoids I want" diet then you will become sick. If you hoard your calories for one-sane-meal-a-day then you will become sick. If you don't make one of your major hobbies your care and feeding and your nutricional balance then you will get sick. As a comparison, if you eat one peanut as someone who is allergic, anaphylaxis. So, a rigorous 900 calories-a-day is possible but more realistically, we need to eat lots of different things -- most of it waste and fat and garbage -- in order to, without intent and forethought, keep ourselves out of nutritional debt, out of nutritional danger.

Just because you are a vegan doesn't mean you're healthy. And just because you're a feminist doesn't mean you're right. And just because you're sick doesn't mean you can't get well. And you just because you can't become a size 1 doesn't mean you shouldn't try to become as healthy as you can, gievn your genetics, socioeconomic level, activity levels, and current health.

When is obesity going to become a "psychiatric illness?" When is compulsive eating as seen in OA going to get into "the book:" DSM-IV?

"Self-control," "self-denial," and "self-discipline" are awful for selling Big Macs and Whoppers, to tell you the truth.

What makes Maureen Dowd unattractive is certainly not her great legs, her brilliance, her wit, her hot red-headedness, or her age, it's the fact that she is an unmarriagable harpy all on her very own. She has made herself repellent. Outside of being hot and sexy and fuckable, it comes down to being warm, open, honest, true, faithful, satisfied, supportive, and marriageable.

As I have said before, "a Mistress does not a Wife make."

So, is there alien life?

You are a sexist pig, Anthony! That said, I hear you. I was at the gym and someone approached me and all I saw were these amazing blue eyes. I smiled at her and she walked past and I was stupefied. I followed her and she went into the office. I followed and booked a few hundred dollars of personal training. I was stupefied, transfixed, and hypnotised by both her eyes and her beauty.

And I think that Scoplaw's logic is flawed because at no point does he/she ever suggest that although the styles of beauty change, it's ever based on anything besides beauty.

I went to a local DC single social where the promoter, a brilliant young female lawyer and a Federal Judge clerk (and married -- she wants everyone to be married!) actually said the following:

"Chris, you should talk to the girls, they're some of the most brilliant, successful, and powerful young minds in Washington."

At that point I wanted to laugh. Since when does anyone ever suggest a girl to a man that way? "She has an amazing character and a great sense of humor" is generally akin to saying, "she's unattractive" to a man.

Isn't that fucked up? Isn't that weird?

Is it me, or was that the absolutely worst marketing of single women in a singles social mixer possible?

And, why is that?

There is a saying for that, Darla:

"The prom queen is always alone on Friday night."

One of my cutest exes and her even cuter sister were often at home on Friday night during hight school eating "grinders" with mom because just about all the blushing schoolboys always assume that such smoking sisters were of course going out with the captain of the football team or somesuch. So, in this case, the super-hotties are often alone on date night because everyone just assumes that you have plans...

Guy self-select rigorously: "we're not in her league" is something that we're always saying. There's one thing we hate even more than not having loads and loads of lemming sex: being rejected.

Okay, there are the sociopaths who play it as a numbers game and you "cute girls" as a fungible asset -- a resource -- but most of us try to keep out exposure to crushing rejection to a minumum, especially in Washington, where although there are very few alpha studs, there are loads of men who actively pursue, to borrow predator/prey language, circle the herd until the weak and the sick leave the heard, and then the Washington men ponce.

So, in Washington, anyway, you need to not only be cute but also be accessible and smile and flirt and be approachable. Give the guy you like an excuse to come up to you. If you are frowning, plugged into your ipod, or otherwise closed, then Washington men will rarely try.

Actually, in DC, there are so many mind-bendingly cute young women in DC and so few even remotely good-looking men (lots of power, lots of wealth, lots of connections, and lots of pedigree, though) that to be a woman here must surely be tough.

I just got back from a date and the girl was really pretty and charming but because she travels the world doing amazing save-the-world development work in cool places like Madagascar, she considers butt jeans and groomed eyebrows and heels and flirty tops and stylish ensemble to be antithetical to who she needs to be.

She even mentioned that her little sister spends $300 on jeans and is super cute and super hot and so forth and all I could think about was, "I kind of want to date your sister."

Is that wrong?