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With all the chatter here, I wanted to ask your advice. My daughter Candy has decided to become a politician. She read a book by Karl Rove, and you cannot believe our amazement when she announced at the breakfast table that she was considering running for congress this summer instead of finishing college. She's always been a good girl...but now we don't know what to do. Can any of you give us some advice? Thank you, Concerned Dad— March 23, 2009 1:27 a.m.
Chapel of Happiness on Broadway too noisy for neighbors
If it were anything but a church, the city would have reacted very differently. Ask the fraternities at SDSU about how often they get fined for similar violations. Because churches in San Diego are actively involved in electing politicians, they have permission to break any laws they like. These evangelical idiots in Golden Hill sound like the worst of a bad lot. Aggressive in their stupidity, and adamant that anything they do to "praise the lord" is something the rest of us just have to put up with. To see this attitude in action, just look at comment #2 by "SpliffAdamz", a coward who makes threats with a pseudonym. Spliff, when you're done frothing at the mouth and rolling on the floor, please check yourself into a mental hospital. The rest of us need our sleep, and you and your friends need to shut the hell up.— March 20, 2009 1:55 a.m.
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Uz Jsme Doma: "We're already home" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMKLJEZ04AM Mnaga a Zdorp: "Slippery mud and Sticky mud" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWXJG8zBQAc— March 19, 2009 1:05 a.m.
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Just time for a quick note in between love sessions...catching my breath. A European man goes to Ocean Beach in his speedos. He sees all the American women laughing at him. Seeing some guys who seem to be attracting a better kind of attention, he asks them what's wrong. "Well, if you want women to like you, you have to stuff a potato in your shorts." So the next day, he returns with a potato in his speedos. It's even worse. All the women point and laugh. He asks his friends what's wrong. "Dude, you have to put the potato in the front of your shorts."— March 19, 2009 12:55 a.m.
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Speed, the illegal drug derived from the same stuff as Metabolife, when used in small doses does have the effect of brightening your mood and suppressing appetite. It also makes people highly productive, if a bit erratic. Wouldn't it be interesting to track the stock market's gyrations over the last few decades to the amount of amphetamines in our nation's system? Not just crank or Metabolife, but also Ritalin(TM) and all the other products on offer through easy to obtain prescriptions. Some speculate that Rome fell because of the lead lining the water pipes to the aristocracy. Maybe we're falling because of the speed, mostly legal, that's been coursing through the veins of our nations "leaders"?— March 15, 2009 2:26 a.m.
Ballooning the federal deficit
Isn't the Federal Courthouse expansion a result of draconian enforcement of our nation's drug laws? Didn't Clinton, Bush II, and Obama all admit using a drug that, if they had been caught, arrested, and prosecuted, would have put them in jail instead of the Presidency? Haven't prominent world leaders, former judges, police chiefs, and journalists recently advocated ending this expensive and ineffective drug war, moving away from a law enforcement model toward a harm reduction model? Even a Bush II drug war "Czar" has declared he doesn't care of marijuana is legalized. Time Magazine and The Economist have this issue on the cover. Dan Walters wrote about it in the Sac Bee. Legislation has been introduced in the California Assembly. So building this massive, and in the future we hope unnecessary court complex is nothing short of short sighted. We've already wasted enough resources fighting this counterproductive "drug war", and this edifice seems to be throwing good money after bad. When (not if) this insanity ends, and we stop arresting people for enjoying alternative intoxicants, the current court rooms will be more than enough to administer justice. It's a pity to see this money spent on erecting yet another monument to the failures of prohibition, rather than spending it on education or water infrastructure, or helping our neighbors in Mexico to make up for decades of using them as our dealers instead of treating them as friends.— March 15, 2009 2:08 a.m.
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Anti, I love to read your posts, not just here but elsewhere. Gender is indeed a spectrum. I am caught overgeneralizing, and tip my hat to you for pointing it out. I'll attempt to fling myself away from the poisonous orbits of Mars and Venus and keep in mind that my friends here of both genders are both wonderfully insightful and great to interact with. Since I have nine siblings, maybe I'm qualified to agree that it's the emotional attachment that really matters. I like the article you posted. It seems to confirm what else I've read, and as I'm subject to confirmation bias just like anyone else, it pleases me to see my beliefs confirmed. A mistake I sometimes make is to be too authentic and honest in the romance and lust stage, destroying the moment. That's why I've learned the trick of flirting with the Surveyor from Mars line. They'll find out soon enough about my professional status and life pursuits if they're interested...the Mars bit is just to keep the mystery up and those endorphins flowing in both our heads. I like to be funny and talk like a Martian. It gives me lots of "permission" to comment on "human" behavior and see how she responds. Also, frankly, the woman who cannot go along with a bit of a harmless joke and conversation device in a social situation is certainly not someone for me. The world is pretty messed up, so we have to laugh and have fun sometimes. Well, it's already Saturday night here. I'm off to the local hospoda to sample the wonderful Czech pivo. I hope to sing a song called "Marlboro Man and Barbie Girl": "Down to the pub, and drinking some brew Barbie is there, and she's had a few When Ken goes outside to check on the weather Barbie Doll says, (falsetto) 'Marlboro Man, we should really get together' But Marlboro Man He has no plan He just makes do With what is at hand He is a stranger In a strange land He has no Capitan, Cap in hand." Hezky Vecer! (Good evening!)— March 14, 2009 12:13 p.m.
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Bluen, at the risk of invoking another tsunami of outraged estrogen fueled invective...I gotta agree. We're told to be kind, gentlemanly, considerate and mild. Then the same women who complain that men are pigs fall all over themselves to please the biggest jerk in the room. Women lie to themselves just as much as men. While they say one thing ("I don't care if he's rich") they do another ("Oh, look, there's Cindy...she married a millionaire and I'm so jealous!") An understanding of biology and evolution can help explain these things, but the relationship drivel peddled by the likes of Oprah and automatically regurgitated by most American women is completely wrong and counter-productive -- making people miserable. But most women, in America at least, would rather cling to their comforting myths rather than give up their assumed mental/spiritual/emotional superiority. In this, my own home country, most women have been deliberately TAUGHT that men are evil or stupid. Men and women are different, but complimentary. In my opinion, American women have set themselves up for failure with their delusions of superiority/victimhood, and it's richly deserved. I live and work in other countries, and it's very refreshing to find women who aren't eager to scratch men's eyes out (see above) and can actually fit into a pair of jeans without creating a muffin-top. Women who have traveled, expect to support themselves, who understand that what men do is different from what women do, and who aren't offended by the fact that we think differently.— March 14, 2009 9:49 a.m.
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Oh, I totally agree with you Antie Geek. Even Uncle Nerd says we've over-bred like bacteria in a petri dish, and we might be facing collapse... We CAN and probably SHOULD overcome our biology to act in the best interests of the community, and for our children's welfare. That we don't, however, is predictable...and I thought I was just pointing out that people would be happier if they had contingencies for what to do if the love fades in four years, as is so very, very, very common in us humans. :-) fred— March 14, 2009 2:44 a.m.
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I intentionally wrote "improve lives" NOT "improve your lives" just to avoid that interpretation. Again, these aren't "my" theories. They are the theories of well-respected researchers (some of them at UCSD), based on new evidence found through rigorous research utilizing new technologies. Check it out. It's fascinating.— March 13, 2009 10:24 a.m.