and a Bob Marley look-a-like just hangin' 'round the joint... Long live Bob Marley! Kinki Friedman, Cheech and Chong!

Single women aren't the only targets for the various forms of vilification that magazines have; many are for the ones euphemistically labeled as 'home makers',ie. married/ divorced with children. Those range from the Cosmo to Red book, using overt and cleverly disguised articles that only promote distrust to outright hostility against males while at the same time suggesting how lacking they all are in sexual techniques and what they must do to correct this 'puritanical vestige' that is oh, so 'out of date'.
Look at all the negative images of sex and death painted into ice cubes for all liquor ads it is always males torturing females or killing them. (Ice cubes can't be photographed, so an artist has to paint and draw them , then insert all the various images and symbols; even on crackers and margarine...there is no end to this just as there are no laws in North America against this insertion of 'subliminal images'. Many in Europe are now forbidden to use these subliminal 'persuasive techniques' to sell products of the sponsors of these magazines.
One early women's magazine that spoke out of the permeating negative images of women and all females in general by a continuing marginalization of women was Spare Rib, from England, seeking 'liberation for women' in 1972. Yet it still continues; marginalization by demeaning, insulting and depraved sexual imagery of women from the old style 'Police Gazette and 'girlie' type of mags for males with an extremely limited intelligence. For those with a bit more, they have the 'playboy' types with emphasis on the term 'boy' as opposed to man, but all at a reading level equal to 4th grade, just like 95% of newspapers...Ever get the feeling that this so called 'war of the sexes' was started by and maintained by Madison Avenue and Hollywood ? Everyone is more preoccupied with 'getting a piece' instead of making peace with each other...both hedonistic and combative for the continuing assault on all of society.

Let's try this: ALL women secretly do admit to themselves that they are NOT from Venus and that all men are NOT from Mars, but that ALL of us are from Earth and the real problem is that not all women can deal with that; it's a tacit but shocking Truth and not some modern and convenient 'Pop Psych' placebo that lets them escape the stark reality
of life. The more Madison Avenue tells you that were are irreparably 'different' and misunderstood, the more assume it is true and both are then placed into a needless and negative conflict where none should rationally exist.
My question has always been why does Madison Ave. magazines do this which perpetuates a conflict between males and females; is it simply a tool for profits from the sale of their 'socially significant' influence or is there really an agenda to so change and alter society through some bizarre form of behavior modification that ultimately destabilizes all relationships between the sexes. If one is familiar at all with the history of all the Madison Ave. publications beginning around 1914 to now, it is and has been constant abuse and denigration of both sexes going from one extreme to the other; 'Goddess to whore;
'Adonis' to wimp and all shades in between. Look back on the history of how women have been used and misused in ads and men also with tons of articles that are more denigrating than praise for all our respective differences. Anyone who has worked in the magazine advertising knows how ads depict males and females in a state of conflict, from mistrust; distrust to outright physical abuse always using sex as the luring bate to look and read their latest 'provocative topics' which just further any conflict. Photos of airbrushed models and products are loaded with subliminal images depicting all manner of sexual sadism and death and every four letter word you can imagine. Art directors are told what must be inserted as are the photo dept.'s Those words and images are not meant to produce healthy relationships with the opposite sex ; they are meant to only further produce total chaos and disparaging images/ ideas of all of us to each of us including how we see ourselves filled with 'inadequacies' and self guilt as we fail in repeated relationships in which we seek solace with the miserable excuse that 'nobody understands me'.....The advertising and publishing world really opened my eyes and the view was sickening and totally perverse.
Ok, that is what and how I see about things done in 'secret'.

Workers in all restaurants still have to pay rent, utilities, groceries etc. etc. not to mention the mandatory car insurance if they have one, social security and other amounts automatically deducted from their pay. Not much left to live on at 8 something per hour . Tips have to be divided up among all the workers...one doesn't earn much in tips except call girls.
In many studies dome for the last several years by private and union companies an overall figure was for what can be an actual and real day to day living wage in both the US and Canada is between 17 and 18 dollars an hour, given the average ratios of rents to wages. Those with one or more children may still have to rely on social welfare to bring those families up to par. In some cases, a surplus of perhaps 20% may appear; from 15 to 25 dollars extra! WOW! Party Time to the critics of the concept of a "living wage" . This vast amount will result in having to hold more than one job at least part time, This will usually mean infant care payments which may be paid by social welfare to keep the family barely at par with what the average base income should be with necessary life expenses of food and shelter not withstanding...Give people a living wage and the expenses for all related 'welfare expenses' paid out by the govt. gets reduced and saved. Perfectly obvious. It generates the ending of the poverty cycles endemic for many and society, along with the economy can operate more cost efficiently. Eventually everyone benefits by reducing and hopefully eliminating poverty, stage by stage.

They, (the students), would probably benefit more if the school showed them The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler and gave them copies of the book to take home for a test later on...

5 seasons?! Not up here where I was living. It went totally off the air in Canada; certainly in this province. That sometimes happens...

I have wondered at times if God produces new souls for those who are born or are their souls being re-born into new bodies. If it is the latter, then most Western religions have got it all wrong from what they inherited from all the past and ancient religions that had seen very little change in their core belief systems in thousands of years and being adopted and adapted to by many peoples around this world...
I've had some long and very interesting talks with various monks and priests and by far the best were with Jesuits but in the end nothing was theologically ascertained; not even from the Suma Theologica from St. Thomas Aquinas, perhaps the greatest writer on theology.

As far as TV goes, I can't stand shows like Criminal Minds which the major topic is usually about some sexual perverts with a lust for blood; drug pushers and violent pimps. There's already enough outside on the streets, and I don't need that garbage in my home.
Other than that, uncivilized and hygienically challenged 'Bozo sapiens' who fart on buses and restaurants...

Well, you just failed the Vulcan Psych Test that dictates one must 'keep it all together and inside by learning to suppress those emotions as you don't want to be labeled a social deviant as they have no 'criminal Vulcans'
Time to put on the tin-foil hat with antenna and tune in to the Vulcan Zen Hour, (brought to you by Romulan Ale! The drink for uncivilized deviants!)

I thinking dat I needs some...
thought dis is da place to sign up to gits some...

Ahhhh, shades of the original TV program 2 and Half Men with Charley Sheen saying most of those things in all his shows.
One day, reading the credits, it turned out that most of the scripts were written by women writers, what a surprise; obviously some do understand the male general outlook on things domestic.

I'll go with the above PLUS one that was called "Street Smarts" sidewalk interview with random people passin and being asked simple questions like in what country are the Pyramids? Most get them all wrong, as this one. Many answered with European or North American cities; follow ups were worse: Where is Egypt? Most placed it in Asia or Europe...One could nearly die laughing so hard...It made the US look bad and it was removed after several weeks...what a pity.

And don't forget all the poor defenseless barnyard animals!


First, they have to be alive, sober a good sense of humour then other things can follow...proportionally

Several countries in Africa have land mine zones between 2 large fences, electrified and barbed around their borders especially at what they term as 'sensitive areas'. Army patrols make their rounds inspecting for holes in the fences or bodies between them. Seemed to work in both wartime and peacetime...Perhaps landmines along the border with Mexico might work but then I suppose they'd tunnel under the mines, relatively short distances where town straddle the borders as several do in Texas. A few countries destroyed the towns to clear the ares for land mines though...might be viable...

I was hilariously surprised by this movie. Loved the ending; who says Cubans can't make good zombie movies! Bravo!

Beautiful; Life may take a lot things from us all, but Life cannot take away our old or current beautiful dreams. May yours come true.

Very deep; Mr Spock said that years ago on the original series...'quotes' from Vulcan Zen concepts or something...

Exceleent observations. I fully concur with both on the Bi; it is both; one of curiosety and one biologic. Though from my own experiences with Lesbians and 'Bi's from the friends of my mother, when a child being cared for by them many times and growing up with/ while around several, I certainly valued them all as family. However when much older, I met a rather disconcerting number of women to out of mainly domestic trauma with their males, husbands and boyfriends, they chose the comfort of being around them as it was 'safe'. Much psychological damages was dome to these women over extended time. They were truly sick of men that beat and abused them or even pimped them out to other men who behaved in the same manner. When the normal urges for sex and the desire to love and be loved finally kicked in, they found the 'soft side of sex/ love' very satisfying. As one told me when I was 15 or so, everyone needs love and expressing it sexually comes naturally as does the returning of love. Most people suffer through life with little or no love. No one is hurt by a mutually loving relationship. That has pretty much stayed with me since that time. What many males do to females has also stuck. The damages some inflict upon females makes for a lasting impression and commitment never to do the same for any reason. Sadly I've also seen time and time again the raping, the torture and eventual killing of women and even children in war zones...no charges were or should be ever filed for shooting those that committed those types of atrocities.
A person's sexual orientation is the least reliable trait one can rely on for character, innate decency or values. Morality is even less so. Orientation is certainly not anyone's business other than the person's partner.

And I'd bet that the FBI has more 'sleeper' agents inside the Nation Of Islam that they have members. Don't forget, the FBI has had agents in there as so called members since the days of Malcom X; same with all the other 'extremist groups', both right and left, Black, White and Hispanic. Where have you been for the last 30 years, rounding up stray doggies on the back 40...