Discuss amongst yourselves
"I bet the dogs didn't like it" That is the funniest goddamn line I've read in a month. Did YOU ask the dog?
if everyone can say and do whatever they like in all circumstances, then only the strongest and richest and noisiest have a real choice, and the whole world becomes like Times Square 20 years ago.
This makes me think of an article in yesterday's Washington Post about John Tierney, the new op-ed columnist at the NY Times, who's a "self-described libertarian":
Tierney has pulled his share of stunts as a columnist. When Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rosie O'Donnell were attacking then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani for not allowing the homeless to sleep on New York's sidewalks, Tierney donned scruffy clothes and tried to sleep outside their homes (a security guard banished him from O'Donnell's gates).
Speaking of Rosie O'Donnell, a few years ago I still recall her going on and on about the existence and availability of hand guns. Not too surprisingly, of course, it later was found out that her own bodyguard was packing some heat. I sure wish such goofball liberals would spend at least as much time worrying about the people in the judiciary who lean to the left (eg, the notorious U.S. 9th Circuit Court) and who have a tendency to get teary eyed over the plight and treatment of the po' misunderstood felon.
LOL! Sometimes one just has to use an emoticon!
I would love to see Luke interview Bush. I'll settle for Gonzoles or Ms. Clinton in a few years....
Why would people having sex be concerned with whether the pooch is in the same room?
LF, the new and improved HST.
He could title his column, "Hey Rude's Big Ten" - A definite "Must Read."
Was Ayn Rand a libertarian, or sorts? I doubt it would have bothered her much that "only the strongest and richest and noisiest have a real choice."
She was an Objectivist, which is probably pretty similar.
Hey, that's a darn good interview--too many people don't think eough abotu where their beliefs go, or really mean...
Fifth and sixth.. Woopee!
I've always found Luke hard to fathom, much less appreciate, but I have to admit that you've given some good reasons for giving him some respect.
Well, I think Luke's a genius...
And Cathy--you also might like "Live Alone and Like It" another great self-helper for women.
Did Luke get to first base with Nick? Seems like that's where the conversation was headed -- bestiality to one side
Nick's admiration of Hermann Hesse is disappointing.
"Ten Rude Questions from Luke Ford" in the LA times- why not?
The NY Times Magazine has Deborah Solomon asking rude and/or inane questions every week!
Usually, Deborah Solomon asks pretty suck-uppy questions, if you ask me...I'd say she's the anti-Luke.
Doug,
Big difference between Luke and HST; whereas they are both irreverent, Hunter had actual journalism skills.
Roger,
At one time I enjoyed Hunter's work, especially "Hell's Angels." Fear and Loathing in L.V. was a poor attempt to communicate the insanity and paranoia of drug excess. He went downhill from there. His intermittent "Hey Rube" columns were rambling and only occasionally interesting.
Luke reminds me a little of Hunter in his more lucid and fresher days.
Journalism is an interesting field. I've known some business reporters that I really respected. I've picked up a Columbia Journalism Review or two but my impression is that journalists feel over worked, underpaid, and underappreciated.
They would both be/have been interesting neighbors.
I believe the answer is yes, human nature is good and evil, basically. That is, if one needs to delineate such contrived categories within an all encompassing concept as human nature. Assuming one is referring to all humans and all their various natures. Sex with dogs would probably have its own niche in there somewhere, as well. Just keep your niches in front of someone else's house, okay?
Luke has a nose for piety, and a complete disregard for the rules in which the pious cloak themselves. Which makes for interesting journalism. Good interview. Nick Gillespie is a Liberal, not a Libertarian; his fondness for the Austrian school of econ not-withstanding.
One day the chestnut of PC is going to break wide open; hard science will be the cracker. No more re-framing the questions as the questions will be definitively answered. Kind of scares me how violent the reaction of the Left is going to be. The Summers' affair can be seen as a distant sneak preview.
Re: Deborah Solomon
I meant to say that Luke would make a nice counterbalance to Solomon, in a Bizarro-way.
I was also thinking in terms of her shamelessnes/cluelessness as featured in her classic interview with WIlliam F. Buckley, Jr.:
"You have made so many offensive comments over the years. Do you regret any of them?"
"You seem indifferent to suffering. Have you ever suffered yourself?"
-- Two of Deborah Solomon's questions to retiring National Review founder William F. Buckley, July 11.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/
1...1QUESTIONS.html
Did you guys read Deborah Solomon's clueless essay on Jonathan Safran Foer? She just fawned all over him. Not one criticism or challenge.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/2...ine/
27FOER.html
I loved this satire:
http://observer.com/pages/offtherec.asp
Luke,
As fun as it is to stroll along the edge just remember to be careful. The rest of us can't enjoy your peripatetic meanderings once you go over that precipice.
Great interviews, BTW.
If a dog humps your leg, does that count as beastiality?
If everyone can say and do whatever they like in all circumstances, then only the strongest and richest and noisiest have a real choice.
Statements like this always strike me as decent proof of the existence of God, a God with a wicked sense of mocking humor.
Let's do a little translation here, remembering that the only reasonable definition of "real choice" is "the ability to do whatever you like,"
and clearly "the strongest and richest and noisiest" equals "hardly anyone:"
If everyone can say and do whatever they like in all circumstances, then hardly anyone can say and do whatever they like in all circumstances.
Cool. Now, surely someone could say something as clownishly self-contradictory as this only if a wicked God wanting to entertain the rest of Creation exists. QED.
If you live in New York City, you have the opportunity to attend the monthly meetings of the Junto Society, which is the creation of a rather eccentric Wall Streeter with the spare change to indulge his interests. (Think "roomful of Objectivists forever loyal to the memory of Ayn Rand who also look as though they are looking forward to next month's Star Trek convention.") The question of premarital sex with dogs has yet to arise at their meetings, but the issue of marriage between and among varied groups of siblings and their pets has. Favorably. Kudos to Luke for being quite the attack dog on this matter, for it is only a matter of time before the concept of marriage is extended to include the more sentient of our animal companions. (Luke himself will tell you that once the moral bearings of the Torah have been shunted aside, anything is possible. Would that PETA had his moral courage.)
Luke Ford is the Argentina of American journalism, the Journalist of Tomorrow about whom we will always wonder "why didn't he ever make it big, what with all that topsoil?" The reason is that he has no adult woman in his life to drive him onward to success, no children to support, not even a girlfriend to nag him. (If only Luke had a proper Chinese wife.) Still, the potential is there, and if you applied yourself to him, Cathy, just think of the many possibilities.
Luke Ford should get his own talk show. Between cable, AM/FM radio, XM and Sirius, there must someone out there who would give Luke a slot that he could fill, with the proper support of his friends.
Cathy, won't you become Luke's Chinese wife?
Apparently not all that uncommon:
Woman Accused Of Naked Dog Wrestling
Friend Says Woman Acting Strangely Recently
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- A 40-year-old woman described as a transient was jailed in Grand Junction -- accused of jumping a fence to wrestle naked with a dog.
An arrest affidavit indicated that Katherine Earle scaled the four-foot fence just before midnight Tuesday, then stripped in order to wrestle with the male Labrador retriever-blue heeler mix.
Residents of the home awoke from the noise and called police.
Responding officers said Earle told them she was having sex with the dog, and that she does it all the time. The dog's owner, Six Starr, said that Earle has been friendly with the dog, but that Earle has been acting strangely for the past six months.
“What took place last night, I don’t even want to guess,” Starr told the Grand Junction Sentinel.
The dog wasn't hurt.
"If a dog humps your leg, does that count as beastiality?"
What about Luke humping Nick's leg?
Hello Cathy,
"21.87", the precise amount a man "let" you pay.
I always found this "offer to pay" game hilarious. What's a man supposed to do? If he fights her to pay, he's coming across as an easily manipulated wuss. If he doesn't and takes her at her liberated word, she wants to be rid of him for actually taking what she says seriously.
And they wonder why the founding fathers didn't want women to vote...
I used to live in Newport Beach and when a "conservative" career woman offered to pay her half (to the penny), I always reminded them to tip the waitstaff before they ran for the door. (Otherwise, they'd try to stiff us.) Also, I always came on a date after having had a snack at home. Nothing is more fun than watching such a woman playing the waiting game to see if I'll jump with glee at paying the check after they've stuffed most of the food on the table down their throat.
My wife offered to pay BEFORE the date just so she and I knew that she wasn't just looking for a free meal. She was willing to put up sitting through a whole date where she paid her way to show that she meant business (in the nicest sense.) I didn't let her pay, of course.
Maybe men aren't all that into many women nowadays because there's not a lot to be into...
Nick Gillespie is a Liberal, not a Libertarian;
Gillespie can't possibly be as bad as this guy is. Hard to believe such a fool has been a big part of CBS News for several decades. He truly is clinically leftwing, meaning his common sense is of microscopic size:
AP: CBS's Sept. 8 story began falling apart when experts questioned the legitimacy of documents supposedly written by Bush's National Guard commander that suggested the future president had received preferential treatment.
"Although they had four months and millions of dollars, they could not demonstrate that the documents were not authentic, that they were forgeries," Rather said.
Dear Mr "Welcome to Equality, Honey"...
Here's what a man is supposed to do with a check for $21.87: Pick it up and put his credit card (or cash) down...not let it sit there till it grows mold.
Glad you got married anyway.
For one thing, a "man" doesn't let a woman tell him what to do, yes?
Secondly, _gentlemen_ are more than happy to pick up the check for a lady. However... ladies don't demand or emotionally extort "gentlemen" into paying for them (pun intended). They certainly don't make insincere offers of paying half.
Yes, it was difficult to get married. Most modern women act like tramps. Fortunately, men don't have to worry about time running out!
At Wanamaker's and Saks and Klein's
A lesson I've been taught
You can't get alterations on a dress you haven't bought
At any vegetable market from Borneo to Nome
You mustn't squeeze a melon till you get the melon home.
You've simply got to gamble
You get no guarantee
Now doesn't that kind of apply to you and I
You and me.
Why not?
Why not what?
Marry the man today.
Trouble though he may be
Much as he likes to play
Crazy and wild and free
Marry the man today
Rather than sigh in sorrow
Marry the man today
And change his ways tomorrow.
Marry the man today.
Marry the man today
Maybe he's leaving town
Don't let him get away
Hurry and track him down
Counterattack him and
Marry the man today
Give him the girlish laughter
Give him your hand today
And save the fist for after.
Slowly introduce him to the better things
Respectable, conservative, and clean
Readers Digest
Guy Lombardo
Rogers Peet
Golf!
Galoshes
Ovaltine!
But marry the man today
Handle it meek and gently
Marry the man today and train him subsequently
Carefully expose him to domestic life
And if he ever tries to stray from you
Have a pot roast.
Have a headache
Have a baby
have two!
Six
Nine!
STOP!
But Marry the Man today
Rather than sign and sorrow
Marry the man today
And change his ways - change his ways - his ways
Tomorrow!
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"Welcome to equality, honey" is a creep and a loser. His wife got stiffed. On a lighter note..that Nick Gillespie is one hunk of gorgeous beefcake! Please print more photos of stunningly handsome men on your blog!
If standing up for myself makes me a creep and a loser, than so be it. Question: If wimpy men who throw around money to impress women are so wonderful, why isn't Cathy with one of them?
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