EVENT # 278: BLOOD MONEY

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The Ideaopolis

Here is generous compensation for the disadvantages of the virtual world which I listed last week. In the general welter of bad news and pessimism which now generally passes for news and comment, I was cheered by a report that California will never vote Republican again. The core of the argument was that the industrial-academic complex of Silicon Valley, Stanford and Berkeley has created a new ideaopolis, that there will be many others and that those within them and influenced by them will remain or become socially liberal and economically compassionate. There was some evidence based on District returns in the 2000 Congressional and Presidential Elections but it was only a piece of wishful thinking. If our education systems have not saved us from callousness and coarseness in our discourse they are hardly likely to have a more beneficial effect on our voting and our actions... More


THE SEX COLUMN:

Redheads, Charlie Brown & Love Gone Bad

I was recently beaten up by a female reader who took offense to my article "The Seven Habits of Sensitive, Celibate Men." After assaulting me with well-chosen, and delightfully explicit epithets, she concluded by stating that I was probably "one of those guys who got dumped in High School and never got over it."

Alas, if I had only been so lucky, for it is true, there is a time in everyone's life when bitterness hits the heart. When love letters turn to kindling and high romance to recriminations. When first kiss fireworks become ashes on the tongue, and poetry falls flat in the road. Lucky is the lover who escapes it by thirty. Unlucky are those who don¹t even make it out of first grade... More


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Blood Money

NEW ORLEANS - 20 AUGUST, 2001 - "Some weeks we're just peachy... and some weeks we have dark thoughts. This could just be one of those weeks," the magazine opened. Welcome back to the Tales of Woe Marathon on WROD. This is the Doctor speaking, broadcasting at umpteen million mega-hurts from the House of Pain. But, Lord knows, I'm sick of whining about my Henry Miller existence here in New Orleans. Matt asked me how I thought hummus would taste on wheat toast. "Peachy," I said.

So I'm not going to share any adventures in misery with you this week. This week I'm just going to go off on a tangent. It's my Toy Store, I can do what I like ... More




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VOX POPULI: From Kate C., Atlanta, CA, USA:

SUBJECT: Whaaaa?

I enjoyed your column, Seven Habits of Sensitive, Celibate Men, even though I am female. Amusing reading but for one truly idiotic comment (or were you still joking?)."We have reached a pinnacle of distaste for intellectuals--which our election of George Bush surely proves."

Apparently, you found his predecessor a more intellectually acceptable fellow. As a southern woman with friends who had first hand knowledge of the overwhelming misogyny of William Jefferson Clinton PRIOR to his presidency, exactly what do you find so truly intellectual about him? His abandoned Rhodes scholarship? (Brought about, I understand, by an accusation of rape by an female student at Oxford) His pathological behaviors? Accusations of assault? His capacity for lying? His serial adulteries? The Astroturf-in-the-back-of-my-pickup stories? Yes, it may be true that Bill Clinton may be smarter that some (or then again, maybe not!!!). But what a waste. And, in case you haven't figured it out, you would have to be something like an overweight, silly, 24 year-old goofy chick from a dysfunctional family to TRY to have a relationship with a man like Clinton. I say "try" because,of course, a man like him can't have one... Now, I do hear he got tons of nookie....but most decent women I know would GAG at the thought...(hmmm just think of the puns available with that one!) ... More

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