It was more than 60 years later, in 1954, that Congress, at the height of the anticommunist McCarthy period, added the words "under God" following a campaign by a rightwing Catholic organization, the Knights of Columbus. Bellamy's grand-daughter later said that Bellamy would have resented the words being added, not least because at the end of his life he had become disenchanted with organized religion and had stopped attending church in Florida because of racial bigotry. -- Duncan Campbell

Daily Blog
This one should write itself, since I've done pretty much nothing all day but surf and compiles notes on interesting stuff I've hit.  Productive?  Not at all.  But I can just paste in the notes and flesh them out a bit...

A truly great article can be read here, and on the following 9 pages.  It's worth reading the whole thing, since there are at least 2 or 3 per page that are worth an "LOL". Awesome article, with some very funny stuff.  As well as enough examples of the most vulgar corporate greed imaginable to turn you communist.

Not that I really disagree with or doubt the survey results, but this one is dumb.  Way too small a sample size, and I suspect the results are almost entirely self-reported by the men she's been asking.  Which, how to put it, isn't exactly the most accurate way to judge male sexual performance. If you know what I mean.

It sounds like a typically scientifically flawed survey, where the data were complied in order to match up with the conclusion the researcher had formed in advance of the survey.  It also sounds like it was carried out by a woman whose boyfriend/husband(s) are all in the 30-60 age bracket.

"Older men sustain erections for longer, are longer coming to orgasm, and satisfy women better. Sexual activity does diminish with age, but the quality should get better," she was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.

Boule's conclusions were based on a survey of 185 married professional men aged 30 to 60. While 22 percent of men under 46 suffered erectile problems, only 16 percent of those over 46 did.

So what's her control group, and what's her comparison group? She did carry out an identical survey on 185 married men under the age of 30, right?

No, of course not, which is why her results are rubbish.

Scooby Doo Trailer

Have you seen the trailer? Go watch if you haven't.  It's quite something.

Jaw-droppingly bad, IMHO.  I've seen in 3x now, and I'm having trouble not taking another look.  It's just so awful.  It's like a museum piece, a demonstration of how the most money could be spent on a movie w/o one good scene in it.

Scooby looks really weird. Like actively unpleasant.  I guess they couldn't use a real dog, or an animatronic thing, but it's scary now.  Sort of a Isle of Dr. Moreau reject.  The eyes are the worst part, they are very human and soulful, and seeing those stuck into that anthromorphic, velour-carpeted... dog... um... thing...  It's just wrong, I can't explain it any more clearly.

The most disturbing thing (well, the second most, after Scooby's eyes) is that right at the start Shaggy says, "This place is like uber-creepy!"  Which isn't so bad, but "uber" has been a sorta cool term until now.  People occasionally appear on the D2 site asking what it means, to this day.  Obviously if it's found its way into a totally clueless mass-market film, any possible outsider cachet to the term is now gone.  Thank god I didn't get www.uberchampagne.com!

Onto another non-sequitor: People who say "triple double you", when listing a website URL, as in "triple double-u dot blackchampagne dot com" are annoying.

Well, if they were actually saying my domain name, I'd overlook it, but they aren't.  Lately some radio commercials are saying that for whatever business they are selling.  I guess it's faster than saying "double-u" three times, but it sounds dumb.

What is needed is a word that means, "www".  We don't say, "that dot at the end of a sentence" we say, "period".  Same concept, and it would be convenient for verbal relation of website addresses, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to happen. You'll note I don't have any clever suggestions for the word.  If someone comes up with one, I'll do my own small part to promote it though!

It's ironic that the only only letter in the English language that are so long and slow to say three times is "W", and that's the one that's used.  What are the odds?  (Yes, I know, 1/26 ;)

If sites were ggg.bleh.com, or sss.bleh.com, all would be well. Speed and ease of verbal relaying of website addresses was probably not top of the list when scientists were first designing the system though..

I've been meaning to update the Hot or Not? page here for a while, but haven't been looking at that site very often, and when I have I've not seen any entries I found funny enough to add.

Today I was looking for a few minutes and had the impression that scores had gained some rationality.  It was as if voters had read my page about it!?  Yes, all tens of thousands of hot or not voters had read the page here, despite me knowing there have been like 300 views of that page ever.  Secret emailing it to each other!  Or not.

Anyway, I saw 3 or 4 females on the site that had scores that seemed, well, not entirely absurd.  Which is an improvement over the 7's there that usually have a 9.7 average scores.  Here's a paragraph of them.  Unfortunately (or fortunately, in terms of me gaining page update material) I soon left the land of sanity in voting, and entered the land of average 16 y/o's getting 9.4's, and added 4 or 5 of them to my Hot or Not? page here.  You can click these following links if you are curious, all should open in another browser window.

Just an 8.2?  I'd have thought 9+.

Here's a blurry one, but probably pretty.  I expected 9+ from past exp, but only a 7?

Pretty, bit of chest, and only a 7.4?

 This one looks about 11, says she's 18, and is probably lying.  Let's hope so, or she'll be getting carded over the white zin she orders when meeting her granddaughter for lunch. At any rate, her 7.2 seems much lower than anticipated.

Can this woman not be a porno star?  Not yet?

Here's a hottie, aside from her wall being covered with framed pictures of Dan Marino.

On another issue, am I the only one who gets pissed at married people (women) putting their pics up?  Especially if they are hot.  And they say they are married in their profile!

I guess that's better than not saying it and flirting with some guy for a month before you finally admit you aren't available, and he wants to kill you for wasting weeks of his life, but it's still annoying on the rare occasion you see a hot pic and then the profile says they are taken.  In my experience most guys want to know that first thing on a woman, so they don't waste any emotional energy on a lost cause.  Meanwhile women seem to not want to admit it, perhaps since in their experience when they do the guys say, "thanks, bye." so they tend to lead men on indefinitely, just so they'll have someone to talk to, or a "friend".  They don't actually lie about their relationship, but they go out of their way to not mention they are already taken. I'm speaking hypothetically, of course. *cough*.

Other women who are not married, but have such a long term relationship that they might as well be, will go gaily along, chatting about sex and other such topics quite freely and in the sort of detail that no man would ever speak of to a woman he wasn't interested in nailing.  Yet somehow the idea doesn't seem to enter their pretty little heads that by doing so they seem to be advertising their availability.  I'm speaking hypothetically again here, I'll have you know.  *coughcough*

The sad truth of it is that men eventually learn to assume every woman is married with 11 kids.  Assume that until you know absolutely for a fact it's not true, so you don't end up wasting any emotional effort on a woman you'll never do more than email.

Monogamy ruins everything!

Oh, and meet my future wife. Well, I like her teeth and hair and smile and profile anyway.  Plus anyone who hates trendy clothing, TV, and junkies can't be all bad.  Now if I could put her in this top, I'd fly to Oregon to meet her right now.

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