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I Don't Need High Maintenance Barbie Dolls
A Libertine's Thoughts | August 21st 2008 by Libertine
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.-Oscar WildeThis morning, I read an article at Alternet, The Things Women Go Through to Attract Men.., which prompted me to respond. The author summarized her po read more
The Cat House
A Libertine's Thoughts | August 17th 2008 by Libertine
When Bob Walker and Frances Mooney moved into their current home with their five cats in the late 1980s, they decided to modify their home to make it a more cat-friendly environment.They started with a floor-to-ceiling scratching column covered in read more
Projecting an Unintended Image
A Libertine's Thoughts | August 12th 2008 by Libertine
The little Chinese girl, Lin Miaoke, who starred in the opening ceremonies for the Olympics apparently singing the Chinese patriotic song, "Ode to the Motherland", turned out to be only lip-synching the song. The girl whose voice was actually heard, read more
Kids and College Students
A Libertine's Thoughts | August 9th 2008 by Libertine
I frequently hear a radio commercial for the United Negro College Fund. In this commercial, a college student describes her busy course schedule that goes from early morning well into the evening. At the end, she says "thank you", as she is presumabl read more
Register Your Car With the Government, Not Your Intimate Relation…
A Libertine's Thoughts | August 1st 2008 by Libertine
In an article I read today on Alternet, Is Marriage Worth Fighting For?, a straight woman re-examines her objections to legal marriage in light of recent gains in the fight for same-sex marriage: "Recent steps legalizing gay marriage have made me read more
Voluntary Sterilization and Young, Childless Adults
A Libertine's Thoughts | July 28th 2008 by Libertine
Recently, I was having a conversation at work about young, single guys in their 20s who get vasectomies because they don't ever want children and are terrified of being trapped into unwanted fatherhood by a woman who has an "accident on purpose". read more
Greener Than Thou
A Libertine's Thoughts | July 25th 2008 by Libertine
This morning I read an article on Alternet, by a man who gave up having a car: Living Without a Car: My New American Responsibility. It was a rather insulated look at living a carless lifestyle in a city with excellent public transportation that ign read more
One Car Families
A Libertine's Thoughts | July 23rd 2008 by Libertine
When I was growing up, one didn't usually see as many cars per household as is common today. Many middle class families had just one car, even when another car could have been afforded.I'm not sure of why this was so, but I would imagine the fact th read more
Autism Controversy
A Libertine's Thoughts | July 22nd 2008 by Libertine
Far right radio talk show host, Michael Savage, lived up to his pseudonym last Wednesday when he dismissed autism as a phony disease when he said, "In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out..."What do you mean th read more
I Hate the Olympics
A Libertine's Thoughts | July 20th 2008 by Libertine
The Beijing Summer Olympics are nearly upon us, starting on 8-8-08. But I have absolutely no intention of watching any of the events.I have to admit that the Olympic Games bore me witless. I've never been all that much into sports in general, but read more
Thoughts About Public Schools
A Libertine's Thoughts | July 15th 2008 by Libertine
As regular readers of my blog know, I frequently listen to the Neal Boortz radio show as a way to monitor what those on the Right are saying.Boortz often rants about public schools, which he always refers to as "government schools". His contention read more
Questioning Sacred Cows
A Libertine's Thoughts | July 12th 2008 by Libertine
On Alternet, in the article "Is Cheating Ever OK", the author addresses the question: If one partner refuses to have sex, does the other have the right to seek it elsewhere? My response to this article follows below: Perhaps the question should be read more
Worked to Death
A Libertine's Thoughts | July 10th 2008 by Libertine
Those who have been reading my blogs for any length of time know that I take a "work to live, don't live to work" approach to life. Barring the minority of people who have creative, fulfilling jobs they'd do for free if they could afford to, most of read more
Good News
A Libertine's Thoughts | July 9th 2008 by Libertine
It seems as if what I've thought all along is apparently true:When it comes to sex, the watchword for men is "use it or lose it."In a study conducted among a thousand older Finnish men, those who had sex most often were at a lower risk for developing read more
Marriage Survey
A Libertine's Thoughts | July 6th 2008 by Libertine
Stolen from Chica X...1. Do you believe in marriage?Do I believe that marriage exists Then, yes, of course I do. Do I believe in marriage for myself? Not as it's currently commonly understood and legally defined, no. Do I believe in marriage for othe read more
A Man of the 70s
A Libertine's Thoughts | July 3rd 2008 by Libertine
In a recent Alternet article, Seeking the Hairless Porn Star Ideal, the author laments the increasing ubiquity of women with hairless pubic regions. The article was prompted by a bad experience after having a Brazilian wax.As one who has long lament read more
Claustrophobia
A Libertine's Thoughts | July 2nd 2008 by Libertine
Just a little claustrophobic, hmm?Apparently the owner of this tiny house on wheels doesn't mind. Dee Williams wanted to live a more environment-friendly life, and this 84 square foot doll house was one of the ways she chose.The small house, which f read more
How Fundamentalists View Movie Characters
A Libertine's Thoughts | June 27th 2008 by Libertine
The other day, I was listening to a Focus on the Family broadcast, as I routinely do with those whom I disagree with, for the purposes of knowing one's enemy. On the day I listened, they did a review of a movie, as they do on most broadcasts. The read more
Thoughts on Blogging
A Libertine's Thoughts | June 26th 2008 by Libertine
On my daily sweep of what Alternet had to offer today, I came upon a rather elitist article about blogging, "Is Personal Blogging Fast-Fading?". The gist of the article was: The golden age of the digital diarist may be over. Have we realized bloggin read more
Sometimes A Cigar is Just a Cigar
A Libertine's Thoughts | June 24th 2008 by Libertine
When checking Alternet this morning, my eyes was immediately caught by the title to one article: Do Jerks Get Laid More? I thought to myself, "here we go again." Yet another expression of the tired opinion that Monogamous = Nice Guy, Non-monogamous = read more
When Did You Consider Yourself Divorced?
A Libertine's Thoughts | June 22nd 2008 by Libertine
I've got a question for those who have been divorced or are about to. When did you consider yourself divorced? In relation to the first question, when did you consider yourself free to date and to get into a new relationship? Was it when you made the read more
A Debt That Can Never Be Paid
A Libertine's Thoughts | June 17th 2008 by Libertine
In an Alternet article today, Tragic Traps: Make a Mistake in America and You May Pay a Heavy Price for Decades, the author wrote about the increasing for-profit US prison system:Unlucky citizens who fall victim to the U.S. justice system are treated read more
Beauty vs Attraction
A Libertine's Thoughts | June 14th 2008 by Libertine
On Alternet, I read an article, "What's So Great About Beauty" where the author takes the position: From soap ads to elections, looking good is way overrated.Naturally, I had to comment, which follows below: As anyone here who has read my comment read more
Doing One's Job
A Libertine's Thoughts | June 13th 2008 by Libertine
"If you don't want to provide a marriage certificate and you've got a job that does that, then you should think twice about why you got the job in the first place and maybe you should get a new job."--San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Newsom made this read more
The Most Liberal Communities in America
A Libertine's Thoughts | June 11th 2008 by Libertine
According to E-Podunk.com, the following cities and towns are the most liberal communities in America: BIG CITIES(100,000 or more) Boston, MA Cambridge, MA Berkeley, CA Oakland, CA San Francisco, CA New Haven, CT Providence, RI read more
Paraplegic Groom Denied Church Wedding
A Libertine's Thoughts | June 9th 2008 by Libertine
A 26 year old paraplegic man who wanted to get married in a Catholic church in Italy was recently denied a church wedding because he is impotent. Salvatore de Ciuco, spokesman for Bishop Lorenzo Chiarinelli of Viterbo, Italy said, "No bishop, no prie read more
Libertine Liberal
A Libertine's Thoughts | June 7th 2008 by Libertine
Once again, Alternet has given me something to write about. In the article, Progressive Religious Leaders Drowned Out in Conversations About Sex, the author refutes the idea that progressive sex and family values don't mix. However, one thing the aut read more
Misleading Local Campaign Promises
A Libertine's Thoughts | June 5th 2008 by Libertine
I heard a commercial today for a candidate running for a local political position. The candidate criticized the incumbent for having only an 18 percent conviction rate for sexual offense arrests, vowing that if elected that increasing the conviction read more
Baby Boomer Sex Poll
A Libertine's Thoughts | June 4th 2008 by Libertine
A sex poll taken among a thousand people born between 1946 and 1964 yielded some interesting results. Currently, there are about 85 million baby boomers in North America, which is about 28 percent of the adult population. About 30 percent of those 85 read more
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