Oldest trick in the book, David - I'm ashamed of you.

Maybe that's it, the exxonmob sent in a mati harri to take you down.  

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Watch out Exxon.

Put the Carbon Back

After many long years of observation, I have (not happily) accepted that some very cute guys are very very bad when it comes to politics, society, the environment, etc.  I have learned, with great pain, that it remains necessary, alas, to repeat the venerable English proverb, "Handsome is as handsome does."

But I have always hoped that women are different.  And so, when a presentable and well-turned-out woman speaks up for one or another right-wing or conservative cause, it gives me the creeps, followed soon thereafter by nausea.  It is as though I am witnessing a hideous, unnatural experiment gone wrong.  "Women ought to know better!," I cry, down in the depths of my soul; "they ought to be our better angels!  We men are blind and foolish and mad, but at least we ought to be able to trust that women will always be there to hold up their pure lanterns of truth and guide us!"

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

Maybe it's one major reason why the war between the sexes seems to be so vicious in these troubled times?  Might as well quote Leonard Cohen yet again:

Leonard Cohen - There Is A War

There is a war between the rich and poor,
a war between the man and the woman.
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war
and the ones who say there isn't.
Why don't you come on back to the war, that's right, get in it,
why don't you come on back to the war, it's just beginning.

Well I live here with a woman and a child,
the situation makes me kind of nervous.
Yes, I rise up from her arms, she says "I guess you call this love";
I call it service.

Why don't you come on back to the war, don't be a tourist,
why don't you come on back to the war, before it hurts us,
why don't you come on back to the war, let's all get nervous.

You cannot stand what I've become,
you much prefer the gentleman I was before.
I was so easy to defeat, I was so easy to control,
I didn't even know there was a war.

Why don't you come on back to the war, don't be embarrassed,
why don't you come on back to the war, you can still get married.

There is a war between the rich and poor,
a war between the man and the woman.
There is a war between the left and right,
a war between the black and white,
a war between the odd and the even.

Why don't you come on back to the war, pick up your tiny burden,
why don't you come on back to the war, let's all get even,
why don't you come on back to the war, can't you hear me speaking?

even better, hear the man sing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56hiB4eTzBE

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Maybe it's one major reason why the war between the sexes seems to be so vicious in these troubled times?  Might as well quote Leonard Cohen yet again:

Leonard Cohen - There Is A War

There is a war between the rich and poor,
a war between the man and the woman.
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war
and the ones who say there isn't.
Why don't you come on back to the war, that's right, get in it,
why don't you come on back to the war, it's just beginning.

Well I live here with a woman and a child,
the situation makes me kind of nervous.
Yes, I rise up from her arms, she says "I guess you call this love";
I call it service.

Why don't you come on back to the war, don't be a tourist,
why don't you come on back to the war, before it hurts us,
why don't you come on back to the war, let's all get nervous.

You cannot stand what I've become,
you much prefer the gentleman I was before.
I was so easy to defeat, I was so easy to control,
I didn't even know there was a war.

Why don't you come on back to the war, don't be embarrassed,
why don't you come on back to the war, you can still get married.

There is a war between the rich and poor,
a war between the man and the woman.
There is a war between the left and right,
a war between the black and white,
a war between the odd and the even.

Why don't you come on back to the war, pick up your tiny burden,
why don't you come on back to the war, let's all get even,
why don't you come on back to the war, can't you hear me speaking?

even better, hear the man sing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56hiB4eTzBE

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

In Hebrew and Arabic, the concept of being a worshiper of God (Yahweh, Elohim, Allah) is expressed as "service," or even "servitude," "slavery."  All the proper names in Arabic beginning "Abdul" or "Abdel" mean "Slave (Worshipper) of," with either "Allah" or a title of God appended.

Remember this X-rated bit from Cohen's 1992 song, "Light As The Breeze":

<<
She stands before you naked
you can see it, you can taste it
but she comes to you
light as the breeze
You can drink or you can nurse it
it don't matter how you worship
as long as you're
down on your knees

So I knelt there at the delta
at the alpha and the omega
at the cradle of the river
and the seas
And like a blessing come from heaven
for something like a second,
I was healed, and my heart
was at ease
>>

"The alpha and the omega," the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet (the triangular delta is the fourth), is a Christian reference to Jesus in the Book of Revelation.

"For something like a second" is bitterly pessimistic -- is it misogynistic, though?  I do not know.  But the complaint, about the vulnerable, confused, abused, deceived male lover, is similar to what "There Is A War" says.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.