Hi Rambi, what is it with this thing about "real men"? Since I gave up on Brylcream about 40 years ago, I haven't worried about my hair, though I do wash it when I have a shower every few days whether I need it or not, and while I don't believe in changing clothes, I notice they are kidnapped from their hiding places every day or two. So I wouldn't call myself a prissy poofter.
But I don't hold a brief for "real men". If you ask me, there are altogether too many "real men". Fortunately, a lot of them end up in prison where they can't harm more people.
There's altogether too much swagger and bluster and bullying in the world. They are weak people with odd ideas of what makes a "real man" who do it.
Quarter of a century ago, [it still seems odd to me that I can recount time in lots of quarter of a century now], my mother was explaining how women move into men's jobs just in time for the status and the pay to drop [she was a women's lib person who was interested in these things].
I think politics is becoming a woman's game. The world is a living room and the house is for women to run. Real men do dinkum bloke stuff out in the shed or at the new frontiers. They don't mess around in politics - all the frontiers have gone. There aren't any more empires to build. No Indians to circle the wagons against, Islamic Jihad nothwithstanding. All the oceans have been sailed, countries explored, mountains climbed, Antarctica tamed, ocean depths plumbed, even space is passe - it's over a third of a century since the Moon had that misquoted "One small step for a man ..."
The Democrats have got the hair - either Kerry or Edwards could single-handedly defeat both Cheney and Bush. That's indicative of where politics is going. Hair is a woman thing. Edwards and Kerry are more in tune with the transition to women running politics.
Therefore, I'm picking the election will go to women and the hair.
But I'm with FredonEverything. Give a write in vote for Hillary: fredoneverything.net and put Bill Clinton into the UN to ream the place out and make it fit for humans in the 21st century.
Bush, Cheney, Kerry and Edwards should get a real job.
Mqurice
PS: Personally, I'm okay with what King George II has done. Kyoto accord ditched was good. Tax cuts good [especially that dividend stuff]. I don't mind that he and a lot of USA soldiers wanted to fight Saddam's gang [not that it was wise]. Digging oil in the Arctic makes sense. Private money can pay for stem cell research [though he wastes untold state money which would be better spent on stem cell research]. |
