Eclectic Views

    
Sex - penis = no sex at all. 

I wonder how the other woman in this case feels about that. She's now
legally chopped liver.
  

    
Of course, that means Bill was right. ;-)
  

    
Ha! When does the coverup begin?
  

    
Bill didn't use his penis?
  

    
<50>  ...They've just decided that you can screw around all you want
so long as there is no penis-vagina penetration.

I was referring to<woodman>'s comment, not <coiro>'s comment in the
next post.
  

    
Meanwhile:

McDonald's CEO takes Merriam-Webster to task over 'McJob' definition

Friday, November 7, 2003
©2003 Associated Press

URL:
<sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/11/07/national2246EST0801.DTL>

(11-07) 19:46 PST CHICAGO (AP) --

McDonald's says it deserves a break from the unflattering way the
latest Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary depicts its job
opportunities.

Among some 10,000 new additions to an updated version released in June
was the term "McJob," defined as "low paying and dead-end work."

In an open letter to Merriam-Webster, McDonald's CEO Jim Cantalupo
said the term is "an inaccurate description of restaurant employment"
and "a slap in the face to the 12 million men and women" who work in
the restaurant industry ...
***

Complete story at the url above.
  

    
I guess the McWorkers can all take pride in their donations to NPR.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001786738_kroc090.html
  

    
Adultery is fundamentally about whose kid it is and how estates might 
thereby be subverted or diluted, so the New Hampshire ruling makes sense.
If and when science makes children from a same-sex pairing possible, it 
will need to be reexamined.
  

    
That would mean there's no adultery unless there's offspring, yes?
  

    
Sushi in the raw: Restaurant's displays get women's group steamed

By J. Patrick Coolican
Seattle Times staff reporter

Saturday night at Bonzai in Pioneer Square, a nearly naked woman is
laid out on a table. A chef slices sushi behind her, to be arrayed on
her torso, bare except for a sheath of plastic wrap and some decorative
flower petals.

Chopsticks at the ready, patrons line up.

Hours earlier, across town on the campus of the University of
Washington, eight activists, mostly Asian-American women, express
outrage at what they call the prostitution of sushi and the
exploitation of women. They plot their strategy.

Welcome to a clash of values — Seattle style.

While the promoter and the sushi model say this melding of prandial
and sexual is performance art, Bonzai's patrons — men and women of
various ethnicities — say it merely adds to the restaurant's sensual
vibe.

Opponents say treating women like a serving platter reinforces
attitudes that make domestic and sexual violence so prevalent.

"It's dehumanizing, the manner in which people are buying and selling
sushi to be eaten off a woman's body. It's dehumanizing to be treated
as a plate," said Cherry Cayabyab, president of the Seattle chapter of
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum. ...

More:

<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2001788074&zsection_id=2001780260&slug=sushi11m&date=20031111>
  

    
As an informal measure of America's obesity epidemic, the NY Times reports a
50- to 60-fold increase in sales by an Indiana company of its "triple-wide"
coffins for occupants up to 700 pounds.
  

    
Hey, that may just be Indiana itself. I should know - I grew my hips
there!
  

    
Jeb Bush jokes people of San Francisco may be endangered
Mayor Willie Brown laughs it off

By JACKIE HALLIFAX
Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Jeb Bush joked during a Florida Cabinet
meeting Wednesday that the people of San Francisco may be endangered
and, "That's probably good news for the country."

The subject was environmental land and Bush was looking at a map
showing locations with a lot of different wildlife.

"It looks like the people of San Francisco are an endangered species,
which may not be a bad thing. That's probably good news for the
country."

People in the room broke into laughter. ...


<http://ajc.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&expire=&urlID=8243099&fb=Y&partnerID=552>
  

    
ahahahahahaha!

Nov. 24, 2003  |  JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) -- A bullet fired in the
air during a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony came down and struck a
participant in the head, critically injuring him, authorities said.

Gregory Allen Freeman, 45, was charged with aggravated assault and
reckless
endangerment in the Saturday night incident that wounded Jeffery S.
Murr, 24.

About 10 people, including two children, had gathered for the
ceremony. The man who was being initiated was blindfolded, tied with a
noose to a tree and shot with paintball guns as Freeman fired a pistol
in the air to provide the sound of real gunfire, Sheriff Fred Phillips
said.

A bullet struck Murr on the top of the head and exited at the bottom
of his skull, authorities said.

Freeman fled the ceremony but was arrested near his home, authorities
said. He was released on $7,500 bail.


<http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/11/24/kkk/print.html>
  

    
Appalachia.    I've played Johnson City back in 72.     And lost.
  

    
This story raises more questions than it answers.

        What caliber bullet?

        What color paintballs?
  

    
If you totalled the IQ of the participants, would it come in higher that
that of a rutabaga?
  

    
Will Murr still want to join?  If so, will he have to start the initiation
process all over again?
  

    
Yeah, but at a reduced rate.  If they charge, say, ten bucks a head,
he'll only have to pay seven.
  

    
He'd be their mostly holy member.
  

    
<laughing and groaning><feeling guilty for laughing, but still!>

I've always wondered what happened to bullets that were fired in the
air.
  

    
> what happened to bullets that were fired in the air

In Afghanistan they attract airstrikes.
  

    
I learned about the danger of shooting bullets into the air by
reading Dick Tracy's Crimestopper Textbook when I was an
impressionable little kid.
  

    
Philadelphia has been agressively prosecuting celebratory new-years gunfire
for a while now, after a couple of tragic incidents.
  

    
I believe Hoppy used to advise against it as well.