Imitating Life

I came across this one, it's been a relatively relaxed day at work, and I was catching up on my webcomix fix. Immigration and S&M are easily the same thing. I have only experienced getting my wife into the US of A so far, but I just can't imagine any other country's immigration process being so painful, convoluted, and incomprehensible.

Royal Pardon

I'm really glad A royal pardon frees a Moroccan facebook user.

I had nothing else to post. Although I will say dooce's latest post, with some selected hatemail and her responses to each was entertaining and almost made me wish I got some hate mail. On the other hand, I'd have to actually spend time each day posting stuff, and describing stuff, and being interesting to read. The last part, I am working on. I like the way I write and I think other people should too.

Idoru

I know you've missed my book reviews. I just read Idoru, not as heavy as some of the other stuff I've read lately. It's somewhat interesting in the characterization of the Hidden City, and the nanotech that re-builds after earth quakes, but otherwise just simple escapist sci-fi. Author was William Gibson.

Bag

Just realized the word 'orgasm' was sitting at the top of my blog for far too long. How about instead of sex, we do violence? Where can I get this bag?!? It's pretty cool. I was just going to have the picture there on the right, but I guess I'm too dum. However, I can make a link.

Orgasm

I realized yesterday I'm very behind in my entries which neatly recap the books I'm reading. I say neat recap but I mean unsolicited ramble.

Current reading up until yester-eve was The Elusive Orgasm by a Dr. Lesbian Someone or Other. My dear wife doesn't read as quickly so she wanted me to give her the Cliff's Notes. I feel comfortable enough with you, loyal reader, to pass on the same Cliff's notes that I gave the wife: Chapters 1-3 are basically the same stuff you'll read in every "how to have better sex" book, including descriptions of anatomy etc, but the gist was that anxiety and resentment are the culprits. Chapters 4 and 5 start to get into is it this? is it that? maybe it's this, maybe it's that, which I told Wife she'll have to read herself, because being a man I can't possibly know what's going through her mind when nothing but sweet sweet salvation is the only thing going through mine.

Before that book were two self help books: Do What You Are and The Art of Speedreading People both by the same authors Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger and both heavily built on the concept of personality Type, as described by Myers and Briggs. I think I learned a few things I would've like'd to have had come naturally, and am only just catching on to the idea that one can be successful in communicating with serious people.

Politics again

While I don't like to get political in seriousness because I am an outsider, never going to make a dent in what is and always will be the moneyed world of 'politics,' I consider myself perfectly free to make comments on politicians or politics in general.

My thought this morning was that, until this morning, I'd only been interested to see whether Hillary's machine was greater than Obama's machine. By machine I mean the support structure that raises them to the level of presidential candidate. That could be money or influential people, but I think mostly money because that's what influential people do, they get money to go your way.

I thought Hillary would have had a better machine, since she's been in the loop longer, and she has the benefit of Bill's connections. Obama's machine is much hidden, but that one connection I read about to a slum lord is no small thing. He comes from Chicago, not only notorious for corrupt politics, but in truth, somewhat effective in accomplishing their aims.

It appears now that a machine is not enough, Hillary has some disadvantage on a personal level. She's a woman, she's short in stature, and her speaking is easily more shrill than Obama's. I'm not sure what is so inspiring about a man who doesn't clearly articulate what it is exactly he will do in office, and where he's tried to articulate, he makes vague and unrealistic promises. But then again most candidates do that don't they? His success may also be in part due to his wide appeal, described this way in his Wikipedia entry: Supporters and critics have likened Obama's popular image to a cultural Rorschach test, a neutral persona on whom people can project their personal histories and aspirations.

What I'm trying to say is that I think I predicted wrong, I thought Hillary had a better chance, because of her connections and history on Capitol Hill. Obama appears poised to defeat her for the Democratic nomination. Who would have guessed that would happen. I guess the majority of Dems would rather take an unknown quantity than a woman.