I almost forgot to tell you:
"9. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.: Still beautifulGot that? Jesse Jackson's kid (who looks like a burn victim to me) is another Oprah Winfrey-inspired cultish government "fitness nut" who does yoga while he brainlessly "wanders through the members-only space" spouting NewAge nonsense about "living in the moment". (Which of course means his zombie ass will screw you over, without a care, because that was in "the past",...) Just what we need to get Washington's house in order:
Age: 45
Hometown: Chicago
Political party: Democratic
Relationship status: Married
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. recently read Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now. The lessons he took from it?
'The past is gone … live in the moment,' Jackson says.
Jackson’s now: He is the co-chairman of the House Members’ Wellness Center and has ushered in sweeping changes. Jackson, a fitness nut, converted one of the gym’s racquetball courts into a space dedicated to martial arts, yoga, Pilates and the P90X exercise program popular with several lawmakers. (Changes were funded by members’ dues, not by taxpayers’, he’s careful to point out.) He donated a blender and juicer so members can whip up protein shakes and other post-workout meals. And he wanders through the members-only space in the mornings to make sure his fellow lawmakers are happy and taking care of their health."
"I think the male libido is in decline — and I blame the feminisation of men that has taken place over the past 15 years or so. Like most trends, this one began in America and has now crossed the Atlantic. I remember being shocked on first entering the bathroom of an American male in 1995. There, carefully lined up on a stainless steel shelf, was a larger array of beauty products than you’d expect to see in Cheryl Cole’s boudoir. Admittedly, this was a sophisticated New Yorker in his mid-30s — a metrosexual, if you will — but even so. Did he really have to go to bed every night wearing a mask of Kiehl’s Facial Fuel? It seemed extraordinary.-- Toby Young, on the sad world feminism has created - and the sad men, too - creating an existence where no one is really sexy, or fun, but just sad and desperate, according to The Telegraph.
Fifteen years later, it is now the norm. British men in their twenties spend a small fortune on cosmetic products. Back in the eighties, we would have been worried about being called 'gay' if we used fake tan, but that fear has gone the way of the Sinclair C5. When I find myself in the West End on a Friday night, I see young men who have clearly spent as much time getting ready as your average woman. And I’m not just talking about Old Compton Street.
At the risk of sounding like a Grumpy Old Man, I do find this trend pretty reprehensible. Vain women are bad enough, but there’s nothing more pathetic than a vain man. In Shakespeare’s plays, over-attention to dress is always the hallmark of a fool, from Osric’s bonnet to Malvolio’s garters. Since the dawn of time, manliness has always been synonymous with a complete indifference to personal grooming. It’s not simply that real men don’t eat quiche; they don’t moisturise, either.
Surely, it is this gender reversal — with men becoming more like women as women become more like men — that accounts for the decline in male sexual desire. It is hard to imagine a metrosexual throwing a woman over his shoulders and marching off into the primeval forest — he’d be too worried about messing up his hair."
"Some parishioners in the Church of Obama discovered last week that their spiritual leader is a false prophet.
Mention yoga as a cult to most enthusiasts and they'll give you some bullshit about it being exercise, nothing more. But, when the government recently wanted to regulate yoga studios like any other business, all of a sudden people started talking about religious exemptions, and "enlightenment", giving the whole ugly mind game that occurs in these cult recruiting centers away. I mean, what kind of enlightenment do they think they're actually getting anyway, considering they're so vain - and wasteful with their money?
"Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about."
"I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?"
