Racism's Feinting Couch (Appearances)

"So when all these guys get up here and stand on their soapbox and wag their fingers and start talking about 'Oh, we won't tolerate this racism! We won't tolerate what Donald Sterling said!' What they're not tolerating about Donald Sterling is the fact that what he said was impolite. And what he said was gauche. That's what their problem is."

"We want executions to be humane from our perspective. We don’t want to feel icky about it all."

Now Don't You Go Worrying Yourselves, You Weirdos: We're Not Quitting Our Day Job

Ran across a piece of old poetry that seems to be imbued with a lot of the themes that have been engulfing us lately - themes that (despite the virulence of their defenders) are mostly in retreat these days, thank goodness.

It's called Self-Preservation And The Great Coffin Shake: You've Got No One To Blame (But Yourselves) but - as the "self-preservation" part of the obviously-unwieldy title might indicate - it's more about a feeling that was occurring on our side of the computer screen than anyone else's, since bothering/threatening their fellow countrymen has never been a problem for "progressives" out to "transcend" or "transform" a country the rest of us think of as a pretty good place to live, as it is.

Anyway, we thought some of you might want to read it, if you happened to have missed it the first time:

As a post - and as poetry - we like it a lot.

Homeopaths: (Always) Doing The Best They Can With What (Very, Very) Little They Have (Upstairs) And, Damn It, You Can't Stop Them

"I cannot wait for the day when people,...will realize they are talking about other human beings who have very real feelings and are doing the best they can with what they have to work with."

-- John Sherman, a Canadian "homeopath" (AKA a Canadian water salesman) lamenting how people behave once they understand what he's up to, for BC Online.

Feelings. Nothing More Than Feelings,...

"She simply feels,...that her life was wrecked by her marriage to Paul McCartney."

- Phil Hall, former publicist for Heather Mills-McCartney. Heather is seeking a $10 million dollar divorce settlement from the Beatle, though (it was revealed this weekend) the reputed "gold-digger and a whore" was having "mind-blowing" sex with another man while they were dating.

And then there are the pornographic photos (I chose a "nice" one, above, but you can find more here) the paid threesomes with Arab princes, and Heather's first sister-in-law's memory of her as "Frankenstein's monster". I mean, really. Actually, now that I've written it all out, it's easy to see how Paul messed all that up.

Heather's "feelings" aside, rather than $10 million, the "facts" seem to scream that her divorce settlement should be $25.00 left on a nightstand somewhere.

And can somebody, please, answer me this:

Do the majority of women in the Western World allow their "feelings" to rule their lives? Or cloud their judgement to the point where they'll attempt to destroy the lives of any man they come in contact with? Are there women out there who are as sick of hearing about "feelings" being used as a ready-excuse for *anything* as I am?

Anybody?