Sunday, March 23, 2008

this could make the olympics a little more interesting.

i found this at: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-germany-tibet&prov=ap&type=lgns
EU parliament president says Olympic boycott should not be ruled out

March 22, 2008
BERLIN (AP) -- The president of the European Parliament said European countries should not rule out threatening China with an Olympic boycott if violence continues in Tibet.
"Beijing must decide itself, it should immediately negotiate with the Dalai Lama," Hans-Gert Poettering said in Saturday editions of Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper. "If there continue to be no signals of compromise, I see boycott measures as justified."
Protests started March 10 in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa on the 49th anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule. Events turned violent four days later, touching off demonstrations among Tibetans in three neighboring provinces.


Beijing responded by blanketing Tibetan areas with troops and publishing a "Most Wanted" list of 21 protesters, appealing to people to turn them in.
Beijing's official death toll from the rioting is 22, but the Dalai Lama's government-in-exile has said 99 Tibetans have been killed.
Poettering's comments came after French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner last week backtracked from his own remarks that suggested he was open to a mini-boycott of the Beijing Olympics by VIPs at the opening ceremony, saying the proposal was "unrealistic."
Poettering told Bild that "we should not rule out a boycott of the Olympic Games in Beijing."
The European Union said Thursday that a boycott would be counterproductive to efforts to improve human rights in China.
"A boycott could signify actually losing an opportunity to promote human rights and could, at the same time, cause considerable harm to the population of China as a whole," said a statement from Slovenia, which holds the EU's rotating presidency.
Poettering said the European Parliament would be talking over the issue midweek, and said he was pushing for European countries to "speak with one voice on the defense of human rights in Tibet."
"China, for Europe, is an important partner -- in climate protection, for example," Poettering told Bild. "Dialogue and cooperation are in the interests of both sides, but the Tibetan people should not be allowed to be made victims for it."
In other comments to Bild, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier did not rule out a boycott of the opening ceremonies of the games by Western politicians.
"Only Beijing can decide this question," he said.
He added he was going to be in touch with his Chinese counterparts to talk about the situation in Tibet this weekend, and he was pushing for Beijing to allow foreign observers.
Updated on Saturday, Mar 22, 2008 9:23 am, EDT

Friday, March 21, 2008

dear blogger.com,
your help section hasn't really helped me with posting a freaking video and it doesn't look like i can email you guys a question about something with your wonderful service.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzA_zExN8h8
i have been trying to post a video from this page and nothing seems to work.
thanks for all your help.

never mind, i figured it out.

this pisses me off so much that i'm not even really sure what to put here.

this was located: http://www.spinner.com/2008/03/18/courtney-love-cons-kurt-cobain/
Courtney Love 'Cons' Kurt Cobain
Posted Mar 18th 2008 6:30PM by John D. Luerssen
(he wrote this and publised it somewhere else.)
Filed under: News, Holy Hell
Courtney Love and Converse will proudly albeit sadly perpetuate the memory of Kurt Cobain with the issuance of a signature shoe line in the late frontman's name later this spring. Containing artwork and scribbles from Cobain's personal notebooks, first published as part of 2002's 'Journals,' the special collection of athletic footwear – sanctioned by Courtney Love and the Cobain estate – will debut in May, according to Internet reports.Touted as a tribute to the Nirvana brainchild, three of the Converse models that Cobain was often seen sporting – Chuck Taylor All Star, Jack Purcell and One Star – will be included in the new collection. The revised versions of said Cons classics will include wear and fray detailing, as well as Cobain's signature embroidered on the exterior of each shoe.Marking the first branded product that the Cobain estate has approved since his death, the shoes will be made in black and white versions and will retail at $50 to $65. Cobain, by the way, was wearing a pair of black Converse One Tops when he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April 1994.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

i'm going to get dinner now but i think its still light out.

i found this via the article below this article.
this is an erotic poem by w.h. auden.
i have no clue as to who this poet is but she describes some sexual stuff that i found to be a little disturbing.
in this poem she describes how she licks this guy's asshole and then sticks her finger in his butt while she's giving him head.
licking someone's asshole and sticking your finger in that person's asshole just doesn't sound cool to me, but i know there are other people out there that roll like that...
and that's cool just don't ask me if i want a rim job cause that is not how i roll.
this is from: http://www.lapetiteclaudine.com/archives/Auden_The_PLatonic_blow.txt

The Platonic Blow (A Day For A Lay)
by W.H. Auden

It was a spring day, a day, a day for a lay when the air
Smelled like a locker-room, a day to blow or get blown.
Returning from lunch I turned my corner and there
On a near-by stoop I saw him standing alone.

I glanced as I advanced. The clean white T-shirt outlined
A forceful torso, the light-blue denims divulged
Much. I observed the snug curves where they hugged the behind,
I watched the crotch where the cloth intriguingly bulged.

Our eyes met, I felt sick. My knees turned weak.
I couldn't move. I didn't know what to say.
In a blur I heard words myself like a stranger speak.
"Will you come to my room?" Then a husky voice, "O.K."

I produced some beer and we talked. Like a little boy
He told me his story. Present address next door.
Half Polish half Irish The youngest. From Illinois.
Profession mechanic. Name Bud. Age twenty-four.

He put down his glass and stretched his bare arms along
The back of my sofa. The afternoon sunlight struck
The blond hairs on the wrist near my head. His chin was strong,
His mouth sucky. I could hardly believe my luck.

And here he was sitting beside me, legs apart.
I could bear it no longer. I touched the inside of his thigh.
His reply was to move closer. I trembled. My heart
Thumped and jumped as my fingers went to his fly.

I opened a gap in the flap. I went in there.
I sought for a slit in the gripper shorts that had charge
Of the basket I asked for. I came to warm flesh then to hair,
I went on. I found what I hoped. I groped. It was large.

He responded to my fondling in a charming, disarming way:
Without a word he unbuckled his belt while I felt
And lolled back, stretching his legs. His pants fell away.
Carefully drawing it out, I beheld what I held.

The circumcised head was a work of mastercraft,
With perfectly beveled rim of unusual weight
And the friendliest red. Even relaxed, the shaft
Was of noble dimensions with the wrinkles that indicate

Singular powers of extension. For a second or two,
It lay there inert then suddenly stirred in my hand,
Then paused as if frightened or doubtful of what to do,
And then with a violent jerk began to expand.

By soundless bounds it extended and distended, by quick
Great leaps it rose, it flushed, it rushed to its full size.
Nearly nine inches long and three inches thick,
A royal column ineffably solemn and wise.

I tested its length and strength with a manual squeeze,
I bunched my fingers and twirled them about the knob,
I stroked it from top to bottom. I got on my knees.
I lowered my head. I opened my mouth for the job.

But he pushed me gently away. He bent down. He unlaced
His shoes. He removed his socks. Stood up. Shed
His pants altogether. Muscles in arms and waist
Rippled as he whipped his T-shirt over his head.

I scanned his tan, enjoyed the contrast of brown
Trunk against white shorts taut around small
Hips. With a dig and a wriggle he peeled them down.
I tore off my clothes. He faced me smiling. I saw all.

The gorgeous organ stood stiffly and straightly out
With a slight flare upwards. At each beat of his heart it threw
An odd little nod my way. From the slot of the spout
Exuded a drop of transparent viscous goo.

The lair of hair was fair, the grove of a young man,
A tangle of curls and whorls, luxuriant but couth.
Except for a spur of golden hairs that fan
To the neat navel, the rest of the belly was smooth.

Well hung, slung from the fork of the muscular legs,
The firm vase of his sperm, like a bulging pear,
Cradling its handsome glands, two herculean eggs,
Swung as he came towards me, shameless, bare.

We aligned mouths. We entwined. All act was clutch,
All fact contact, the attack and the interlock
Of tongues, the charms of arms. I shook at the touch
Of his fresh flesh, I rocked at the shock of his cock.

Straddling my legs a little I inserted his divine
Person between and closed on it tight as I could.
The upright warmth of his belly lay all along mine.
Nude, glued together for a minute, we stood.

I stroked the lobes of his ears, the back of his head
And the broad shoulders. I took bold hold of the compact
Globes of his bottom. We tottered. He fell on the bed.
Lips parted, eyes closed, he lay there, ripe for the act.

Mad to be had, to be felt and smelled. My lips
Explored the adorable masculine tits. My eyes
Assessed the chest. I caressed the athletic hips
And the slim limbs. I approved the grooves of the thighs.

I hugged, I snuggled into an armpit.
I sniffed the subtle whiff of its tuft. I lapped up the taste
Of its hot hollow. My fingers began to drift
On a trek of inspection, a leisurely tour of the waist.

Downward in narrowing circles they playfully strayed.
Encroached on his privates like poachers, approached the prick.
But teasingly swerved, retreated from meeting. It betrayed
Its pleading need by a pretty imploring kick.

"Shall I rim you?" I whispered. He shifted his limbs in assent,
Turned on his side and opened his legs, let me pass
To the dark parts behind. I kissed as I went
The great thick cord that ran back from his balls to his arse.

Prying the buttocks aside, I nosed my way in
Down the shaggy slopes. I came to the puckered goal.
It was quick to my licking. He pressed his crotch to my chin.
His thighs squirmed as my tongue wormed in his hole.

His sensations yearned for consummation. He untucked
His legs and lay panting, hot as a teen-age boy.
Naked, enlarged, charged, aching to get sucked,
Clawing the sheet, all his pores open to joy.

I inspected his erection. I surveyed his parts with a stare
From scrotum level. Sighting along the underside
Of his cock, I looked through the forest of pubic hair
To the range of the chest beyond rising lofty and wide.

I admired the texture, the delicate wrinkles and the neat
Sutures of the capacious bag. I adored the grace
Of the male genitalia. I raised the delicious meat
Up to my mouth, brought the face of its hard-on to my face.

Slipping my lips round the Byzantine dome of the head,
With the tip of my tongue I caressed the sensitive groove.
He thrilled to the trill. "That's lovely!" he hoarsely said.
"Go on! Go on!" Very slowly I started to move.

Gently, intently, I slid to the massive base
Of his tower of power, paused there a moment down
In the warm moist thicket, then began to retrace
Inch by inch the smooth way to the throbbing crown.

Indwelling excitements swelled at delights to come
As I descended and ascended those thick distended walls.
I grasped his root between left forefinger and thumb
And with my right hand tickled his heavy voluminous balls.

I plunged with a rhythmical lunge steady and slow,
And at every stroke made a corkscrew roll with my tongue.
His soul reeled in the feeling. He whimpered, "Oh!"
As I tongued and squeezed and rolled and tickled and swung.

Then I pressed on the spot where the groin is joined to the cock,
Slipped a finger into his arse and massaged him from inside.
The secret sluices of his juices began to unlock.
He melted into what he felt. "O Jesus!" he cried.

Waves of immeasurable pleasures mounted his member in quick
Spasms. I lay still in the notch of his crotch inhaling his sweat
His ring convulsed round my finger. Into me, rich and thick,
His hot spunk spouted in gouts, spurted in jet after jet.

please send me titles for this article.

this is from: http://www.slate.com/id/2186728?wpisrc=newsletter

today's papers: A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers.
Those Poor Superdelegates
By Roger McShane
Posted Sunday, March 16, 2008, at 6:08 AM ET
The New York Times leads with uncommitted superdelegates fearing a prolonged battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Times says the Democratic heavies are "uncertain about who, if anyone, would step in to fill a leadership vacuum and help guide the contest to a conclusion that would not weaken the Democratic ticket in the general election." The Los Angeles Times leads with the "surprising diversity" of positions John McCain has taken on foreign-policy issues during his time in Congress. "Taken as a whole, they seem quirky and a la carte, rather than developed from a single philosophy," says the LAT. The Washington Post leads with the upcoming Supreme Court review of the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns.
Most of the superdelegates interviewed by the Times want the nomination battle decided before the Democratic convention, but they don't know how to resolve the conflict. Lucky for them, TP has a solution: Pick a candidate. As the Times says, "[I]t is a virtual certainty that neither candidate will win enough pledged delegates to clinch the nomination," so the decision will come down to the votes of the superdelegates. But many of them are "hoping they will be relieved of making an excruciating decision that could lose them friends and supporters at home." A true profile in courage.
The NYT adds that while many superdelegates intend to keep their options open, they also said that "in deciding whom to support, they would adopt what Mr. Obama's campaign has advocated as the essential principle: reflecting the will of the voters." If this is the case, and with Obama holding nearly insurmountable (and growing) leads in the popular vote and delegate count, what are they waiting for?
One last note on the NYT's lead: As far as TP can tell, none of the superdelegates interviewed for the story suggested ending the system that gives them a vote.
The Republicans have their nominee, and the LAT says he's sending mixed signals on foreign policy, allowing him to court both realists and neoconservatives. But the argument for John McCain the realist is based on congressional votes that are at least a decade old, while his current catalog of positions screams "neocon." Nevertheless, McCain's realist supporters believe some of his more hawkish views are just for show. If McCain is elected president, "there's going to be a lot of disappointment on the neoconservative side," said Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, a former top intelligence official and McCain supporter.
Whoever the next president is, he or she will receive plenty of late-night phone calls, as suggested in a campaign ad for Hillary Clinton. But the next commander in chief is unlikely to lose much sleep as a result. Former White House advisers tell the WP that presidents are rarely asked to make major decisions in the middle of the night.
In other election news, the NYT notes that nearly one out of three vice presidents have gone on to become president, yet, according to Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center, "just 1 percent of voters say the vice presidential candidate influences their decision in a presidential race." In a separate piece, the NYT suggests, citing no evidence, that Hillary Clinton floated Barack Obama as a possible running mate because Mark Penn found that the idea polled well.
When the Supreme Court takes up the case against Washington's gun ban this week, it will have the opportunity to decide once and for all whether the Second Amendment "provides an individual right to gun ownership or simply pertains to militia service." But while the WP notes that "an endorsement of an individual right would be a monumental change in federal jurisprudence," it doesn't explain how it is likely to affect existing federal gun-control legislation.
From a local point of view, the Post says that the stakes of the case "are obviously high for the District." But are they? There is no conclusive evidence that the handgun ban has reduced crime in a meaningful way.
Each of the papers notes the upcoming five-year anniversary of the war in Iraq. The NYT fronts a familiar-sounding story on how the insurgency "runs on stolen oil profits." The WP, meanwhile, publishes an "Outlook" piece that connects America's decision to invade to its thirst for oil, with references to conspiracy theories thrown in for good measure.
Elsewhere, the NYT reports that thousands of Tibetans, including Buddhist monks, clashed with riot police in the Chinese city of Xiahe on Saturday. But the Tibetan capital of Lhasa was generally quiet a day after violence erupted in the city.
Back in America, the NYT says Ben Bernanke is "inventing policy on the fly" in response to the meltdown in the credit markets. On Tuesday the Fed is expected to lower interest rates for the sixth time since September. Most forecasters think a recession (sorry) is inevitable, if not already under way. But, hey, look on the bright side.
What rhymes with fellatio? … The NYT reviews David Lehman's anthology The Best American Erotic Poems. The reviewer laments the fact that many of the poems in the book similarly "make raunchy metaphors out of unlikely foods, weird animals and western topography." To be original, he counsels all those young aspiring erotic poets out there, "write something really filthy," like W.H. Auden's "The Platonic Blow."

my brother is a drunk...

this is from:http://www.slate.com/id/2186552/


explainer: Answers to your questions about the news.
Porn vs. Prostitution

Why is it legal to pay someone for sex on camera?

By Michelle Tsai

Posted Friday, March 14, 2008, at 5:13 PM ET
We're looking for a new Explainer—click here to apply for the job.

Every time a politician is caught with an expensive prostitute or just with his legs in a wide stance, Explainer readers have asked why laws don't treat pornography and prostitution the same way. Having sex on camera for an adult film generally won't get Jenna Jameson in trouble, but doing it with a john is illegal everywhere except in parts of Nevada. What's the difference between porn and prostitution?
Porn stars are paid to act (really); prostitutes are paid for sex. Performers may engage in sex as part of their roles—they presumably follow a script—but that doesn't count as sex for hire. Sex in the course of creating a movie or a photo is just plain old expression, protected under the First Amendment. (Click here for an excellent review of this distinction by Sherry F. Colb.) Free-speech advocates argue that this ought to hold true for "gonzo" films, in which the person behind the camera also joins in on the action; no significant cases have gone to court, however. Compared with sexually explicit media, though, live sex shows have received less protection. But the Supreme Court in Oregon did overturn two state laws concerning sex shows, on free speech and expression grounds, in 2005.
The porn-or-prostitution issue came up in the 1980s, when California prosecutors argued that an adult film producer named Harold Freeman was guilty of pimping because he had hired five women to perform sex acts for a movie called Caught From Behind II. The state's highest court ruled that anti-pandering, or anti-pimping, laws weren't intended to apply to porn films and that Freeman's acting fees weren't paid "for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification, his own or the actors'." (The sexual gratification of people who watched the movie was irrelevant.) The court also said that even if the actors had engaged in prostitution, applying the anti-pandering laws to skin flicks would impinge on the First Amendment.

Pornography has enjoyed First Amendment protection since the 1950s. In the early 20th century, pornography was considered obscene, yet it was also relatively rare. It wasn't until adult movies became more widespread that authorities paid more attention. In a 1957 Supreme Court case, Roth v. United States, Justice William Brennan not only wrote that obscenity wasn't protected by the First Amendment, but also narrowed the definition of obscenity, effectively legitimizing most pornography.
So, what's obscene pornography? The standards changed with different court cases through the years. The test established by the Roth case asked whether the material as a whole appealed to an average person's prurient interests. A Massachusetts case involving the book John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure resulted in a three-pronged test: A work was obscene if it appealed to prurient interests, offended community standards, and had no social value. Prosecutors realized, however, that everything could be construed to have some social value. Thus the current standard, called the Miller test, now specifically singles out work that lacks any serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Since California v. Freeman, prosecutors in other states have largely avoided challenging the distinction between prostitution and pornography. The legal buffer afforded by that ruling allowed the adult-film industry to proliferate in the Golden State. If a similar decision were handed down in another state, it might attract unwanted business from the porn industry. (The prostitution-vs.-porn question will go to trial this spring in a pending Florida case, however.)

Ashley "Kristen" Dupré


she doesn't look that bad actually.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

its late, i should be getting to bed soon.

from slate.com.
the dismal science: The search for better economic policy.
Skinflint
Did Eliot Spitzer get caught because he didn't spend enough on prostitutes?
By Sudhir Venkatesh
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008, at 6:53 PM ET
Read more of Slate's coverage of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.
The first thing that grabs your attention about the sex scandal involving New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is, of course, the client. But, there's another aspect to the story that should raise eyebrows: $4,300. That's the bill Spitzer incurred for his dangerous liaison at the Mayflower hotel. Who would pay that much, and could you ever really get your money's worth?
In fact, $4,300 is not an altogether alarming sum of money in the high-end sex market. Spitzer got a bargain—and that may have been his downfall.
In many so-called global cities, like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, sex is part of a lucrative service sector that has developed for those with expendable income. Soliciting a prostitute can be as pricey as hiring a personal chef or finding a private school for your kids. In New York, it's not hard to find sex workers who charge $10,000 per "session," which can last for 15 minutes or two hours (jokes aside).
Although you can still drive through neighborhoods where prices aren't nearly so high—in New York, the average rate for intercourse is around $75 if you find a street-based prostitute—the biggest changes in recent years have occurred at the upper end of the market. Cities that cleaned up their red-light districts, like Chicago's West Side or Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, pushed the sex-work trade indoors—to the Internet, to strip clubs, to escort services. These indoor sex workers created a larger, less publicly visible market that tends to serve the middle and upper classes.
I found this world by accident in 1999, when I started interviewing sex workers in Hell's Kitchen, Spanish Harlem, and other New York neighborhoods that were points of entry for newly arrived immigrants. I expected to hang out on the streets, but in fact I had to enter apartments, public-housing projects, strip clubs, bars, and brothels to locate subjects. What I found was women checking voice mail or sitting behind computers watching their online ads and e-mail accounts. This was the sex world that New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani helped to create when he drove prostitutes off the streets as part of his effort to make the city hospitable for upper-end residential development and tourism. While it's hard to say whether the total number of prostitutes increased, the Giuliani strategy did expand the indoor market: the white-collar workers who may have visited a street prostitute now and then quickly discovered a discreet, online, and referral-based world of higher-priced sex workers. The higher end of the market exploded.
The new "indoor" sex worker differs from the older prototype. In the past, sex workers tended to view their role as part-time "survivors"—selling sex to keep up a drug habit, to pay rent, or to eke out a living until something better came along. Pushed indoors, some became "careerist." They were professionals offering a legitimate service, like nursing or counseling; they looked at their work as partly therapeutic. These indoor workers stay in the game for longer periods of time because they find a level of autonomy and flexibility that the legitimate economy often does not provide. They're also less likely to be targeted by cops, social workers, or clergy, all of whom work to get street-based prostitutes out of the profession. The street-based prostitute tends to leave the job after six to nine months, returning when money is tight or drugs need to be purchased.
At the lucrative end of the market, I have found it useful to think of three tiers of women (men constitute only about 10 percent of high-end prostitutes). Spitzer was paying for "Tier 1" sex workers: Fees usually range from $2,000 to $5,000 per session; women come in all ages and ethnic stripes; they rigorously guard their health and watch for STDs; and most have a high-school degree but have limited work experience. They can promise you discretion, but most work through escort services that are routinely under surveillance. In practice, this means buyer beware.
"Tier 2" includes women who charge up to $7,500 for a session. These women tend to be white, they may have a college degree (or be actively enrolled in school), and they usually require a referral before they will take on a new john. They also have a small, exclusive clientele, sometimes as few as a dozen men whom they service. Unlike Tier 1 workers, they do not rely on escort agencies, so they keep all of their money.
Finally, there are the "Tier 3" sex workers, who can charge in excess of $10,000 per rendezvous. They may have only four or five clients, and they typically charge their clients an additional monthly surcharge for their various needs—rent, clothing, medicine.
Both Tier 2 and Tier 3 workers can typically do more to safeguard a client's privacy. There are no guarantees, of course, but they tend to shun contractual relationships with agencies that advertise their services. There is less of a paper trail. They typically will only take a john via a referral, and even then, they may require that the john "date" them for weeks before deciding to offer up sex. I have heard of Tier 2 and 3 sex workers who vet prospective clients for months, sometimes hiring a private detective to see if the john is stable—psychologically and financially. As a former attorney general, Spitzer must have known all this.
What high-end clients pay for may surprise you. For example, according to my ongoing interviews of several hundred sex workers, approximately 40 percent of trades in New York's sex economy fail to include a physical act beyond light petting or kissing. No intercourse, no oral stimulation, etc. That's one helluva conversation. But it's what many clients want. Flush with cash, these elite men routinely turn their prostitute into a second partner or spouse. Over the course of a year, they will sometimes persuade the woman to take on a new identity, replete with a fake name, a fake job, a fake life history, and so on. They may want to have sex or they may simply want to be treated like King for a Day.
Melissa is a 38-year-old white woman living in Hoboken, N.J. (She asked that I not use her full name.) I met her in 2002, when she was in Hell's Kitchen trying to get her sister to stop turning tricks in local bars. Instead, she ended up entering the sex trade herself. She felt unable to advance in her corporate job and grew tired of watching men with less experience receive promotions. In the words of elite sex workers, she is currently "on retainer" to a partner at a Manhattan law firm—I love the irony of the phrasing. She receives $10,000 per month, which usually translates into three meetings. "The last time I met him, I gave him a bath," she told me. "I told him he was the most sensitive man I'd ever met. I never tell him he's a piece of shit; I make him feel like superman." Melissa estimates that she has sex with him about once a month, but as often he will simply masturbate in front of her.
Although women may charge more for their services in New York, there is a burgeoning high-end sex market in most global cities, and men from the financial sector are an important part of the clientele. Spitzer got caught, but it is actually quite rare for either sex worker or client to be apprehended; usually, it's the low-end folks who get their pictures on the police department's Web site. While the street-based prostitutes I study report getting apprehended four to six times per year, the majority of higher-tier women seem to have relatively little trouble with the law.
This doesn't mean the elite women have a great life. Melissa and other high-end workers routinely experience physical abuse at the hands of their clients—on average, they report getting abused twice per year, which is better than the six times a year that street-based workers report but still, clearly, troubling. Escort services (usually owned by men) often charge Tier 1 prostitutes various fees that reduce their take-home pay. If they work as independent contractors, as Tier 2 and 3 women tend to, they have to fight their clients to get paid on time. Plus, their lives are cash-based—they can't plan for the future or make any real investments.
The moral of the story, I suppose, is that even in the black market, you can find a glass
ceiling.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/16579966.html

Posted on Tue, Mar. 11, 2008
A costly date for Spitzer, but not so surprising, scientists say
By Faye Flam
Inquirer Staff Writer
Why would someone as rich and powerful as Eliot Spitzer put his family, his job and his promising future on the line for an alleged $4,000 date with a prostitute?
Is this pathological or inherent in human nature?
Scientists says it's more likely to be the latter. They attribute this kind of behavior to natural promiscuity combined with opportunity - along with a risk-taking personality common to men like Bill Clinton and John F Kennedy. It's what makes them seek office and what makes us want to vote for them.
Psychologist Christopher Ryan, author of "Sex in Prehistory," says the desire for sex with more than one person has always been there - for leaders and followers alike. "The desire is not a function of status or power - it's a question of availability."
What's relatively new to the human race, he said, is the ability to exercise power and the connection between power and sex.
That's because, for most of human existence, there was only so far a man could coerce others when food was essentially free and hard to hoard. And until relatively recently, sex with multiple partners was the norm. "It would have been very unusual 100,000 years ago for a person to have one sexual partner for 30 years," said Ryan in an interview from Barcelona.
We don't know this for sure, because prehistoric sexual behavior doesn't fossilize, but there's much we can infer from studying how people in foraging cultures live today, he said. Such cultures tend to be relatively egalitarian and promiscuous, at least by American standards, he said. But prostitution is rare, as he believes it was for most of our past.
"There would be no need for prostitutes because there would be very few sexually frustrated men," he said.
So in other words, if Spitzer had been born in 40,000 B.C., he would never have gotten into this fix.
While Ryan argues that men and women are both naturally promiscuous and power simply gives men the opportunity to follow that nature, psychiatrist Gabriela Cort takes a more open view of the human male. Alpha males - leaders - are often indeed full of pent-up sexual energy, but they don't always use it to get in trouble, said Cort, author of the upcoming book, "Leading Under Pressure."
"Some alpha males do whatever they want for their own purposes but others can be very loyal." Alpha males often have excess sexual energy, but instead of cheating or visiting high-priced call girls, she said, many channel it into other pursuits. "Some people create things - or do things for the public good."
Temple University psychologist Frank Farley suggests that while we're busy shaking our heads at Spitzer, we could stand to look back at ourselves and question why we vote for men like him. Risk-taking personalities are attracted to the uncertain world of politics, he said, and at the same time voters are attracted to them.
"We want our leaders to show some qualities of innovation," he said. "We want bold men willing to push their ideas."
We don't choose people riddled with anxieties to run our government or our corporations, though such people may act in a thoughtful, conscientious way. We loved John Kennedy for standing up to the Soviets during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
"We don't want shrinking violets in these kinds of roles," Farley said.
Along with that package you get personal risk-taking - the affairs, the dabbling in solicitation and sometimes other crimes. "It's hard to get rid of it in politics," he said.
The other question that left many of us puzzled: Why pay for it when a man like Spitzer could probably get women for free?
"Men such as those in Spitzer's position do not so much pay for women to have sex with them; they pay for women to go away AFTER having sex with them," said evolutionary psychologist David Buss of the University of Texas. "It's one strategy some men use for minimizing the costs, although obviously it did not work for Spitzer."
Contact staff writer Faye Flam at 215-854-4977 or fflam@phillynews.com.

Monday, March 10, 2008

i just ate a sub for dinner.

i just watched the movie collateral.
it was good.
i would recommend you watch it if you haven't seen it yet.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

i am going home very shortly.

this was taken from:
http://www.matthewgood.org/2000/09/the-killing-of-matthew-good/

Matthew Good September 15th, 2000 -->
The Killing of Matthew Good
They plan to use my execution to kick off the county fair.
I hear whispers that they will hang me. There are those that wished to see me electrocuted, but it seems they only have one generator and cannot spare the power. Better to have caramel-covered apples than see my spine dance. I could simply not abide an execution without the availability of concession foods. Unruly I may be, but never uncivilized. There will be children present after all. Best to set a good example.
Chin up and all that. It’s off to meet the maker. I have nothing to complain about. I hold no ill will towards anyone. I will leave this world as I entered it. Void of popular consent.
They have me locked up in some sort of cellar. I was unconscious when I was brought in so I’m not quite sure exactly where I am. Strangely enough, it’s filled with a variety of costumes. Twice a day someone opens the door and slides a bowl of pork and beans into the room. This I have never understood. Making sure that those condemned to die are nourished enough to take part only serves to further the misrepresentation of compassion in a compassionless society. Yesterday, during the sliding of the pork and beans, I decided to ask my jailer where I was. The response was short and ambiguous.
“You’re in God’s country,��? said a voice.
“Hmm,��? I said to myself, “God must be lost.��?
I have decided to wear a clown suit when the time comes. They’re bent on hanging one, after all.
I have been sitting here trying to figure out where it all went wrong. It seems that I have been moving for so long that I have forgotten what it’s like to be still. I’ve been retracing my footsteps, wondering when it was that I became the formless monster that I now am. But nothing comes to mind.
They tell me that I used to be quite agreeable. I can’t say that I remember ever being agreeable. I can’t say that I can ever remember being anything but adamantly uninterested. I have stalked the planet to my discontent, it seems. And now, here in this basement, I am left with all the blackness that has consumed my insides.
I have come to realize that I allowed myself to be brought below the waves and partially drowned. But before I could struggle free of the water and regain the air, I was caught.
The hayseeds have me now. They’re going to hang me. It was wrong of Christians to have ever bought into all that peace and love nonsense. Things were much more interesting when their lust for bloody vengeance was out in the open. Now they’re just forcibly boring and seem to get quite offended when over-glorified suburban idiots exclaim the titles of pornographic magazines over the airwaves.
I am doomed to dangle. There’s no getting around it I’m afraid. I can only hope that the gallows are in a state of good repair. It would be a big disappointment to discover that I am to be stood on a chair and boringly tipped to my death. Hopefully there will be a trap door to dramatically plummet through, or a team of stallions to hoist me at breakneck speed into the air.
It shouldn’t be all that challenging for the promoters. Some dumb bastard in a clown suit getting yanked to his death by four steeds. Why not light the gallows on fire or set off some fireworks when my head hits the top beam. It will be the show of the century.
It would be great to have one’s own demise promoted in a Don King fashion:
Perhaps the fear of death is worse than its actuality. Not unlike when you jump off of something ridiculously high, you’re scared but eventually you succumb to irrational curiosity and do it. Afterwards you realize that it was really no big deal in the first place. I figure death is no different.
When I was eleven I was rushed to the hospital because I was literally frozen in the fetal position. I couldn’t unclench my hands, nor my knees or elbows or feet. It hurt like hell. Then, to add insult to injury, I started wandering in and out of consciousness. I had had influenza for nearly a week and a half. After my parts froze my mother started thinking that it might be something else altogether. When we arrived at the hospital I was examined by several doctors. I was then given a spinal tap. They don’t sedate you when they give you a spinal tap. They lay you on your side, bend you slightly, and slowly slide needles into your spinal cord. The doctor told my mother that I most likely had spinal meningitis and would be dead within the week. All I remember is the Jell-O. I wasn’t given anything to eat except Jell-O.
During the days and nights that followed, interns started appearing outside of my room in droves. They would stand there, peering through the glass, as several doctors spoke and occasionally pointed in my direction. I’m told that spinal meningitis is very rare.
One night, some days later, I awoke at 4 a.m. I got out of bed and walked out to the nurses’ station. I stood there, freezing. After several minutes the lady behind the kiosk noticed that I was standing there. She said nothing. I asked if she would be a sport and call me a cab.
So much for death.
But this time there’s no out. This time there is just pork and beans.
I am all out of moderately entertaining things to say. I have become the foundation of your dissatisfaction. I will pay the price. This theme-park world that we have so craftily constructed without our consciences getting in the way will extract a toll much worse than the mere bruises of consumerist overload. The debilitations suffered by that which comprises our unknown quantities will surely be much greater. The gods of entertainment demand sacrifice. And surely I’ll be replaced by something altogether more predictable.
There was a time when slogans such as “power to the people��? and “make love not war��? were believable. But even then they were nothing more than cheap disguises bent on delivering the usually sought after nuggets of an anaesthetized society. You can replace them with “Fuck the people, I want the power��? and “I was just looking to score because of the war��? because the truth hurts. And since art no longer reflects anything but unchallenging passiveness packaged as a good time, you’ll be needing something to keep you partially sober.
Last night the carnival trucks rolled into town. There were sounds of preparation, sounds of tired lives being led, sounds of discontented misfits practising a trade as ancient as tragedy. All through the night they worked feverishly to erect Ring Toss booths, the Haunted House, the Chain Swings. The animals in the makeshift petting zoo, blind with glaucoma, wander the husky darkness bumping into each other. The ringmaster writes to a girl he tries to remember as being something other than merely a voice on a phone. The ride mechanic hits the bottle. The carnival must be put together in the night. Done in broad daylight, its secrets would be too easily revealed. It remains one of the last great unknowns in this world. Because if we were to discover how shoddy everything was we would never go. Instead we would go to one of those ridiculous entertainment-megatropolis things and become pale reminders of ourselves.
I did my best to stay awake so that I might see the sun rise for the last time. But I fell asleep.
I awoke this morning to the familiar aroma of pork and beans. I wished it were Jell-O. I attempted to pull myself together, be strong, when the time came. I did my best, but my knees were wobbly. I tried to eat, but vomited.
I spent an hour or so putting on the clown suit, haphazardly slapping on some face paint, trying to make the shoes fit better. And then they came for me. No last meal, no last requests fulfilled, no few minutes with family or friends. I was simply thrown in the back of a cart and wheeled to my destruction. People lined the midway, some throwing things, others merely observing me with quiet disgust. The fact that I was wearing a clown suit only fuelled the crowd’s anger. My last jab gave me little comfort, but at least it was something.
As for the rest, well, there is little I can say of it. I would have thought my conditioning able to provide some capable last words, but I merely shook my head when asked if I had any. And then, as quickly as my life had happened, it ended. My legs wobbled, my lungs felt as if they were filled with concrete, I nearly bit clear through my tongue. I just stood there in a clown suit with a rope around my neck. Then the floor gave way and I went with it.
I guess this means the fair is open. Make sure to enjoy yourself.
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.—George Orwell, Animal Farm
About This Entry
Author: Matthew Good
Date: September 15th, 2000

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