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Monday, April 02, 2007
Aries Women
 "Aries women are devotees of Nietzschean will power and inexhaustible nervous energy."--Camille Paglia      In a relationship, Aries is very romantic, will defend their loved one to the death, will insist on doing the chasing and can not bear to be chased by anyone, and can be extremely possesive of the lover, but can't understand if the lover is possesive. Aries will usually put their loved one on a pedestal. However, they do expect total faithfulness from their partner and for their lover to respond as if he or she is the first and best lover ever known. The partner of Aries must always keep a little mystery in reserve and must always believe in every new Aries dream. Aries can get bored very easily if there are no challenges left to face and can likely go out looking for another relationship as a challenge to him or herself. Any lover that hurts Aries very deeply will probably be totally frozen out and ignored.          March 21 Rosie O'Donnell
March 25 Anita Bryant, Aretha Franklin
March 26 Nancy Pelosi, Vicky Lawrence
March 27 Sarah Vaughan, Charlotte Joko Beck
March 30 Celine Dion, Melanie Klein
April 1 Grace Lee Whitney, Ali MacGraw
April 2 Camille Paglia, Emmylou Harris, Aine Minogue
April 3 Jane Goodall. Doris Day
April 4 Kitty Kelley
April 5 Bette Davis
April 7 Billie Holiday
April 8 Betty Ford
April 12 Shannen Doherty
April 14 Loretta Lynn, Annie Sullivan
April 15 Bessie Smith, Emma Thompson
April 16 Dusty Springfield
April 20 Mother Angelica
     
  
 
"Regardless of how you appear on the surface, there is a 'warrior woman' deep inside you, and what you really want is a "warrior" who is strong enough or brave enough to be your mate. You're the kind of woman who secretly wants to say, 'You Tarzan, me Jane.' "
Labels: aries, media, politics, psychotherapy, singers, women, writers, zen
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
"Jane, you ignorant slut."
 Recently on Hannity and Colmes they had a guest on to discuss Barack Obama's church, which is, apparently, a "black" church, but not just a church that has a predominantly African American congregation and a "black" style of worship, but it's a church that espouses a sort of positive black power message, and teaches "black" values. Sean asked, "is this racist?" And I thought, wow, what an interesting question. I was also looking forward to finding out more about this church, what constitutes black values, and so on. I felt bitterly disappointed, when, instead of a stimulating debate, all I got was about ten seconds of the guest making his point, and then being interrupted, and then the guest interrupting back. Do they coach people before they go on the show by telling them to talk over each other? If I wanted to give myself agita I'd just walk over to the dog park down the street and toss a pork chop into the fray. This show is junk food. Do people debate anymore? Do people present opposing views in a civil manner, using evidence and reasoned thought to 'win' an argument? I remembered that Point-Counterpoint bit that they used to have on 60 Minutes where Shana Alexander would take the liberal stance and James Kilpatrick would represent the conservative side. At the time I was a little kid just waiting for The Wonderful World of Disney to come on, so Point-Counterpoint was just one more obstacle the grownups had erected between me and Herbie the Love Bug, but I did pay attention enough to recall that they would debate rather forcefully at times. Saturday Night Life famously parodied it on Weekend Update, when Dan Ackroyd would lean over condescendingly, point his finger at Curtin as if lecturing a child, and preface his remarks with an exasperated, "Jane, you ignorant slut." The joke was, wow, they sound so intense on the real show it almost seems like this is the kind of thing they might be thinking. Wouldn't it be OUTRAGEOUS if people actually SAID that?! Well, guess what? Now they do say those things, and nothing could be more tedious.  I recently found this clip of former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show. Holtzman was on the House Judiciary Committee that brought articles of impeachment against Nixon, and in her interview with the skeptical and at times combative host, makes a compelling argument for impeaching George W. Bush. Listen to her airtight reasoning and agile ripostes to Lopate's every objection, and then you'll see Hannity, Coulter, Matthews, Conason, Maher, O'Reilly et al. for what they are - school kids trading playground taunts. She has also written a lucid, easy-to-read and fascinating book called The Impeachment of George W. Bush. Part history lesson, part constitutional seminar, part "how-to" manual. Check it out. It's coming .... Labels: media, politics
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