The sad thing is -- the antiwar types don't even understand their history, and they know absolutely nothing about Afghan culture.

They run around claiming that the Afghans were able to beat the Soviets on their own. And nobody has ever conquered Afghanistan -- which begs the question -- how did the Silk Road come about, then, if nobody has ever conquered Afghanistan?

Silk Road? What's the Silk Road? That's the level of expertise at Afghan history I'm seeing on the antiwar side.

I don't see anything honorable or admirable about people who don't even care about the war enough to crack a history book or use Google.

I am not impressed by the antiwar side because they're just plain intellectually lazy.

If you don't care enough to do the studying necessary to become informed about what is and isn't possible in Afghanistan, or who has conquered them and who has not, then who cares what you think anyway?

I don't.

I think racism plays a big part on the antiwar side. They're way too ready to imagine the Afghan people as a bunch of warring savages who have never been civilized, ever.

Back in the sixties, Afghanistan was peaceful enough for hippies to travel all over the country safely.

So stick that in your racist pipe and smoke it.

And so the familiar games begin. Someone is called upon to say that the sky is falling and to scold book publishers for being behind the times: "You can't just be linear anymore with your text," said Judith Curr, Atria's publisher.

It's true that a novel consists of a string of words and punctuation marks placed end to end in a line.

But a good writer knows how to use plot, theme, character and setting to create a multi-dimensional, multiply connected spacetime manifold that lives on that line.

You can't do that with video, because video is actually a lot more linear than text, which is why it's so much harder to make a film from a novel than it is to make a novel from a film.

This portrayal of the victim as still needing some kind of vengeance for her crime 30 years later as an adult -- that plays into the idea that a woman can never wash herself clean of the stain of having been raped.

That's why nobody cares what she wants. That's why nobody is asking her for her opinion.

She's seen as permanently damaged goods, and it's the imagined permanence of the damage that spurs people on in their quest for the vengeance that she's already said she neither wants nor needs.

Then I would be right there with her.

But what I see here is a bunch of people who do not give one tiny shit how any of this impacts her.

So I'm going to boycott Broadsheet instead, because you women have violated her in many ways. You didn't have her consent. You aren't fighting for her interest if you don't have her consent.

And it makes me sick to my stomach that i have to explain any of this to women who call themselves feminists.

Luke 9:58

And Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."

New version:

And Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has a six bedroom Seleucid Revival mini-mansion in Capernaum with an Infinity pool and a steam shower and an outdoor kitchen, plus he owns an apartment building in East Jerusalem that makes him a tidy sum."

That's Hippie Jesus. Conservative Jesus needs a haircut, a shave and a nice dark suit.

Why don't they just side with Imperial Rome instead of Jesus?

Look at the guy. He was a hippie. He was unemployed. And homeless.

The Romans wore the manly haircuts and had the cool technology and the exceptionalist ideology.

Plus -- they supported the troops.

And let's face it -- the Church succeeded in building its own empire by assuming the hierarchies of authority and outlooks and even the official state holidays of Imperial Rome.

Mavis Leno does a lot more to help Afghan women than just ejaculate outrage on Karzai.

She, like, actually learns about the country and stuff like that.

Who just got the Nobel Prize in medicine? A woman who works for UCSF and a woman who got her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.

The University of California system amounts to a "public option" for higher education.

If the "public option" in higher education can produce Nobel Prize winners in medicine, then I don't think we should be so afraid of having a public option in medicine itself.

BTW pot might improve the sex too. As long as you use it with better spousal communication, that is.

And then get another dog.

Go to a shelter. You'll find yourself a new buddy who needs you even more than you need her.

Also, you didn't say what your condition was, but you might check to see if it's in here:

http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7002

If you live in a medical marijuana state, you might give pot a try and see if it helps smooth out the pains of age and disease.

There were PROBLEMS in the world in the late nineties.

I remember Eleanor Smeal and Mavis Leno doing their darndest to bring the Taliban's terrorist training camps to the attention of Republicans.

But Republicans were after something much more important than the Taliban -- a semen stain from the White House.

It boggles the mind that they actually thought presidential sexual misconduct was a more important concern for the nation than whatever Bin Laden was cooking up while chilling in Kandahar with his Taliban homies.

I guess SOME people STILL haven't learned...