Because Camille Paglia speaking well of something proves its cultural moment has passed. Cf. Madonna's, Rolling Stones' relevance.

Because I'm 40, and that's been normal as long as I've been, well, alive.

Thanks. Think I'll pop the gun in my mouth now.

The GOP is acting like a bitter, old, loud drunk in the back of a bar, sitting in his own pee.

They don't care, they're flingin'. They're down to nothing but poo that's already been through their systems a few times.

People can yell at you AND be outraged at Cheney. And outside of your narcissistic world, what connection do those have to each other?

God.

"The Dead Detective," a series of stories in WASTELAND, back at the end of the 1980s.

I'm alleging only coincidence here, but I thought it should be mentioned.

...when you break your partner's trust.

When I was much, much younger, I made the mistake of reading a girlfriend's diary. I never mentioned what I read but I could not unsee it. It was for that reason it was in her damn DIARY.

One deserves any grief one gets when one does that, but not the right to resent the person whose trust you violated.

Cronkite outlived journalism by at least 15 years.

>>and by the end of the 1900s, America was a "pharmacopoeia utopia" in which coke, heroin and morphine were all readily available, either with a doctor's prescription or in patent medicines and products like Coca-Cola, once a cocaine-containing beverage marketed as "a substitute for alcohol."

I assume you mean 1800s?

It won't kill them.

He's...afraid he'll cheat? I have an easy solution: don't. Unless he's the weakest of weasels, which he sounds like.

This guy has basically just given himself an out if he does cheat. "Well, I can't help it, it's in my nature, and oh how the thought tortures me but I just wouldn't be able to help myself with my family background." HUH WHAT BACK UP THERE?

It's true urges and hormones can be very powerful. But then we grow up and are responsible for whether we act on them. We are not goddamn chemical robots helpless to stop ourselves should we meet the right triggers, which with this guy might be anything with a nice ass. This guy is full of crap up to his eyelids. He's just creating an excuse if he cheats.

As he's pretty much called this his nature, I invite the letter-writer to consider the story of the animal that gave a scorpion a ride across the river and then stung their helper halfway across, saying "It's my nature." (or a snake, I've heard both)

It's in his nature? Then run.

>>Some contend that monogamy is an unnatural state. That may be so. In civilization we maintain many unnatural states: the state of organized, polite childhood; the state of willing slavery to work; the state of unconflicted patriotism. We maintain a great many fictions in civilized life.

Theoretically we are free to shirk any and all of these conventions. But the consequences can be debilitating: isolation, poverty, recrimination, not to mention legal sanctions -- in the case of, for instance, someone who out of religious conviction refuses to kill, or refuses to support state policies, or is married but decides not to be monogamous and is therefore evicted from the house and forced to make onerous financial payments.

This is beautifully put. Hell, being human, as we construct it, is an "unnatural state." Monogamy may be artificial, but what choice is not?

My personal feeling has always been--and I'm speaking as someone who's been married once, and has otherwise dated a lot, and has not cheated on anyone he's been with because I simply didn't want to--I'd much rather have an in-depth intimacy with one person that has some kind of meaning than a hundred shallow affairs.

I see. So it's presumption of guilt with all black men, is it? Especially when one of them HAS A DRIVER and IS IN HIS OWN HOUSE?

You racist piece of filth.

And to pick a man who is visible and appears in media all the time. Good god, the cops must be drinking themselves to death tonight, anticipating the firings and lawsuit.