The interesting thing to see would be...

What are gender differences in 'Financialating, [the Wall- Street-stir gaming thing, maybe chess, and even military operations*.

Are boys better at some stuff like that.

Or maybe girls are just dis-interested?

*I was going to include video games but my niece beat the sox off both my four boys and...me @ 'Asteroids'.

Is, of course, a 'womanly' reaction.

Cornered rats do it too.

Real men, it is said, NEVER do.

And that's why it's critical to write as you have with...

"...mistakes mindless chest-beating belligerence, panic and hysteria for strength and resolve, even though such behavior is really the ultimate hallmark of deep-seated weakness and fear."

I particularly like the 'hysteria' one...because that's a barn-burner term for the 'manly' types. 'Fearful' is another.

Arendt, Dean, Altemeyer, Greenwald and others have got these guys corralled.

Don't let up.

Great piece, thanks!

"Well, that happened."

"Everbody's gotta have an hobby."

For all kinds of reasons -- but there is this,

Kinda liked him a little bit...

"Sen. Baucus says he would attach SCHIP funding to Iraq war spending if needed -- from News-Medical News Feed

Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday said that if a consensus cannot be reached with Republicans on a stop-gap spending measure for SCHIP, a spending provision for the program will be attached to an Iraq supplemental bill set to be discussed in late March or early April, CongressDaily reports."

That's nice, I think.

That I might wish that an evil person had been eliminated?

That the world would be a wholly truly better place without some of the bad actors operating amongst us?

This is an 'aspiration' projected, "if you will", into the past.

And thus incapable of realization...it cannot rise to action or result.

However....

To wish that that evil creature should be blown to bits

as it slept in some far-away place is another thing entirely.

It would be then ongoingly that I wish foul, egregious and awful things to happen to another living creature.

Any other.

THAT is itself evil, reflects on and demeans me & us.

And so not to be countenanced...at all...ever

for that reason alone, if not many others.

But to recognize that the world might well have been a better place....I stand by that.

[Disclaimer: never having commented on any of this until now]

This wouldn't be the Bumiller of Bush~Apologia fame?....

Migrated from the NYT to the end[-of-the-line] "Washington Times".

Or does she work for ....both?

If so, not surprising.

"Reporter Elisabeth Bumiller's "May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons" is quoted: "Was it intellectually consistent...."

"I can do it but you mustn't"

Or...

"Do what I say not....

Gingrich is simply a moral bankrupt.

But we totally knew that.

But nex-gen will decide that it's totally either/or who stays home.

Predispositions, economics, breast-feeding..the list of

decisional pivots might approach endless...

Unless there are boy babies; in which case it will mom who stays home for the child-rearing. Period.

Betcha.

The Cheney-AIPAC conjugation is fascinating.

They think and feel way alike.

There are two words.

One is 'wimp', the 'other is 'pussy-whipped'.

I am taken by that Dick Cheney is married to a very very strong woman and wonder if

His 'manly' warrior persona is not simple reaction formation. The latter word above is for him.

And taken likewise (but not at all originally) by the fact

that what governs Likud Israel today is a profound shame

at the passivity with which the European Jewish population (Warsaw excluded, like may other instances, I'm sure) went into the camps. Got no 'macho', they say.

[Disclaimer: I have not the slightest doubt that the

average jewish male, while probably brighter, is not a whit less upstanding, than any other 'racial' demographic.

No quibble all about that...one such, a total hero, was in the phalanx of courage in standing against the neocons and their 9/11 tide...Russ Feingold, of course.

Now, THAT's manly.]

Anyway...they're a pair(Cheney and AIPAC) to which to draw.

Sorry...can't help it...together, "pussy-wimped"?

Took me until like...last week.

Sometimes I feel SO-o dumb.

And I've forgotten where I may have encountered that...

Adipose tissue either retains somehow, may store

or inhibits degradation of oestrogens.

[there is the lesser possibility that some of the hormone set are actually produced in that organ -

some like to think of all our fat as a unitary thing].

The other possibility is that these store-houses produce

other 'hormones', leptin or ghrelin and the like

which go secondarily to increased oestrogenic flux.

There's even a thing called 'kisspeptin' (I swear) which may have fatty origin.

Wouldn't be hard to look up

Neuromancer.

Incredibly futurist.

Was another [can't recall]...more space-oper`y detailing tanks of cloned parts & pieces and then,

Herbert's 'Hellstrom's Hive'.

Like mathematicians who have already explored anything physicists can imagine, the spec fiction people have imagined .... nearly...everything.

Gotta say

That in the day

Was reading & trusting NYT

When I shoulda been at Salon...

In-the-day that was called 'cool'.

Shoulda read the entirety.

...just a little break;

These good Chinese people have the tiger at the door,

we mostly heard just the guttered growl.

Not fair.

I know a coupla guys I'd follow into battle

-if called upon- in a NY heart-beat.

Same...same.

He opined and submitted.

Classic..Gingrich as your (neo)classical wimpy-sexual-person-wannabe speaks that way...

"....every foreign policy issue with themes of dominance, submission and humiliation as the centerpiece..

Which sequesters stuff.

[Old arguments regarding ritual circumcision aside...please.]

That being so, stuff get under and hides in that sheath.

[Wholly appropriate arguments aside too as to the

sometimes painful trial which is circumcision...in the adult.]

Best off and in a bottle (a little like cancer), under the circumstances.

Not at all at the 'terribly informed' level going on here....

But how are the 'Austronesian aborigines' doing in Taiwan?

Have they enjoyed the company of their Chinese fellow-islanders?