So.....

So friday is when Mhari and I start back to curling, Mhari in the Junior League, and me in the Friday Night Open League.

Saturday is when we all get up early to daytrip to Vancouver BC for the day.

Remind me to start taking the ibuprofen friday morning......

I wlll note I'm ten pounds lighter this season than when I played in spring. My knees are STILL not anywhere close to being able to transition away from a stick though. Which makes me grumble.

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 1-3 January 2011

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 1-3 January 2011

And 2011 dawns, except in Birtherstan, where they seem to be holding on to the vain hope of resetting things to 2008, minus the scary black man in the White House. JB Williams is spewing the same tired lies in hopes someone will do SOMETHING. Continued whining about Lakin, including World Nut Daily citing the Pest and eFail, in some ouroboros of unethical dishonest stupidity.

NPR tries to explain why birtherism and the tea party has traction. Anti-semite Andy Martin is off and running (his mouth mostly). Fitzpatrick gets a taste of freedom before his next trial. Bigfoot expert Larry Wells is trying to out Beck Beck. More cheerleading for Gov. Abercrombie. The Pest and eFail is engaging in blatant racism, outright lying, and blunt sedition (just like in 2010). Dr. Kate needs to be placed somewhere where she can't play with anything sharper than bubble wrap. We have 2010 in review for the birtherstani (hint, it's a year of fail).

Lakin is upset because life in a military prison is HARD and stuff. Manning has a new video with old crapola. Lame Cherry also needs an "I love me" jacket with wrap-around sleeves. Puckett spins Lakin as a "victory" because he only got six months. And CEL3 hires an old name for his Taitz lawsuit.

Interesting

This is an interesting read. I'm not sure how I feel about it. It does seem to strike a nerve though

Of Never Feeling Hot: the missing narrative of desire in the lives of straight men (reprinted)

"...we don’t have a culture in which many young men grow up with the experience of being seen and wanted, in which young men grow up with the sense that their bodies are desirable and beautiful as well as functional. Our cultural discourse about young men teaches that managing their own (presumably insatiable) sexual desire is the defining task of their adolescence. A “jock discourse” that encourages young men to “score” with as many women as possible and an “abstinence discourse” which encourages young men to restrain themselves heroically have essentially the same perspective: your job as a man is to channel your libido, either into sexual conquests or radical restriction. Both discourses center male desire, just as most discourses aimed at young women teach teenage girls how to gain, manage, and direct that same titanic force. The missing element, of course, is the idea that female desire can be directed towards men in general, and towards their bodies in particular."