Study claims women typically
care more about width than length. Via
phanatic.
Possibly how many women
feel about high heels (not completely worksafe).
Why not read
in your bookcase?
Fred Saberhagen died recently and it is Robert Heinlein’s centenary. An essay
in appreciation of RAH by Spider Robinson which certainly got me wondering how much I have
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In addition, this freudian slip near the end of the article is fucking win!
"When faced with a patient with SDS"
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(There are times when you sound a little twitter and bisted.)
BYW, I have added more to my review of Wright's book on al-Qaeda in my preceding post.
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a) That the idea of only allowing people to vote after (military) service ala Starship Troopers increases the likelihood that a society will choose to go to war to solve diplomatic problems, by "selecting" for warlike traits in voters,
and also,
b) That the U.S. rushed into a war in Iraq because so few of the Bush government, including Bush himself, had actually experienced the horror of war.
I was looking for an example of the concept of cognitive dissonance, you see. I seem to recall a number of my friends at some point loudly espousing both theories.
[0] I seem to recall that there were other ways of getting the vote, but certainly that's the popular interpretation of the theory, and not an unreasonable presentation of Heinlein's personal views, if I recall correctly.
jai.
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I suspect a lot of folk would advanced both propositions. As for (a), I remember coming across a study which found the more veterans in Congress, the less warlike Congress was. Sounds about right. (I seem to remember that Haldeman wrote The Forever War as a rebuttal to Heinlein then changed his mind.)
In Starship Troopers, you did have to do military service to vote, but the service was not necessarily warlike, given there were no disability barriers to serving, merely where/how you served.
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A friend's mother once informed us "Long & thin goes too far in, but short & thick does the trick".
I spent that friend's 21st smoking pot in the backyard with her mum (and it was her mum's pot too).
Ahh.. memories =)
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