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You can think you are perfectly straight and then you see a movie with 20 year old Brad Pitt, and think: "Oh My", as George Takei put it. Not that you would do anything, but if you had to have a cellmate... I was too busy drooling over the idea of making Geena Davis get her hair all messed up. I woulda watched that. 
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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You can think you are perfectly straight and then you see a movie with 20 year old Brad Pitt, and think: "Oh My", as George Takei put it. Not that you would do anything, but if you had to have a cellmate... I was too busy drooling over the idea of making Geena Davis get her hair all messed up. I woulda watched that. Thelma and Louise, you never saw that movie? THELMA Hi. She is shocked by Thelma's appearance. LOUISE What happened to your hair? THELMA Nothing...got messed up. Louise is studying Thelma closely as Thelma squirms in her seat, barely able to contain herself. LOUISE What's wrong with you? THELMA Nothing. Why? Do I seem different? LOUISE Yes, now that you mention it. You seem crazy. Like you're on drugs. THELMA Well, I'm not on drugs. But I might be crazy. LOUISE (shaking her head) I don't think I wanna hear what you're gonna tell me. Thelma is just about to shriek when the Waitress comes over and puts a coffee cup on the table and pours some. Thelma gets a grip on herself for a moment then loses it as the Waitress goes away. THELMA Oh my God, Louise!!! I can't believe it! I just really can't believe it! I mean... whoa! Thelma is just laughing hysterically. Louise suddenly understands. LOUISE Oh, Thelma. Oh, no. THELMA I mean I finally understand what all the fuss is about. This is just a whole 'nother ball game! LOUISE Thelma, please get a hold of yourself. You're making a spectacle. THELMA You know, Louise, you're supposed to be my best friend. You could at least be a little bit happy for me. You could at least pretend to be slightly happy that for once in my life I have a sexual experience that isn't completely disgusting. LOUISE I'm sorry. I am happy. I'm very happy for you. You finally got laid proper. It's about time. Where is he now? THELMA Taking a shower. LOUISE You left that guy alone in the room?
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Sounds to me like someone is tempted... Nope, don't want none of that "stick kitty". I will say that you didn't hit on me... at least not that I noticed. 
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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Sounds to me like someone is tempted... Nope, don't want none of that "stick kitty". I will say that you didn't hit on me... at least not that I noticed. Karen thought you were pretty cute, though. 
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Sounds to me like someone is tempted... Nope, don't want none of that "stick kitty". I will say that you didn't hit on me... at least not that I noticed. Karen thought you were pretty cute, though. Maybe I should have spent the night...
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The Uneven Playing Field - Dahlia Lithwick, Slate. "Sure, don’t stoop to their level. But let’s acknowledge that the game Republicans are forcing everyone to play insists morality is for losers." In this parade of unilateral disarmament, Trump stays, Conyers goes, Moore stays, Franken goes.
Is this the principled solution? By every metric I can think of, it’s correct. But it’s also wrong. It’s wrong because we no longer inhabit a closed ethical system, in which morality and norm preservation are their own rewards. We live in a broken and corroded system in which unilateral disarmament is going to destroy the very things we want to preserve.
....The point is, as Jennifer Rubin notes Tuesday, that “one party has adopted a zero-tolerance position (with Sen. Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, set to go before the ethics committee) and another party opens its arms to people it believes are miscreants.” Rubin feels confident that becoming the party of alleged sexual abusers will harm the GOP in upcoming elections (did she live through last November?). My own larger concern is that becoming the party of high morality will allow Democrats to live with themselves but that the party is also self-neutering in the face of unprecedented threats, in part to do the right thing and in part to take ammunition away from the right—a maneuver that never seems to work out these days. When Al Franken, who has been a champion for women’s rights in his tenure in the Senate, leaves, what rushes in to fill the space may well be a true feminist. But it may also be another Roy Moore. And there is something deeply naïve, in a game of asymmetrical warfare, and in a moment of unparalleled public misogyny, in assuming that the feminist gets the seat before it happens.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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On the other hand, the governor of Minnesota is a Democrat and there are several competent people with elective office experience who can be appointed in Franken's place. Including several women. It's not like the Democrats lose the vote in the Senate. They just lose Franken's obvious effectiveness. But if all of this makes him ineffective, then somebody else can be. And Franken can go home, write another book, and prepare for a 2020 run for President. A man with his record is fully qualified, according to Republicans. In fact, maybe he should run as a Republican. 
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Mark Dayton pulled the biggest bonehead move imaginable, PIA.
He wants a "caretaker" to assume Franken's seat till 2018, which in and of itself leaves that seat open to a certain Republican challenge, and an all-but-inevitable win.
He should have appointed a PIT BULL, preferably a female pit bull, one that would inspire Minnesota Democrats to keep her.
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And Franken can go home, write another book, and prepare for a 2020 run for President. A man with his record is fully qualified, according to Republicans. In fact, maybe he should run as a Republican. The only way that will happen is if he is able to clear his name either in court, or IN the Senate, which he is now leaving.
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The sixteen...erm, nineteen (now) ladies are taking another bite of the apple, they want a Congressional investigation of the Toothless Bloated Orange Puss-Grabber.
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