Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot And days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We’ll take a cup of kindness yet, For auld lang syne. - Robert Burns Well, here we are on the 7th day of Christmas [...]
Archive for December, 2010
It’s a Start
Posted in Current Events, Tyranny, tagged cops, drugs, law, New Orleans, streetwalkers on December 30, 2010 | 10 Comments »
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao-tzu Though I’m sure the significance of the date was lost on New Orleans City Council members, it’s appropriate that the virtual cessation of New Orleans’ decades-long war on whores was announced to the public on December 17th. Yes, you read that correctly: [...]
Madame de Pompadour
Posted in Biography, Harlotography, History, tagged archeofeminism, courtesans, disease, Europe, psychology, stage names on December 29, 2010 | 21 Comments »
After us, the deluge. I care not what happens when I am dead and gone. - Madame de Pompadour Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was born in Paris on December 29, 1721 to François and Madeleine Poisson. As a child she was educated at the Ursuline convent in Poissy, but when she entered adolescence her mother took [...]
December Q & A
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Q & A, tagged anecdote, cosmetic surgery, dirty, fantasy, Madonna/whore, oral sex, psychology, stereotypes on December 28, 2010 | 22 Comments »
The question you’re not supposed to ask is the important one. - Mason Cooley Our first question was posted in a new comment on an old post by a reader who resides in the Netherlands: Just today, when we were coming back home from a restaurant, my 8-year-old daughter, out of the blue, asked: “Daddy, what’s a [...]
Criticism and Response
Posted in Perception, Philosophy, Q & A, Tyranny, tagged archeofeminism, bad customers, censorship, condoms, cops, dirty, disease, ethics, hysteria, law, Madonna/whore, neofeminism, porn, psychology, rape, sisterhood on December 27, 2010 | 27 Comments »
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. - Gustave Flaubert Last Tuesday (December 21st) I received a request for moderation of a comment on my column of December 13th. As regular readers know, I don’t approve comments from posters who [...]
Boxing Day
Posted in History, Philosophy, tagged ethics, holidays, law, Rome, United Kingdom on December 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Good King Wenceslas looked out, On the feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about Deep and crisp and even. Brightly shone the moon that night Though the frost was cruel, When a poor man came in sight Gathering winter fuel. - John Mason Neale In the Church calendar today is the feast of [...]
Christmas
Posted in History, tagged archeofeminism, holidays, hysteria, psychology, Rome, sacred prostitutes on December 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow As I discussed in my column of December 21st, there have been winter solstice festivals for at least as long as there has been agriculture, [...]
Christmas Eve
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, tagged drivers, ethics, fantasy, holidays, New Orleans on December 24, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. - Calvin Coolidge When I was a wee lass, Christmas was pure magic. We always set up our tree on the day after [...]
Whore Goddesses
Posted in History, Philosophy, tagged Aphrodite, archeofeminism, courtesans, dirty, holidays, law, Rome, sacred prostitutes, slavery, streetwalkers on December 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman—Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin. - Henry Adams In ancient Rome today was Larentalia, the festival of an apotheosized courtesan named Acca Larentia; she was referred to [...]
For the Record
Posted in Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged anecdote, archeofeminism, bad customers, ethics, law, marriage, pimps, psychology, sisterhood, stereotypes, streetwalkers on December 22, 2010 | 85 Comments »
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. - Friedrich Nietzsche As some of you may know, I also post [...]
