— Bumper
sticker of the week: IÕm already against the next war.
— Quote of
the week: ÒWell behaved women seldom make history.Ó Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
—
International WomenÕs Day was last Thursday. I only missed it by a week: Susan
B. Anthony. Rachel Carson. Sojourner Truth. Amelia Earhart. Emma Goldman.
Eleanor Roosevelt. Mary Harris (Mother Jones). Barbara Jordan. Rosa Parks. Mona
Tourlentes. Margaret Sanger. Cindy Sheehan. Shirley Chisholm. Jane Addams.
Rosie the Riveter. Helen Keller. Jane Johnson. Alice Walker. Doris Haddock
(Granny 0). Oprah Winfrey. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Josephine Baker. Betty Friedan.
Dorothy Day. Nancy Pelosi. Mother Teresa. Bella Abzug. Alice Hamilton. Toni
Morrison. Sally Ride. Holly Near. Judy Bari. To these and to all women
everywhere who have fought for equality, justice, compassion, and freedom.
Thank you.
— Women who
seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
— Ten ways
to light her fire:
1. Buy her
flowers. Buy her chocolates. Hell, buy her anything.
2. Get out of
your sweat-pants and T-shirt, shave, shower and put on some cologne, get into
something decent, and make your move. Preferably with your wife.
3. You can always
tell her she looks really sexy. Sometimes they fall for it.
4. Cook a nice
meal, put on some soft music, candlelight, a good bottle of wine, and look for
someone easy to fool.
5. Do something she
doesnÕt expect you to do, like the dishes, or laundry, or fixing that leaky
faucet. DonÕt include going on a golf trip with the guys on this list.
6. Plan a night
out. No hockey, indoor football, or fishing show. Try the opera, the symphony,
a play, or suicide.
7. Try to set the
night on fire. Of course, not literally.
8. Let her handle
your remote, but donÕt try to trick her.
9. Turn the
lights down low and do a striptease for her. When you get down to those small
jockey shorts, make sure you have plenty of dollar bills laying around. This
will both fascinate and amuse her. If she keeps the ones rather than stuffing
them down your shorts, donÕt be surprised.
10. If all else
fails, hereÕs a fool proof tip: Take her hand in yours, look her straight in
the eyes, and tell her you love her and would not want to be with anyone else,
particularly since Anna Nicole died.
Now you could use
these tips for same-sex relationships, but youÕll obviously have to make some
adjustments.
— Ann
Coulter struts her stuff: One of the poorest examples of a women, no, a human
being, is Ann Coulter. A darling of the right-wing, she refers to John Edwards
as Òa faggot.Ó One would like to think she doesnÕt know what that means, but
she is pretty well versed in stupidity. Some newspapers are dropping her column
in response to her idiocy. IÕd sooner see them drop a piano on her.
— Public
aid: Nobody wants to cut back. The city keeps wanting more and more of our tax
dollars. With our population steadily going down, you would think someone,
somewhere, would come to the conclusion that maybe we donÕt need as many
services as we once had, or as many city employees. At least, that has occurred
to me. Now we have a dilapidated water supply system that IÕm sure will end up
being our responsibility to pay for, even though the city council has
ÒborrowedÓ from that fund over the years to make their budgets work. And to top
it all off, the governor wants a universal health-care plan, which we
desperately need, but on a federal level. If he wants money for a health-care
plan, he should raise the state income tax. Business needs to pay their fair
share, but you canÕt make it impossible for companies to do business in
Illinois. Top that off with sky-rocketing electricity rates, and IÕm thinking
these people are taking us on a one-way trip to the poorhouse. WeÕll probably
have to pay for that, too.