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July 28, 2004
The Surprisingly Hot List:
Despite their age or surface-level looks, the following women are not hot at first glance, but who are actually kind of sexy if you think about it, in a certain way. Note this list does NOT include obviously hot babes. Only women who are "surprisingly" hot--that is, the fact that they are kind of attractive is kind of surprising: - Susan Estrich
- Martha Stewart
- Barbara Walters
- Barbra Streisand
- Christiane Amanpour
- Lindsay Wagner
- Tereza Heinz Kerry
- Laurie Metcalf (the sister in Roseanne)
- Allison Janney (from West Wing and also the starfish Peach in Finding Nemo)
- Jeanine Garofolo
- Barbara Branden
Now here are women who do not seem hot on first impression--and this impression is correct: - Candy Crowley
- Laura Bush (her daughters are another story)
- Madeleine Albright
- Hillary Clinton (Chelsea is another matter altogether. Yes.)
- Bella Abzug
- Ayn Rand
- Gloria Allred
- Linda Evans
- Joan Collins
- Suzanne Somers
Now there are of course many "smokin' hot" babes who are obviously hot--too obviously hot to be included in the category of "surprisingly hot": - Naomi Wolf
- Paula Zahn (though some strangely call her "toothy"?)
- some of the FoxNews and CNN babes: E.D. Hill, Kirin Chetry, Lauren Green, and Soledad O'Brien.
Query: Where does Isabella Rosselini fall? Linda Hamilton? Barbara Eden? Difficult to classify.
July 27, 2004
The Trouble with Feser (on Libertarianism) :
Recent post (2) on LewRockwell blog about Feser's critique of libertarianism.
Other recent posts:
July 24, 2004
Eat This Book:
My latest article, Eat This Book: Review of Brad Edmonds's There's a Government in Your Soup: Why There's Too Much Government in Your Kitchen, and What You Can Do About It, July 24, 2004, LewRockwell.com.
July 20, 2004
Coed:
I despise when people use the word "coed". I don't think I've ever found a need to use it. It's about as useful as the word "ontology". I mean what is this, the fricking 1950s? Why would a female student be called a Co-ed? Stupid.
July 19, 2004
Capitalism & McDonald's:
Another Chronicles thread in which I participated (briefly).
How to hypnotize a man in 5 easy steps:
Someone sent me this horribly misogynistic and tasteless email. I just want to say, I strongly object to such immoral objectification of women.
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Coda: Tim Swanson found out that this woman is porn star Sydney Moon and the original clips are here.
July 15, 2004
Tucker Max Does Austin:
Tucker Max has a new story up. The part from the blind piano player (about 2/5 of the way through) to his toilet adventures in the hotel (about 4/5 through) had me laughing so hard my stomach hurt.
Location of Accidents:
"The accident occurred at the intersection of Fifth and Elm." You hear such things on occasion, or "where did it happen?" There is an implicit assumption that an event has a location. I do not understand this. And event is a happening. Happenings don't have a location for they don't have a body or a size.
If two cars hit each other, where does the accident occur? Between the cars? The volume of space the cars occupied when they first hit? Or the volume of space traced by the cars from the beginning, to the end, of the accident, i.e. a 4-D volume? The concept is simply not well-defined.
To take some other examples--I love my wife. Where is the love? Last year, I loved my dog. Where did this event occur? What was its location? The sun got a year older last year--where did the aging occur? If I talk to a Dutch friend on the phone, where does the conversation, the talking, occur? If I bury a time capsule, and you dig it up after I'd dead, where did the message-conveying occur?
July 12, 2004
More annoyances:
People who say "I was taken back" instead of "taken aback". Don't use fancy expressions if you have no real idea of what they really are.
Recipes that call for chicken stock. I have no idea what chicken stock is. I only have cans of broth.
Recipes that say to use a "broiler". what the heck is a "broiler"? I have an oven. It has a broil feature, but I have no idea when it it to be used, and whether that means I have "a broiler" or not. Sheesh.
Recipes that refer to a pot as a "sauce pan". I always thought there were pots, and pans. Pans are the low-rimmed things you can fry in. Pots are the deeper things you can boil in. So what in the world is a sauce PAN? Obviously what is meant is a pot, why not call it one.
I hate people. They're such idiots.
July 9, 2004
Hoppe on Health:
A recent thread on Chronicles where Hoppe's views were mischaracterized; I attempted to set the record straight.
Voicemail peeves:
I hate long outgoing voicemail messages that waste the caller's time by having to listen to pointless information. I like it short and sweet: "Please leave a message" is good enough. Or, "I'm not here: here's the beep." My wife hated the one I left on our home voicemail, it said "LEAVE ... A ... MESSAGE" in a robotic voice.
Why do people need to say, "I'm not in right now, but if you leave a message, I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you for calling, and have a nice day." I want to tear what's left of my hair out when I have to suffer through such meandering, time-wasting crap like that. Why do you even need to say, "you've reached the Kinsellas." Duh. If it's a stranger or wrong number, why give them your name? If it's someone who you want calling you, they already know your name.
Also annoying is when people say, "I'm unavailable to answer the phone right now." Look, you can say "I'm unavailable" or you can say "I'm unable to answer the phone," but what the hell does "unavailable to answer the phone" mean?
July 1, 2004
BURGER KING MARCUS IS GAY!:
BK MARCUS IS A HOMOSEXUAL FROG HUMPER!!!
(gotcha again, Mr. IT Expert!! ha ha ha ha)
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