Some Random Thoughts

My first one....

I am trying to lose some weight to take the pressure off my arthritic knees. My orthropod told me at a recent check up that for every lb. you lose; you take 5 to 6 lbs. of pressure off of your knee joints. As I jumped on the elliptical machine last night to start my workout, I tried to set the duration, difficulty and calories burned indicators on the machine. The machine requests your age and weight. The baseline weight that appeared on the led reader was 150 lbs. I turned to a colleague who was working out on the machine beside me and said, "If I weighed 150 lbs., I wouldn’t be spending so much quality time on this damn thing. I didn’t weigh 150 lbs. when I was born!” He started laughing so hard, his foot slipped off of the machine. Fortunately, he was OK.

My second one...

This is a wonderful example of the dark, strange obsessions the right wing have about the Clintons. I am surprised Ann Althouse did not find some way to incorporate the Foster suicide into her quasi-Freudian rant. Ms. Althouse was attempting to deconstruct the recent youtube video the Hillary Clinton campaign put out as a parody of the Sopranos. Here's her analysis:

Bill says "No onion rings?" and Hillary responds "I'm looking out for ya." Now, the script says onion rings, because that's what the Sopranos were eating in that final scene, but I doubt if any blogger will disagree with my assertion that, coming from Bill Clinton, the "O" of an onion ring is a vagina symbol. Hillary says no to that, driving the symbolism home. She's "looking out" all right, vigilant over her husband, denying him the sustenance he craves. What does she have for him? Carrot sticks! The one closest to the camera has a rather disgusting greasy sheen to it. Here, Bill, in retaliation for all of your excessive "O" consumption, you may have a large bowl of phallic symbols! When we hear him say "No onion rings?," the camera is on her, and Bill is off-screen, but at the bottom of the screen we see the carrot/phallus he's holding toward her. Oh, yes, I know that Hillary supplying carrots is supposed to remind that Hillary will provide us with health care, that she's "looking out for" us, but come on, they're carrots! Everyone knows carrots are phallic symbols. But they're cut up into little carrot sticks, you say? Just listen to yourself! I'm not going to point out everything.

What was that??? Ms. Althouse teaches law at the University of Wisconsin. She either has a very light teaching load or can’t find the right match on Sean Hannity’s Dating Service. Can you imagine her Freudian/legal analysis of all those juicy latin words that are often used in English Common Law? Habeus Corpus, caveat emptor, or corpus delicti must leave her with a “Emma Bovarian” like climax! As someone wrote about Ms. Althouse's analsysis..."She is slowly creeping into Dick Morris Land filled with Hillary paranoia, delusions of grandeur and toe-sucking fantasies." I really don't like the Bushies, but I would never engage in this kind of stultifying, Oprahesque, pseudo-psychological probing. There isn't much there to begin with.

My third one...

I guess this ad for Trojan products is rather controversial. Some networks will play it and others will not.



Not surprising that there appears to be a double standard here. We repeatedly are bombarded with erectile dysfunction products but contraceptives that prevent disease and unwanted pregnancies are verbotten! I believe it would a great deal easier explaining the Trojan ad to a curious pre-teen than to describe why her grandfather had to seek immediate medical attention after an erect 4 hours!