September 2003

Arrowhead got a BBBJ?

Pat on IRC.

Amoral Man returns.

Shooter proposes a contest.

FredT on the Pahrump ranches.

Curious actually wrote a long post!

ArcticBear on McKenna.

sweetmelissa speaks.

Velvet's thread.

FBI probes Nye County brothels.

Sportsman is inboxing.

Kellycious on old men.

I kinda like Vernon's reply. At least it is well-written and funny.

Bree on paraphilia.

Proffy-B on what makes the client/prostitute relationship special.

I have been waiting for a long time for LL to post a message like this.

Flyfisher gives good advice.

Pat on negative reviews.

David Burgess and his girls.

The Old Bridge Ranch CWMCM#7 picnic.

Pictures of Ingrid Burgess.

Sportsman on awards.

Dex on McKenna.

McKenna on how tight her pussy is.

Chay on Sportsman.

sweetmelissa on Joe.

A Bunny Ranch promotion.

noobie want to lose it.

Pat on Mr. Mister.

Flyfisher gives a lot of advice.

An interesting point by Interested bystander.

tabitha on Joe.

Kellycious speaks weirdly.

LL is starting to ramble. I think he has been reading too many Flyfisher posts!

xxxDoctor remembers Joe.

David Burgess on the Oscar Bonavena killing.

How NuttyProfessor got his handle.

Flyfisher advises a virgin to tell the lady what he wants.

My advice for noobie.

Second Annual International Day of Prostitutes Empowerment.

FBI sought clamp on Bush Stories.

EDITORIAL #039 :

Last night I dreamt I went to a legal Nevada brothel again. Inside it looked a lot like one of the brothels I stepped into in Elko and Winnemucca last July. The madam, who alternated between looking like Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg, called out "Company, ladies", and into the parlor walked two prostitutes, both dressed in women's business attire, and introduced themselves as Carol Moseley Braun and Condoleezza Rice. They also looked like them. Then, the madam asked me, "Would the gentleman care to choose a lady?"

I can't recall what happened afterwards but I have thought up a good response. However, I do know why I had this dream. Last week I received a telemarketer style phone call which the soon-to-be-effective-maybe block list would not save me from for at least two reasons. One is that it is a non-profit organization, the other being that they've already got an established relationship with me.

Years ago, shortly after joining the ACLU, I received an invitation in the mail to join NOW. I don't know if NOW got my name and address from the ACLU or from some other source, but I can still remember sitting there looking their invitation over and thinking to myself about what my priorities are and what they say about me.

As a young teenager I decided that women deserved the same rights as men. This was an obvious necessity to me then, and still today. Sure, I may make jokes every now-and-then that we should never have given them the right to vote, but it is just a joke. Really.

My mother told me that my name would have been Tina if I had been a girl, after her mother whose name was Clementina. I've long wondered what my life would have been like if I had been born Tina. Would I have had the same opportunities as I've had as a male? I think so since my sister had the same opportunities as I have had, but still I want this to be a just country with equal opportunities for everyone regardless of their sex or race. That means you can not just take these things for granted.

It is because of this belief that I joined NOW. I knew enough about NOW at that time to know that their leadership was, at times, self-defeating in their zeal for equal protection under the law, but I believed that NOW had earned a special place in our society for being the foremost champion of women's rights. Therefore I would join NOW and try to help point them in the right direction.

I'm not going to go into a long song and dance about all the persnickedy details that always arise in any conversation about equal rights. There is no shortage of special cases where it is not clear how to resolve the differences in treatment of the two sexes. I will spare you that, and merely note that the members of NOW themselves don't agree among themselves, either. And I also won't discuss the position I am in of being a man who pays women for sex except to say that I'm sure there are many more like me who are good members of NOW.

Oh, boy! I get the NOW quarterly newsletter and it is full of one rant after another. I hope that the NOW rank-and-file are more reasonable, but NOW's leadership is nuts! I believe the most liberating thing NOW could do to promote the empowerment of women everywhere is to encourage individual women to become business owners. However, NOW's quarterly newsletter is full of diatribes again anything capitalist. I am a critic of capitalism myself, but it is the only system that works at all. It seems that frustrated socialists everywhere are flocking to NOW.

Also, NOW spends a disproportionate amount of effort railing against how women are portrayed in movies and television and magazines. They have a few valid points, but I can't help but feel that their priorities are all screwed up, so to speak. NOW should channel that energy into something more productive instead of trying to play mind games that perhaps have a feel good affect on the ranters but which are otherwise a waste of time and effort. Enough of the culture wars!

So I answered my home telephone when it rang and it was a NOW telemarketer looking for a donation. My dues are paid up years in advance, but every six months or so they call for more, and once I did give them some extra, so now I guess I'm on the NOW sucker's list.

The person on the other end told me how NOW has endorsed Carol Moseley Braun as the Democratic party nominee for the 2004 United States presidency. I had read about that already and had gotten a big laugh out of it when it had happened, but now NOW was wanting me to give them money to support Braun's election bid? This time I wasn't laughing.

I was my usual polite self and said not now, but after hanging up I wished I'd told her I was going to support Condi Rice (a joke). Then, within a couple of hours, I got a phone call from GP. Remember him?

GP asked me what was new so I told him about the phone call I got from NOW. I have never self-identified as a liberal and certainly not as a Democrat, but then I'm also not a Republican like GP. GP laughed at my story and told me about a similar telephone call he had received from a Republican party operative he knew who was wanting a donation for President Bush's re-election bid. GP told him he would be happy to make a donation with one qualification - that Bush fire Attorney General John Ashcroft's ass. The fact that GP is a trial lawyer should explain why he does not like John Ashcroft.

Well, neither do I, and someday I'll post an editorial/rant of my own about the Attorney General. But this rant is about a different subject, and I'll just close it off for now.

Be seeing you.

Bashful

Quote of the week : "I feel honored that the Godfather of LPIN websites named me." -- Flyfisher, Friday, September 26, 2003, 06:15 PM.