Always a Groomsman, Never a Fuck Buddy

I'm so stupid. I should be asleep (3 hours ago). But since I couldn't sleep, I took the personality test on OkCupid, and I'm The Boy Next Door. The description is great...

On paper, most girls would name the Boy Next Door as their ideal mate. In the real world, however, you're often passed over for more dangerous or masculine men. You're the typical "nice guy:" without just a touch of cockiness, you're doomed with girls. A shoulder to cry on? Okay, sure. But never a penis to hold.

Hilarious, but the next paragraph is a bit frightening...

More than any other type, Boys Next Door evolve as they get older. As we said, many find true love, but some fail miserably in the search. These tarnished few grow up to be The Men Next Door, who are creepy as hell, offering backrubs to kids and what not.

I'm not too worried. Not yet anyway. I think I'll be working on that cockiness over the summer.

FSKB Science

I heard about this news story last week, but didn't blog on it. There's a debate over the function of the female orgasm.

Evolutionary scientists have never had difficulty explaining the male orgasm, closely tied as it is to reproduction.

But the Darwinian logic behind the female orgasm has remained elusive. Women can have sexual intercourse and even become pregnant - doing their part for the perpetuation of the species - without experiencing orgasm. So what is its evolutionary purpose?

It goes on to talk about a book written by Dr. Elisabeth A. Lloyd. She asserts that the female orgasm serves no purpose; that it's an artifact of the development of the fetus. Like nipples on men. Yeah, I didn't really care about it all that much either, except when I read the whole story, I saw this theory from another pair of doctors...

Among the theories that Lloyd addresses in her book is one proposed in 1993, by Dr. R. Robin Baker and Dr. Mark A. Bellis, at Manchester University in England. In two papers published in the journal Animal Behaviour, they argued that female orgasm was a way of manipulating the retention of sperm by creating suction in the uterus. When a woman has an orgasm from one minute before the man ejaculates to 45 minutes after, she retains more sperm, they said.

Furthermore, they asserted, when a woman has intercourse with a man other than her regular sexual partner, she is more likely to have an orgasm in that prime time span and thus retain more sperm, presumably making conception more likely. They postulated that women seek other partners in an effort to obtain better genes for their offspring.

So they're saying women are hard-wired cheaters. I don't really believe that. I just liked the wording they used.

Adventures of Link

I added a handful of links on the sidebar there. Right Thinking is my suggested reading, the others are just a bunch of the bookmarks I had in my "Political Crap" folder.

The Truth Can't Find It's Shoes

Ever run into a foaming-mouth liberal and listen to them go off about the 100,000 Iraqi civilians that have died since the war began? Well it turns out it's less than a quarter of that figure (and that's including both civilian and military casualties). Of course, those rabid lefties certainly cannot be swayed by facts, and Tim Blair has a round-up.

Peter Erdman in the Toledo Blade imagines how much better things might be under President Kerry:

Over 100,000 of Iraq’s people would still be alive.

They might still be alive even now, if Kerry had told George W. Bush about that secret plan of his.

Have a look. Mark Twain is often dubiously attributed with the quote, "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." I think the truth lost its shoes somewhere.

A New Hope

I ate at Panera today, and in the parking lot was a little hatchback with a bunch of bumper stickers. There was a System of a Down sticker, something that looked like another band sticker, and a 93X Rocks sticker back there. But down at the bottom, there was a W sticker, a Bush-Cheney sticker and another that said, "I miss Ronald Reagan." It's good to know I'm not the only person in Rochester with a political identity crisis.

Islamofascist Padawans

I'd like to take a moment to point out one of the big problems we face in the world, specifically regarding Islamic fundamentalism. Look at this picture. That little boy has absolutely NO IDEA what any of them are screaming about. Kids learn behaviour as they grow up, and this is the behaviour a large portion of Muslim children are surrounded by their whole lives. Sad, really.

Desperation

If you want a reason NOT to use the free services of plentyoffish.com... this is definitely it.

Take note of the response to "Do drugs?"

Thanks, eHarmony, for refusing my patronage. /flip

Someone shoot me.

Full House makes my head hurt. Why do I watch it?

uh-WITH uh-TEETH-uhhh

[WITH_TEETH] is out today. I looked for it at Wal-Mart at about 3:15 AM. I didn't think they'd have it, and I was correct in my assumption. So I'll have to swing by Best Buy on my way to work. I did make a stop at nin's online store, which just opened, and suprisingly, they're selling the CD for $10.99, cheaper than amazon.com and probably cheaper than Best Buy. And they're selling the Still CD again, so if you never got Still, GO F***ING BUY IT. Even if you don't like NIN, Still is a great little CD to relax to and it's only $9.99. Seriously. My mom likes Still. It was in my CD player once when she borrowed my car. This request isn't about my "man-crush" on Trent; it's about the fact that he's had all of his money literally stolen from him by his former manager, and I'd like to help him get paid. I'm a capitalist, and I could give two s***s about his politics. So that's why I'm pushing the new album now. I downloaded it because I'm going to buy it, and I encourage everyone else who downloaded it to do the same. And if you're not interested in With Teeth, give Still a try. It's a lot of mellow, put-you-to-sleep piano music. Speaking of sleep, I should be in bed, or I'm going to sleep in and not get the new album before work.

{/incoherent rambling off}

What the Full House?

Why the hell did Full House ever have an 8 season run? X Files had a 9 season run. Star Trek TNG, DS9 and Voyager each had 7 season runs. Shit, Friends had 9 seasons. Who in the hell watched Full House? I see there are tons of people on the imdb message boards, chatting it up about how great the show was... I guess I'm just trying to figure out what they're smoking.

File this under random anger-babble...