Men are more visually oriented because given the males best ‘impregnate and leave’ reproductive strategy, the best criteria for selecting genetically desirable females were primarily visually observable physical attributes.

For a male who engaged in a typical ‘impregnate and move on‘ strategy only young, strong, fast, and healthy, females had a chance of surviving pregnancy and protecting the offspring without him.

The male impregnate and leave strategy, however, leaves relatively little time and energy for complex evaluation of potential mates.

A quick visual evaluation is sometimes all that is possible, and usually, all that is necessary. The consequences of looser evaluation are not serious. When in doubt, impregnate and move on.   more »

What was Bush on at yesterday's press conference? He seemed pretty manic. Maybe the anti-depressant was kicking in. More likely, a couple of 'blues' [amphetamines would have done the trick.

Your president giggled and grinned while discussing World War III today.

"But this -- we got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding [grinning] World War III [end grinning], it seems like you [begin giggling] ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge [end giggling] necessary to make a nuclear weapon."

Hahahaha! Yeah! Zinger! That's funny shit.   more »

The Dalai Lama has become, in the minds of much of the Western world, a pop-cultural icon.

Mentioning the Dalai Lama conjures up images of Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Harrison Ford, Sharon Stone and the Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch.

Accordingly, Tibetan Buddhism, the religion over which His Holiness presides, seems to be the faith of choice for the rich and famous.

And the Dalai Lama appears to bask in his celebrity as much as his famous followers bask in his serenity.

The glamorous faces; the cool, trendy Tibetan art; the almost hippie-ish, countercultural feel of everything that bears the Dalai Lama’s image   more »

The ultimate nightmare for White House/Pentagon designs on Middle East energy resources is not Iran after all: it's a unified Iraqi resistance, comprising not only Sunnis but also Shi'ites.

"It's the resistance, stupid" - along with "it's the oil, stupid". The intimate connection means there's no way for Washington to control Iraq's oil without protecting it with a string of sprawling military "super-bases".

The ultimate, unspoken taboo of the Iraq tragedy is that the US will never leave Iraq, unless, of course, it is kicked out. And that's exactly what the makings of a unified Sunni-Shi'ite resistance is set to accomplish.

At this critical juncture, it's as if the overwhelming majority of Sunnis and Shi'ites are uttering a collective cry of "we're mad as hell, and we won't take it anymore".   more »

Hot tip: Invest in "Disaster Capitalism." This new investment sector is the core of the emerging "new economy" that generates profits by feeding off other peoples' misery:

Wars, terror attacks, natural catastrophes, poverty, trade sanctions, market crashes and all kinds of economic, financial and political disasters.

In this Orwellian future, everything must be seen with new eyes: "Disasters" are "IPOs," opportunities to buy into a new "company."

Corporations like Lockheed-Martin are the real "emerging nations" of the world, not some dinky countries. They generate huge profits, grow earnings. And seen through the new rose-colored glasses of "Disaster Capitalism" they are hot investment opportunities.   more »