A man’s very identity is wrapped up in his penis. It’s both the visible evidence of his virility and his ultimate power symbol. Every known society has shrouded the penis in some form of hero worship.

Therefore, if a man is not up to the "social standard" with his penis size, his hardness, his giddy-up or his durability during sex, he is made to feel less than adequate.

Not surprisingly, then, the size of a man’s penis becomes one of his life-long super big insecurities.

I have counseled too-many-to-count men, explaining that Mother Nature made the vaginal canal about the same length as an average sized penis—5 to 7 inches. It's a made-to-fit order.   more »

aA liberal bourgeois romantic is a hypocritical capitalist: one whose intentions are socialist but whose priorities are capitalist. They are the “good intentioned” proponents of free trade.

What they refuse to acknowledge is that free trade is anything but free. Although it allows the global North free market range, it leaves the global South in shackles.

Free trade is a modern euphemism for unrestricted global capitalism.

We call it free trade when national and corporate interests unite to increase their profit margin while simultaneously manipulating international trade pacts.   more »

The ability of multi-billionaires like Murdoch

to dictate the news makes a mockery of

the supposed “freedom of the press” in America

In reality the news media is entirely controlled

by small number of very rich people,

who vet the news in order to secure

and augment their wealth and power

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Keywords: corporate, reactionary, murdoch, capitalism, media, fox, wsj

Is the US rattling the sabre in advance of an attack on Iran? Or is it merely rattling its cage, as it still pretends to be a power in the region in spite of being locked into an unwinnable war in Iraq?

The most obvious aim to divert attention from the catastrophe of Iraq. The US is reaping the expected bitter fruits of its ill-conceived adventurism in Mesopotamia.

Now it's trying to sell an escalated version of the same failed policy by trying to make Iran its scapegoat and fabricating evidence of Iranian activities in Iraq.

Ironically, Saddam Hussein used the very same scare tactic, invoking the “Iranian threat” to extort money, loyalty and military hardware from the region and the world, only to turn them later against his suppliers.

The hardline Zionists [is that a tautology?] have been working overtime to demonize Iran and Ahmadinejad.   more »

Most Americans now believe that Bush's decision to invade Iraq was a terrible mistake. They see that it has turned out badly, and think that it has made us less safe.

But there is another, less discussed reason why the war was an act of madness: War always has unforeseen consequences. Making war is like playing dice with God -- using His dice.

This is why war should always be a last resort. What's stunning about the Iraq war is that its architects not only ignored this obvious truth, but also ignored the consequences that could have been, and were, foreseeable.

To start an unprovoked war on false pretenses and pie-in-the-sky promises of a vast regional transformation, besides being unethical, is an act of almost cosmic folly. To put it in Christian terms, it is the cardinal sin -- the sin of pride.   more »