Dr. Wingnut

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

From an essay, “Writing About Sex,” by Wallace Shawn from Harpers, August 2009.

Sex is of course an extraordinary meeting place of reality and dream, and it’s also—what is not perhaps exactly the same thing—an extraordinary meeting place of the meaningful and the meaningless.  The big toe, for example, is one part of the human body, human flesh shaped and constructed in a particular way.  The penis is another part of the body, located not too far away from the big toe and built out of fundamentally the same materials.  The act of sex, the particular shapes of the penis and the vagina, are the way they are because natural selection has made them that way.  There may be an adaptive value to each particular choice that evolution made, but from our point of view as human beings living our lives, the various details present themselves to us as arbitrary.  It can only be seen as funny that men buy magazines containing pictures of breasts but not magazines with pictures of knees or forearms.  It can only be seen as funny that demagogues give speeches denouncing men who insert their penises into other men’s anuses—and then go home to insert their own penises into their wives’ vaginas!  (One might have thought it obvious that either both of these acts are completely outrageous or neither of them is.)  And yet the interplay and permutations of the apparently meaningless, the desire to penetrate anus or vagina, the glimpse of the naked breast, the hope of sexual intercourse or the failure of it, lead to joy, grief, happiness, or desperation for the human creature.

I thought that the essay in its entirety was very interesting and made many points worth thinking about on a topic which is so tantalizing, yet is treated as such a source of taboo.

It’s generally accepted to be the fourth dimension, height, width, depth, and time, but now physics is trying to quantify its properties.  The following article in Wired explains: What is time?.

There was bad news for God this week as the well-known deity was forced to recall thousands of examples of His popular Human Being after reports that the model could be prone to unexpected attacks of unbelievable stupidity.

Initial reports of blithering idiocy emerged from the United States last year but these were thought to be isolated incidents caused by people who are so thick that if a floormat was touching their accelerator pedal would prefer to scream ‘Aaaaaaargh’ until they drove into a river rather than simply moving the mat backwards with their foot.  However, it now seems the monumental stupidity is more widespread and may cause some Human Beings to decide that the best course of action in the event of being in a car with a throttle that won’t release is to telephone someone rather than to, for example, put the fucking car into neutral and bring it to a halt using the brakes as normal.

Jesus Christ, a member of the original God family who now runs his Father’s business, is expected to make a full statement shortly.  In the meantime, the Archbishop of Canterbury, a senior manager at God’s UK operation, has told reporters that there are almost certainly Human Beings here in Britain that will need to be examined for signs of being so sodding thick that they probably shouldn’t have a driving licence in the first place.  “It’s too early to say how this might affect people in the UK,” Mr Canterbury is quoted as saying.  “But we have every reason to believe that there are some Human Beings that may being so brain fartingly stupid that if the throttle in their car became stuck, they would never think simply to depress the clutch and coast to a halt”.

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