Wonderland or Not

The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women

You’ve heard of woman nation,
Well, thats coming, baby.

I found this at a feminist site I peruse. There was a comment wondering where these women would fit on a list of most powerful people? I too wonder. Someday there will be such a list, and women may well prove dominant. Look at this list. Notice that power, in the majority of cases, is still money. No matter what gender you are talking about in the end it is all about the money.

You’ve heard of the law of selection,
Well, thats how were gonna do it, baby.
We allow men who wanna join us
The rest can just stay by themselves.

This long weekend for me will be about catching up. No way will I brave the holiday traffic to head west into the mountains. The traffic will be interminable. I spent last weekend at a state park hiking and rock climbing. I fell down a rather irritable mountain - yes almost straight down but with just enough of an incline to cause a rather gross and now rather crusty abrasion along the whole of my right leg. It was great though. One of the guys I went with actually fractured his ankle just walking along a rather rocky path. Who’s the man? Me obviously.

This weekend I’m going to watch tennis, hike locally, and finish some reading. I’ve been appointed to the board of a local Visual Arts Education Center and will consequently be attending an event there tomorrow. I’m going to hit up some yard sales.

Two thousand years of male society,
Laying fear and tyranny.
Seeking grades and money,
Clinging to values vain and phony.

I hear the crabs are good this weekend. I don’t really care, but I imagine I will hear that several more times this weekend.

Wonderland or Not will lighten it up for the weekend posting nonsensical dribble for your entertainment. Some links, some blog suggestions and some bad poetry is always a possibility. For those off on a last jaunt before summer ends. Take care.

Do you know that one day you lost your way, man?
Do you know that some day you have to pay, man?
Have you anything to say, man, except
Make no mistake about it, I’m the president, you hear?
I wanna make one thing clear, I’m the president, you hear?

Bless you Yoko but…

Let’s not talk of selection
it’s about who pays for the election
for us, a large bankroll
gets us out of that black hole

What do you do when your blogging time is limited? I’m sure many of you find yourself in this predicament.

I can only promise not to extend Billy Joel week into Billy Joel month.

My public service announcement for the week, for all the newbies heading off to college.
Studying on your bed is not likely to hurt your grades.

Things we should worry about: The poor can’t afford to eat right, and now I can’t afford to eat right.

“The Labor Department’s most recent inflation data showed that U.S. food prices rose by 4.2 percent for the 12 months ending in July, but a deeper look at the numbers reveals that the price of milk, eggs and other essentials in the American diet are actually rising by double digits.”

Mattel sues porn website over use of Barbie name. What Barbie isn’t a porn star? I always found it weird that adults would purchase hard plastic dolls with corset size waists, and hard plastic 36 D breasts, for their daughters to play with while still calling the vagina a pee pee or a yanni. Get a grip Mattell. Barbie has been pornographic since her inception.

Last week your friends made you fat. This week a virus makes you fat. I guess they decided they could make more money finding a cure for the virus than they could finding a cure for your choice of friends.
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The New York post calls Pia a “cord cutter”. I just call her Miss Savage because she has hired me to fend off the National Enquirer with my umbrella.

Dave is having some interesting philosophical discussions, as well as an interesting discussion on how free speech may or may not extend to the blogesphere, and our right to delete or ban those we do not necessarily want from our blogs.

Zenpro is boxing and school is no longer out for summer.

The Prattler is back. A good thing because that is where I get all my opinions.

Mizzy B has video chronicled her trip back to San Francisco, hopefully the words will follow.

For those still coming here to look for Vampire Bitches with Long Fingernails, please go here.

For those who came via the google search “my good shit”, you came to the right place. The good shit is further back.

One more thing.. To the kind soul who emailed me to let me know that people do not go down on blogs and suggested I get my sidebar back…..you would be surprised what people will go down on.

And oh yeah, I think Frank Rich stole my book. The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina

Peace

Cooper

In their May/June 2007 issue, Foreign Policy asked twenty-one leading thinkers “what is the one solution that would make the world a better place”.

21 Solutions to Save the World.

The leading thinkers include Amy Myers Jaffe - a Wallace S. Wilson fellow in energy studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and associate director of the Rice University Energy Program - who talks about oil dependency and suggests that in order to remove our dependency on oil, oil which is now or will soon be controlled by nations instead of by large oil companies which will limit access to many in the future, she suggests we look at electricity as the medium of the future.

In “Flip the Swtich” She says…..

“There’s no escape from the reality that we will be largely dependent on these national behemoths for future oil supplies. The implications of this restructuring of the oil industry should be sounding alarm bells in the capitals of major oil-consuming countries.”

Another well respected leading thinker whose opinion they included - Stephen Lewis, the former U.N. special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa - gives his answer in a post The Second Sex he claims that

“It can safely be said that the struggle for gender equality is the single most important struggle on the planet”

He hopes that the initiative for the UN to create a high level international agency for women gives the best opportunity in years in regard to this struggle.

The suggestion that it “staffed by experts on women’s issues, rather than the motley compendium of generalists within many of the existing U.N. agencies who now merely pretend to drive the gender agenda.” is something we can all hope the UN takes into consideration.

All twenty-one are well worth reading but require a subscription for full text.

It is also worth noting that I will keep my subscription despite the fact of the twenty-one leading thinkers….. they only included two women.

Way to go Foreign Policy.

“Times” list of this years most influential people. Look at it and tell me you do not understand why we are in trouble.

Bratt Pitt???

John Mayer?????????/ Love what he does with his fingers but seriously folks.

Rachael Ray??????????????????????????????

The reason this is posted is because the poll where you vote closes at midnight and I just happened to read that fact at the
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