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You know, I rarely agree with Bill Maher, but he nailed it when he said, “Something’s backwards when we vote for president based on trivial appearances and for Miss America based on the issues.”

People Magazine did their part to contribute to that semi-truth with a nice and fluffy interview with Hillary Clinton.

The hard-hitting and relavent questions will come in their next interview, when they ask her who the sexiest man in 2008 should be (fingers crossed for Gorby!).

Hillary’s fantasy date, alive or dead? Abraham Lincoln. If Abe was married to Hillary he might have enjoyed the ending of “Our American Cousin” a lot more than he did.

Here’s a great question too: “If your husband gave you a pass for one night and you could go on a date with any celeb, alive or dead, who would it be?” Hillary wimped out and answered “Abraham Lincoln” again. I heard that Melissa Etheridge is angry.

Beer or wine? Hillary said “both.” You can tell she’s in Indiana, can’t you? I’m surprised she didn’t answer, “depends on if I’m bowling or mowing the lawn.”

Hillary even took the opportunity to woo the votes of women in polygamist marriages:

“Many of these women were raised in the sect, isolated from the outside world from birth,” Clinton told People. “It takes an enormous amount of independent thinking to lift yourself out of the circumstance you’ve been born and raised in to say, ‘Wait a minute, this isn’t right.’”

Yeah, you have to be a strong, independent wife, or else you’ll end up with a husband who has sex with lots of other wom… nevermind.

I just read an article on MSN in which the author, Leslie Bennetts, urged wives to yell, nag, withhold sex, whatever it takes, to get their husbands to do half the housework.

What she fails to recognize is that the out-of-home work that most men do is far harder and more stressful, and takes many more hours. Study after study show that even when the wife works full-time (and many women don’t), the man works more hours and is more likely to have a more stressful and/or dangerous job. Those factors need to be taken into account when deciding how much housework the man should do.

If you’re into good, old fashioned, non-partisan politician and celebrity bashing while at the same time gathering extremely semi-reliable information, “Dickipedia” might be for you.

It’s still a little light on content, but I’m sure more is on the way. It’s inevitable.

Here’s Bush going nu-kew-lerr yesterday on a moron reporter who pretends not to know that “winning” in Afghanistan does not mean the war is over.

How upset was Bush? He said “Jihadist” — a word that the U.S. State Department all but forbids the use of. No, seriously, they do. How long will it be until Dennis Kucinich tries to impeach Bush on this basis?

As for the content of Bush’s outburst, too bad he can’t get this passionate during State of the Union speeches or Oval Office addresses:

That sound you heard after a reporter asked Michael Dukakis which candidate he was supporting for president was Hillary and Barack running off to hide.

Fortunately for them, Dukakis refused to offer an endorsement. Whew! That’d be like applying for a job as a school bus driver and attaching a letter of recommendation from Ted Kennedy.

Major apologies to the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams.

Tuesday night I read an article about how certain fish can reproduce without sex, but that it causes undesirable genetic alterations over time:

Not everyone in the animal kingdom needs to have sex to reproduce, but asexual species tend not to last as long as sexuals because, as the theory goes, asexuals are more susceptible to accumulating harmful mutations over many generations.

To witness this phenomenon without having to get in the water, simply go to what genetic biologists call a “Star Trek Convention”:

I suspect that some readers will respond to this post with some unjustified put-down like “sexist!” or “misogynist!” but I’m trying, in my blog, to not let fear of excoriation preclude me from writing what I honestly believe.

My guest today on my radio show was Carnell Smith, an expert on paternity fraud. He claimed that 30% of men who went to blood banks for paternity tests found that they were not–as the child’s mother claimed–the father. Smith went on to say that in most states, DNA evidence, in many cases is inadmissible. He estimated that, currently, one million men are paying child support for kids they did not father.

Of course, it’s outrageous that 30 states would enact such unfair-to-men laws. But why would a woman falsely claim that a man is the father of her child when he isn’t, thereby forcing him to unfairly pay many thousands of dollars in child support, and manipulate him into spending 18 years involved in raising a child he didn’t father? Smith says that these are the major reasons:
– He had the deepest pockets among the men she slept with
– She was trying to chain him to the relationship
– She thought he’d make the best father
– She was trying to lash out at the man

Of course, some men do despicable things to women. That’s not the point. The media has made us aware (ad nauseam) of the ills men perpetrate on women. In this post, I’m trying to bring to light the much underreported ills that a surprising number of women perpetrate on men.

While most women, like most men, are good people, women are unfairly cruel to men more often than many men think. It needn’t be as extreme as paternity fraud. For example, it can simply be your wife or live-in girlfriend dissembling (consciously or not) that she’s not viable in the workplace so she can only work part-time on some pleasant job like giving flute lessons, and that you therefore must be the beast of burden, working 40-60 hours a week on a job you might not like, but you’re forced to accept to pay her expenditures.

I want to reiterate that I believe that the majority of women, like the majority of men, behave ethically and lovingly to their romantic partner. But many don’t. And many guys are naive to that because the media focuses on the ills that men do to women but not vice versa. Men have also been conditioned, unfairly I deeply believe, to think they’re oppressors of women.

So, men, be vigilant to being taken advantage of by a woman, and if you believe it likely that you are being treated unfairly, don’t–before being convinced you’re wrong–cave when she pulls out the ploys: crying, withdrawing, yelling, and yes, playing the gender card by calling you “sexist” or “misogynist.”

Seeing that “Made in China” label on everything certainly does get ridiculous, but now even “Free Tibet” flags are made in China.

The business acumen of the Chinese has reached the genius level. They even end up profiting from people who want to demonstrate how much they hate them. This is so cunning a Clinton must have thought of it.

Hang on to your wallets. Hillary’s contingency planning just in case she loses the nomination and needs to run for a third Senate term in New York, where apparently her re-election plan is to give each New York voter $30:

From TheHill.com:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has requested nearly $2.3 billion in federal earmarks for 2009, almost three times the largest amount received by a single senator this year.

The sad part is, should she not win the nomination, she’ll think this is the least of what she’s owed by the peasants. She’ll want to punish the moronic minions with crippling taxes, and she’ll probably succeed — especially if McCain’s in the White House constantly trying to “smooth things over.”