Monday with Rain

[nightdog_barks]

Cold rain -- 45 degrees (7.22 Celsius). Slept fairly well, although I had some odd dreams which I can't remember at all now (they were already fading by the time I woke up).

Anyway, here's a bit more of Craig Ferguson, from American On Purpose -- this is from when he was seventeen years old (putting it behind a cut because it's about gender stereotypes, and while I thought it was pretty funny in its adolescent male obliviousness, others might not):



Among my peers, the idea that any normal female would genuinely desire to have sex was dismissed as nonsense. We'd been taught from an early age that sex was shameful and bad, that men wanted it all the time because they were slaves to their appetites, and that women were good, they didn't like or want sex but would allow it in order to have babies, or because they were drunk, or English. No one actually said this out loud, it was just hinted at.



Also, what planet is George Will living on?

Twenty years from now, the country is going to be spending a larger portion of its GDP on health care than it is now for three reasons. We're getting older, and as we age, we get more chronic diseases that interact with one another. Second, we're getting richer; we can afford to buy more medicine. And, third, medicine is becoming more competent. Therefore, we're going to spend more on health care.

I'll just assume that's the imperial "we," kthxbai. Source.

Comments

[perspi.livejournal.com]

YAY, for sleep! :) *twirls, shows off new seasonal icon*

You know, I think everyone should get a pass when they're seventeen. I was clueless. And, you know, seventeen. That said: Craig Ferguson now, writing about being seventeen? HILARIOUS.

As for me: I just put up a list post and didn't cut it, so if y'all think it's too frightening a thing to have popping up on your f-list, I'll do so. And now I'm going to have some hummus via a red-bell-pepper delivery system, and I'm going to do some doublechecking of percentages with my calculator. :)

[misanthropicobs.livejournal.com]

The quote from Craig Ferguson's book reminded me of one of my g'father's favorite expressions (one I think of often when I have to deal with teenagers) - all of them should be put in a barrel with a bung hole & the bung removed once a day to feed/water them then replace until they turned at least 24.

As for George Will he hasn't been a resident of this planet for a very long time, but then none of the so-called "pundits" have a clue about what life in this country is actually like.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Craig gets major points for having changed his views as he grew up. Many men do not.

This NPR piece on the teenage brain this morning cheered me immensely, since I have to live with a teenager:

The Teen Brain: It's Just Not Grown Up Yet (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124119468&ps=cprs).

ETA: And WTF is up with George Will and that "we" business that does not apply to the rest of us?

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

My dreams last night involved being menaced by a horse that looked like a terra-cotta statue come to life. It was one of my dreams where flight is the natural mode of transportation, like walking - I was hovering in the air and managed to speed away.

I've got to get a copy of this book, it seems.