Happy Valentine's Day (4 of 4): Cute Annoying Young Couples

For Valentine's Day (1 of 4): Love Around the World

Quote of the Day/Week- Sonia Braga

Perhaps it is a sign of the times, but the very attractive Brazilian actress Sonia
Braga, best-known in the USA for her role in the film "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
(2005), who is now 61 years old, has seen a shift in the the roles she is offered.

Braga was a sex goddess and she was romantically linked to Robert Redford. She was
also known for being in some of the most erotic movie scenes in the 1970s.

Here is her quote:

"And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers."

SIDEBAR: The answer to our Rabbit Ears Quiz on the animated version of "Godzilla" is A.

This and That- Apparently Smart People Have Intimacy Issues

I was thumbing through the current issue of "Psychology Today" this afternoon in a public library when this article caught my attention. The headline read something like: "Why Smart People Have Less Sex."

I did not take any notes from the article, but my assumption is that if a guy is reading Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" in its entirety, well yes, it might well take precendent over other things.

The article did mention (I believe) that if men make more money, they are more likely to have more sex. I did not see any mention in the article of how income levels affected women's sex lives.

But, I found out tonight, that this matter has been discussed for a while. In a Sept. 2008, a blogger from Palo Alto, Calif., where Stanford- a smart school-is siad that a recent test had found that teenagers with low iqs in the 100 range were up to five times more likely to be sexually actually than teens with high iqs in the 1200-1300 range.

The blogger later mentioned that only 56 percent of undergrads at Priceton University were having sex while only 65 percent of MIT grads had found time to make love and presumably kick butt on their final exams.

All of this could be argued though I suppose, as everything these days seems to be argued irregardless if it is from the ACLU or the Tea Party (editorial comment: we prefer the ACLU). And, there is the case of Karen Owen, a Duke University student who made a Powerpoint presentation on her thesis in 2010 about her college romps which included having sex with 13 male Blue Devils athletes, most of whom were reportedly lacrosse players. Maybe, those guys weren't reading Tolstoy.

Quote of the Week- Jean Paul Sartre

While putting this piece together, I was struck by the irony that my late Turkish father and the late French Marxist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) both enjoyed smoking pipes even though my father was a bit of a right-wing Turkish nationalist!

Sartre, who was also among the leading atheist intellectuals in France, is known for his widely-read short story collection "Le Mur/The Road" (1938) and his philosophy collection "Being and Nothingness" (1943).

I found a copy of a book called "Sartre for Beginners" (1998), written by Philip Thordy and Howard Reed and published by Icon Books, at the Internationalist Bookstore in Chapel Hill, NC.

Icon Books recently published a book by English author Kate Munro called "The First Time" about modern sexuality, which also sounds like an interesting read.

Due to time constraints are quote today is going to be extremely short; we are planning to have quotes from many French people past and present in July. This entry is part of our month-long series on quotes from left-wing, radical figures. Here is the quip from Sartre:

"Hell is other people."

SIDEBAR: While I was trying to put this entry together at the Wilson, NC, public library (not really where I am at!), a group of children came through the doors and they really annoyed me. As the late American comic actor W.C. Fields once said: "No one qho hate dogs and children can be all that bad."

I don't dislike children as individuals, but when there are large groups of them, they get on my last nerve, which is perhaps why it is a good thing that I am not a father.

But, I found this interesting disclosure from someone who did not give their name or hometown on myworstsecret.com who professes an even more profound distaste for children than I do. This person and I are probably very different in other aspects of life, which I will go into after showing what he or she said:

"I hate children. I really do. Oddly enough, I'm pro-life and have a 2 year old. I don't want kids to DIE, I just can't stand them."

Personally, I am a moderate liberal (though I love to quote socialists; it must come from being surrounded by Yosemite Sam Republicans) and I am pro-choice. Also, I would not use the word hate for how I feel about children, but in groups of two or more, they do tend to profoundly annoy me!

Ironically, I had a post on this blog for Children's Day in Turkey, which is on April 23rd....

Things We Learned on Twitter- Tea Baggers Say the Darndest Things

If people like this are actually elected, I may have to move to the tea capital of Sri Lanka.

Here is what the latest Tea Party darling Christine O'Donnell who is now the GOP candidate for a US Senate race in Delaware said during an MTV interview regarding what is and what is not infidelity, according to a tweet from HuffPostComedy:

"It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart is comitting adultery, so you can't masterbate without lust."

Hey, she said it.

And, no we are not making this up!

An Actual Prayer I Said Last Night..........

This will both prove just how religious I am and just how desperate I am (it should also help indicate how many people read this blog!):

"Dear God,

Please help me make love to a woman by the end of the year!"

AMEN