Don't make Iowa a media diversion from Iraq

Ron Suresha | December 31, 2007

Don't make Iowa a media diversion from Iraq AAR blog open-thread topic starter today:  What's more relevant to you in the next week, New Years or Iowa? My response: You want us to talk about Iowa?! Or New Years?! Really?! Those choices are no choice at all. No offense if you're from Iowa (been there [...]

Craig toilet a toe-tapping tearoom tourist trap

Ron Suresha | December 30, 2007

Craig toilet a toe-tapping tearoom tourist trap The airport toilet stall where Larry Craig introduced the nation to the coded, undercover routine of toe-tapping closet fairies will soon begin charging an admission fee. “It barely covers the cost of having to replace the paper supplies,” commented anonymous airport personnel. “Everyone wants at least a dozen [...]

Kinsey 60 on track

Ron Suresha | December 30, 2007

Reached a tipping point this weekend in the prep for the Kinsey 60th anniversary retrospective – the point where I can start assembling chapters into a “master” document file. This means that the project is at least 75% finished. Of course, the last 10% of editorial details take up an inversely proportionate amount of time [...]

You can pick your candidate, but can you pick his platform?

Ron Suresha | December 29, 2007

You can pick your candidate — but can you pick his platform? Having trouble deciding among the candidates? Settle it now and learn exactly where they stand on the issues you care about most. Here's an excellent, free site that polls your opinions of the issues and figures out which Prezzy-wannabe is for you! <www.dehp.net/candidate/> [...]

Vermont Bears Against Bush push for impeachment

Ron Suresha | December 29, 2007

The impeachment bears in Brattleboro VT are just not shutting up about Bush and Cheney's war crimes, according to this CNN.com story from Friday. The antiBush leader Kurt Daims is not – as far as I am aware – a member of Bears Against Bush, though with his bushy beard and red beret, as pictured [...]

Excerpt from White Crane special Bears issue

Ron Suresha | December 27, 2007

Excerpt from White Crane special Bears issue Along with excerpts from Jeff Mann and Les Wright in the new issue of  White Crane Journal, beautifully themed, “The Bearable Rightness of Being,” WCJ just posted this excerpt from my contribution: When the Bears Go Over the Mountain In my Introduction to Bears on Bears in 2001 [...]

A Leatherman's Dungeon of the brain

Ron Suresha | December 26, 2007

I pulled this piece of crap out of my spam this morning: When you're tired of sorry 'profile' sites like Manhunt, Recon and Bigmuscle, and the flakes that use them, come to the website voted BEST LEATHER SITE of 2007! Stop by LeathermensDungeon.com today and join the fun at http://www.LeathermensDungeon.com These guys really know how [...]