Bad taste: from the headmistress’s office:
Mark Twain once wrote, Wagner’s music is not as bad as it sounds. Listening to Wagner, however, seems to easier than talking about it, since it took Wagner’s biographer forty years to write a book about the composer.
Still, in the eyes of history forty years is but a blink - Hell, in the eyes of your average Lost & Found department it’s less than a small gnat’s fart.
In politics though, forty years is like a cross between a very slow snail and an Ice Age. Even ten years in politics can be like watching pubic hair grow on Michelangelo’s David.
And yet, people still want to go into politics - some of them desperately so. In a week where the beleaguered Wolfowitz offered all comers to have sex with him or his girlfriend, in Belgium some woman who’s running for the senate offered to give blowjobs to 40.000 people who’d be willing to stand up for real democracy in action.
Sadly for her, her offer came at the same moment that some spoil-sport scientists revealed that oral sex causes throat cancer. Come to think of it, that might not stop her fans…
Mind you, as political campaigns go, offering sex is a risky business. Bill Clinton just about got away with it, though - as far as we know, so far - he was a rank amateur compared to the likes of this Belgium candidate, or even his predecessor Kennedy (or most Republicans, it seems…)
Anyway, it’s probably very sexual-politically incorrect to say this but if you don’t want to blow your chances for success you must look the part. Granted, men can be very indiscriminate but would you want someone like this offer you her services? Or this one… or this…?
Straying slightly - but yes, only very slightly - from the subject: what you really don’t want is to be the desk cop on duty in Japan, when some disturbed teenager comes in and then actually gives you a head.
(And while we’re doing these bad taste jokes: lots of men dream of being able to perform oral sex on themselves. To cut out the middle head, so to speak. This though might not be the most satisfying way of going about it.)
Anyway, enough of the bad taste politics leave in most people’s mouth (and the lame jokes; though I didn’t even take the opportunity here to refer to the mouth of that campaigning Belgium lady - oops… But enough of that now - really, I promise: enough already!)
So, I leave you with some very happy tidings. True, it’s not been an easy week for quite a few of us. Canada has gone to the bad, the Welsh language has come under serious attack and the Cyprus army is being threatened by ladies’ accessories.
Still, I’m very proud that (even though I didn’t take the photo myself) I may be the first to claim that here there is finally proof that Jesus lives and has returned - the Buddhist way, that is.
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