the video below is an excerpt of a piece by Lesley
Stahl of CBS’s 60 Minutes

here, she recounts the the failed interview with
French President Nicolas Sarkozy

you may recall that Mr. Sarkozy terminated the
interview when Ms. Stahl asked,

It seems that every day we are hearing another
story about your wife. What’s going on?

the question related to ongoing rumors about the
Sarkozys’ marital difficulties; and 60 Minutes
apparently felt that questions about their guest’s
personal problems were not off-limits

in fact, in the piece Ms. Stahl says,

the day we interviewed him, Paris was buzzing with
rumors that she had left him - again; but ask him
about it - How dare you!

How dare you! would seem to be a reasonable
question; what is the justification for asking anyone,
let alone a visiting head of state, to discuss rumored
or real personal problems before an audience of
millions?

further, if President Sarkozy had agreed to answer
Ms. Stahl’s “What’s going on?”, where would have
her line of questioning gone?

where would she have drawn the line between what
is public and what is private and off-limits?

where do you draw that line?

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Andrea Dworkin, author, activist and one of the
founders of the feminist movement has said,

All personal, psychological, social, and institution-
alized domination on this earth can be traced back
to its source: the phallic identities of men.

she has also said,

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man’s identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man’s worth is located in his pride in phallic identity.

“Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.”

these statements are intentionally provocative; and
are dismissed by many on this basis alone

others dismiss Dworkin’s remarks as “radical feminist
propaganda”

but, if viewed as psychological rather than political
statements, are they really so easy to quickly and
totally dismiss?

What would Freud have to say about Dwarkin’s
contentions?

What would he say about Dwarkin herself?

What would you say?

Sigmund Freud considered Love and Work to be the
two pillars of sanity

by Love, he meant deep and satisfying connections
with others

Work referred to engagement in tasks that we
regard as meaningful, and that bring us a sense of
fulfillment

Freud’s notions about the importance of what we do
and how well we are connected are worth pondering
about when we feel out of it, down in the dumps or
just plain lost

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they say that, “there is someone for everyone”

but finding that special someone can be a problem;
especially if you are a little off center, like the growing
number of self-proclaimed geeks -

lovable people, perhaps like you and me, who have
spent way more of their free time with machines than
with humans

what can these romantically changed people do?

well, this is one of those cases where the computer
can be part of the solution, as well as part of the
problem

i give you sweetongeeks.com

here’s some of what you can find there

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check it out and check out this piece by ABC News;
which puts the spotlight on this service

in the video below, noted emoti-physicist Carl Sagan
speculates about the existence of a 3rd dimension

his work on this topic has brought him much criticism
and scorn

often referred to as the 3D nut-job by colleagues
in the emoti-scientific community, Dr. Sagan valiantly
pursues this line of research

his goal is to describe a world of three physical
dimensions, obtain evidence of its existence, and
eventually establish contact - contact with our
world

check out his pioneering efforts in the video below

could it be that somewhere, in some world of four
physical dimensions, some being is checking out a
3D video of Ed Witten and his speculations about the
extra dimensions of M Theory?