The Life and Times of the Counterfeit Erection
The head of the Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau for the Hong Kong Customs Office, recently reported that eighty percent of the counterfeit drugs seized are used to treat impotence. This means that despite all the diseases out there that require treatment, from heart disease to restless leg syndrome, the main concern is penis performance. [...]
Old Buildings and the Age of Raze
There is a famous line in the film, Chinatown. John Houston’s Noah Cross character, proclaims, “I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” I am not sure about politicians anymore, and the whores of today may not be as respectable overtime as the prostitutes of legend. But we [...]
The Enduring Easter Bunny Fetish
I was going to write something more serious when my eye caught a photo on the Sunday Los Angeles Times where two security guards were trying to wrest a large plastic trash bag from the hands of one of the prodigious street vendors working the downtown area. The large plastic trash bag was filled with [...]
The Vintage Whine of Academia
Some years ago when asked his opinion about campus politics, Henry Kissinger said, “University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” This was an interesting response and one that has endured with me for quite some time. Nevertheless, when confronting academia, socially or otherwise, it isn’t long before Kissinger’s explanation of the [...]
When Unemployment Makes You Goofy
These are tough times. These are tough times globally, but for the United States this is also no day a the beach. These are tough times economically, what with personal wealth devastated by the real estate market, the depletion of pensions funds. Money is scarce and credit is tight. What money there is in the [...]