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How Many Partners Makes You Promiscuous?: More On The Never-Ending Debate

I’m not going to tell you exactly how many people I’ve slept with, partly because I don’t know, partly because I stopped caring long ago, and partly because it’s none of your business. But I will tell you it’s more than French First Lady Carla Bruni’s reported number: 15. Way more. I share that information to make the point that how and why we choose our sexual partners differs for everyone; there’s no single perfect number that will make you: a) happy and b) not a slut.

But to read Virginia Ironside’s recent tirade against Bruni’s perceived promiscuity is to think you’ve landed back a few centuries. Any hint that we might have come a long way, baby, that there was ever such a thing as feminism, let alone the misguidedly labeled “do-me” feminism, is forgotten as Ironside leaves us with such gems as more than fifteen lovers means you’re “starting to demean sex itself” and “it’s no longer something special that you do only with the chosen few.”

Rachel Kramer Bussel has written extensively about intimate matters. It is possible that while an being an expert of sorts she doesn’t know about the button. The button goes deep, probably a genetic mutation leftover from humanity’s cave dwelling mate or your linage dies days. Its pretty kool or strange or just curious that I or a passing reader has the power to push this button of complete strangers thousands of miles away with mere words written in cyberspace. Its the disapproval button. Rachel presses Ironsides who in turn presses Rachel’s. The Virginia Ironside’s are the Ayatollah Khomeini’s/James Dobson’s of sex, whom in a round about way, Rachel owes a debt of gratitude. If not for all the button pushing and the ensuing and never ending battle over who should have the last word on sex, Rachel gets the attention required to make a living – a similar phenomenon worked out well for Henry Miller. My problem with Rachel is that she’s a little boring, though vastly more interesting then Virginia. This is probably a side long observation, but I wish that talks about intimacy were intimate. That they were primarily confidences exchanged between friends and lovers rather then a commercial endeavor. Since they are not in the Age of the Media and the never ending thirst for content, Ironside also owes Rachel for her living as well.

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Some other blogs were quick to pick up on this so it might be overkill, but it is part of such a surreal cultural narrative that I’m posting up the entire article for those that might have missed it, McCain the Antichrist?

Biblical scholars in Colorado Springs have uncovered startling evidence that Senator John McCain may be the Antichrist. Their conclusions, while highly controversial, may have a dramatic impact on the 2008 elections, since many Bible-believing Christians have already expressed doubts about McCain’s fealty to Christianity.

The analysis was conducted by the respected True Bible Society, and it will be published next month in the End Times Journal.

The analysis was especially ironic, given that it came out just one day after McCain was accused of subtly hinting that Barack Obama could be the Antichrist. McCain ran a commercial depicting Obama as “The One,” giving rise to charges that he was sending a subliminal messages to anti-Obama Christians.

“What started us looking at this issue is the fact that Senator McCain has declared his intention to maintain US forces in Iraq for a hundred years,” said David Jenkins, a leading Biblical scholar. “That means that McCain wants to control Babylon for at least a century.” According to many scholars of the Book of Revelation, the Antichrist will try to rebuild the ancient city of Babylon in order to use it as a springboard for an international effort at world domination. Ultimately, the Antichrist will marshal forces from Babylon to spark a showdown with Christian and Jewish-led forces in the battle of Armageddon.

“We believe that the End Times is near, based on the pattern of wars, earthquakes. and other strange phenomena we’ve been witnessing since the start of the New Millennium,” said Jenkins. “Given that it may be imminent, the person who controls Babylon must be the Antichrist.” Until 2003, many Christians believed that Saddam Hussein might be the Antichrist, since he started excavations to restore Babylon in the mid 1970s. But Hussein’s death meant that the Antichrist is someone else. Since Obama wants to get out of Iraq, he can’t be the Antichrist either, concluded Jenkins.

Jenkins said his teams suspicions were further heightened when genealogical research showed that McCain’s great-grandfather was actually not John McCain, but John Mihai. Mihai is an ancient Romanian name, and according to Bible-believing Christians, the Antichrist is likely to be a Romanian. “What clinched it for us was that the name Mihai means ‘who is like the Lord,’” said Jenkins. “As far as we’re concerned, that was enough. It means that McCain might easily pretend to be the Redeemer.”

McCain’s geniality and folksiness are consistent with his being the Antichrist, Jenkins said. “Many people think that the Antichrist will be a evil-seeming leader, but in fact the Bible tells us that he will be charming.”

I started to do a little reseach and after reading fifty pages of stuff about the antichrists and AntiChrist plus the Ed Times its safe to say at this rate in a few years we’ll all have been accused of being the AntiChrist.