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I love the "NextBlog" button. Once out of forty or fifty times, it comes up with something truly amazing. That's how I found this blog {Warning! Adults only!}, a blow-by-blow account... No, better rephrase that... A detailed account of the working life of a New York stripper and (apparantly) part-time porn star. Here's a short PG-rated sample. Commenting on the man who was the guest of honor at a bachelor party they were entertaining at, she writes:

he helped out & partook, but kept his cool. we do admire that. he was one of the good ones. I could just tell. he appreciated our beauty, but we knew this one really loved his woman & only had eyes for her. sometimes that makes guys act very hostile, but this one handled it like a real man.

Isn't that special. The strippers have hierarchies of behavior for clients at bachelor parties. It's not that I'm surprised they have standards of comparison, it's that I'm surprised that some men are capable of acting more decently than others. I always figured that if you and your friends were the types to invite strippers to a bachelor party in the first place, you probably felt you were so macho and so fucking special that no rules applied whatsoever.

 
Pass rice to Bush

And speaking of the President, I got a piece of email from a friend inviting me to send a bag of rice to the White House because:

In the 1950s, Fellowship of Reconciliation began a similar protest, which is credited with influencing President Eisenhower against attacking China. Read on:

"In the mid-1950s, the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, learning of famine in the Chinese mainland, launched a 'Feed Thine Enemy' campaign. Members and friends mailed thousands of little bags of rice to the White House with a tag quoting the Bible, 'If thine enemy hungers, feed him.'

"As far as anyone knew for more than ten years, the campaign was an abject failure. The President did not acknowledge receipt of the bags publicly; certainly, no rice was ever sent to China.

"What nonviolent activists only learned a decade later was that the campaign played a significant, perhaps even determining role in preventing nuclear war. Twice while the campaign was on, President Eisenhower met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to consider U.S. options in the conflict with China over two islands, Quemoy and Matsu. The generals twice recommended the use of nuclear weapons. President Eisenhower each time turned to his aide and asked how many little bags of rice had come in. When told they numbered in the tens of thousands, Eisenhower told the generals that as long as so many Americans were expressing active interest in having the U.S. feed the Chinese, he certainly wasn't going to consider using nuclear weapons against them."

I don't know if that's true or not, but it makes a nice story. In any case, if you want to send a little bag of rice to the White House asking Bush to send it to Iraq instead of bombing the fuck out of them, you know the address. Supposedly everyone is to send a half-pound of rice in each bag. I wonder what Dick Cheney would make of that.