'Just Sharing a Few Thoughts

Well, the world is rushing headlong to Hell in a bucket, but at least there’s some good reading to be had.

I enjoyed reading my friend Jack Cashill’s WND essay about the apparent dearth of gay golfers, even though I “could care less” about any athlete’s sexual preference (or “orientation,” or whatever).

But of course it’s important to gays because, in addition to affirmation and just plain attention, they need recognition. And that reminds me of an old joke my scoutmaster used to tell about “the first homosexual baseball player,” whose lifelong dream was to miss a critical play so that the entire stadium would stand up and yell “You c**ks****r!!”

(I love the term “attention whore,” because it so accurately describes so many in today’s society, and gays in particular.)

Such attention craving makes perfect sense because, mired as they are in (what Freud identified as) an infantile phase (and, for normal people, a transitory one) on the path to sexual maturity, that infantilism permeates all their behaviors. Just look at the tantrums they throw when they don’t get their way, or don’t get the attention they so crave. And that’s why they’re no longer content with society merely tolerating their “lifestyle”; now they militantly demand that it be celebrated.

Meanwhile, I noticed an interesting piece about Barack Obama, in today’s American Thinker, by Susan Daniels. As I recall, she assisted Jack Cashill in the research that led him to make the case (in “Deconstructing Obama”) that William Ayers was the actual author of Obama’s “Dreams From My Father.” I’ve never met nor corresponded with Ms. Daniels, but she’s always intrigued me; she’s a licensed private investigator and I can’t help but envision her as a real-life V.I. Warshawski. And I can’t help but wonder if Jack was as instrumental in her writing for AT as he was for me; without Jack’s encouragement and introduction, I would never have had all these items published.

I also read today about how a college basketball player, one Hannah Hidalgo, had to sit out 5 minutes of a crucial game in order for her nose ring to be removed, as it was in violation of college basketball rules. Much hue and cry is being raised over this.

But conspicuously absent (to me!) in all this is anyone asking her (or she perhaps revealing) just WTF she was thinking when she made the decision to put a piece of “jewelry” in her nose! I would really like to know just what informs such a decision, and just what statement a person thinks he or she is making by deciding to pierce his or her face with a piece of metal; inquiring minds want to know!

I’m reminded of what Jeff Foxworthy had to say about facial piercings: he said something like, “I think they’re great! They let you know right off that someone’s not right!”

ST