Because It’s True

Spotted scrawled on a university bathroom stall back in 1995 (yes, I wrote it down):

“I love men. All kinds of men. I love the way men smell. I love the way they carry themselves. I love their hairy legs. I love seeing their jeans around their ankles, around sandals or athletic shoes. I love mustaches. I love the gleam in the eye of a man when he’s consumed with passion. I love a man’s nipples; his pecs; his chest. I love the bush of hair at his crotch and the rivulet that runs up to his belly button. I love them naked and I love them dressed; I love them wearing a shirt unbuttoned to the waist, exposing the carpet of hair. I love men’s biceps; their tattoos and their 3-day beard stubble. I love the hair and the smell of man’s armpit. I love the way a man’s cock feels in your hand, how it grows from flaccid to erect with merely a touch. I love foreskin, the way it slides over the cockhead. I love the way men kiss. I love men’s balls and their butts. I love their calves and their thighs as they sit, spreadeagle on a toilet, offering you their hard, dripping cock. I love dog-tags and pierced tits—baseball caps on 25-year old cleanshaven buzzcut college studs driving jeeps, their tan, hairy legs spread wide in shorts. I love big daddy bears, their hairy chests criss-crossed by black leather harnesses. Cocksucking. Jacking Off. Titplay. Bondage. Transcendental male fuck-play.”

May 18, 2022

- Knowing only one language is like having only one eye. You can still see everything, but you miss out on the depth.
- Some people, it is said, see retirement as the end of a meaningful life. I see it as the end of a meaningless life. No more spending eight hours a day doing things so inane and irritating that they literally need to pay me to do them. Retirement is the time to bloom. Most jobs wilt you.
- Gangster “leaders” always underestimate the strength and resolve of democracies. The Kaiser did, Hitler did, Tojo did, Saddam Hussein did, and now Putin is doing it. They never seem to learn.
- Toddlers (of whatever chronological age) go on the internet to show how performatively cynical they can be. Adults grapple with the detail and complexity of difficult problems in the real world.
- There is money to be made by telling people what they want to hear, and what stupid people want to hear is that smart people actually aren’t so smart after all. That’s why, for example, the junk media so often report new scientific discoveries as showing that “scientists were wrong about such-and-such”, even though usually the new discovery fits into existing theories quite well.
- If somebody uses words like “sheeple” or “herd” to refer to those who disagree with him, he’s probably in some kind of cult.
- People who claim to not care about good manners have probably never had to deal with somebody who’s really rude. That gets tiresome fast.
- Saying “it’s a republic, not a democracy” is like saying “it’s a beagle, not a dog”. A republic is a type of democracy, and the only type workable for a really large population. Every democracy in the world today is a republic (well, some are technically constitutional monarchies, but they function as republics, with elected representatives holding power). People who use this slogan aren’t basing it on some clear distinction between the two — they’re just rationalizing a claim that they should get their way even if they don’t win majority support.
- Angry people are usually easy to manipulate. That’s why would-be manipulators try to keep their audience in a state of constant outrage.
- Better my own road to Hell than someone else’s road to Heaven.