'You're either good or evil'. 'With us or against us'. 'My way or the highway'. And the self trumpeting this remains wholly whole and without blame or self-reflection. Always.

Edwards knew to get out in Jan or Feb. He knew. You're right that he contributed to the national discussion. I wasn't one of his fans, but this public beating now is ruining more that just Edwards. There are his kids and wife. [And dont give me the argument that he's to blame and should take his lumps. Life just isn't that simple.] There's the object of his affections who is being derisively cast as some new-age airhead when what she says, when cast in a book written by some Indian guy or said by the recently anointed smartest man in the world, the Philly-based Sufi, dont sound so strange.

Nice post, Phil.

The answer to your question about utterly monogamous?

Nyet.

Supposedly English has no exact male equivalent to the label "slut" applied to promiscuous females. But "philanderer" seems pretty close.

It's axiomatic that the U.S. is a weirdly kinked country, when most of its rich-country peer group has legal prostitution and the U.S. doesn't, except in rural Nevada.

In her book "Bonk," Mary Roach asserts that "Sexually, the 1920s and '30s were an oasis of openness and common sense between the twin deserts of Victorian repression and fifties-era conservatism." And what happened just before the 1950s? World War II, followed by a wave of marriages and a baby boom.

Does the present war and national security obsession feed a strident, hypocritical neo-traditionalism in sexual matters, manifested in the vicarious smugness of participating in the public pillorying of celebrities caught in flagrante delicto? I suspect so.

Never mind the environment; how do we fix the broken Zeitgeist? I find that getting stoned sideways, listening to LOUD live music and watching the chicks dance is therapeutic.

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Is Philip's dad a "deadbeat dad," or a male victim of a discriminatory state family law system as actually implemented? I don't know the family facts.

And it's true Edwards was much more outspoken about economic fairness than other contenders.

– it is concealed within Phil's assumption (shared, of course, by you) that 'Jews' constitute a moral elite, with something to say that no one else could think of, due to their unique fucking moral depth.