Rangeling Up Orgasms and the Environment
November 20th, 2006Like with Religion, everyone has a right to practice politics to his own, but as with religion, everyone else has a right to deride your political views if they’re nuts. Like if, say, you worship a crocodile or if Tom Cruise is on your side. A political idea equivelant to Scientology is out today, and it is easily the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
The Global Orgasm for Peace was conceived by Donna Sheehan, 76, and Paul Reffell, 55, whose immodest goal is for everyone in the world to have an orgasm Dec. 22 while focusing on world peace. ‘’The orgasm gives out an incredible feeling of peace during it and after it,'’ Reffell said Sunday. ‘’Your mind is like a blank. It’s like a meditative state. And mass meditations have been shown to make a change.'’ The couple are no strangers to sex and social activism. Sheehan, no relation to anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, brought together nearly 50 women in 2002 who stripped naked and spelled out the word ‘’Peace.'’ The stunt spawned a mini-movement called Baring Witness that led to similar unclothed demonstrations worldwide. The couple have studied evolutionary psychology and believe that war is mainly an outgrowth of men trying to impress potential mates, a case of ‘’my missile is bigger than your missile,'’ as Reffell put it.
I’m not sure which mass meditation caused what great change in the history of mankind. I know that my girlfriend meditates to fall asleep, and that I live by the motto Be still and know (often meditating on it before doing something competitive), but I very much doubt that anything greater than that has been achieved through meditation. And last I checked, nobody has ever ejaculated their way to greatness. Unless Dirk Diggler is a great man!
(I’ve long been a critic of political movements that make absolutely no sense. Gay Pride parades are in the same realm, which isn’t to say that I don’t understand the concept of Gay Pride — I just can’t figure out what good it does anyone for a bunch of homosexuals to get naked and dance in the street. The worst bit of political activism, though, might be the Conservative brand in which they don’t protest (unless it’s a book burning) and just go out and vote in Republicans. Horrible!)
Onto the environment, specifically Chicago. I’ve long been proud of this city’s fine environmental tradition, but I must say I’m a little down by this piece.
Mayor Richard Daley’s ambitious plan to run Chicago government partly on wind and solar energy has drawn praise from environmentalists, envy from other cities and a speaking invitation from actor Robert Redford. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was so impressed that it named the city its green power Partner of the Year in 2002. But five years after Daley pledged to buy a fifth of the city’s electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2006, Chicago’s energy mix isn’t so green. Nearly all of the megawatts powering City Hall and other government buildings are still coming from nuclear and coal plants.
Unacceptable. This isn’t a promise killed by Republicans or industry. Nothing in Chicago can kill something that the Mayor wants to get done. This is a promise killed by poor government, and while I generally admire the job done by Daley, I’m deeply disappointed. I’m a Boy who believes in Promises and keeping them.
Finally, there’s this news, the news that I, perhaps, should’ve led the post off with: Charlie Rangel, Democrat, believes we should reinstate the Draft as a way to ensure our government accountable and keep ourselves ready for anything. I’m perfectly fine with a Draft that takes in people 18-26, provided it doesn’t rip them from their lives but for the case of War. Ultimately it doesn’t matter, though, because it’ll never be passed — or, rather, it won’t be passed for Iraq, and it has little, if any, chance, unless there is a War with Iran.