Sisters get respect ,B*tches get what they deserve...

I believe it's very possible in modern America to exploit somebody. I thinlk illegal aliens are frequently exploited in this country. Granted, they really shouldnt be here in the first place..but if you are paying some one less than the law allows, to do work that in many cases no one would want to do even for a legal wage, i would say that qualifies as exploitation. Paritcularly if you hold them to their "contract" with the threat of deportation to a country where they will live at starvation level poverty, or possibly be executed by their own government. I also believe that if a disproportionately high number of blacks and poor people are handed AK's and sent to Kuwait (past), Afganistan (present), or North Korea (future?), then they are victims of exploitation as well.

I'm saying all this to say that i am receptive to that argument that less powerful people are sometimes used, in dehumanizing ways by more powerful people. I dont however believe that strippers, videos hoes and cyber "models" are an exploited class. I thinkthe broad social acceptance of sex as saleable commodity has coarsened the culture we live in, andt appears to have produced a generation that is out of touch with the concept of intimacy . But i do not believe a woman (or a man)who accepts money to dance nude, or who playwith themeslves all day in "real time" in front of a web cam can be called a victim of exploitation.

People have always had ,and will always have, base desires and there will always be a marketplaces( legal and illegal) to satisfy those. As long as the seller sets the price and the buyer accepts it then I say God Bless America ....and maybe Caveat Emptor. Bringing a woman from the Ukraine to the US under the pretext of emloying her in a housecleaning buisness ,then chaining her to a bed, and forcing her to turn 30-40 tricks a day is exploitative. Looking at pictures of woman on Donkeybooty.com that were posted there with her paid permission is not.

When the rains came, thats when the pain came...

As what appear to be that last gasps of Tropical Storm Ernesto peter out with little hurt or harm to show for it, I am reminded of everything i have to be grateful for. It's been just over a year since Katrina passed through South Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, and crippled this area to a far greater degree than any one thought a "minor" storm could. I, myself, was without the full benefit of lights or television for nearly two weeks, but i kept my roof and my windows and my life.

In the days following her departure from the panhandle, this tempermental naif would develop quickly in the warm waters of the Gulf. She blew out of the bayou as the single greatest femme fatale in American history. I would urge anyone who hasnt already done so to check out Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. It's a powerful lesson in just how expensive apathy and incompetence can be. I would also urge anyone who hasnt already done so to consider today what an embarassment of riches it is to have health, and home and the nearness of loved ones.

Allow me to reintroduce my self..

Due to overwhelming demand I'm now republishing the controversial original post, the one that started it all:

" I have nothing to declare ...except my own meanness"


I initially intended to post a comment to the VH1 Flavor of Love Blogspot and somehow through a series virtual wrong turns ended up with a blog of my own. Now I'm not particularly witty or deep, and i am both grammatically and syntactically challenged as fuck, but I think im going to give this thing a go and I'll tell you why.Right at this moment, on a major cable network Im watching a positively hideous man saunter down a fashion runway. He's wearing an evening gown and a "grill" he made for himself out of aluminum foil. He's doing this to win the heart of a girl so ugly that i would like to set her hair on fire, just so id have an excuse to smother her with a blanket. In a society where this passes for entertainment why should i not share the detritus that continually clogs the filter of my mind. Maybe someone from MTV will discover me and offer me a development deal.

Requiem for a blog

I wanted to take this moment to apologize to the loyal readership of my original blog, the late and long lamented " 'S Just My Thoughts". By way of closure i offer this brief overview of the motives that compelled me to effect its dissolution...

1) I f*cked up the title of the original post "I have nothing to declare .. except my own meanness" by transposing the letters in the word "declare" so that it read "delcare "

2)I am the only person who ever actually read the blog

3) It was only up for 12 hours

All I can say to ME ,the long suffering votary of this font of cyber genius, is that I'm sorry if my actions have caused ME even a moment's pain. I would never intentionally hurt ME ,and whether I believe it now or not ,the truth is that I did it all for ME.