The campaign against birth control and real sex education (which has a strong element of individual responsibility) by powerful religious interests results in ignorance.

Compared with other Western industrialized nations, our rate of unwanted pregnancies is very poor.

Tiberius said this about Caligula: “‘I am nursing a viper in Rome’s bosom,’ he once said. ‘I am educating a Phaethon who will mishandle the fiery sun-chariot and scorch the whole
world.'” From Robert Graves’ translation of Suetonius’ Life of Caligula.

I have seen, and sometimes dated, women who have been abused. Not necessarily sexually. Trust is a big issue with them. When I thought I was dealing with them, I was actually dealing with their attitude caused by another person. They weren’t reacting to me, but someone else. That destroys communication and relationships.

The abuser often insists on secrecy, and secrets can also eat away at relationships. I have a strong suspicion that one woman I lived with for a while was abused by her father. She succumbed to an autoimmune disease before I had a chance to ask her about it years later.

Some women turn the abuse to unconscious anger, and manipulate and hurt men to strike back.

You need a license to drive a car, to fish or hunt, but when it comes to creating and molding a human life……anyone can do it for any reason! Makes me sick sometimes

How did the saying go? From my bosom I nursed (Romes??) viper? Or something like it! I know I am close damn it! Bella isn’t so quick after she wakes from a vamp nap

In Lolita, it was a symbiotic relationship. I didn’t see her as asking for it, but once it happened, taking over. Subjecting him to teenage whims is complete (justified) cruelty.

I envisioned her taking out her anger at men in general by seducing them and repeating the behavior.

Wash, rinse, repeat. The monster has created a viper.

I found a homemade documentary about the making of Yellowbeard and (I forget the name of the man who made it but it is worth checking out) the maker played one of Pete and Dud’s records. I laughed and wondered why (again) I went thru life not hearing them. James Mason had a part in Yellowbeard as well and he was creepy in that role! As a little kid I remembered not liking him. Then I saw Lolita 3 years ago and was completely disgusted. My mom said the same thing you did, he did a great job as an actor. Great point about Lolita! I think that is one of the reasons I didn’t like it. It made her out like she was asking for it and that is a horrible way to portray a teenage girl who has a creepo cho taking her from town to town so that he may have his way with her and not have people ask questions!

I’ve only heard snippets of the Goon Squad. (Disquis went crazy when I was writing the above). The Smithsonian Channel played a series on the history of Monte Python’s Flying Circus, (The Lawyer’s Cut, etc) and all of the British members grew up listening to them on the radio and loved them, as well as did Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. As I remember it, part of the Python group worked with Cook, who had 3 separate plays running at the same time.in the West End of London.

Burns and Allen and Jack Benny had TV shows. Gracie Allen was brilliant, and George had been smart enough when they were on Vaudeville to switch from comedian to straight man with her. Burns claimed that all he had to do was ask her a question, and she’d take off. The implication to me was that a lot of her comedy was improv.

It is Henry Orient, and it takes a prepubescent crush and makes a wonderful comedy out of it.

Mason was brilliant in Lolita because he was just as creepy, evil, and
revolting as he should be, and he got you to be creeped out and hate him
so much. That’s acting. That was the horror. That part you got.
The other part is the unchecked power that Lolita realizes she has over
him and exercises it. She becomes evil, too.

I haven’t heard the Goon Squad, but have heard of it. My uncle subscribes to satellite radio and I have heard “I was a Communist for the FBI” and some “Burns and Allen”!
I liked the Wonderful World of (Henry)??? Orient, but thought Lolita was just about the sickest movie ever made. I really couldn’t stand to watch it! Mason’s role is just a sniveling, whining, pederast! I really couldn’t believe it got as much acclaim as it did or still does *shakes her head in wonderment*

I was lucky in my adopted child, but nowadays, there are many kids who have REAL problems because of their mother’s drug or alcohol abuse while they were in the womb.

If there are problems, it really requires two parents or a real support system.

I believe that there are too many people who adopt a child to give purpose to their lives, or because they just want a kid, or they want an accessory.

I took a date to see Sellers in Only Two Can Play in 1962. Her reaction was, “Who?” I don’t think she would have said the same thing a couple of years later.

If you get a chance, see him in The Mouse that Roared. It’s a good satire on American foreign policy.

He didn’t hit it really big until The Pink Panther. I thought his different parts in Dr. Strangelove were great.

I got tired of some of his bits for a while. I thought he got caught up in the whole Hollywood Big Picture syndrome and was just repeating himself.

I happen to think his best film was Being There, his second to the last. I had avoided it for years, because I thought it was another of his HBP movies until I saw it at a money-raising screening. He actually had to audition for the part. He’s brilliant. One of the reasons the movie runs long is that he speaks so s l o w l y, as is appropriate for the character, Chance. Shirley McLaine is brilliant, and her masturbation scene with him is hilarious. Often they cut it on television, even though you never see anything.

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as well as Monte Python were inspired by Sellers, who was a part of The Goon Squad, which was on British radio after WWII. It was totally irreverent. of The Goon Squad, which was on British radio after WWII. It inspired Peter Cook and