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Great Milestones in Women’s History! (nominations being taken)

Catie CouricWhile I was transfixed in the manly art of shopping for vegetables ( for men: that’s the green stuff that sometimes lurks by your steak and not to be confused with the green beer of St. Pat’s Day), I looked up to see a t.v. ad for the new anchor of CBS News… you know who I mean. How can you escape? It’s like girl’s soccer…. all that puff and no spectators.

Oh, I think Catie will find a few lookers.

After all, the CBS marketing folks are working overtime thinking about such great ways to promote ‘Catie’… as with a T.V. above the produce section? What’s with that? Why not by the beer? Well, I don’t think she has a real following among men… that’s my guess… she reminds me of the line in “Failure to Launch”, “just because you have found a guy who will date/sleep with you more than once….” Like Will Ferrell, Catie is born just to be a ‘bitter side kick.’ 

I am not saying she’s dumber than the folks she covers, but can she ‘blog’? If you are really lonely, you can sign up for her newsletter… but she may not write it. Former CBS guy Leroy Sievers wrote his… but he is unusually articulate… and Leroy has a very attractive and intelligent sister in California…. erowl!

I guess I always disliked CBS News… especially when they tried to ambush me in 1989 and then proceeded to not replay the interview in the rest of the country (east coast was live) when it didn’t go they way they’d hoped. I guess I just didn’t sound as ‘wacky’ as they had hoped. Fortunately, the Today Show segment was played in some parts of the country and we got the tape.

(As background, they were trying to show the two sides of the ‘marijuana debate’… I said it wasn’t a good thing for kids to do… they appeared to not like my position… so, what side do you think they took?) I’m no Thanksgiving turkey… so I got my head off the chopping block as fast as I could!

 Like the New York Times, I believe that CBS has an ax to grind and it always shows.  I am sure when Castro bites the big one, they’ll cry giant crocodile tears… but I will be singing  a different tune … ‘Cuba Libre!’

Is this Men's soccer?Back to short stuff, if Catie’s assension doesn’t float your boat, then who can forget ( we can try) the shirt ripping, eye popping ( nope, not Arnold) athletic achievement in women’s soccer??

I really don’t know what she was saying by taking off his/her shirt? Was she/he saying,” hey, I fooled you all… I am really a man!!”

So, where do we look for real ‘milestones’ in women’s history? All you have to do is look around you and it is happening every day. Women who are showing individual courage in their everyday lives… I do not need to parade the courage I see in the women I know…. it is there.

Women have always made history and whether or not it was ever written down is less important and an entirely different issue. I suspect, expect and hope that the recognition of the real achievements of women will continue…. unless … you know… the burka (or Burqa) thing comes about.

Roger Freberg

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Art and Music in School…. is it gone forever?

Karla taknig a rideOne of the things that left our schools virtually without protest in California is art and music. And those schools that have programs are constantly threatening to cut them back or eliminate them entirely.

Some schools have replaced REAL languages with ‘sign language’. This I cannot understand. Certainly the priorities of many schools are off center and do little if anything to help our children become economically or culturally literate.

The fun thnig about art is that it is the universal communicator… and ANYONE can learn it! One of the things we would do is buy a case of copy paper for our children to practice their drawing….

You don’t need ‘art paper’ to start…. just a lot of ‘scratch paper’. One case of scratch paper costs less than a trip or two for the family to a fast food place and it’s a lot less fattening.

 

Kristin on a ride

 

Another very cool thing about learning to draw is that it is something everyone can do as a family. Part of the fun is that there is so much to draw in the world… and then there are the cartoons that children always ask Mom and Dad to draw… with a little practice, you can be a hero to your kid.

Karen takng a rideWe wanted our daughters to: learn a musical instrument, participate in a team (not soccer) and an individual sport, find an academic interest they enjoyed and develope it, and discover the world of arts and crafts. There are many thnigs to help one become exposed to our world… but this was a start.

On this page I have placed some of Karla’s work — although all of my daughters have talent — and if the horses look a bit familiar… it’s probably because these are the kind you ride at fairs… Merry-go-rounds and Carousels.

If your schools do not offer these opportunities to your children… buy some colors and a box of copy paper and have sme fun!

 

Roger Freberg

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Weenie men & the ‘professional career women’ who love them….

Don’t you just love this title?
 

We’re taking about ‘Career-is-my-life Gals” again… the ones who idolize Catie Couric. I guess I just still can’t forgive her for being rude to that nice ol country boy Garth Brooks. Yeah, her politics suck, too.
too many bonks on the old bean
My guess is that most of the female bloggers who were ‘offended’ by the Forbes editorial just loOoOve Johnny… the original ‘weenie’… but I think he is working on only one testicle… so I should play nice. If you thought my comments hit the topic “Don’t Marry a Career Woman” hard… check out what else is out there in the blogosphere.

Bur first, not too many men blogged about this… It really wasn’t a big deal to us…. not to anyone with an ounce of testosterone that is. When I first read it on Forbes.com… I thought… okay, this is slightly amusing… but statistics — when genuine — don’t lie. Then came the tsunami of emotional, irrational, hysterical (got the picture?) fembot foo.

Some Folks had to say this:
 
Vox Day
Mangan’sMicellany

They may not be ‘conservative’ but they have sized up life fairly well. All one can hope for is that our children will face the world for what it is… and not what they would like it to be. Politics should never get in the way of the facts, science or truth. Continue reading “Weenie men & the ‘professional career women’ who love them….”

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Don’t Marry a ‘Professional Woman’ — Part deux

40 years of liveing with 12 cats

 

I guess I could have said,”don’t marry a professional man”, but this was the title of an article in Forbes by Michael Noer that caused a whole lot of ladies to get their panties in a twist.

Noer’s article states some facts — well known to social scientists, — which are viewed as a call to arms by the masses of women who think that they ‘can have it all’ without any tradeoffs. Funny how life is full of tradeoffs.

Many of us — old enough to remember — can hear the shrill voices of the liberal sages telling us that if a woman works… it will really be okay… and her children will actually benefit from the separation… because she will return ( ta da!) to the home and give her family ‘QUALITY time.’ I also remember when one couldn’t criticize the concept of ‘quality time’ without being accused of being an facist islamic fundamentalist…. or the equivalent.

Today, we realize that the much revered concept of ‘quality time’ is actually a crock. Nothing good came out of it. Women, men and families were not prepared for the challenges. Children went adrift, families suffered and many relationships disolved overnight. 

I think this definition  of ‘quality time’ makes a lot more sense in today’s realities:

QUALITY TIME: the time you spend with your family when you are not otherwise ignoring them.

The same is true with your ‘significant other’. There is no such thing as quality time…only time. The less time you spend with anyone, the easier it is to grow apart. Hmmm… Continue reading “Don’t Marry a ‘Professional Woman’ — Part deux”

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Yeah, baby… trust meeee! ….. I’m taking precautions

Trust me..... please!
Have you heard that one?

How many guys have become a daddy on the word of someone who either didn’t care or planned for someone else paying for 23 years of child support?

Get this concept… male contraception. Now, we’re giving guys the opportunity to lie, too!

In LiveScience.com , a person wrote an article to help men with contraception… unfortunately, the author was a woman …. and that seems like a conflict of interest to me. 

Hmmmm…. It’s like listening to a bunch of women talk about how much easier having a vasectomy is rather than having one’s tubes tide. Riiiiiight! The “V” word is too close to the infamous “C” word… and the only side effect is that they guy gains enough weight to earn a parking place at the super market. Oh… you didn’t know that?

Well, it may all sound like a good deal for women who would like to be free of  responsibility… but it is important to remember, ladies, when all is said and done… the guy goes home and he’s never pregnant.

Roger Freberg