Map of life expectancy at birth from Global Education Project.

Monday, October 21, 2013

Apparently size does matter . . .

. . . for some people anyway. I have an excellent e-mail spam filter, and it never stops anything that should get through (I don't think, anyway). But, just for the heck of it, the other day I checked my spam folder.

G-mail only keeps the spam for 30 days, but 30 days worth turned out to be thousands of items. Ninety-five percent of which offered to enlarge my privates. One after another after another. Then the twentieth would be touting a penny stock. That was it. I deleted the entire folder and checked by 30 minutes later just to see what was happening. There were already 250 offers for anatomical enhancement.

Obviously, people wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't making them money, and we'd still be seeing Nigerian princes and Viagra if that's what was selling, Ergo, there are a helluva lot of guys out there who feel seriously defective. This could account for the gun culture and pickup trucks jacked up to six feet. Also the invasion of Iraq. In fact, come to think of it, Tom Friedman explained it just that way -- that's why he was for it, because it would make him prouder of his peter. Could this be the key to much of what ails our politics?

1 comment:

Don Quixote said...

Yep. Exactly. Saw a great routine from Janine Garofalo (before she was famous . . .years ago, when she was working a day job in Kenmore Square) where she riffed on Tom Cruise and "Top Gun" jets/phallus symbols . . . and of course, Cervantes, remember the guy whose inventions included cruise missiles AND Barbie dolls? . . .