Godspeed to the horny repair man. You are missed.

I was thinking a while ago about the many reasons that the 70's were awesome. The fashion and the music, of course. The cars, the movies, the well-made electronics. But there's one thing a lot of people forget about: the porn.

You see, in an era of low budget internet porn, and major studios competing to put out as much porn as cheaply as possible, something has been lost. Sure, the fucking is still there, but what about the story? What about the acting?

You see, in the 70's, these things were the best thing about porn. They provided motivation. There was drama. There was feeling. Where modern porn has two people fucking just because, 70's porn had the repair man reaming the lonely housewife just because (there would usually be some reference to "fixing the plumbing" here, but really, he was just horny).

But now, where is the repair man? Out of work. He's on a park bench, track marks all over his arms and legs and eyeballs and that vein right under his dick, feeding the pigeons, reminiscing about the glory days he'll never get back.

So next time you beat off to some hot XXX action, please, think of the repair man.

The "Founding Fathers" wore clothes that we would find unfashionable in modern times

To be honest, blogging seems sort of awkward to me, these days. My brain is so used to expressing thoughts in 140 characters or less (yes, I love Twitter; I'll admit it freely), that I started this blog in an effort to get away from that. And then I start getting really bad about actually updating it. Go figure. Anyway, I'm going to try to get better at it.

Anyway, every time we hear someone talk about politics, we always eventually hear things about what the "founding fathers" supposedly wanted. This has always bothered me for a number of reasons. First off, an argument from authority alone is pretty meaningless from a logical standpoint. Not to mention the sheer volume of misattributed quotes and the number of people both sides of any given issue can somehow claim for their side. And besides, those people knew what they wanted for America, but is it really what's best for America? You'd probably find someone even among them who would disagree with you.

But more importantly, what bothers me about these arguments is that they are completely irrelevant. Maybe George Washington or Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson or John Adams or whoever was on your side. At this point, I have to ask: so what? A lot of people seem to forget that cultural attitudes tend to change over the course of a couple hundred years. A lot of people also seem to give undue weight to something just because it was written earlier than something else, as if the age of a thought has anything to do with its quality.

But a lot has changed since the constitution was written, a lot of it completely unforseeable from that far in the past. We stopped allowing people to own slaves. We allowed the people who were slaves to vote. Then we allowed women to vote. And that's not all. We've also progressed technologically. Laws regarding newspapers and literature are not sufficient when it comes to things like the internet. And transportation laws of the time could never have forseen things like the airplane (at least, not as we know it). On top of that, when the constitution was written, there were 13 states rather than 50, and the United States held a distinctly different place in the world than it does now.

That said, it doesn't really matter what anyone speculates the "founding fathers" might have thought about any given issue. They left us with only one document that actually governs this country, and that's the only one that really matters. The age of our constitution can be attributed not to it having been written exactly right the first time (and it definitely wasn't, or we wouldn't still be arguing about whose side it's supposedly on), but to the fact that it allowed for amendments to be made, to adapt to modern times. The best thing they ever did for this country was leaving the future to the people who would inhabit it.

So next time you want to tell someone that you're right because some historical figure wrote something that can be taken to be in favor of your side, do everyone a favor and construct a better argument. If that's the best you have, then you might consider re-evaluating your position, because it's probably not a very strong one.