Why the Daily Mail will survive the coming print media apocalypse. Cutting edge reporting about actual sex, after midnight, with ladies, in their vaginas.

Contrary to popular fantasy about the need for hours of passionate activity, sex therapists say around ten minutes is perfectly satisfactory.

As I've mentioned before, this is entirely reasonably if you factor in begging time. Anyway sex researchers, non-private sector employees I'm guessin, asked a bunch of people a bunch of nosy damned questions about doin it, and catalogued their responses into different "how long can you put up with this" buckets.

They were asked to rate a range of times for sexual intercourse that they considered adequate, desirable, too short and too long.

Most of them classed lovemaking that lasted three to seven minutes as ‘adequate’ and sex lasting between seven and 13 minutes as ‘desirable’.

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I am trying to connect the concepts "thirteen minutes" and "desirable".

I know, it's science. But I class lovemaking that lasts three to three point one minutes as 'whoaa-ah', and also 'unrealistic', not to mention 'if it happens. This year'.

The scientists bury this little CYA nugget at the end of the article..

A separate survey published this month has shown that most married women would now rather go to sleep, read a book or watch a film than have sex.

If you add "paint a room" and "bathe a cat" to that list I'm inclined to believe it.

Well, it's the weekend morons. If you want to experiment, now's the time. You should follow the "no digital clock within viewing range" rule though.

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Above-the-Post Update: Well that was fun. If you missed it and want to listen, the show will be up here, for listening over the web, or you can find the Stage Right Show on iTunes.

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I know, I know, we've all heard a lot about it today, but I'll be on Larry O'Connor's Stage Right Show at 9pm PACIFIC arguing with Larry about Dave Weigel and his departure from the Washington Post.

Direct link is here (that'll go live at 9pm). Feel free to call in or join the livechat. Last time I was on the show a couple of the morons got through, including long-time commenter eddiebear.

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Not Obama. Not just yet. Hugo merely paves the way to the future that we'd best wake up to and change.

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela's government has seized control of 11 oil rigs owned by U.S. driller Helmerich & Payne, which shut them down because the state oil company was behind on payments.

Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez announced that Venezuela would nationalize the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based company's rigs. He said in a statement Wednesday that Helmerich & Payne had rejected government demands to resume drilling operations for more than a year.

For more than a year because cash strapped Venezuela stopped paying H&P for their work.

I saw this in the early 80s, in my young stupid career, when Ghaddafi did the same thing to oil exploration and production in Libya.

Sometimes I really hate where God put the oil.

via Geoff who thinks I predicted this before him. As if.

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TGIF and please have your drinks ready...

"We are in a Depression now and have been since 2008"

We are in a Depression now and have been since 2008. A Depression is defined as a 10% contraction in GDP. But for the government borrowing 11% of GDP and spending it, GDP would have contract by at least the same amount borrowed and spent.

But on the other hand knowing your real situation can sometimes be a relief and let you make better, more realistic plans. And yes these really are unusual times. So maybe the government needs to stop doing the same-old Keynesian spend-you-way-out-of-a-downturn and try some other things. And I guess as individuals we need to be thinking out of the box as well. But hey, at least now you'll be able to tell your own depression-era stories.
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Suppose you're a restaurant owner. Suppose a local newspaper restaurant reviewer has announced they'll be dining at your establishment on a particular night.

You'd do all you could to make them a happy camper, right?

You'd cater to their every whim, right?

You'd make sure they got a good food, prepared precisely as they specified, right?

You make sure the ambiance was perfect and all your usual rowdy and obnoxious low life customers were quickly hustled out the back door with promises of a free diner next week or something if they'll just go somewhere else that particular night, right?

THEN and ONLY THEN would you have the reviewer beaten to a pulp AFTER a bad review came out, right?

Well that's the way normal restaurant owners would do it. But Timothy Rankins is no "normal" restaurant owner. He sees things kinda differently.

You see, Dale Carnegie graduate Timmy, boldly tried a new and exciting strategy in interpersonal relations and had the reviewer beaten to a pulp PROACTIVELY as the guy was leaving the restaurant.

I must admit, this is a most novel and creative approach to dealing with the media, and I wish him well blazing this new trail, but I do have some serious doubts about its real world ability to win friends and influence people.

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Began this day, 60 years ago. The Soviet Red Army, a latecomer to the Pacific War, occupied the north in the summer of 1945, an assertion of their intent to expand their sphere of influence in the region. There were agreements and negotiations.. Cairo, Yalta and Potsdam. The US occupied the south, a line was drawn at the 38th parallel, and the Russians began their proxy war. The United States chose to say no.

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NOTE: There was enough late-breaking stuff that I didn't want to wait until Monday to post it. Feel free to breeze on by if you've had enough Financial Armageddon for one day.

Friday trading ended with a shrug as the Dow closed basically unchanged at 10,143.81 and the S&P 500 at 1076.76.

His Majesty cannot be bothered to listen to the nattering of common peasants! There is a world to be saved! Now begone, and let His Majesty rest; for the weight of the world rests heavily upon his noble brow.

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Stunned.

The news that a man was shot at a 30th birthday party for Eagles quarterback Michael Vick has taken a twist, with reports that Quanis Phillips, one of the co-defendants in the infamous dogfighting case that landed Vick in prison, was the victim in the shooting -- and that he was shot after a confrontation with Vick.

The Daily Press of Hampton Roads (Va.) reports that a spokesman for Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital confirmed that Phillips was admitted early this morning and was listed in good condition.

A spokesman for Virginia Beach police said the shooting occurred around 2:10 a.m. ET after a fight broke out at the club where Vick was having a birthday party, just as the club was closing.

According to Daily Press reporter David Squires, Phillips showed up to the party even though Vick is not supposed to be associating with any of his dogfighting co-defendants.

Squires writes that there was a confrontation between Phillips and Vick inside the party, that the confrontation then moved outside, and that's when Phillips was shot.

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Remember when I said, you know, don't just steal videos?

Sometimes you have to.

Background at Hot Air.

Anyone notice how the "masseuse" here is acting? Does it seem... familiar?

Well, if it does, you just outed yourself. She acts like every girl in Japanese Porn. "Oh no, oh no, no Goro-san, I couldn't possibly, I couldn't, eeeehhh... eeeehhhh..." [Translated.]

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It's like the end of Excalibur when the Viking funeral barge sails off to Avalon.

Journolist is done now. I'll delete the group soon after this post goes live. That's not because Journolist was a bad idea, or anyone on it did anything wrong. It was a wonderful, chaotic, educational discussion. I'm proud of having started it, grateful to have participated in it, and I have no doubt that someone else will reform it, with many of the same members, and keep it going. Hopefully, it will lose some of its mystique in the process, and be understood more for what it is: One of many e-mail lists where people talk about things they're interested in. But insofar as the current version of Journolist has seen its archives become a weapon, and insofar as people's careers are now at stake, it has to die.

I couldn't read the rest. It was whiny.

He's a sneaky little shit, just like Niedermeyer.

The sad thing about this is: Now that JournoList is gone, how will Washington-based liberal yuppie reporters possibly find each other to have discussions and talk shit about Republicans?

How?!!?

Ouch: A Reason reader named "esoteric" lights into Weigel:

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