two funny articles i have read today

[Harkoliar]

One is like the Bush Techy mishap with a CNN reporter leaving her MIC on.

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Pity poor CNN reporter Kyra Phillips who committed the ultimate technology folly yesterday during George Bush's Hurricane Katrina memorial speech.

As is a lady's wont, Phillips ducked off to the powder room with a colleague to gossip about men and forgot to turn off her microphone.

The internet be blessed: http://www.wonkette.com posted the video online, which begins with Phillips discussing her husband, saying, "He's just a really passionate, compassionate great great human being. And they exist! They do exist. They're hard to find." This is followed by some running water, while Phillips's colleague talks about someone coming for "an extended visit".

"That's how you figure it all out," Phillips replies. "Those extended visits, heh, heh, heh."

But the moment Phillips will be rueing for Christmases to come is when she slags off her sister-in-law. "Of course brothers have to be, you know, protective," she says, "except for mine. I've got to be protective of him. Uh, yeah. He's married, three kids, but his wife is just a control freak."

Unfortunately, like everything good, the glorious blunder ends too soon. "Kyra?" someone asks.

"Yeah, baby," she responds.

"Your mic is on. Turn it off. It's been on the air." The anchor woman cuts in pretty swiftly.

Also running hot on the online video site YouTube.com is a clip of American Idol judge Paula Abdul, who seems tired and emotional, being interviewed during the Emmys earlier in the week. Cut away from the strange lady, director, cut away.

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link:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/stay-in-t...816965806.html

actual video in YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_i...6hiI4-oa3dLWRo


and another article I came across is the BLOG one of basic gender-bashing. I just found it hilarious! But there seems to be alot bitter people in the world.

link:
http://www.forbes.com/home/2006/08/2...x_mn_land.html

related article:
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Career women make me sick

Guys: a word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don't marry a woman with a career.

That's how an opinion piece in the current issue of Forbes magazine begins anyway. It's author, Michael Noer, romantically contends that marriage is, after all, ``an exercise in labor specialization.''

He argues that when both partners specialise in ``market'' work, or careers, both partner suffer because the unpaid work remains undone. Further, he says, better educated women are more likely to have affairs and leave the house dirty. Men married to them are more likely to fall ill too. He cites many studies in defending his position.

Not surprisingly the story became contentious and Forbes has run it again here with a rebuttal by Elizabeth Corcoran, a wantonly educated careerist who reckons women should avoid lazy men.
link: http://blogs.smh.com.au/newsblog/arc...il/005702.html
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one blogger who has a good wisdom replied somewhere
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I'm married to a woman with 2 advanced degrees, she and I are both professors, have 2 kids, a great sex life, and can honestly say our lives are quite fulfilled. This isn't about equality...it's about how do you help your partner attain their highest potential in all realms of their life. As a guy, yes, it does challenge me to take on non-traditional roles in family life, but gosh...it has been great. I have a much closer relationship with my children than most of my male friends.
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which I agree [img]smile.gif[/img]

now if you want endless amounts of idiotic ravings of both sexes go to this link [img]tongue.gif[/img] which is the forum that was opened by Forbes in response to thier article.

http://forums.forbes.com/forbes/boar...y_career_woman

[ 08-30-2006, 11:25 PM: Message edited by: Harkoliar ]