Teresa Heinz-Kerry

Senator John Kerry (D, MA) posted this over on dKos this morning:

A quick note this morning -– I'm chairing a Senate Small Business committee business meeting this morning and running around between votes -- but I'll check back in the afternoon to read and respond.

But before I go -- netroots, we need you to meet the ‘new environmentalists.’

Over the last two years, I thought a lot about the political process – about how to make issues voting issues. It’s been a ‘back to basics’ approach for me. I came into politics as an activist –- Earth Day 1970 and then full time in the movement to end the Vietnam War.

And when I thought of the environment, it hit me that even more dangerous about this administration’s assault on the environment is the assumption on which that assault relies: they think people don’t care. They’ve gotten away with dismissing the environmental movement as “elitist” ... or do-gooder ... “tree-hugging.”

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No doubt, we in politics must work to solve the problems at 30,000 feet -— with bold new ideas for energy independence—but this movement will only succeed if it’s more about you than us -– if Americans get out there to protect the ground beneath their own two feet.

No doubt the right wing is going to pile on. We’ve seen what they‘ve done to our friend Al Gore, and as an old friend of mine used to say “it is what it is.” But I hope you’ll step in and fight their cynicism. This book isn’t about us.

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Okay, fair enough. The man says he wants to hear what we say, and he's offering to read & respond to what we post in that thread. (Well, better make that "those threads" instead -- the piece he penned for dKos is also cross-posted on his own blog here as well.)

Sounds like a reasonable offer to me. Senator gives us a shoutout, asks us for a talkback, promises he'll respond. Okay, that works. Let's run with it.

Goddess knows that the more pols who would be willing to do that sort of thing, the better off this country would be in the long run...

I swear, this is only for medicinal purposes. Penetrative medicinal purposes.

[via Penetrative sex the answer to speaking nerves - Yahoo! News]:

Volunteers who had had penetrative sex during the previous week or so had the least stress, and their blood pressure returned to normal fastest after their test.

Penetrative sex was far more effective in this regard than masturbation or oral sex. But those who had abstained completely from any sexual activity had the highest stress levels and blood pressure of all.

Brody also did a psychological profile of the volunteers to see whether they had an anxious or neurotic character, and evaluated their work stress and satisfaction with their partners.

But even when such factors were taken into account, sexual behaviour was clearly the best explanation for the stress responses.

So here's a bit of pondering : Does this mean that Bush don't get no action? Or more pointedly, does this this mean George Bush rarely experience the positive effects of oxytocin? There has to be an explanation for his horrid public speaking skills. Add to that the man has some serious empathy problems, I am going to take a gander that he's more into the blow the hand kind of thing than popping the mythical granadine.