Why op-ed pages thrive
“People like to argue more than have sex. If you don't think that’s true, count how many arguments you’ve had in the past month.”
—Lee Judge, editorial cartoonist, at national editorial writers convention, 2007 (Thanks to alert WORDster Dick Hughes)
On This Day . . .
. . . In 1945, Russian troops took Berlin and Nazis surrendered in Italy and Austria.
. . . In 1519, Leonardo da Vinci died.
. . . In 1670, the Hudson Bay Co. received English King Charles’s charter.
. . . In 1932, Jack Benny’s first radio show debuted on NBC’s Blue Network.
. . . In 1939, ailing Lou Gehrig’s 2,130 consecutive-game streak ended when he pulled himself from the Yankees’ lineup.
. . . In 1972, J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director for 48 years, died at 77.
Birthdays:
72 . . . Englebert Humperdinck, singer
63 . . . Bianca Jagger, actress
62 . . . Lesley Gore, singer
33 . . . David Beckham, soccer player
23 . . . Sarah Hughes, figure skater
• Benjamin Spock (1903-1998), baby doc
• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), Italian composer
• Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), Hungarian journalist; first president of the World Zionist Organization
• Manfred Richthofen (1892-1918), Germany’s WWI “Red Baron”
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This is a self-defeating argument. We have more arguments than we have sex because we are not having as much sex as we are arguing we should have!
ReplyDeleteConsider Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Annie Hall. There is a split screen where both of them are talking to their shrinks. Both of the shrinks ask them about their sex lives. Woody says that they hardly ever have sex anymore, maybe 3 a week. Keaton says they have sex all the time, 3 times a week.