Entering the fourth day of the fast. I felt good today. I’m a little weak but not enough to feel bad. This is the natural progression of the fast. I usually feel like this up to about ten days and then I feel weaker and have to rest more.

Trump went off to the G-7 summit and the market dropped 600 points after China imposed more tariffs on US products. Of course, he blamed the falloff in the market to his federal reserve chair Jay Powell for not lowering interest rates and in a speech, Powell warned about a broader downturn in the market. Trump will never learn and doesn’t listen to his advisors. he wanted to buy Greenland and when Denmark balked at this idea he abruptly canceled his planned trip to Denmark next month.

The democrats have to get rid of this clown or we are in big trouble. Justice Ginsburg is ill again and we don’t know how long she will survive. If Trump gets another justice on the supremes, we’re all fucked.

America has always been a hotbed of fads, conspiracy theories, and over the top reactions to perceived wrongs, injustices and abuses of power. None has been more compelling than the recent revelations concerning Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby. Hundreds of women have come forward and have accused not only Mr. Weinstein and Mr. Cosby but other people and have leveled charges of abuse that occurred more than twenty years ago. For me the apex of this primal scream from women around the country was the WTF moment when some ambitious nobody accused President George H.W. Bush of sexual assault the other day because he played a little grab ass with her. How far are we going to carry this ridiculous scenario?

I get it that some guys carry their aggressiveness too far and come perilously close to rape and maybe rape itself but that is not what we have come to. We have come to an ex- president of the United States who is 90 years old in a wheel chair being accused of and apologizing for sexual assault because in his seated position he couldn’t put his arm around her waist and grabbed her ass instead.

When I was a young man, If a man wasn’t aggressive with a girl, she would never put out unless one established a long relationship with her. Women always liked the aggressive, confident bad boys over the stable nice guys and they still do. They had to be pushed into sexual relations because “they weren’t like that” or they were saving it “until they got married”. One of the heroes of my era was Clark Gable who would grab a girl like Scarlett Ohara and kiss her while she was fighting him all the way. After a few moments she would relent and throw her arms around him for a passionate kiss. Another was Errol Flynn who always played the affable rogue in his pictures. In his private life he was considered a womanizer and generated the expression “in like Flynn”. Is that sexual abuse? According to today’s definition I suppose it is. But some dumb fuck who looks more like Ernest Borgnine than Clark Gable or Errol Flynn and is less suave and less confident than Gable or Flynn who tries that gets slapped or yelled at and then accused of sexual assault.

Since 1968 and the sexual revolution, women have become more liberated and more open to sexual contact which would seem to give men more license to pursue women knowing that they probably do not have any reluctance to participate because of social mores. The conundrum now is that when she indicates that she is attracted to someone and the man starts contact and at any point before penetration she says no, then WTF is the guy supposed to do. When one is all fired up and ready to go, it’s awfully difficult to stop and cede to her protestations. She has come too far.

At any rate feminine power is beginning to emasculate men in our society and the effects of this sea change in the male-female relationship may be long lasting and may be a good thing and maybe a not so good thing. I think that our DNA does not really change. Men and women will slowly have to adjust to the new regimen. But in the meantime, destroying someone’s life and reputation for something that he did 20 years ago when this conduct was at least tolerated and in my day almost accepted seems unfair and unjust.

I was caught sleeping, much like Obama in his first debate, and did not renew my site registration on time and lost my original site and most of my posts. Luckily I was able to register a new site with the same name after the name had been in the netherworld of web sites for a couple of months. Nobody picked up the name so I was able to recoup.

I haven’t written much during this election cycle because quite frankly the campaign is not as interesting as the ’08 campaign, and also I thought that Obama would win in a landslide of at least ten points. I still think he will win but he has made the election unnecessarily close by his puzzling performance in the first debate. If it had been a sporting event I would have said that he threw the game. He seems to be back on track but it is difficult to erase those first impressions, especially among women. Women like men who are strong, authoritative, and decisive and Obama came up short in that first debate.

Obama should do very well in the final debate and I hope he does because it will be his last chance to get things going his way again. Foreign policy is Obama’s strong suit but recent events will be a sticking point for him and Romney will certainly attack him on recent events in Libya.