I can’t imagine how much fun it must have been to walk around the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory and ask rural Vermonters about this. PETA maintains that if we really cared about animal welfare, we’d be drinking breast-milk ice cream: Mama’s Milk Ice Cream, Anyone? By JOHN CURRAN – 19 hours ago WATERBURY, [...]
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The new lactation sensation
Posted in Geography, Political Drivel, Writing, tagged animal rights, animal welfare, animals, Ben and Jerry's, breast milk, breast milk ice cream, breast pumps, breasts, cow's milk, cows, Holsteins, ice cream, ice cream factory, lactation, PETA, political correctness, Vermont, Vermonters, Waterbury on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A brief foray into the Northeastern sexual character, or lack thereof
Posted in Geography, Writing, tagged 9th grade English class, Argentina, Brazil, coitus, cold weather, comfort blanket, Cosmo, croissants, DC, Don't Blame it on Rio, Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, February, friendliness, General Petraus, ice cream, Jessica Alba, lingerie, March, men, Montpelier, negligees, New England, Northeast, Northeasterners, platitudes, seasonal change, seasons, sex, sexual politics, sexuality, southerners, summer, summer relationships, The Real Deal Behind why Men go to Brazil for sex, tropical, tropics, unfriendliness, USA, Vermont, Vermonters, Washington, winter, winter relationships, women on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had a three hour layover between trains last spring in Washington, D.C.’s Union Station, during which I spent some quality time with Don’t Blame it on Rio: The Real Deal Behind Why Men Go to Brazil for Sex. The crux of the book’s argument, and my interest therein, was why women of the tropics [...]
