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International Kissing Day?

Will Baude is waxing lyrical about International Kissing Day in a series of posts ringing with relentless optimism. The bastard. Any kissing I'd be doing on said 'holiday' (July 6th, if you care) would do nothing but get me in trouble: the only person I'm supposed to be kissing is miles and miles away. Simple because of the Class Maledictorian's one-woman crusade to encourage the holiday in the U.S. I considered posting some piece of curmudgeonly poetry on the nastiness of love, especially when the one you care for's not there.

Damn my flinty, ill-used, barren frozen popsicle of a heart for showing defects in its infernal manufacture: I just can't find it in me. So instead you get the favorite of my poems about kissing, by that wonderful gentleman e. e. cummings.

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis


And while kissing may be a better fate than wisdom, sometimes wisdom just has to suffice. Which is why I heavily recommend to you the comments between two of my good friends in this entry. This is one of the reasons I keep this blog: to listen to a skillful biologist and a thoughtful priest discussing their philosophical differences in a polite and informed manner.

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» So, What Is The Cost Of A Kiss? from Mediocrity's Co-Pilot
...which got me to thinking about the economics of kisses. Which is, likely, a mistake. For I know very little about economics. And even less about intimacy. [Read More]

» Thing's I've Found from buzzwords
--What A Christian Woman Should Wear - i was reading this link and the next at CISP yesterday, but i forget where i got them. but the advice here includes stuff like, "I don't wear t-shirts with words written on... [Read More]

» Thing's I've Found from buzzwords
--What A Christian Woman Should Wear - i was reading this link and the next at CISP yesterday, but i forget where i got them. but the advice here includes stuff like, "I don't wear t-shirts with words written on... [Read More]

» The blogosphere v. International Kissing Day from Crescat Sententia
A few thoughts on International Kissing Day, the holiday launched by the de-lovely Amber Taylor, which we've been blogging about here for a few days. First, Spencer at Mediocrity's Co-Pilot goes through the way that kisses are pricey. One error... [Read More]

» The blogosphere v. International Kissing Day from Crescat Sententia
A few thoughts on International Kissing Day, the holiday launched by the de-lovely Amber Taylor, which we've been blogging about here for a few days. First, Spencer at Mediocrity's Co-Pilot argues that kisses are pricey. One error he makes off... [Read More]

» Ad Hoc Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Kiss from Mediocrity's Co-Pilot
As I said in my previous post, I think those costs are well worth it -- it's difficult to pin down the actual value of a kiss but when your knees buckle, you know you've got something. [Read More]

» The blogosphere v. International Kissing Day from Crescat Sententia
A few thoughts on International Kissing Day, the holiday launched by the de-lovely Amber Taylor, which we've been blogging about here for a few days. First, Spencer at Mediocrity's Co-Pilot argues that kisses are pricey. One error he makes off... [Read More]

» The blogosphere v. International Kissing Day from Crescat Sententia
A few thoughts on International Kissing Day, the holiday launched by the de-lovely Amber Taylor, which we've been blogging about here for a few days. First, Spencer at Mediocrity's Co-Pilot argues that kisses are pricey. One error he makes off... [Read More]

» The blogosphere v. International Kissing Day from Crescat Sententia
A few thoughts on International Kissing Day, the holiday launched by the de-lovely Amber Taylor, which we've been blogging about here for a few days. First, Spencer at Mediocrity's Co-Pilot argues that kisses are pricey. One error he makes off... [Read More]

» The blogosphere v. International Kissing Day from Crescat Sententia
A few thoughts on International Kissing Day, the holiday launched by the de-lovely Amber Taylor, which we've been blogging about here for a few days. First, Spencer at Mediocrity's Co-Pilot argues that kisses are pricey. One error he makes off... [Read More]

» The blogosphere v. International Kissing Day from Crescat Sententia
A few thoughts on International Kissing Day, the holiday launched by the de-lovely Amber Taylor, which we've been blogging about here for a few days. First, Spencer at Mediocrity's Co-Pilot argues that kisses are pricey. One error he makes off... [Read More]

» The blogosphere v. International Kissing Day from Crescat Sententia
A few thoughts on International Kissing Day, the holiday launched by the de-lovely Amber Taylor, which we've been blogging about here for a few days. First, Spencer at Mediocrity's Co-Pilot argues that kisses are pricey. One error he makes off... [Read More]

» The blogosphere v. International Kissing Day from Crescat Sententia
A few thoughts on International Kissing Day, the holiday launched by the de-lovely Amber Taylor, which we've been blogging about here for a few days. First, Spencer at Mediocrity's Co-Pilot argues that kisses are pricey. One error he makes off... [Read More]

» The blogosphere v. International Kissing Day from Crescat Sententia
A few thoughts on International Kissing Day, the holiday launched by the de-lovely Amber Taylor, which we've been blogging about here for a few days. First, Spencer at Mediocrity's Co-Pilot argues that kisses are pricey. One error he makes off... [Read More]

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