"Sniggerlings"(Sects and Sex)

“Sniggerlings”(Sects and Sex) 

      1.  I was watching Power Play on Fox.com live(it was recorded.) I learned the following astounding fact: The President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, of the Shia Alowite sect, is married to a British-educated Syrian named Asma al-Assad, a Suni. Guess they didn’t believe in same-sects marriages in those days. Actually, I think they would generally have preferred homo-sect-ual unions(homo- as a prefix is Latin for "same or similar", The American Heritage Dictionary 1991)


      2.  I saw Miley Cyrus’ “historical” dance on the VMA awards show. Pitiful. She should wait until she grows up. I have two other problems with it. It wasn’t sexy; it was more like a Mouse Club cheerleader wannabe rooting for a zipper, with a foam finger too large and limp to deal with it. If you want to see a sexy dance, see either of two Red Skelton family movies of the Forties: Ship Ahoy or I Dood It!(1942.) They feature the sexiest dancer doing the sexiest dances I ever saw: Eleanor Powell(however, I'm not an expert in this area.)  They also feature some wonderful G rated comedy from the master, Red Skelton(I know quite a bit more about comedy.)  See, especially, the dream dance sequence set on a Polynesian beach. Eleanor Powell!  Now there was a grown woman with much to reveal of what God gave her. And beautiful and a great, powerful dancer.  In one famous scene in I Dood It!, Skelton does a ten minute physical comedy bit where he has his hands all over her (without compromising her dignity), trying to get her into bed(she was asleep.)  By the way, that movie also features another sexy woman of the Forties -- Lena Horne.

      As far as Cyrus’ claim she’s making history, I would invite her attention to the reputation of Messalina, the third wife of Roman Caesar Claudius, who -- according to Book X of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History -- engaged in “an all night sex competition with a prostitute”. Her score was twenty-five partners. She won. That’s history.(wikipedia)

      P. S., Pliny the Elder, A Roman science writer in First Century Rome, might have been an early editor for The Guinness Book of World Records.  (Note to Miley:  Larry Flynt knows who has Messalina's record today.)

      3.  If you want a sexy singer with an incredible, soulful voice later than the forties, try Tom Jones singing the title song from the Bond film Thunderball(1965.)  Wowee!  "Thunderball" has grade school lyrics, but what a voice!  "Wrecking Ball" or "Thunderball"?   I vote for that Jones boy.  I note that the the thunderball to which the movie title refers is a threatened nuclear explosion over Miami, with which evil organization Spectre, spoofed by Mike Myers in several Austin Powers movies, is blackmailing the world.  Sounds prophetic 49 years ago.  Can you say Al Qaeda?mm