Originally Posted By barboy cape cod, I am a married 38 year old Bay Area male resident who travels often and reads nonfiction books. A very typical day for me is sipping coffee while browsing at Barnes and Noble or Borders Books. For the past 5 years I have had too much time on my hands. I briefly attended the University of California, Santa Barbara for 2 quarters as a party major(I quickly discovered that I wanted nothing to do with schooling). As for world events my views are both extremely conservative and extremely liberal dependind on the subject- for some reason I am devoid of mainstream/moderate belief. My conservative views make Beau look like Barbara Boxer. And my liberal motivations might even unnerve the likes of a Dabob.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe You're right up my alley as I have some of those same pecadilloes myself. I thought I was strange to read ONLY non-fiction. I used to love Arthur C. Clarke fiction but that was quasi fiction and more of a prognostication of the future that he was projecting. Some people here and everywhere just want to believe whatever and will defend it to the death. I WON'T! I'll keep an open mind and always attempt to learn all I can in this ephemeral life. Some of my views are right of Attila the Hun too.. Did you happen to catch the Boxer last night live with Chris Matthews as she was up in your neck of the woods live on Hardball?
Originally Posted By Beaumandy Hey batboy, I wounder if you know my old high school girlfriend who went to UCSB back in the late 80's?? Her name was Julie and she ended up marrying Barbara Edens son Matthew Ansara.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Beau--did you see the boxer last night? Man--I dislike that woman! The USC kids were tough to take with their supercilious attitudes. They'll learn in a hurry once they get in the real world. What was your major Beau? Hockey all through?
Originally Posted By barboy Well, back in '89 if I remember correctly UCSB had approx. 18k undergrads and maybe 4500 grad students so I doubt very much I ever met her based on the laws of probability. And joe I don't watch any tv except: VH1, History, AMC, tv Land, discovery, Montel Williams and Home and Garden. I want nothing to do with missing Aruba teens, runaway brides, BTK killers, brawling NBA players or silent baby deliveries. I'd rather watch "Flava of Love" on VH1 or a James Bond marathon on TBS.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy I loved the Flava of Love show. That chick "New York" was a total psycho!!
Originally Posted By barboy You know it Beau! But here's a little secret- I had a serious crush on "Red Oyster".
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Haven't seen network tv since the 80's as I watch 50 or so of the dish't 300 some odd channels. My wife's favorite station is HGTV as I opt for the Playboy Channel and TEN at 3 in the morning with the kids and all. We get Sirius Music >6 to do the human alarm clock thing for the fam during my 4 hour a day workouts. Then it's 6 hours average in the office and kids and golf and drama for daughter and baseball (little league) for son and NOW RED SOX baseball for the duration of the summer. I want you two to keep telling me stuff too as well as everyone. It's great to hear what other people are up to. I particuarly liked that ptown chick story via Providence Beau.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <The U.S., instead of assuming that they would remain the only country with nuclear weapons, should have worked from the start to limit development of the weapons, including our own.> I'm not certain how we could have persuaded the USSR not to develop nuclear weapons.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe It was up to the Russian people as they made their decision when Lenin took over with the revolution in 1917. We chose freedom, they chose a dictator. Pretty simple.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Douglas--Ima has done this before with me. It's my post not the subject- so just disregard the buffoonery.
