Philip Greenspun’s Weblog

http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/whole-house-music is my latest consumerism article.  Please comment!

Gregory Olsen has returned to Earth.  Folks and the media didn’t seem to pay a lot of attention to the welfare of this 60-year-old private citizen during his ten-day space odyssey.  To me this is additional support for my proposal of nearly two years ago (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/11/18) in which I suggested that human space flight be turned over to private adventurers like Mr. Olsen so that we don’t have the tragic spectacle of young government employees getting killed in the line of duty.  Olsen’s biography makes it apparent that he is as qualified to do scientific experiments as anyone that has ever ridden on a NASA flight.

A female friend of mine worked in Afghanistan for eight months and got friendly with the locals.  One of the things that men with extra cash like to do over there is have sex with boys, usually around 14 years of age.  One of the ways in which they showed hospitality to my friend was by offering her the services of their boy toys.  Afghanistan being a traditional Islamic society in which women are the property of either their father or their husband, these guys had no knowledge of what an adult woman would choose for herself.  They assumed that an adult woman with free will would jump at the chance to have sex with a 14-year-old boy and were surprised when my friend turned down their gracious offers.