The fat guy wins!

This is not about President Obama or Democrats or Republicans or Wall Street fat cats. I mean, perhaps the election was about these things and perhaps not. That’s not Hit Coffee material. What is Hit Coffee material is that outgoing Governor Jon Corzine tried to win an election by making fun of his opponent’s weight and he lost.

Clancy and I did laundry on Sunday. I hadn’t realized that Clancy needed to use my phone to call her mother (who is about to leave the country), so when she told me to bring something to do at the laundromat, I figured my phone would be sufficient. When she went outside to make her call, I had nothing to do. Fortunately, though, there was a WATCHTOWER in on a table. On the cover was a picture of flames with the test “SHOULD YOU BE AFRAID OF HELL?”

The answer, it turned out, was “No.”

I never had any idea what the Jehova’s Witness folks (who make the Watchtower) thought about Hell, but there’s no way I would have guessed that judging by the cover.

Melissa Blake wants to know why men are reluctant to date women with disabilities. Lordy, lordy do I hate questions like that. It’s the sort of question that invites dishonesty. Either you lie and say that you are not reluctant to date someone disabled or tell the truth and let those that are lying get the upper hand. Or you’re not lying and are disabled (though, even if you’re disabled, you could be lying). Disability is actually not something that’s high on my list of repelling traits. I’m not particularly physically active myself. As long as she can sit, she is capable of doing 90% of what I want to do. But that’s not the same thing as saying that, all things being equal, I would prefer someone that is not disabled. I would prefer not to have to make the accommodations that dating a disabled person would require. None of that is to say that I would high-tail it out if something happened to Clancy, but it would come as a blow not just for her (though, of course, primarily for her) but also for me.

Meanwhile, Not a Ten complains about people telling him that he is fixated on people out of his league. (Actually, we don’t know it’s a “he” and a lot of commenters assume it’s a “she”, but both the answer-lady and I read it as a “he” so it’s a “he” for the sake of this discussion. ). There’s not even a nod to the irony of saying “Why should I put up with less if I can get more?” without asking “Why should a hot person put up with me if they can get another hot person.” Wendy the Answer-Lady’s answer was more-or-less on target. And the truth is that you sometimes can trade up in looks, but it always comes at a cost. Girls that date down in the looks department often do so because they lack options and they often lack options for a pretty good reason. So unless you actually have an exceptional quality to offer, best not to get too ambitious.