S: Nutella is an Italian invention.

A: Okay I'm back. There's been a rapist active in my neighborhood and Xeroxed wanted posters are up everywhere. The sketch on the poster is a generic, menacing-looking black guy in a watchman's cap. It seems to me that every spring posters like this go up in my neighborhood. I sometimes wonder if it isn't a Rite of Spring. Maybe this black guy is Pan.

S: Or the Yuppie libido.

A: Or the Republican conscience.

S: I just read the news: a poll in the U.S. indicates that 'most Americans' believe that there has been 'significant progress in achieving Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial equality.' The article goes on to qualify that statement with, 'though most blacks are skeptical.'

A: Priceless. Do you know anything about cats? I think my cat has a foot fetish.

S: One more thing about Munich. I watched it in a cinema in Berlin. Audience is full of Germans, obviously. I noticed that every single time someone in the movie used the word 'Jew' it made me nervous. I winced.

A: Interesting. But I want to return to something you said in a previous thread. I had this thought: bullies aren't afraid of the pipsqueaks, but they are constantly afraid that the pipsqueaks aren't constantly afraid of them. They are insecure shits.

S: They are also hyena-brained and far more 'natural' than we want to admit, because we use the word 'natural' to mean all things good...when in fact it doesn't. I think most of what we call our noble tendencies are pretty artificial. We learn them by pretending.

When an irresistibly beautiful woman passes out drunk on a date and a man doesn't take advantage of the sitation, it's noble of him….and unnatural. A monkey would do it, all things being equal. A dog would. 'Natural' is what mommy hamsters do to their wiggling newborns when they're feeling peckish from time to time. 'Natural' is the pedophilic incest rape that Bonobo monkeys get up to on a rainy day.