Apology = weakness

Act cocky instead, then slowly unravel it.

Don't let the richard dawkin's wannabe-ubuntu loving-ron bots on digg fool you, he's not the "ideal" candidate.

a) His policies are textbook libertarian, which while good, have no actual relevance outside obscure poly sci textbooks, disaffected youth, and new hampshire

b) He can't actually win the nomination at all, and won't run as an independent, and again, internet loners only makeup so much of the population.

c) He's economically one of the worst (no, not the best) candidates out there, dismantling several government programs which are in my opinion, somewhat important (i.e. dept of education) along with well...PULLING OUT OF NAFTA. Anyone who's picked up an econ course (no, youtube scare videos dont count, MIT online lectures do) know this is actually *bad* for the economy.

d) He believe's you can trade with countries without getting involved with their internal affairs, classic libertarian blindness.

Despite this, I do like the fact he seems pretty straight arrow, but still, he's a nut. Nothing more.

No, the smell, and discoloration of the teeth are very unattractive, not to mention most women who smoke aren't exactly girls I want to be associated with...Mercury88

The smell was masked with a rather rosy scent, her teeth were flawless (as are surprisingly most of my friends who do smoke... scares them into keeping them clean?) and she actually had quite an intruiging personality.

But I do see where you're going, and yes, it is mostly true. Still doesn't mean it can't be sexy sometimes.

*Disclaimer: I do not/never have smoked nor do I think it is a healthy or attractive habit in the long run*

You have to give the cigarette companies kudos for their adaptability.

Despite mounting lawsuits, decreasing market volume in North America and the entire earth waking up to the fact that injecting tar into your lungs may have long term side effects... they've never done better. I'm not talking about some snazzy new marketing campaign with the camel or the malboro man (I live in a country where tobacco advertising is virtually non-existent) or record earnings, but a brief encounter last night.

Friends and I decided to go out one weekend and ended up at a rather posh lounge. Up high in the financial district you could see the entire downtown skyline-and for $17 a martini-you were paying for it too.

We were catching up with usual college and job, etc. The topic turned quickly to female conquests, with one person talking about his follies with a nice brunette and his blackberry compulsiveness.

There she was.

On the balcony sipping what was probably a cosmopolitan, she was with 3 of her friends. With one of her girlfriends and two gay friends who probably worked in the consulting industry, she definitely stood out. She also had a clove cigarette dangling from her hand in a slinky black dress.

"Dolce? Must be from their new collec-"

"Actually, Valentino."

"Amazing, I'll assume neither of those guys are your sugar daddy's, so what's your story?"

*Insert not-as-witty-banter-here*

We exchanged numbers, even though I will never see her again. Throughout the conversation, I could not get over the feeling of arousal the first moment I gazed at her. Wearing a dress that costs more than most people's monthly salary and not even 23, and slowly destroying herself without a care in the world. Would she have been as attractive without the cloves? Hard to say.

They say marketing is about manufacturing a want and transforming it into a need. I didn't need a cigarette, but I wanted her.

No, but don't criticize. It's a proven statisitical empirical fact the smokers outside your office building are at least 10x hotter than those you work with that don't smoke. And it will always be sexy (I used to think anyone who did it was an idiot not in control of their lives). You go to a nice lounge (how do you tell? Its $12 for draft and $16 for a decent martini) and see some girl who works for vanity fair in some little black number puffing slowly destroying herself, you will want her.

Granted once their temporary beauty fades and the horribleness of smoking sinks in, it's no longer sexy.

Like: Everything but Dane Cook/Red Neck Comedy Tour

Hate: Dane Cook

Who cares.

But really, you have one side that says there's heaven, kingdom of heaven, God, etc. and that we are reunited with loved ones. Really, just some form of an afterlife.

Then the other side which says we become worm food.

Given the complexity of the universe in how harmonious it is (not quite the ontological argument) in its dispersions of matter, anti-matter, dark energy, other terms no one here really knows, etc. Isn't it possible that neither view is correct, and that what waits for us is something far greater than either side can comprehend?

Either way its unfalsifiable, so who cares.