What is it about marriage, parenthood and daily life that (often) causes your sex life to decline?

I know it’s not realistic to expect married, parent sex to be as hot as single, dating, no-parent sex, but I hear this complaint often from male and female friends. What causes this? Familiarity? Boredom? Routine?

And is it necessarily a bad thing?

The comments section is open for your thoughts!

“The world runs on oil,” a member of the Petroleum Club heading out there to the Wild East told me. “and oil runs on payoffs and pussy.” It’s not a sentiment you’d find on a Hallmark cared, but then, the strongmen of the new Islamic republics don’t get Hallmark cards. Britain’s ambassador to Uzbekistan (ask Herman Cain if you can’t find it on a map–that’s me, not Palast saying that) mentioned that Uzbek President Karimov boiled his opponents alive, not something you bring up at state dinners.

I could go on. Suffice it to say that Palast smacks BP, Big Oil and hell yes, his old target Karl Rove (vote caging, election rigging–shades of Palast’s previous tour de force The Best Democracy Money Can Buy) with flair and a facility with words that is unrivaled in his profession. Does he corroborate everything with unimpeachable sources? No. Palast reports in hope that the verisimilitude of his tales and the credibility of his character will carry it through. That’s good enough for me.
I believe Palast; I have no reason not to. And more’s the pity: for all its entertainment value Vultures’ Picnic would be more fun to read if it weren’t so devastatingly obvious that the world is as pitch black as the oil that runs it.

Rave on Greg. Howl into the blackness.

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Disclosure: Simon’s Groove received a free copy of this book from Greg Palast’s office to read and review. We plan to keep it.

Here are a few of the top ten “suggestions”…excerpted from this article on Yahoo News (click over to read the entire depressing article):

10 do’s and don’ts from Luntz covering how Republicans should fight back by changing the way they discuss the movement.

1. Don’t say ‘capitalism.’

“I’m trying to get that word removed and we’re replacing it with either ‘economic freedom’ or ‘free market,’ ” Luntz said. “The public . . . still prefers capitalism to socialism, but they think capitalism is immoral. And if we’re seen as defenders of quote, Wall Street, end quote, we’ve got a problem.”

2. Don’t say that the government ‘taxes the rich.’ Instead, tell them that the government ‘takes from the rich.’

“If you talk about raising taxes on the rich,” the public responds favorably, Luntz cautioned. But  ”if you talk about government taking the money from hardworking Americans, the public says no. Taxing, the public will say yes.”

3. Republicans should forget about winning the battle over the ‘middle class.’ Call them ‘hardworking taxpayers.’

“They cannot win if the fight is on hardworking taxpayers. We can say we defend the ‘middle class’ and the public will say, I’m not sure about that. But defending ‘hardworking taxpayers’ and Republicans have the advantage.”

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5. Don’t say ‘government spending.’ Call it ‘waste.’

“It’s not about ‘government spending.’ It’s about ‘waste.’ That’s what makes people angry.”

6. Don’t ever say you’re willing to ‘compromise.’

“If you talk about ‘compromise,’ they’ll say you’re selling out. Your side doesn’t want you to ‘compromise.’ What you use in that to replace it with is ‘cooperation.’ It means the same thing. But cooperation means you stick to your principles but still get the job done. Compromise says that you’re selling out those principles.”

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8. Out: ‘Entrepreneur.’ In: ‘Job creator.’

Use the phrases “small business owners” and “job creators” instead of “entrepreneurs” and “innovators.”

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10. Always blame Washington.

Tell them, “You shouldn’t be occupying Wall Street, you should be occupying Washington. You should occupy the White House because it’s the policies over the past few years that have created this problem.”

The response is “thank you.”