Black windows scare me

Black widow spiders scare me.
I don't scare easily, I can give or take most things, irrational fear or overreation is not part of my personality.

But I really really do get scared when I see a black widow spider.
Why?
Because there's death with no reason.
It's death (or serious injury) when neither of you really meant it. I don't want to hurt the spider, the spider sure doesn't wish to have anything to do with me. But putting my hand in the wrong place, reaching for a dropped wrench behind my toolbox, and zap, I interfere with her world, and she reacts in the only way she can, bite, injury or death.
for nothing. And, no way to know it's coming.
Heck, I can avoid a coyote or a cougar when I see one on a trail. A rattlesanke gives me fair warning. I know I;m not welcome in cerain neighborhoods.
But a black widow can be anywhere (under this keyboard), living her own life, and not even prepared to warn me of an intrusion into her live. And the only way I can avoid any possible place she may be living is to never go anywhere.

Scary.

There are a hell of a lot of naked people on the Web!

I like to look at naked women. Growing up, you could see maybe 30 naked women a year in the various magazines and the one or two 16mm films you might see a year.

But now, golly! Go to a site like www.aminaked.com and borswe for 15 minutes, you'll see 100 different naked women! There are pictures of hundreds of thousands of different naked women, and naked men, on the internet!

This isn't a moral issue, just a sheer volume issue. Looking at this mass of naked flesh, you gotta ask who they are. Is the woman in the next cube over from you in a 17 jpg set that you'll hit next ? Is the guy you went to lunch with in a rubber mask and nothing else on some S&M site?

See, naked men and women use to be kinda a profession. You'd be a Vegas showgirl, you'd be a naked magazine model, or you'd aspire to that.

But the sheer amount of pictures the Internet demands means that we have a whole HELL of a lot of casual nakedness, people who just got naked for fun.

I don't know what this means.

But there are a hell of a lot of naked people on the internet.
--alx