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Which is a great reason support net neutrality! Unfortunately the courts seem to keep cock-blocking the FCC--the one time recently they've tried to do something good. There will come a point where we need to seek out neutral ISPs and support them. Because AT&T and Comcast will make more money capping bandwidth and dropping any traffic they can get away with before the average subscriber notices.

D.C. Douglas Fires Back At FreedomWorks. With all the bullshit this week from the Fox Ideologue Channel and pals it's good to see somebody strike back.

While I've had a passing desire for women a couple times (has never gone well!) I've never had ANY attraction for men pretending to be (or changing into) women. It seems the worst of both worlds to me (and not just physically: attitude, personality, etc.). I don't even get the whole drag/impersonation aspect of gay culture, the 'Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence' are the closest to that I've ever found amusing. Shemales in Hollywood have probably darkened my opinion of the group as a whole as well, overall nasty in every way back when they'd work SMB, beating up and pushing out working guys or latching onto the masculine ones and dragging them down into their endless drama. That said, in my many forays hiring on Craigslist I have experienced two FTM (Female to Male) transsexuals. It was very interesting. Much more fun than the female bodybuilder I tried early on, both were the closest I've come to 'enjoying myself' with a (biological) woman. Neither quite put me over the edge though, but that may've just been because it was such a novel experience for me. I'd love to see the first again (actually slightly more feminine of the two). So I'd vote Buck, except he's a bit older than I'd hire. I bet Kimber was a stunning twink once.

I fucking loved Inception! It had so much more depth than Hollywood's expected out of an audience in damn near forever! Really glad it made 60m this weekend, hope the take doesn't fall off a cliff now. About two thirds in, it occurred to me it was a lot like What Dreams May Come, but on a path to have the correct ending to that movie (the ending where they both get 'stuck' forever) instead of the bullshit saccharin Hollywood test group one... And while there's a slight bit of doubt, that's the ending I'm convinced of for Inception. Sure, the top wobbled slightly... after being spun awkwardly yet spinning for longer then it was ever shown before toppling in the real world. The kids were the exact same as he remembered them, same age, same clothes. After she stabbed him I think he died and fell into dreaming the best possible outcome, which is what we were shown. But what really happened was two vegetables arrived in LA, (DiCaprio and Wantanabe), DiCaprio was taken into custody and spends the rest of his life in a prison hospital. The inception may or may not have worked. Too bleak? I loved that I couldn't find any major flaws or inconsistencies, until I found one, I think: When did DiCaprio and Wife grow old together? He tells her about it, we're shown them old, in 'their city'. BUT they're young when they die on the train tracks! Otherwise, most thoughtful movie I've seen in quite a while.

After I saw this story here I watched the 'Joe & Addison' video again. Still damn hot. Other guy ('Joe') is an escort, believe Roman out of Dallas?--He's the hot one in the video. Shame about 'Addison'. I know most of what we see on Sean Cody is 'embellished' at best but he seemed like a pretty normal, together guy. It's kinda scary how quickly guys can flip... Speaking of which, just noticed there's a video where 'Addison' bottoms... wonder if that's in my collection.

Is it Dreysonal that runs Gay Travel Brazil? Could you PM me his contact info? I'm weighing the idea of going in September, if it's not too late to get a good deal--I'll be on indefinite furlough at work so worried about spending money... But on the other hand I don't get any vacation time when work's going so I really should take advantage of the chance to spend a month or so on my first real vacation. And congrats (or commiserations) on the 5-0!

I had been "pretty much through" after Daddy's last two meltdowns. I think it's really unfortunate what his stability has done to the thriving community most of us were an active part of under dear departed Hooboy. Just this last week or two I'd started to forget why I'd left, was going to look in for the second or third time when I saw Daddy's same old shit repeating itself. I really hope this forum grows (permanently this time!) as a result of this. I check MER regularly but should try to participate more. JamesK

The Atlantico put a halt to visits?!

I think she should be charged with public indecency and Perez should get the whole 'sex offender' works. Not because of any deep moral outrage, I just can't stand either! Hoping for parenting from Billy Ray Cyrus might be about as productive as hoping for decent music from either Cyrus!

I'd probably choose Gizmodo, how geeky is that?

My question, when I first saw this news item was why did it take them 'till now? How long ago could it have passed with whatever majority was required? Still, unanimous is a powerful statement. I was also thinking the other day, wouldn't this November be the perfect time to try to overturn Prop 8 in CA with another initiative? Seems to me that the pot legalization initiative may turn out a large number of sympathetic voters...

Stumbled upon some more pics of him: http://gaybrazilgaythailand.blogspot.com/2010/06/304.html gaybrazilgaythailand.blogspot.com is a fun site to poke around.

Very nice Tom!

Official: Mudslide buries 200 in Brazil slum

http://gaybrazilgaythailand.blogspot.com/2010/04/at-least-95-are-killed-as-floods.html Anybody down there? How is the subway?

It's not a computer. It's a big iPhone (often without the cellular radio). It's running the iPhone OS (including it's Flash-averse mini-browser) with a non-desktop CPU and is just as locked down (Apple gets to decide everything you can and can't do with it) as their phone. It's slick, but I have trouble seeing the market because everybody most interested in this already has an iPhone and a Macbook. What do they need something in-between for, and why do they need to pay another $30/mo for it's data service? It may have some promise as an ebook reader, especially for comics and magazines, but the screen is the same kind of backlit eyestrain inducing LCD nobody likes to read books on. I really don't think they hit it out of the park this time.

I've thought about going. It worries me a little how explicit the description is... And it's not in a great area, a little out of the way from Hollywood (and especially WeHo).

It's less invasive than a pat-down and a lot less invasive than a strip search! So they went with just imaging the body or a mixture of imaging and the puffer gates? Those tiny rooms that hit you with a puff of air then sniff the result for explosives would've been more effective for the latest incident--and best of all they're automatic instead of requiring brilliant TSA officer interpretation... But I heard the imagers were built in an important congressman's district. So now our bodies will be scanned 10 more thoroughly than our carry-on, with checked baggage still not nearly all scanned and cargo scanned even less.

I loved Avatar, it really sucked me in, and the 3D was great: very comfortable to watch. I'm looking forward to seeing it again.

Somebody posts a time and place for people to show up and optionally do something. I think my favorite was zombies at an Apple store--though it can be hard to tell the difference!

I agree with that sentiment 100%. But the fact remains you are supporting somebody who believes: A, That you are an abomination, destined for hell, and undeserving of the same rights as others. B, That his underwear are magic and they protect him from evil. I agree that what Bush did to the national debt is horrendous and needs fixing, but unfortunately what he did to the economy (and his little adventure in Iraq) must be sorted out first. There's an easy solution though: let's go back to the exact same tax rates as we had UNDER REAGAN and the budget would be right as rain in no time! The idea that some new Republican can swoop into office and fix the budget... well, we've tried that here in California. Our debt is worse, even somebody with no future political ambitions couldn't touch sacred cows like prisons and the only things significantly cut are social services, especially education--in a state a Rand Corp. study said already had among the lowest education spending. But it's not like investment in education is important for the future of the state...

I respect Huckabee a lot more than any of the last group of Republican candidates, but figured he gave up a future serious run when he took the job with Fox. This'll probably insure that. We need less people in prisons (especially here in CA) but this will set that back too. Anybody with political ambitions is even less likely to sign any kind of clemency or prison reduction leaving states in budget crisis pretty much only education to cut, as keeps happening in CA. Why in the hell would any gay man back a fundamentalist Mormon? Though I agree there's currently no better choices. If Republicans were smart they'd try to rehabilitate Colin Powell, but he's too free thinking (or maybe just thinking--esp. compared to the likes of Palin) for the establishment and is probably fed up anyway.

He is pretty, but I can't stand his (or his mother's) characters--which is too bad because the show blew past a dozen more interesting things to CENTER ON THOSE TWO. Meh! God I hope Caprica is better! I don't think I'll care when V comes back in March...

It's getting pretty bad out there, and the annoying thing is that there are finally laws to limit some of this BS--but they don't go into effect 'till February! So the biggest asshole-banks (usually the same exact ones up to their necks in the financial collapse--with pockets full of bail-out money no less) are trying to screw everyone as much as possible before those laws go into effect. B of A's name COMES UP ALL THE TIME. Many people are starting to say FUCK THEM. If I had ANY B of A account I'd close it and replace it with one at a CREDIT UNION right f-ing now...

I'd be interested!