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Fuck, even the great bloviator gets it. We live in a world where the average American is convinced they aren't average. We've been coddled and told we're special all our lives, so most of us can be easily tricked into railing against anything that could be seen to limit our potential options in the future. Sure, gov't healthcare is good enough for my parents--but what if I need House, M.D. one day??? My god, there's millions of sheep happily paying more in their own personal taxes because they backed the fight against the evil DEATH TAX that would never have affected them, their family, or anyone they knew (unless you count Hannity, O'Reilly, et. al. as people they know!).

There's so much already available, and available for free on the Internet that it's not hard to imagine the industry cratering once and for all. Especially the businesses that rely on people going to a store and buying $30-$50/ea new titles. But where will the porn stars go to make their money? SMB and Numbers are dead. I've maybe seen a couple more on Rentboy and the occasional retired gay pornstar on Craigslist... but not nearly enough to account for everybody who relied on Porn in the LA area. ----- There's a British series called The Dark Side of Porn, it's mostly about straight stuff but is still pretty interesting. The first one has Chris Eccleston narrating, it's hilarious to hear Dr. Who say "Split that Booty" again and again; they also go around the valley and talk to the woman behind AIM in detail. Chi Chi is also interviewed and has some good stuff to say in that episode, and you get a really slimy feeling for 'Max Hardcore' who I just found out is in jail for his actions. One of the later episodes, Me and My Slaves is all about this aging but still very good looking dom master who serves mostly gay guys. It's kinda touching--and bleak. I downloaded the series through Bit Torrent, it's worth trying to find if you can!

The lawmakers don't have the sack to take on anybody as the Bacchus bill shows. I will never understand why THE FUCK Obama didn't use his initial popularity to pass significant campaign finance reform--possibly with McCain's help. Think about how much easier Heathcare reform would be if the top donors to the FUD commercials had to be named personally instead of hiding behind BS PAC names. If Senators and Congressmen knew that their next campaign was going to rely on public funds and maybe a max of $250 from *individuals*. Hell, we could've even enacted real banking reform laws within A YEAR OF BANKS KILLING THE ECONOMY. /rant

"There's not a racist bone in my dad's body." Not even when Senator Craig had him bent over the sink in the congressional restroom?

Time Warner cablemodem, wish I had FIOS.

The argument for outing is that knowing there were gay 'prominent' guys in your town--not just the occasional stereotypical hairdresser whom everybody made fun of--would've made you feel a lot less isolated. Again, I'm not for outing (except for the Ted Haggard-type hypocrites) but I am finally seeing why people want as many as possible out of the closet.

Maybe that's what he was thinking--but man was he in for a disappointment. In its' glory days the only women at Numbers were older trannies and/or selling photos or rrrrroses. It wasn't a 'gay bar', it was a hustler bar, which seems to be pretty different. Not many women (who've always been women) at The Spotlight either. Speaking of which, now that it's practically the only game in town, has it picked up at all? Anybody been lately?

It's at least the third major time. I thought 'digits' was a fiasco, but Moz trying to use it to get girls has to take the cake. So very sad. Anybody got tabs on the sexy waiter/matre'D (never saw him at Moz's)? Now there's no place I know of in Hollywood to go to reliably find a working boy...

But all Brandon's boys drink for free and live with him!

Well, if you get fired there's Cobra--and thanks to Obama's recent actions it's actually affordable the first 9 months or so. But yeah, after that--or if you quit--you're fucked. But come on now, what's more important? Healthcare coverage for anybody who needs it or the profits of a private industry that didn't even exist 30 years ago?

Was it at least breaking even back when he 'tolerated' the bars' clientele or was going straight a desperate attempt to stay in business? It seemed fairly busy the couple nights we met there, but maybe not busy enough considering how much of each day it sat empty and how many people were on the payroll (especially useless people like the manager...). Maybe rentboy.com should buy it, Brandon seems to want to get back into hospitality management...

As usual, they're being massively hypocritical. It's good enough for their parents (Medicare) and for them (Senate heath plan) but would be horrible for everybody else...

Reminds me of a quote I just heard on TV again: "I mean, who keeps silver bullets in their gun?".

The Vice President of the United States outed a CIA operative. As repugnant as everything Novak did for that administration was, he was just a reporter slipped an exclusive. One that any true journalist wouldn't report, yes... but there were so few of those around in the rush to the Iraq war. NSA's still going strong--probably reading this right now, you mean OSA?

Any patriot that recognized him on the street, I could see. But Novak was the administration's shill, and the CIA went along with everything else the administration did.

I think the simplest and most sensible thing is as follows: Everybody can buy into Medicare, at cost within 50% of poverty, up to 15% over based on income, maybe with enrollment capped at some income level. Everybody can buy into the senate health plan, starting at 5% over cost, up to 15-25% over. The extra money ensures Medicare is set, and once that's accomplished could be used to reach-out to those who can't afford. Everybody could get health care regardless of employment or medical condition. Some margin is left for private competition, though they should also be better regulated (no kicking people off, etc). Probably makes way too much sense to have a snowball's chance in hell.

If it's somebody who's actively worked against gay rights (Larry Craig, much of the "religious right") then I support it 100%. Otherwise it is pointless and damaging. Why alienate somebody who may come to your side a couple years down the road and become a great advocate?

On the other hand, I'd think a call somebody who found them here would lead to actually being hired a higher percentage of the time.

Damn, he was one of the few Democrats that could effectively stand up for something. When JFK died we got Medicare, so maybe in death that generation of Kennedys can serve one last time...

I'd be happy to give it a try, I can find fault with anything!

I've run into trouble twice now giving a guy I'd been seeing regularly a review. The most recent had even started advertising on Rentboy--with his face picture--but somehow a review on here was just too much... even though he'd needed the money and gotten a couple extra clients in the week or so the review was up. Don't get it.

I agree with TY, Mexico seems to have slipped from 2nd world to 3rd these last couple years and now finds itself with many of the same crime problems as Columbia and the like. It even seems to be fueled by drugs--just like central America. It's too bad, with it being so close and the birthplace of Kristian there was a lot to recommend it. But even in TJ I've never seen anything online that implies there is anything special available for us. Catholic repression? Maybe when Cuba opens up...

I think an eyebrow piercing is sexy, just about all the others, not so much (or at all). Have to say I have yet to notice a real difference from tongue piercing--clearly need to do more research there.

I've often felt LBJ was very underrated, he certainly had many great accomplishments. But I worry that was a different time, one we'll never get back to. It's hard to imagine most of the Republicans in congress responding with anything other than a snort to "your president needs you". And it's not as if there was any reward for all the Democrats who went along with that kind of nation-first thinking post-911 and gave Bush everything he asked for right through the authorization for Iraq... LBJ didn't have an inexplicably popular opposition media network of multi-millionaire talking-heads (owned by a multi-Billionaire) successfully convincing its' viewers (most of whom are within a few paychecks of being homeless) that the critical issues of the day were the DEATH TAX and NOT TAKING PRIVATE INDUSTRY PROFIT OUT OF HEALTH CARE. But I agree with the sentiment that it sure would be nice if any of the democratic leaders (other than maybe Hillary ) had LBJ's balls.

I liked the movie but just didn't get the point of re-writing the end of WW2 in Europe.