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It's tradition to play strip poker with a dreidel on Hanukkah? Ok, I guess.

I've never been to Brazil (yet!), so can't really speak to it from personal experience, but according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_Brazil ~65% of Brazilians are Roman Catholic. Given the perverse and poisonous teaching of the Catholics about gays, it doesn't surprise me that there's this hate bouncing around. I'd also note that as reported in this article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=homophobes-might-be-hidden-homosexuals that there is evidence homophobia is correlated with latent homosexual desire. So if you think homosexuals are evil or damned, and you're feeling it a bit yourself, it might wind you up into trying to externalize your struggle by attacking somebody else. Armchair psychology, but that's my take.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate Our murder rate is that of a third world nation... I believe the access to guns here is a big part of that.

The reality is that gun control advocates lose elections. all. the. time. At some point, perhaps even now, the feelings in this country may shift, but I don't blame anybody in washington for not wanting to pick this fight.

Good for him. Sure, he's an attention-whore, but he tries to be entertaining, and if people like it, that's fine. I'd much rather someone like him get attention than Paris Hilton. I generally loathe the fame seeking talentless media hounds, but at least he's cute and one of us. If I never, ever, ever heard another word about the kardashians or paris hilton it would just be... Super!

3 people, including supposedly the shooter, have died after a shooting this afternoon at Clackamas Town Center Mall. I was driving to that very mall to walk (given the rain here, it's a good place to get a bit of exercise out of the wet.) when the shooting happened. A little creepy to realize that if I hadn't been distracted and running late I might have been there when it happened. it also reminds me what mixed feelings I have about gun control. Their ability to mete out mass death means that crazies will keep being able to do this. But I do believe that an armed citizenry is part of what ensures our government doesn't become a dictatorship, though I think that may just be me drinking the koolaid!

Deck the halls with naked Mario. Fa-la-la Fa-la-la Ah Ah Aaaah!

Fortunately, I wasn't much of a sun worshipper, so that wasn't ever my issue, though I've had enough sun burns in my time even so. I was once snorkeling in Mexico and lost track of time I was so entralled. I ended up with a second degree sun burn! Blisters all over my skin. Didn't even know it was possible, but boy that's something that I never ever did again!

Very few people age particularly well. I was pretty hot in the day. I look like shit now Years of smoking and drinking didn't help. Fortunately, I quit smoking over 15 years ago, and it was one of the best things I've ever done for myself.

I live in Portland OR, ground zero in the craft beer movement. I don't drink a lot of beer because I have gout and don't want to test my limits, but I've mostly avoided these kind of mainstream beers for years because as Tampa says, most of them taste like Yak piss to me. I can't stand light beers either, they taste like watery yak piss... But there are some great real beers brewed around here that actually taste like something so when I'm going to indulge, I want a beer that actually tastes like something. I really do like a good wheat beer with lemon.

Initially I liked Bel Ami a lot, just my type, but after watching a while I got turned off by all the limp dicked bottoms. They clearly weren't having fun, and that made the whole thing less interesting to me. I've noticed lately however that they've worked on that, and now at least a number of the boys stay hard while getting fucked. It's an improvement. But there is very much a look as you say, and most of the faces really just seem to run together...

Ha! Exactly!

As a young gay man, I slept with a few women. It didn't float my boat, but when you're young and horny, you can do a lot more than you might think. My guess is that it's the same with most of these guys. They're really straight, just young and horny.

I tend to agree. My view is that we ought to issue drug users licenses. You go to a a short course that tells you how much they'll mess you up, at the end, they give you a license that allows you to buy anything you want. We then spend all our money on drug treatment rather than a drug war. I would have thought that prohibition would have taught us what a bad idea criminalization is, but I guess we're just too puritanical a society to give up on the idea of prohibition.

Interesting. I was there a few years ago and went looking for gay life in Saigon and found nada. I was with someone so couldn't do anything with the one escort I contacted because he had no place to go either. It felt very confined to me at the time...

I hope you're right onefinger, but I'm dubious. I think this just translates as "We love you faggot, not get in the back of the fucking bus and shut up."

I agree with Branson, and think the interviewer really misses the point. Mary Jane may be a gateway drug, but if so, it's a gateway drug whether or not it's illegal. We really need to start thinking about drugs as a health problem, not a criminal problem. If we want to stop people using drugs, we need to offer treatment and support, not incarceration. We've created an incredible criminal class for no damn good reason while wasting billions and billions of dollars.

I think he's pretty hot in the piano picture. I sure as hell wouldn't kick him out of my bed. Calvin used him and dumped him. I think the using here is mutual and I don't blame the kid for milking it for what it's worth. That said, I'm not interested in his book. Who cares what dirt he dishes?

I tend to agree with this. I think DOMA can't stand, the rational argument that this is the federal government trampling states rights to decide these questions is how I think this will break. I think they'll try to find a way to punt on Prop 8. As the analysis article above cited, I wouldn't be surprised if they decided that the plaintiff didn't have standing, and so the original ruling in california stands and there is no need for a broader review. But, hard to know in the end. I have a hard time thinking a court that threw out sodomy laws is going to go against us on these questions. I just think they'll be thinking about Roe v. Wade and that the court moved too quickly there and try to find some middle ground to let public opinion continue to shift before making a more definitive ruling in the years to come.

Ok, I'm a slacker, but I'll join the fun. I'm at 721 posts, but I was at 716 at the beginning of november!

Hope things work out for you! We cut off cable TV a while ago and miss it only mildly.

1) I am thankful that I got fired last week. I couldn't bring myself to leave because the pay was so ridiculous, but I _hated_ it and it was giving me health problems. 2) I am thankful for my totally awesome wife/best friend who makes my sun shine. 3) I am thankful that I put up with that boring evil job long enough that I have enough money that I can now go do what I want and not have to freak out about if I'll have enough for retirement. It's been an eventful last couple of weeks.

I hated high school. NO desire to revisit it with a reunion. Haven't gotten any invites, but just as well.

Thanks for posting, that was remarkably sweet. She sounds like a fantastic mom.

I'm with State on this one.