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Ca. 950 AD?

Ukrainian women launch 'sex strike' against Russian men http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10723540/Ukrainian-women-launch-sex-strike-against-Russian-men.html

He is an "evil and wicked" soul. To use his own words about Islam. (When Billy Graham was asked about those remarks of his son, he only replied softly, "I have many friends in that part of religion.")

Not the bad-for-you fatty parts.

backpage.com too, with the usual caveats.

The challenge is finding the two elements -- (1) cute twinks, (2) reasonable rates -- together. Twinks can of course be found on rentboy.com and men4rentnow.com, at the usual market rates. Lower rates are more likely to be found if you have the patience and inclination to go hunting in clubs and bars. Here were my thoughts on some likely places in NYC: http://www.boytoy.co...e-2#entry110343

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Saw this on the gag/joke rack at Dollar Tree just yesterday. Have (so far!) resisted buying it...

Clearly the plane was taken by that secret cabal in Rio to fly their posse of ultra-high-end escorts in fitting style to their various black sites around the world.

All-purpose...

Is this in the right forum?

Germans try to get their tongues around gender-neutral language http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/germans-get-tongues-around-gender-neutral-language

Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life Commentary • Our Annual Year 2013 • Opinion • ISSUE 49•12 • Mar 20, 2013 By David Ferguson I have always been a big proponent of following your heart and doing exactly what you want to do. It sounds so simple, right? But there are people who spend years—decades, even—trying to find a true sense of purpose for themselves. My advice? Just find the thing you enjoy doing more than anything else, your one true passion, and do it for the rest of your life on nights and weekends when you’re exhausted and cranky and just want to go to bed. It could be anything—music, writing, drawing, acting, teaching—it really doesn’t matter. All that matters is that once you know what you want to do, you dive in a full 10 percent and spend the other 90 torturing yourself because you know damn well that it’s far too late to make a drastic career change, and that you’re stuck on this mind-numbing path for the rest of your life. Is there any other way to live? I can’t stress this enough: Do what you love…in between work commitments, and family commitments, and commitments that tend to pop up and take immediate precedence over doing the thing you love. Because the bottom line is that life is short, and you owe it to yourself to spend the majority of it giving yourself wholly and completely to something you absolutely hate, and 20 minutes here and there doing what you feel you were put on this earth to do. Before you get started, though, you need to find the one interest or activity that truly fulfills you in ways nothing else can. Then, really immerse yourself in it for a few fleeting moments after an exhausting 10-hour day at a desk job and an excruciating 65-minute commute home. During nights when all you really want to do is lie down and shut your eyes for a few precious hours before you have to drag yourself out of bed for work the next morning, or on weekends when your friends want to hang out and you’re dying to just lie on your couch and watch TV because you’re too fatigued to even think straight—these are the times when you need to do what you enjoy most in life. Because when you get right down to it, everyone has dreams, and you deserve the chance—hell, you owe it to yourself—to pursue those dreams when you only have enough energy to change out of your work clothes and make yourself a half-assed dinner before passing out. Say, for example, that your passion is painting. Well, what are you waiting for? Get out there and buy a canvas and some painting supplies! Go sign up for art classes! And when you get so overwhelmed with your job and your personal life that you barely have enough time to see your girlfriend or boyfriend or husband or wife, let alone do anything else, go ahead and skip classes for a few weeks. Then let those paint brushes sit in your room untouched for six months because a major work project came up and you had a bunch of weddings to go to and your kid got sick and money is tighter than you thought it would be and you have to work overtime. And then finally pick those brushes back up again only to realize you’re so rusty that you begin to question whether this was all a giant waste of time, whether you even want to paint anymore, and whether this was just some sort of immature little fantasy you had as a kid and that maybe it’s finally time to grow the fuck up, let painting go, and join the real world because, let’s face it, not everyone gets to live out their dreams. Not only does that sound fulfilling, but it also sounds pretty fun. Really, the biggest obstacle to overcome here—aside from every single obligation you have to your friends, family, job, and financial future—is you. And I’ll tell you this much: You don’t want to wake up in 10 years and think to yourself, “What if I had just gone after my dreams during those brief 30-minute lunch breaks when I was younger?” Because even if it doesn’t work out, don’t you owe it to yourself to look in the mirror and confidently say, “You know what, I gave it my best half-hearted shot”? http://www.theonion.com/articles/find-the-thing-youre-most-passionate-about-then-do,31742/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview%3ANA%3AInFocus

Now, if it had been '60 Hookers You Probably Didn't Know in NYC,' more likely I would have.

I didn't. 60 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About New York City Basically, you’re always walking over thousands of dead bodies. Matt Stopera BuzzFeed Staff 1. Pinball was banned in the city until 1978. The NYPD even held “Prohibition-style” busts. 2. It is a misdemeanor to fart in NYC churches. 3. It costs $1 million to get a license (medallion) to operate a taxicab. 4. The first pizzeria in the United States was opened in NYC in 1895. 5. In 1857, toilet paper was invented by Joseph C. Gayetty in NYC. 6. The Jewish population in NYC is the largest in the world outside of Israel. 7. Up until World War II, everyone in the entire city who was moving apartments had to move on May 1. en.wikipedia.org 8. The city of New York will pay for a one-way plane ticket for any homeless person if they have a guaranteed place to stay. 9. There’s a man who mines sidewalk cracks for gold. He can make over $600 a week. 10. According to New York City’s Office of Emergency Management, the last hurricane to pass directly over the city was in 1821. The storm surge was so high that the city was flooded up to Canal Street. 11. Hog Island, a one-mile-long island south of Rockaway Beach, was never seen again after the hurricane of 1893. 12. New York City’s leading hurricane historian, Nicholas Coch, a professor of coastal geology at Queens College, believes that this is the only reported incidence ever of the removal of an entire island by a hurricane. Via en.wikipedia.org 13. Up until 1957, there was a pneumatic mail tube system that was used to connect 23 post offices across 27 miles. At one point, it moved 97,000 letters a day. Via untappedcities.com 14. Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are stored in a safe deposit box in the city. 15. There are tiny shrimp called copepods in NYC’s drinking water. 16. On Nov. 28, 2012, not a single murder, shooting, stabbing, or other incident of violent crime in NYC was reported for an entire day. The first time in basically ever. 17. There’s a wind tunnel near the Flat Iron building that can raise women’s skirts. Men used to gather outside of the Flat Iron building to watch. Via mcnyblog.org 18. About 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in New York City. 19. New York City has more people than 39 of the 50 states in the U.S. 20. There is a birth in New York City every 4.4 minutes. 21. There is a death in New York City every 9.1 minutes. 22. The borough of Brooklyn on its own would be the fourth largest city in the United States. Queens would also rank fourth nationally. 23. New York City has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia. 24. New York has the largest Puerto Rican population of any city in the world. 25. PONY stands for Product of New York. i.imgur.com 26. In 1920, a horse-drawn carriage filled with explosives was detonated on Wall Street killing 30 people. No one was ever caught, though it is considered to be one of the first acts of domestic terrorism. 27. In nine years, Madison Square Garden’s lease will run out and it will have to move. 28. UPS, FedEx, and other commercial delivery companies receive up to 7,000 parking tickets a DAY, contributing up to $120 million in revenue for the city of New York. 29. It can cost over $289,000 for a one-year hot dog stand permit in Central Park. The New York Times / Via nytimes.com 30. Sixty percent of cigarettes sold in NYC are illegally smuggled from other states. 31. There was one homicide on 9/11, and it remains unsolved. 32. There are “fake” buildings in the city that are used for subway maintenance and ventilation. The building below in the middle, located in Brooklyn, has a fake facade. There is no brownstone within. Google Maps 33. Chernobyl is closer to New York than Fukushima is to L.A. 34. There are more undergrad and graduate students in NYC than Boston has people. 35. New York City’s 520-mile coastline is longer than those of Miami, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco combined. 36. The Empire State building has its own zip code. 37. The East River is not a river, it’s a tidal estuary. 38. There is a secret train platform in the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Charles Mostoller / Barcroft Media / Getty Images 39. When the Dutch first arrived to Manhattan, there were massive oyster beds. In fact, Ellis Island and Liberty Island were called Little Oyster and Big Oyster Island. 40. McSorley’s, the oldest Irish ale house in NYC, didn’t allow women inside until 1970. 41. Madison Square Park, Washington Square Park, Union Square Park, and Bryant Park used to be cemeteries. 42. There are 20,000 bodies buried in Washington Square Park alone. 43. The original Penn Station was considered to be one of the most beautiful train stations in the world but was torn down because of declining rail usage. Ewing Galloway/Hulton Archive / Getty Images 44. NYC garbage collectors call maggots “disco rice.” 45. In 2010, 38% of all 911 calls in NYC were butt dials. 46. Times Square is named after the New York Times. It was originally called Longacre Square until 1904 when the NYT moved there. 47. The entire world’s population could fit in the state of Texas if it were as densely populated as New York City. 48. In 1975, the city of New York sold a private island in the East River for $10. Courtesy of the NYC Audubon / Via tpl.org 49. The winter of 1780 was so harsh in New York that New York harbor froze over. People could walk from Manhattan to Staten Island on the ice. 50. From 1904 to 1948 there was an 18th Street station on the 4/5/6 line. It’s abandoned now, but you can still see it on local 6 trains. Via en.wikipedia.org 51. The narrowest house in NYC is in the West Village: 75 1/2 Bedford Street is just over 9 feet wide. Via en.wikipedia.org 52. In 1906, the Bronx Zoo put an African man on exhibit in the monkey house. 53. Credit card minimums ARE legal in the city. In 2010, Congress passed a law saying up to a $10 minimum was legal. 54. It would cost about $17,000 to take a cab from NYC to L.A. 55. In 1922, there was a Straw Hat Riot. It was an unofficial rule in NYC that straw hats weren’t allowed to be worn past Sept. 15, but some unruly kids started snatching people’s hats a few days before that causing an uprising that lasted a few days. 56. Eating a New York bagel is equivalent to eating one-quarter to one-half a loaf of bread. 57. NYC buries its unclaimed bodies on an island off the coast of the Bronx called Hart Island. Since 1869, nearly a million bodies have been buried there. The island is not open to the public. hartisland.net 58. There’s a 150-foot-deep hole (15 stories) on Park Avenue between 36th and 37th streets. 59. The price of a slice of pizza and the cost of single ride on the subway has been nearly equal for the past 50 years. 60. The scary nitrogen gas tanks you see on the corners of streets are used to keep underground telephone wires dry. Via Flickr: nep http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/60-facts-that-will-make-nyc-feel-like-a-whole-new-place?bffb

"Colorado sold over 14 million dollars-worth of marijuana in January. That's impressive considering Miley Cyrus was only there for 12 hours." Joan Rivers

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Judge strikes down Michigan ban on gay marriage; state asks for a stay 5:49 PM, March 21, 2014 By Tresa Baldas Detroit Free Press WriterIn a historic ruling that provided a huge morale boost to the gay-rights movement, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman today struck down Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage, making it the 18th state in the nation to allow gays and lesbians to join in matrimony, just like their heterosexual counterparts. ■ PDF: Read Judge Friedman’s ruling striking down Michigan gay marriage ban Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette filed an emergency request for stay of Friedman’s ruling. In his 31-page ruling, Friedman heavily criticized the state’s position that the will of the voters should have been upheld, noting that just because voters approve something doesn’t make it right, especially when it violates the Constitution. “In attempting to define this case as a challenge to ‘the will of the people,’ state defendants lost sight of what this case is truly about: people. “No court record of this proceeding could ever fully convey the personal sacrifice of these two plaintiffs who seek to ensure that the state may no longer impair the rights of their children and the thousands of others now being raised by same-sex couples,” Friedman wrote. “It is the court’s fervent hope that these children will grow up to ‘understand the integrity and closeness of their own family and its concord with other families in their community and in their daily lives.’ “Today’s decision is a step in that direction, and affirms the enduring principle that regardless of whoever finds favor in the eyes of the most recent majority, the guarantee of equal protection must prevail.” But Schuette, in his request for a stay, argued that Friedman did not follow the trend sent by other federal judges handling similar cases across the country by not staying his ruling pending the outcome of appeal. The state has long argued that the will of 2.7 million voters — who in 2004 decided that marriage is only to be between a man and a woman — should not be drowned out by a single judge. The state also argues that it has a “legitimate” interest in preserving the traditional family structure because — it claims — children thrive best when raised by married moms and dads. Friedman, though, sided with the plaintiffs: two Hazel Park lesbian nurses who argue the state has no “rational basis” for denying them the right to get married and adopt each others’ children. Today’s ruling, which came just as courts were closing, at first dashed hopes for the handful of gays who waited hours to be married. "We've been waiting years and years -- I thought the judge would've thrown us a bone," said Laura Quinn, 46, of Royal Oak. Friday was the 18th anniversary of her relationship with her partner, who stayed home while Quinn waited four hours hoping to obtain a marriage license for the couple, she said. When the courthouse closed, she trudged off, vowing to return Monday to try again. And minutes after she'd driven off, the judge's ruling came down, making it likely that Quinn and many other gays will be lining up Monday morning outside the office of Oakland County Clerk Lisa Brown. The plaintiffs, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, are raising three special needs children together and want to get married. The also want to adopt each others’ children, but can’t because Michigan doesn’t allow same-sex couple adoptions. Rowse has two preschool-age boys; DeBoer has a 3-year-old daughter. The two women filed their lawsuit in January 2012, initially raising only the adoption issue but then challenging the gay marriage prohibition as well. Unlike most federal judges who have taken up the gay-marriage issue, Friedman opted last fall to hold a trial and give both sides the chance to present their arguments and scientific evidence – the bulk of which focused on same-sex parenting studies and child outcomes of children raised in such family structures. The state’s experts said that their studies show that children of same-sex couples have poorer outcomes than kids raised by married moms and dads. The plaintiffs’ studies showed no such findings. “Gays and lesbians and same-sex couples are just as confident, loving, nurturing and capable as their heterosexual counterparts,” attorney Dana Nessell, one of several plaintiffs’ lawyers in the case, argued during the trial. “ These loving couples deserve the right to marry and to adopt their children.” The plaintiffs also argued that child outcomes should have nothing to do with marriage rights, noting that there is no requirement for people to have kids in order to have a marriage license. The state argues that the voters of Michigan already have spoken on the issue and that their decision should stand. “The people of the state of Michigan should be allowed to decide Michigan law,” state attorney Kristin Heyse argued in court. Nessell said the patchwork of legislation involving same-sex marriage has led to chaos, specifically for same-sex couples who are legally recognized in one state, but then move to another and have no legal recognition. It’s especially problematic come tax time, she said, noting same-sex couples, depending on where they live, have to file separately because their marriage isn’t recognized. “This has to be resolved,” Nessell said. “This can’t continue. You can’t have this patchwork system anymore.” http://www.freep.com/article/20140321/NEWS06/303210121/Judge-strikes-down-Michigan-ban-gay-marriage-unconstitutional