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One can't help but wonder if he chose to remain sleeping and eating in the guesthouse out among other priests partly for just that reason.

You do have to look, you know. Not just sigh.

hito, in seriousness, it need not be a dream at all. Right here in Raleigh you have choices. Here are just two: St. John's Metropolitan Community Church: http://www.stjohnsmcc.org/CityOnaHill/ Pullen Memorial Baptist Church: http://www.pullen.org/ Pullen's LGBT ministry: http://www.pullen.org/page/lesbian-gay-bi-sexual-transgender-fellowship These churches and others here love you and want you, if you are serious about what you said.

Agreeing with 2 out of 3...

Dept. of No-Joke...

Fish are so enjoyable to cook once you get the hang of handling them. Also good for those of us without much patience. An easy and quick way to treat nice cod or haddock fillets for example is to season as you like (maybe a little pepper, salt and an herb like rosemary on top), sprinkle a little oil in a hot skillet, drop in your fish (skin side down if they have skin), saute a couple of minutes, then stick under a hot broiler for another 4-6 minutes. With some fast-cooking couscous and a green salad, dinner fit for company is ready inside 10 minutes. The quicker to get to the post-prandial activities!

Few things would seem simpler than baked salmon, but I've been served the most mangled versions. How people manage to beat up this poor fish by overcooking, drying out, or the cardinal sin of buying old fish or letting it get old in the fridge before cooking. High oil content makes it go off faster than many other fish. Assuming a nice fresh cut, some ways to keep it moist when cooking... (1) Season as you like, wrap loosely in a tightly sealed foil tent and bake. Or (2) bake uncovered 400 deg about 30 min, after coating with this mixture (this is enough for a single-serving 1/4-lb fillet): 1/4 cup bread crumbs (use panko; the regular ones will come out a soggy mess rather than crisp and crusted) 1/4 cut mayo 2 tablespoons parmesan Makes a nice crust that keeps the fish moist while baking. Or (3) poach it. I was intimidated by the word until I did it the first time. Idiotically simple, and scrumptious. Greatly helps that Whole Foods etc. now sell decent-quality fish broth in cartons, in place of the old bottled "clam juice" that used to be the only choice other than making your own. I wonder what was really in that bottled stuff, which made me think of the life-essence fluid in "Re-Animator." ...It occurs that lurker being a professional chef will be stifling his chortles at these amateur cooking posts. But then his shortcuts would be our long-way-arounds. First time I glanced into Escoffier I noticed that what at first looks like a short recipe is liable to take all day, due to his professional compression of an hours-long prep step into a one-word command. Alas my scullery maid ran off with the footman.

"Scared the first time I had sex? Of course I was scared -- I was all alone!" Rodney Dangerfield

My dear, we have just identified two men over whom you and I will never have to fight.

Our vet said a raw egg in our dog's food every few days would be good for his coat and skin, which would get dry and flaky in places during winter. He loved those eggs.

No, I honestly don't remember. And am resisting Googling it at least for a day, to see if I have any memory left at all. ...What did I just say?

No worries. Everything is a metaphor for everything.

Although Google a recent photo. As he ages he is beginning to resemble a bit the love child of Mitt Romney and Franklin Graham.

"He pursued pleasure so avidly as to have the misfortune to catch her." ...who said that? (Besides me. )

Are a shoe fetish and a foot fetish necessarily the same thing? As in: Condoms I use, but what's inside 'em I worship.

Sorry -- how silly of us! Of course this was the real cause... Westboro Baptist Church Member Blames Oklahoma Tornado On Jason Collins' Coming OutPosted: 05/21/2013 11:13 am EDT | Updated: 05/22/2013 5:29 pm EDT A prominent member of the Westboro Baptist Church is drawing a link between the Oklahoma tornado's devastation and a local team's support for openly gay NBA star Jason Collins. Fred Phelps Jr., the son of Westboro Baptist Church minister Fred Phelps, tweeted the following: Fred Phelps, Jr. @WBCFredJr OK Thunder's Durant flips God by praising fag Collins. God smashes OK. You do the math. #GodH8sFags #FagsDoomNations #FearGod #GodH8sU 10:47 PM - 20 May 2013 Later, Phelps added: Fred Phelps, Jr. @WBCFredJr God's wonderful wrath in Oklahoma reminds me: #GodCursesUForFagMarriage #GodIsYourTerrorist #GodWillRepay #GodAvengesHisPeople #GodH8sU 10:49 PM - 20 May 2013 It isn't the first time that an anti-gay pundit has attempted to blame a natural disaster to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. In 2012, chaplain John McTernan linked Hurricane Sandy (and a number of other recent weather-related trends and natural disasters) on LGBT people and President Barack Obama's backing of marriage equality. "God is systematically destroying America," McTernan wrote at the time. "Just look at what has happened this year." McTernan similarly linked Hurricane Isaac with the LGBT community, pointing to the fact that the life-threatening storm coincided with Southern Decadence, New Orleans' "Gay Mardi Gras." "New Orleans is still hosting Southern Decadence with open homosexuality manifesting in the streets of the city," he wrote in a blog. "It could be that God is putting an end to this city and its wickedness." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/westboro-oklahoma-tornado-_n_3312712.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

I don't know. The reviews at daddy's seem to show about the same average amount of overnights as I remember over the past decade or so...?

Many steamed veggies take well to a little olive oil, much better for the coronary apparatus than butter and quite tasty.

Getting the whole 4th Estate this riled up at you would seem to be a strategy not pursued with such success since Nixon... Obama Administration's Media Surveillance Unleashes Wave Of Condemnation The Huffington Post | By Rebecca Shapiro and Jack Mirkinson Posted: 05/22/2013 9:05 am EDT | Updated: 05/23/2013 10:20 am EDT The Justice Department's investigation and surveillance of the Associated Press and Fox News have led to perhaps the most sustained wave of criticism for the Obama administration's media policies since the president took office. On Wednesday, the New York Times became one of the more influential voices to say what many others have been saying: that the administration's methods are an attack on press freedom. In a scathing editorial, the Times wrote that, "With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible 'co-conspirator' in a criminal investigation of a news leak, the Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news." The Times editorial described the Obama administration as going "overboard" with its investigations into leaks and threatening press freedom. The board added: Obama administration officials often talk about the balance between protecting secrets and protecting the constitutional rights of a free press. Accusing a reporter of being a 'co-conspirator,' on top of other zealous and secretive investigations, shows a heavy tilt toward secrecy and insufficient concern about a free press. The Times editorial was just one in a chorus of hard-hitting attacks on Obama's media policy that have surfaced in the wake of the Justice Department investigations. Journalists were outraged by the inquiries into the AP and Fox News reporter James Rosen. In particular, members of the media took issue with the Justice Department labeling Rosen a possible "co-conspirator" in a leak case for the crime of trying to get a source to give up information. The New Yorker reported on Tuesday that the investigation into Rosen was even broader than previously suspected, as the DOJ seized records from at least five different numbers used by Fox News and two different White House lines. That followed the Associated Press' revelation that the DOJ had secretly obtained months of phone records for at least seven individual journalists across 20 phone lines while searching for the government official responsible for leaking information about a CIA-thwarted terror plot. Obama's hyper-aggressive leak policy—and his administration's potential equation of routine journalistic interaction with criminality—is nothing new. But the fury in the pages and on the websites of elite outlets about these positions certainly is. The Times' criticism echoed that of many other journalists and press freedom groups. On Tuesday, the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists sent an outraged letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, in which it warned that the DOJ's secret subpoenas for over 20 AP phone lines "represent a damaging setback for press freedom in the United States." This came on the heels of a letter signed by over 50 media outlets which made similar arguments. Wednesday also saw Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank lash out at Obama: The Rosen affair is as flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration, and it uses technology to silence critics in a way Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of. To treat a reporter as a criminal for doing his job — seeking out information the government doesn’t want made public — deprives Americans of the First Amendment freedom on which all other constitutional rights are based. Guns? Privacy? Due process? Equal protection? If you can’t speak out, you can’t defend those rights, either. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/nytimes-obama-white-house-doj-investigations_n_3318748.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

I didn't know this.