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Well, six of the justices were at the Roman Catholic "Red Mass." This is an annual celebration of the Catholic liturgy where many government officials join in prayer for the members of the judiciary. http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/30/record-number-of-justices-attends-red-mass/ One of the big cases before the Court this term will be Christian prayer at public meetings. Wonder how Roberts plans to vote on that? BTW, now that Pope Francis wants the clergy lowering their bling, why not wear simpler garments and do away with the pointed hats? It sure would be in keeping with the new Church, wouldn't it? Look at Roberts. he is the Chief Justice, but doesn't need a fancy outfit.

My question is why wasn't Obama on top of the Obamacare roll-out, making sure that no mistakes were made and that Obamacare looked like a winner. Instead we got flawed sign up and an ultimate closure to fix things. Given that repealing Obamacare is supposedly what the shutdown is all about, you'd think they would put their best foot forward in introducing it. But no, they fucked it up instead. The news is all about how hard it was to sign up instead of how many people were finally getting medical care.

I found PV to be very safe. The downtown area seems to be a no-go zone for locals unless they have a job there or other valid reason to be there. Everyone spoke English- fluently! It was almost like being in a Disney version of Mexico. Be sure to go to the site of the Taylor-Burton film cum romance. It's pretty neat and is an easy bus ride away.

tomcal...tomcal...Brazill.. yes, um huh, ...boys...lots of boys...yes, it's coming back to me...tomcal OH! TOMCAL! You mean he is back???!!!??? Well then, welcome back!

If we only knew that the camera was going to provide every guy a chance to pose naked in 2013... But, 1918 was also a good year for chocolate malts.

Your pillow covers don't match.

I thought that my editing was not going through because it did not return me to the page but stayed on the editing page. But, when I peeked at the post, it was, in fact, edited. It just doesn't automatically return you to the thread as it did before.

New problem- No matter that I sign out each time I leave, I am always signed in when I return.

Once went to a Broadway show- Joe Egg, or something like that, and they filled the balcony with high school kids who had obviously not been to a play. When the character on stage would ask a question, they would shout out an answer. It went downhill from there. But somehow we have to introduce the young to the theater. Perhaps the musical version of The Return of Ms Guy? Singing, dancing, what more could you want?

It's raining men, no doubt! October is when they had the bad floods last year, or the year before, I think. Obviously my memory of this is failing me! Thanks for the pic.

19 hours since we last had a pic! Firecat, are you sleeping? Hey, just kidding. I enjoy your reports, and pix always help me understand the more complicated parts!

Very interesting story, EXPAT. And first in your class, too!

I wonder what Lookin thinks about this. He's not nuts, but then he doesn't live in Palm Springs! Nice response, CharliePS.

So, since Lookin has 1916 posts, how will his next post be number 1918? And, of course, we are making the assumption that Lookin will post again! Hopefully, he will.

Second UPDATE: It's hard to avoid the story as it is all over the news. The more I have learned, the more regrettable that the police did not show more restraint. Lessons to be learned for all.

A NY Times photo shows Garrison Gibbons, an openly gay theater major at the University of Mississippi. The Times says that he was one of the biggest targets of the bigots at the performance before the football players. The line below Mathew Shepard's photo gains more meaning in the context of new bigotry among young men.

The Desert Sun, a Gannett newspaper, serves the greater Palm Springs area, and today they have an innocent enough headline: Health Gaps Found Among LGBT. Haha! Sure. Most of the gays have health insurance and rate their health as "good," "very good," or "excellent." This is followed by that world famous word: but. And in this case, the but is that we're nuts! Yes, the second paragraph of this supposedly gay-friendly article says: More than half of the LGBT participants had been diagnosed with one or more [emphasis added] mental health disorders, and about 40 percent had experienced some emotional, mental or behavioral problems that worried them in the past year, rates much higher than the general population...Forty-one percent had received a depression diagnosis, compared with 8 percent of the the general valley population. 36 percent with anxiety compared with 6 percent, and ten percent with panic disorder compared with 3 percent of the general public. Gays interviewed blamed the disorders on the stress of being discriminated against. The Palm Springs area has a very large gay population, so if that kind of stress due to discrimination exists here, well what chance does a gay person have in say, Kansas? It's a three page article, so I'll let you read it in its entirety, just don't panic or get depressed! http://www.mydesert.com/article/20131004/LIFESTYLES03/310040023/Health-gaps-found-among-valley-s-LGBT

Boys will be boys! We know that sometimes people new to the theater do not react appropriately, but at the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, audience members heckled performers during a performance of The Laramie Project, a theater presentation about the death of a young gay man, Mathew Shepard, by bigoted young men. The bigoted young men at Ole Miss seem to have been largely from the football team, but not entirely. It was not easy identifying exactly who the hecklers were. But they did not show theater etiquette, and one wonders if this is endemic to the region. Yet we (occasionally) have posting here a resident of the state who shows great dignity and comportment, so go figure! According to a report in today's nytimes.com: There are conflicting reports about whether a derogatory word for a homosexual man was used, but several people who attended agree that catcalls, giggling, inappropriate coughing and burping began during the first act and escalated in the second act. The harassment included making fun of the weight of one of the actors and commenting on the body of the stage manager who told the audience after intermission to silence their cellphones. FoxSports.com seemed to have no problem concluding that the problem was the football players, and called for a strong message to be sent to those who heckled that this cannot be tolerated and the offenders should be suspended: http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/ole-miss-football-players-homophobia-heckling-school-play-laramie-project-matthew-judy-shepard-100313 The student newspaper seems to have as full an account of the incident as anyone: https://thedmonline.com/um-students-football-players-disrupt-play/

Your kindness and concern for your friend is admirable, lurkerspeaks, and I join you in wishing him well.

"ONE" can reflect? There you go with the numbers again. We can all reflect, so the number is higher than one, is it not?

I'd be much more excited if it were a good picture quality, or especially if he was kissing me. I have long been a fan. Remember in his early days how he had that sexy "bee-stung" lower lip? It wasn't real, of course since he doesn't have it now. Injections helped back then. But it sure did look sexy when it was wrapped around my dick...oops, I promised him I wouldn't tell!

We must be really desperate if that kiss excited any of us. The quality of the video sucked more than Ryan does. But to see a straight actor kiss a male seems like a very small thing these days. Certainly not enough to get worked up about. And how many years old is it?

Lookin, your next post will be number 1917.

According to Wikipedia, Richie enjoys singing and playing the trombone. Translation: He screams when getting fucked, and his boner is huge. But not all the guys who wear the NOH8 tape are gay. Many straights have been pictured wearing it in solidarity with the gay community. Mscleovr wants us to think he has inside knowledge, but if he did, he wouldn't be shy about telling us how he came upon it. Was it a midnight clear?