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Speaking just for myself, I would have posted this in the forum for politics. There is no point having separate forums for subtopics if we don't honor them by posting there when appropriate.

Speaking just for myself, I would have posted this in the forum for arts and literature. There is no point having separate forums for subtopics if we don't honor them by posting there when appropriate.

Well, I damn well hope not! It's not FRISCO! It's San Francisco. The battle to stop the use of Frisco has been going on since Herb Caen admonished in his column decades ago that you never call the city Frisco! But now it seems like the battle could be lost as Frisco is used a little more often by the ignorant. See following article: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nativeson/article/Farewell-to-Frisco-say-hello-to-San-Fran-4759011.php

I love Lumpini Park. I have visited it numerous times, always managing to see the muscle boys working out. Later, I would encounter many of them at the Tawan Bar. I see the name Lumpini often spelled Lumphini and have no idea what the etymology of the word is.

It's definitely worth a visit...or a dozen! I love going there. The King does not live there, btw. Most recently, he lived in a hospital on the Chao Praya River. But three weeks ago, he left the hospital for the first time in four years to go to the resort city of Hua Hin, where he has a seaside residence. And did you know that the 85 year old King was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts?

Let it be noted that I did qualify my remark on Holiday Inns by stating that I was stuck with the 60's image it had. I joined the conversation more to tease Oz than to comment on the current quality of Holiday Inns as I clearly am not up to date on that. Perhaps if I went to Brazil and stayed at the Krakow Holiday Inn I might like them better! BTW, I did look at pix of the Holiday Inn at Krakow, Poland, and it does look really nice.

With the mayor of San Diego resigning on Friday after 17 complaints of sexual harrassment were lodged against him, some think former councilman Carl DeMaio, currently running as a Republican for Congress, might make a good successor. Yet DeMaio is facing his own scandalous allegations. Former Council President Ben Hueso, now a Democratic state senator, says he caught DeMaio masturbating in the restroom outside the council room...during meetings of the council! VoiceofOC.org states that "Describing the scene that spring when he walked in on DeMaio, who was in front of a urinal with his pants down, Hueso said: “DeMaio was masturbating. He jumped, caught by surprise. He jumped to the sink … saying 'I’m sorry, I’m sorry' about six times. Then washed his hands, darted out.” The whole story is at voiceofOC.org, an Orange County website. Apparently another councilman says he saw DeMaio masturbating as well, and the article claims that his alleged habit was widely known. DeMaio's spokesman denies the accusations. DeMaio has been receptive of good press from the San Diego newspaper, owned by Doug Manchester, a hotelier who donated to the Prop 8 forces before he bought the newspaper. DeMaio has also been endorsed for Congress by the district attorney, a Republican and a lesbian. De Maio is also openly gay. Is the story credible? Who knows? It seems doubtful, but we have a Democratic state senator saying he witnessed the behavior personally. That's a lot to take on if he just trying to dirty up DeMaio. But it might work, true or not. Republicans in rest rooms are unpredictable.

I liked Leif Garrett and was so sorry to see him take a tumble. Poor Justin best listen.

Comfort, then, is not the priority if you stay at Holiday Inn Express, or so it seems to me. Although I do like Courtyard by Marriott...

Mario is gay for me, whenever we get together. Of course, he doesn't know that since we haven't yet gotten together.

My poor Oz! Once a valued member at Inter-Continental hotels, now a member of ...um, Holiday Inn? I thought you had moved your loyalty to Marriott? I just can't get past the 50's image of Holiday Inn...or was it the 60's?

I limited my question to the one issue of government issued ID. Hurdles, to me, are shorter hours for voting, intentionally creating long lines by understaffing certain precincts, and similar. I don't like hurdles. But proving that you are, in fact, the registered voter seems baseline rather than a hurdle. Now I agree with EXPAT that hurdles can be created to get such an ID, and there shouldn't be any. But a birth certificate is neeeded in several areas of life and everyone should have one. And I do agree that it should not be a difficult or expensive task to do so.

It's hard to know if this is just a gimmick to avoid hard time with hard guys or if he really wants to live the rest of his life as a woman. No one would care had he not disclosed all of the documents that he had.

What is so wrong with asking a person who shows up to vote to identify himself with some official form of ID?

Looks like fun!

I think his cock is just fine.

...or under!

Sorry, I just saw that EXPAT had already reported this news. It's hard to beat EXPAT when it comes to Hollywood news!

You need a cougar dancer!

I wish that he delineation of the forms was more strict,. Those who commented on this in the proper forum are now left out because the OP could not be bothered to post in the correct forum. Even management does this.

Andrew Sullivan didn't like this either! "A disclosure upfront: I have met David Miranda as part of a my friendship with Glenn Greenwald. The thought of his being detained by the British police for nine hours because his partner embarrassed the American government really sickens me at a gut level. I immediately think of my husband, Aaron, being detained in connection to work I have done – something that would horrify and frighten me. We should, of course, feel this empathy with people we have never known – but the realization is all the more gob-smacking when it comes so close to home. So of course my instinct is to see this exactly as Glenn has today... I have seen nothing anywhere that could even connect his spouse to such nefarious contacts. Unless Glenn is some kind of super-al-Qaeda mole, he has none to my knowledge and to suspect him of any is so close to unreasonable it qualifies as absurd. The idea that David may fomenting terrorism is even more ludicrous. In this respect, I can say this to David Cameron. Thank you for clearing the air on these matters of surveillance. You have now demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that these anti-terror provisions are capable of rank abuse. Unless some other facts emerge, there is really no difference in kind between you and Vladimir Putin. You have used police powers granted for anti-terrorism and deployed them to target and intimidate journalists deemed enemies of the state. You have proven that these laws can be hideously abused. Which means they must be repealed. You have broken the trust that enables any such legislation to survive in a democracy. By so doing, you have attacked British democracy itself. What on earth do you have to say for yourself? And were you, in any way, encouraged by the US administration to do such a thing?

I found this very troubling. The British, along with the US, are making a mockery of freedom and democracy. Obama is such a disappointment, caught in his own lies about NSA snooping. More and more I think Snowden did us a favor by revealing the information that he had. Today's detainment seems pure harassment. What will be next? There is a fascinating article in today's NY Times Magazine on Laura Poitras, Snowden, and Glen Greenwald: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html?ref=magazine

Well, I forget that you are a British subject, perhaps worried that your Queen endorsed a murder...hehe,, I am just kidding...

Today I went to see the movie The Spectacular Now, which has some good reviews. I hated it. The boy in it was selfish, but more importantly, he was a lush. His girl dumps him and he takes up with a nice girl, giving her her own engraved flask. It's all downhill from there. But I wondered if I would have liked the movie more if the actor was cuter. He plays a charming character, but I wasn't so charmed. Now we all know that cute guys have the advantage when it comes to being charming because we are so willing to be charmed with them. So this movie, I think, would have worked better if differently cast. That's my opinion. And your opinion? Is Miles Teller cute enough to charm you in a movie?

Oz, it's been a month without a report. I hiope all is well in the Land of Smiles- no more hospital visits, and many boys coming your way.