Lucky

Well, now that I have learned you are a beer bellied bear, my whole image must shift. Here I had you pictured as a suave, chain-smoking Frenchman, sitting in cafes whistling at the women while casting discreet glances at the young men passing by. But now I picture you driving a truck and swearing out the window at women who move too slowly to cross the street. Then, after work, you gather with your truck driving buddies at the local beer hall to swig away for hours until the overly made up mistress of the place kicks your ass out the door! You head off to home with one of your top buddies, who'll make do until your day off on Sunday, when you get your act together, go to the local church on the tram, and meet up with single ladies at the church social! How's that for an imagination? Just kidding, of course. At least we know you are not the guy in Oz's picture!

If that's Bibottomboy, he can grab my horn!

Hunky stud Jesus Montero, a catcher from Venezuela, made his major league debut tonight for the Yankees. If he does well, New York will love the handsome player.

It looks like my plan to stop starting threads for awhile is working. The idea was that I had started ten of the threads on the opening page, and thought I should stand back and let others have the space. Bibottomboy has stepped right up with 14 threads on the opening page, and is the last responder on 15 threads. hitoallusa is giving him a run for his money though, but my bet is on the bibottom. I still wonder how a bottom can be bi, but life is full of questions that I don't have answers to! Unless bibottom boy wants to start another thread...!!!

The library should be able to tell the needs for, say, gay books, from the demographics of the neighborhood. But somehow those demographics were collected by asking folks about these same questions. So, who should do the asking?

Let me know when and where and I will definitely try to be there.

I missed this thread, or rather, I ignored it because I don't watch much TV. But, the bf likes to flip channels,so when we saw Hunter we got more interested. Not that I have watched more than a few minutes when he is on.

I hope for the best for them as well.

lookin, I don't mean to be an asshole about it, but shouldn't the asshole be given a thread on its own? Buried deep in here and hidden by our cheekiness, it might not get the attention it deserves.

I can see that the lawyer in me came out in that last post. You don't have to feel cross-examined, I just would like you to respond to the points I raised.

No, that's not your point. That's your revisionism. It may be a good point, but it isn't what you have been saying. You didn't respond to a single point I made about this guy's wife and kid, who you think should just 'get over it." You didn't respond to the gap between your call for compassion and your lack of compassion for his family. You still can!

"In retrospect, the most consequential event of the past ten years may not have been 9/11 or the Iraq War but the looting of the American economy by those in power in Washington and on Wall Street. This was happening in plain sight—or so we can now see from a distance. At the time, we were so caught up in Al ­Qaeda’s external threat to America that we didn’t pay proper attention to the more prosaic threats within." "By portraying Afghanistan and Iraq as utterly cost-free to a credulous public, the Bush administration injected the cancer into the American body politic that threatens it today: If we don’t need new taxes to fight two wars, why do we need them for anything? But that’s only half the story in this alternative chronicle of the decade’s history. Even as the middle class was promised a free ride, those at the top were awarded a free pass—not just with historically low tax rates that compounded America’s rampant economic inequality but with lax supervision of their own fiscal misbehavior." http://nymag.com/news/9-11/10th-anniversary/frank-rich/

I read somewhere that there are sites on the internet where men review the women they have hired for sex. I have never seen such a site, but it does support the idea that prostitution is the world's oldest profession. In every major city, and no doubt many small ones, men know where to go to fill their biological need for release. At the behest of churches, government makes some noise about stopping this. But often government is in on it, especially the very police who are being paid to stop it. I am just now getting to my issues of the NY Times Magazine, and the August 21st issue has a page on the "flickering red light" in Istanbul. "Since the 1870's, prostitution has thrived in Istanbul's Beyoglu district...for five decades a (woman) ran an empire of Beyoglu brothels that netted her her an estimated $4 million annually until her death in 2001." So just one woman in one town made such big money. Worldwide billions are spent on paid sex. Even the preachers and the politicians who oppose it still buy it, especially if they are conservative Christian or right-wing GOP! The woman who died after making such a fortune left the properties to her son, who closed them. This cost the city an estimated $1.2 million in tax revenue. (Yes, she paid taxes on her income!) Now the government has "essentially stopped granting sex licenses...even though there are an estimated 7000 applications pending. An estimated 100,000 women work in the Turkish sex industry illegally. One older woman, 45, complains about her younger colleagues: "Nowadays these women have all lost their morals," she said. "There's no more service, no more caring for the customers." Yet she still makes up to $6000 a month, I guess by providing the old-fashioned services. The younger women see as many as 50 men in a 12 hour day. At this rate, prostitution will continue to be quite profitable, and we haven't even talked about the male prostitutes. It's an interesting piece to read: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/dimming-the-red-lights-in-turkey.html?scp=1&sq=Flickering%20Red%20Light&st=cse

So you're saying Britney is just a puppet? I find that hard to believe, but in this day, who knows?

I agree with EXPAT. Britney may be mentally ill, but she puts herself into situations where she has to go with the flow if she wants to be a star. And, no doubt, she has a say in what happens or she wouldn't be there.

You know, hitoall likes to talk about the need for compassion. Many of us can understand that the legislator in question got himself into a pickle, but it's because of his own dishonesty. hitoall has no compassion for the wife and daughter- they just have to "get over it." But the wife no doubt feels betrayed, and I don't doubt embarrassed to have this marital trouble a national issue. But because she is "family" she just has to "get over it." How compassionate is that? And the daughter? No I don't know her age. She may now become the child of a broken marriage, living with one parent and not two. But get over it, girl. Hitoall doesn't care what problems you have. You're family. It's your job to let daddy have his indiscretions, even if the kids at school tease you mercilessly. Maybe you loved your parents and hate to see them break up. Get over it! No compassion for you. One reason hypocrisy among politicians is bad is because of the harm it causes when it is finally exposed. I have some compassion for the wife and daughter, not so much for daddy. He needs to get over himself.

The physical act of fucking a woman is pleasurable enough, but I gave it up once I learned the joys of gay sex. I have no desire to return to it, but once in awhile I have wondered about some of those Thai women- they seem pretty sexy. Then I usually wonder if they have a brother.

Didn't you recently marry?

He4 already has a new job, I hear. He's going to model for Preparation H in Puerto Rico ads.

She will, no doubt. I think she is about 5 years old. They understand by that age, don't they? I'm pretty sure. If not, he will explain to her why he showed his asshole on a gay sex site.

You might have also missed the fact that this guy is married with a daughter. Now she has to go to school and hear all of the other kids talk about seeing her daddy's asshole on the computer. That's not so cool, is it? He's now resigned: Pedro Julio Serrano, founder of the gay rights group Puerto Rico for Everyone, said (Roberto)Arango voted in favor of Resolution 99, a proposal that would block any attempt to permit same-sex marriages in the U.S. territory. He also helped block a measure to ban sexual discrimination in the workplace and opposed adoption rights for gays. Wikipedia

They are found in the Sonoran desert. Lick away!

Sometimes, RA1, I have to wonder about you. You do understand that "this cam" and "that cam" might be two different cams?

I'll take him just the way he is.

When the plumber, or the doctor, or the detective enters your house and you note that he is really hot, your heart goes pitter patter. Beauty has a hold on us. And it makes no sense, does it? Why the jaw line in one way makes a guy handsome, an inch or two off and he is not. We cannot choose to be beautiful, it's a gift, at least most of the time. But, I agree that real beauty is what is in the heart. I like to be surrounded by people with good hearts and smart minds. Beauty is secondary, or even tertiary. Until it comes to sex, and then what is beautiful to me may not be beautiful to you. The laws of attraction have been mystifying people for centuries. But, the study shown in the opening post proves that beautiful people seem to thrive more than those who don't have that square jaw. Go figure.