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He did not violate the number one rule of escorting. If in fact he felt trapped and had to call his sister for help, then he openly did what was right to protect himself. If Mr, Legislator got outed as a result of imprisoning the kid, well tough tododoo. If, as I said above, he had just gone through with his agreement and had sex, then we would not be reading about him now. But he had to brag that he was a bigshot so this young kid would be impressed and overlook his physical decline. You may be young and handsome, but hey, I am a somebody and you're not! (Beyond that, Mr. Legislator is a creep. He wants sex for $80, and then suggests it could be extended into an overnight, with no increase in pay!)

"But, in Bangkok it is easy to find good long stay apartments." Unlike Brazil, of course. Could it be that the good Lord is trying to tell you something?

"A few gays I got to know were not a very good people when I was young and their life didn't ended well." You didn't kill them, did you?

Now the lad has his own Sunset boulevard billboard- sans shirt, of course. This marketing of nude children must stop! Until he is 18, no shirtless pix of him should be on billboards. Drivers could have accidents as they become distracted trying to figure out his age.

Marriott Executive Apartments Sao Paulo Rua Professor Filadelfo Azevedo, 717 Vila Nova Conceicao · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 04508-011 Brazil Starting at only $348US a night...

Well, um, okay. So why aren't you staying there? How does it compare to the one on Sathorn?

Hallelujah!!

With bad news seemingly insurmountable, management at MER has taken a new look at posting, and thus the decision has been made to make MER a happy place. No more negative posts, no look at the downside of things, no bad escort dates, and no massages without happy endings. All pix posted will be of the cutest guys imaginable, and they will have no acne or skidmarks in their underwear. Each poster, upon opening the page to MER will be dazzled by a brief blast of pleasant and soothing light, with the Vienna Boys Chorus singing Hallelujah lightly in the background. Anyone not posting something happy will find themselves sorting envelopes for the MER annual fund drive instead of enjoying the new, lighter MER. As a side bonus, after each ten posts, MER members will find that their face has become slightly smoother as their youthful luster returns in the Happy Land of mirth and MER. Now you know how bored I can actually become!

I think hitoall finds Hitler to have been just misunderstood. I sure hope that he tells the judge when he is called for jury duty that he cannot sit in judgment on another individual.

Cat...car...I can't type either! But the Yankees are winning big, and Posada did real well too. No, I wouldn't switch allegiance for one guy. The Yankees have several hot players themselves.

Ah, but TY, the question is not about him, it is about you. Surely you want to share with the group the sounds you make in your most intimate moments?

I may need a new screen name. I sure don't feel lucky today. I was looking forward to the game, carried today on FOX. Yet on the West Coast they have substituted the Oakland A's game. Yuck! I don't want to sit in the cat just to hear the game on XM...

Speak for yourself, he is no friend of mine.

I finished Absolute Monarchs, the one-volume history of the papacy. Interesting to note that after having reviewed some pretty unsavory popes, the author saves his harshest words for Pope Pius XII. The head of the church in World War Two was horribly anti-Semitic and refused to try to stop the deportation of Jews from Italy to Auschwitz. Not only that, he was racist, refusing to allow the Allies to employ any colored soldiers at the Vatican. The author decries the act of John Paul II to canonize Pius XII. Lest anyone think it was all bad, there were good popes who tried to do right. Sadly, the Curia, or Vatican bureaucracy, usually stood in the way. The current pope, Benedict, with hat: The current pope in sleeveless t-shirt:

Well, then why did I make this huge mistake? The game he is pitching is today, not Sunday! Check your FOX station.

I saw that too. Rich Rio. No wonder I can't afford it anymore.

Some questions are best left unasked.

I find gay priests who preach one thing and do another to be distasteful. I know many good gay priests, or I did at one time. They have a hard time of things because the church won't let them be who they are, yet they feel a calling to the ministry. But all of the stuff the nuns taught me in grade school was so much bullshit and I do resent it when the church comes along and tells me that I am the one who is intrinsically evil. A robe and a pointed hat does not make one holy!

I think Mr. Hinkle got himself outed for sheer stupidity. Why would he feel the need to show the kid his legislative ID? It scared the kid, and then apparently the stupid legislator decided a little false imprisonment was okay. Had he just had sex and sent the kid on his way, no one would be talking about him today.

Well, it's 3 years later. I think the acne is gone now.

I've got a better story than that, but I figured why hurt a fellow gay guy who was just trying to have fun. He (this other guy of whom I am speaking) shouldn't have bragged about his position though. Otherwise I would never have known who he is. I think if a gay guy (or girl) gets himself elected to office, he then has a new responsibility not to injure the community. But in this case, if I just kept my mouth shut, no harm, no foul. This time. The next guy might not be so nice.

One of the hottest and handsomest players in baseball will be pitching against the Yankees on Sunday, so check your local listings. I get Extra Innings on cable, which gives me 80 games a week, and, of course, I watch the Yankees nearly every day. But Jeremy Hellickson is a dreamboat. Beautiful twinky look with ruby red lips, I hope he last a good 8 innings before the Yankees cream him! I couldn't find a single pic on the internet of him with a smile on his face.

If you are not familiar with gawker.com, the smarmy attitude in its writing is its hallmark. They are not a homophobic site. The material they write about is well-documented, so why not let that be the source of any irritation?

I am currently reading Absolute Monarchs, a history of the papacy. We get to see them all, warts, children, and all. When I went to school, my nun had me believing all of the things she told me. I thought that when the Cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel, that Divine Providence in the form of the Holy Spirit actually guided the Cardinals to pick God's choice. Well, it doesn't happen that way. Popes fight to get the job, they bribe their way into it, and they enjoy it while they can, for many don't last long. The favorite pope of MER might be Pope Julius III, a "competent" canon lawyer in the 1500's. The Holy Man "was better known for his infatuation with a seventeen-year old boy, somewhat inappropriately named Innocenzo, whom he had picked up in the streets of Parma two years before and whom on his accession he instantly made a cardinal...Here again was a typical Rennaissance pope, shamelessly self-indulgent...whose banquets...tended to deteriorate into homsoexual orgies after the principal guests had taken their leave... he died of starvation in 1555."