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I was a bit surprised to be reading all the protests in France against gay marriage. I thought France was a very liberal country and gays were widely accepted. Have others who have spent more time there know about this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20382699

"... Myyy ... sweet ... Victoria ...!" Talk about a like.

So one would think. Yesterday, cbnick shared an experience with a pole dancer in Phoenix. Not only did I like the post but I thought, like Lucky, it might give a little encouragement to a new poster if I were to sign in and actually 'like' the post. So that's what I did. I remember how much I enjoyed my first 'like' and wanted to pass the experience on. Imagine my surprise when the 'like' count for the new poster didn't budge. I could see the 'like' in his 'received' list, and I could see it in my 'given' list, but still the 'like' counter didn't move one iota. Just to make sure, I opened the post again this morning, logged in, 'unliked' it, and then 'liked' it again. Same thing. It shows up in his 'received' list, and it shows up in my 'given' list, but it doesn't show up in the poster's total number of 'likes'. As I mentioned, this is a new poster with only a couple of posts, so it's not like the numbers have become too large to keep track of. Is it possible that there is a glitch in the 'likes' software? Or maybe the programmers have decided that some posts, or some posters, or some likers, are just unlikeable? Very odd, whatever the reason, and I'd like to think that it will be fixed. It was also interesting to note that, after a good night's sleep, I was able to open a post and 'unlike' it the next day. Even though this was just an experiment, and I immediately 're-liked' it again, it was nevertheless noteworthy that I was able to 'unlike' a 'like' even after several hours and, presumably, after several days, weeks, or months. That seems to open the door not only for undoing any inadvertent 'likes' one may have given oneself, but also to 'unlike' the posts of others should either the post or the poster not withstand the test of time. While we may start looking forward to seeing our 'like' totals go up as the years roll by, is it likely there will come a time when we notice them starting to go down, just as if some strange presence sits noodling at the keyboard of our self-esteem?

I wonder if global warming will one day send more of us back to our birthday suits. Yesterday, I asked a couple of City boys what they thought about all the fuss. They confirmed what I've heard before, that it's a response to the stroller moms who have moved to the Castro to raise their families and now form a vocal subset of Supervisor Wiener's constituents. Like Lucky, they do not enjoy seeing their neighbors' dangly parts and perhaps feel that their offspring might be irreparably harmed by skipping down the street and suddenly coming face-to-crotch with an unclad community member. It made me wonder if their children were born with a distaste for nudity, or if it was something they learned during their early days in the nursery. I felt bad for them, and wondered if it would be possible to make neighborhood nudity a fully-disclosable item in any real estate transactions, like roof rot and mold and lead-based paints. It also made me wonder what role evolution will play in resolving this issue and if thousands of years of being born naked will someday evolve into the first live birth in which the newborn pops out fully clothed. And would the neonatal garments have designer labels, or would they be purely utilitarian? Once I started wondering, it was hard to stop, and I found myself wondering if my own street presence, even though fully - if not fashionably - clothed, might also prove offensive to the more aesthetically attuned inhabitants of our fair City. I'd feel terrible if the sight of yours truly mincing down the street in skimpy shorts, weather permitting, would cause the slightest discomfort to even the most finely strung of my fellow citizens. And what if I did learn that my appearance out in the open offended others? I wonder if I could bear it, although I'm not sure I'd have the discipline to spend the rest of my life indoors. Unless maybe I had some company. Clothing optional, of course.

Move to Puerto Vallarta!

Purchase an around the world 1st class airplane ticket and plan my year around the world travel plans.