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No fucking way! You think I'm too senile to remember what happened to the old guy?

As we have no metro papers delivered in my hometown anymore, I get my funnies fix online from the Washington Post. I read three of the four featured strips (but not in the order presented), then skip to the bottom of the list and read in reverse alphabetical order the stips on my reading list. For some reason, the Post forced me to sit through a 60 second commercial when I clicked on my last strip. Now I don't mind the 15 second commercial that pops up before the third comix but waiting out 60 seconds when I only have one more strip to finish was making me crazy. I got to wondering if I could dodge the commercial if I moved the order in which I viewed the strip. Now that seemed a totally absurd possibility to me but in the spirit of my method of learning how to do stuff on the net (try out everything that pops in my head until somehow something makes the damned thing do what I want it to do), I switched the order I clicked on it and presto, no more commercial (why didn't it pop up on the new last strip?? I was clicking on the exact same number of strips.). Unfortunately that left me with a set of three strips that were often duds to finish up with, so I poked around the neglected comix until I found one to add next to last that usually satisfied. Win/ win! I am sorely tempted now to drop the 3rd to last strip as a hopeless dud (I only included it as a kind of filler in the first place), but that would be just too much change for the nonce. LOL, too much information?

Well, I guess all of us have our compulsions: Even Ol Spidey!

Cruising – The Boy Toy Guide To Porto Alegre Brazil Ah, the beautiful boy toys from Brazil, looking to hang out, hook up and play gay with all the hairy bears, terrific twinks and deep-throating daddies in the land! We all love Brazil. From the cheap prices (not only of escorts, you pervs) to the beautiful scenery to the hot bronzed men, Brazil has something for everyone. But all too often guys will stick to Rio, which is fun, but you can only cum in the Copacabana so many times before it just becomes old school! You want to expand your horny horizons and scope out the rest of the country – which, honestly, is bigger than the 48 states – and see where else you can have a sinfully delicious sexcation! Porto Alegre – Your One-Stop Boy Toy Shop! Porto Alegre, the state capitol of Rio Grande do Sol, is one of the wealthiest cities in Brazil and has the highest literacy rate of any city in the country. You'll see much less poverty here than in the rest of the country, and a lower crime rate. So, you'll feel safe for yourself and sorry for fewer people. That said, Porto Alegre is sort of a one-stop shop. There aren't a lot of touristy things to do. It's more of a place to cool your heels for a couple days while traveling from Brazil to Argentina. Because it's the port city connecting the two nations, you'll find that there is a mix of Spanish and Portuguese spoken here. The city is very fag-friendly, and you'll have no problems getting your gay on. Much of the scene revolves around the saunas – which are very inexpensive compared to Europe or America, but slightly more expensive than what you'll find in Rio. There are many threads on boytoy about Mezzininu- the sauna of choice for most of us and it is the only sauna I have been to in Brazil that seems to be built ground up from day 1 to be a true sauna. However, please do not spend every day and night only in this pleasure paradise. Get out and enjoy other places as Porto Alegre is an amazing city for many reasons! There are several gay clubs – whose names change about as often as a rich daddy changes boy toys – but all are easy to find and located in the neighborhood between Avenida Maua and Avenida Ipiranga. Just look for the rainbow flags and you'll know where to go when you want to go down. Cruising The Night Away Cruising is a popular sport in Porto Alegre – and you'll find an interesting mix between masculine men on the low-down and rent boys on the ho-down! These areas are pretty consistent. Check out: • The restrooms at Praca de Alfandega, a public part near the center of town. • The shopping center on Rua de Praia. This is just next door to the Praca; you can often cruise guys here and then head over to the park. • Parque da Redencao. At night this park is full of rent boys who will be more than willing to take you into the bushes for a few minutes. • Bourbon Assis Brasi. This shopping mall is also a hot cruising spot for those who like bathroom blow jobs. (And, really, if the boy toy is cute enough, who doesn't?) Turgid Tourism Porto Alegre is much more of a stopover point than a tourist mecca. You'll probably want to check in, check out the guys, do the hokey pokey with the boy toy of your choice, and move on in a day or two. That said, there are some fun things to do in the day while you wait for the nightlife to take you away. Taking the Linha Turismo bus is the first place to start. It takes roughly an hour and a half, and will go through nearly all the neighborhoods in the city. This will give you a chance to get the lay of the land, and understand how Porto Alegre is laid out so you'll be ready to get laid yourself at night. The biggest tourist site is the Monumento aos Açorianos – a giant 17-meter monument to the original city settlers. Far more impressive, however, is the Santuário Mãe de Deus church, which is not only beautiful itself but also offers fabulous views of the city, the port and the water. The downside is that no public transportation goes there, so you'll have to take a cab if you haven't rented a car. But by far the best thing to do in Porto Alegre is to watch the sunset over the Guaíba river. It is one of the most beautiful sunsets you'll find anywhere, and you can see it from nearly any location on the western side of the city. If you happen to be gaying around Porto Alegre in the summer (which is our winter) then hiring a boat to go on a river cruise can be fun. There isn't much in the sense of cultural events in the city, except in October when the Feira do Livro – South America's most respected book fair happens. This is your chance to get great deals on rare books, talk with authors, and meet smart boy toys! Porto Alegere – A Quick Stop To Hop On Cock! Whether you just want a break from the breakneck speed of Rio or are traveling on to Argentina and other points in South America, Porto Alegre is well worth a couple days of your time. And, remember that weekends are best as the saunas are filled with hot boys and often the weeks are a bit slow for paid companions. So, cruise on by when you are ready to cruise. You won't feel pressured to be a tourist during the day, so you can dance and fuck the night away. cc boytoy.com 2012 written in honor of tomcal who took me on my first trip to this amazing city!

Fascinating history of the NRA's about-face from its pro-gun-control origins: http://www.alternet.org/suprising-unknown-history-nra?paging=off

Putting W. aside (please!), I keep telling you: Once you learn how to bottom, it is not painful. Quite the opposite. We men have this organ called the prostate. You really ought to get to know yours.

I just want him to fuck me like he fucked the country.

I dated a catholic girl once who had about five vibes/dildoes shaped like crucifixes. And i currently have one shaped like George W. Bush.

Come to think, I would take her role were this device involved. Provided only that MsGuy played the old priest, and -- of course -- our hitoall played the young one. Split pea soup by Progresso, if you please.

This would be for the queer remake of The Exorcist...? (Who would take Linda Blair's role?!)

Now THIS is the way to work. Until you get caught! Software developer Bob outsources own job and whiles away shifts on cat videosVerizon's hunt for firm's mysterious hacker exposes 'top worker' at firm who let Chinese consultants log on to do his daily work The Guardian, Wednesday 16 January 2013 13.12 EST Could this kitten possibly be more interesting than the job in hand? Secret outsourcer Bob probably thought so... Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images When a routine security check by a US-based company showed someone was repeatedly logging on to their computer system from China, it naturally sent alarm bells ringing. Hackers were suspected and telecoms experts were called in. It was only after a thorough investigation that it was revealed that the culprit was not a hacker, but "Bob" (not his real name), an "inoffensive and quiet" family man and the company's top-performing programmer, who could be seen toiling at his desk day after day and staring diligently at his monitor. For Bob had come up with the idea of outsourcing his own job – to China. So, while a Chinese consulting firm got on with the job he was paid to do, on less than one-fifth of his salary, he whiled away his working day surfing Reddit, eBay and Facebook. The extraordinary story has been revealed by Andrew Valentine, senior investigator at US telecoms firm Verizon Business, on its website, securityblog.verizonbusiness.com. Verizon's risk team was called by the unnamed critical infrastructure company last year, "asking for our help in understanding some anomalous activity that they were witnessing in their VPN logs", wrote Valentine. The company had begun to allow its software developers to occasionally work from home and so had set up "a fairly standard VPN [virtual private network] concentrator" to facilitate remote access. When its IT security department started actively monitoring logs being generated at the VPN, "What they found startled and surprised them: an open and active VPN connection from Shenyang, China! As in this connection was live when they discovered it," wrote Valentine. What was more, the developer whose credentials were being used was sitting at his desk in the office. "Plainly stated, the VPN logs showed him logged in from China, yet the employee is right there, sitting at his desk, staring into his monitor." Verizon's investigators discovered "almost daily connections from Shenyang, and occasionally these connections spanned the entire workday". The employee, whom Valentine calls Bob, was in his mid-40s, a "family man, inoffensive and quiet. Someone you wouldn't look twice at in an elevator." But an examination of his workstation revealed hundreds of pdf invoices from a third party contractor/developer in Shenyang. "As it turns out, Bob had simply outsourced his own job to a Chinese consulting firm. Bob spent less than one-fifth of his six-figure salary for a Chinese firm to do his job for him." He had physically FedExed his security RSA "token", needed to access the VPN, to China so his surrogates could log in as him. When the company checked his web-browsing history, a typical "work day" for Bob was: 9am, arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours, watch cat videos; 11.30am, take lunch; 1pm, eBay; 2pm-ish, Facebook updates, LinkedIn; 4.40pm–end of day, update email to management; 5pm, go home. The evidence, said Valentine, even suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area. "All told, it looked like he earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, and only had to pay the Chinese consulting firm about fifty grand annually". Meanwhile, his performance review showed that, for several years in a row, Bob had received excellent remarks for his codes which were "clean, well written and submitted in a timely fashion". "Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building," wrote Valentine. Bob no longer works for the company. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/16/software-developer-outsources-own-job