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Very few people age particularly well. I was pretty hot in the day. I look like shit now Years of smoking and drinking didn't help. Fortunately, I quit smoking over 15 years ago, and it was one of the best things I've ever done for myself.

I live in Portland OR, ground zero in the craft beer movement. I don't drink a lot of beer because I have gout and don't want to test my limits, but I've mostly avoided these kind of mainstream beers for years because as Tampa says, most of them taste like Yak piss to me. I can't stand light beers either, they taste like watery yak piss... But there are some great real beers brewed around here that actually taste like something so when I'm going to indulge, I want a beer that actually tastes like something. I really do like a good wheat beer with lemon.

Initially I liked Bel Ami a lot, just my type, but after watching a while I got turned off by all the limp dicked bottoms. They clearly weren't having fun, and that made the whole thing less interesting to me. I've noticed lately however that they've worked on that, and now at least a number of the boys stay hard while getting fucked. It's an improvement. But there is very much a look as you say, and most of the faces really just seem to run together...

Ha! Exactly!

As a young gay man, I slept with a few women. It didn't float my boat, but when you're young and horny, you can do a lot more than you might think. My guess is that it's the same with most of these guys. They're really straight, just young and horny.

I tend to agree. My view is that we ought to issue drug users licenses. You go to a a short course that tells you how much they'll mess you up, at the end, they give you a license that allows you to buy anything you want. We then spend all our money on drug treatment rather than a drug war. I would have thought that prohibition would have taught us what a bad idea criminalization is, but I guess we're just too puritanical a society to give up on the idea of prohibition.

Interesting. I was there a few years ago and went looking for gay life in Saigon and found nada. I was with someone so couldn't do anything with the one escort I contacted because he had no place to go either. It felt very confined to me at the time...

I hope you're right onefinger, but I'm dubious. I think this just translates as "We love you faggot, not get in the back of the fucking bus and shut up."

I agree with Branson, and think the interviewer really misses the point. Mary Jane may be a gateway drug, but if so, it's a gateway drug whether or not it's illegal. We really need to start thinking about drugs as a health problem, not a criminal problem. If we want to stop people using drugs, we need to offer treatment and support, not incarceration. We've created an incredible criminal class for no damn good reason while wasting billions and billions of dollars.

I think he's pretty hot in the piano picture. I sure as hell wouldn't kick him out of my bed. Calvin used him and dumped him. I think the using here is mutual and I don't blame the kid for milking it for what it's worth. That said, I'm not interested in his book. Who cares what dirt he dishes?

I tend to agree with this. I think DOMA can't stand, the rational argument that this is the federal government trampling states rights to decide these questions is how I think this will break. I think they'll try to find a way to punt on Prop 8. As the analysis article above cited, I wouldn't be surprised if they decided that the plaintiff didn't have standing, and so the original ruling in california stands and there is no need for a broader review. But, hard to know in the end. I have a hard time thinking a court that threw out sodomy laws is going to go against us on these questions. I just think they'll be thinking about Roe v. Wade and that the court moved too quickly there and try to find some middle ground to let public opinion continue to shift before making a more definitive ruling in the years to come.

Ok, I'm a slacker, but I'll join the fun. I'm at 721 posts, but I was at 716 at the beginning of november!

Hope things work out for you! We cut off cable TV a while ago and miss it only mildly.

1) I am thankful that I got fired last week. I couldn't bring myself to leave because the pay was so ridiculous, but I _hated_ it and it was giving me health problems. 2) I am thankful for my totally awesome wife/best friend who makes my sun shine. 3) I am thankful that I put up with that boring evil job long enough that I have enough money that I can now go do what I want and not have to freak out about if I'll have enough for retirement. It's been an eventful last couple of weeks.

I hated high school. NO desire to revisit it with a reunion. Haven't gotten any invites, but just as well.

Thanks for posting, that was remarkably sweet. She sounds like a fantastic mom.

I'm with State on this one.

For alcohol abuse, I've heard very good things about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Method

I bank with USAA, no fees, and they rebate the first 10 charges of ATMs a month. Fantastic for a traveller. But they're a bank for military, ex-military, or in my case, kid of a military family. If I couldn't do them, I'd definitely go credit union.

Rush is an enormous dick. How can he say penises are shrinking when he looks in the mirror?

Why feel you have to do anything at all with this 'information'? If he is, so what? Do you want to jump his bones? If not, why not just listen? He can figure out if he wants to do something with the information himself, and how that will play in his marriage.

Color me radical, but letting people ritually maim their children seems like a good thing for the state to stop. It will get overturned, but I wish it wouldn't.

Well, Mr. Ed had a point, but like most who have such a perspective, I think he took it way too far. I don't think I would have wanted to get a PhD under him! Lucky you for escaping. I agree most don't find the term oriental offensive, but since there are other safer phrases that serve the exact same purpose, I just use those.

If you want to understand the issues regarding 'oriental', you can read Edward Said's Orientalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_%28book%29 (I was an asian studies major way back in the day, and this was a big academic debate.) The objections to the term oriental arise more from the assumptions layered over that term. Asian, or something like that doesn't carry as much baggage. Of course, over the years I've gotten a bit jaded about the political correctness of language, since I think political correctness of ACTION is much, much more important. Rice queen is an old phrase for someone attracted to asians, and while I think it has humor, I don't think it has much sting to it. Which is all a way of saying, yes, some people have issues with terms and care a lot. I think most don't. So I wouldn't get too caught up in it, but might want to say Asian instead of oriental. South Asian or East Asian if you want to be more specific.

Apple may end up victorious in the long run, but I doubt it. I've been involved in high tech my entire career, and been involved in a lot of patent suites. Almost always, the only people who win are the lawyers. Samsung has a huge amount of patents too, and eventually that will catch up with Apple, and they end up cross-licensing, and the whole thing will go away. At least that's my bet. I personally hate patents. A fair idea which has, in practice, become a way to destroy innovation.