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I think you can disagree and have productive debate without being nasty. I would like to think of this as a party at someone's house. If someone says something you disagree with, you can say so, and why, without resorting to the equivalent of "well look at what cunt lips just said." The gay community has a history of bitchy queens, so it's easy to start down the sloop. But on the internet, no one can ever see the smile on your face, so a little bitchiness begets more bitchiness until the whole forum is rolling around the virtual parking lot trying to scratch each other's eyes out with lee press-on nails. It isn't pretty.

Here here on the civility bit. I used to participate over there years ago, but the just continuous nastiness trying to masquerade as wit left me cold.

Well, I listened to it, and I just didn't hear it. Thank god for google. At least I now know what I guess I'm too clueless to hear.

I can. Spitzer was a hypocrite. Nobody here cares, I'm sure, that he hired prostitutes. They care that he did it while riding his high horse (and prosecuting prostitution rings himself).

Obviously it depends, but I tend to be of the second strike out rule. One time could be an anomaly. The second time it's a pattern. For escorts, I don't hire enough these days to create patterns, so if something goes wrong with the scheduling, I just make the presumption it's a pattern and move on. This has as much to do with the fact that I typically hire when I'm on the road, so if I give them a second chance, if they are a flake, then I've probably lost my chance to hire. Our local dry cleaners, for instance, has had issues over the years. They pick up and deliver, which I love, so when delivery and pickup got really spotty for a couple of months, I just nagged the owners until they got it sorted out, since switching would have been worse than dealing with the flaky driver.

I'd add the golden rule here somewhere in big bright letters. Some variation of: Virtually all requests for money in advance is a sign of scamming. This underlies all the scenarios that you've put up here, and any new ones they come up with.

I can't believe the idiotic train wreck of anonymous innuendo. Paterson really didn't control this process very well to let that mess happen. Though to be fair, the last minute withdrawal of Kennedy was pretty suspect. It sure read to me like, "I'm going to lose, so I quit."

He is pretty fuckable, isn't he? The fact that his name is breedlove doesnt' help either.

My day of service was called work. I didn't get the day off.

I'm a local and this is disheartening. Like most here I'm sure, I don't care that he and the kid fucked. But he really screwed the pooch in trying to cover the whole thing up. If his current story is true, then he's clean. He said he dated the kid for a few weeks after he turned 18. (below 18 would be a crime here) I'm convinced portlanders would have shrugged their shoulders and ignored it. Now he's made it much worse by trying to cover it up and acting guilty. There was a lot of hope that he'd be a great mayor for portland. I hope this doesn't completely torpedo him just after he's taken office.

I'm with you on that. I'm tired of hearing we need to respect people's beliefs. It's a free country. Believe whatever you want, but if you're going to profess that the creator of the entire universe turned himself into a jewish carpenter so that he could kill himself so that he could forgive the world for being disobedient, I'm entitled to think you're a bit of an idiot. Fill in the blank for other varieties of god delusions.

I don't mind making the call if the escort specifically requests it, but I think that's part of the expectation setting that needs to happen in the first interaction. If you want a confirming call, just tell me.

I've gotten calls from escorts when I'm with people. It isn't an issue provided the escort is just looking to confirm. "Are we still on at time X at location Y?" "Yes, see you there." If it's something more, I just say I'll call them back in a few minutes.

I'm mostly fully invested, so I ride it up and down, but I put more into the market in november, and I'm probably going to do more in february. I've been buying oil and gas pipeline companies. Beat to shit with good yields - though I didn't do a great job of picking the bottom. What are you doing?

Drugs will turn you into an idiot. I guess last time it was cocaine induced paranoia too. He thought somebody was trying to break in.

15 months in prison for Boy George for chaining up and beating an escort because he thought he was stealing pictures from his computer. When your own lawyer says you acted like a drug-crazed idiot, you know you're scrapping the bottom of the barrel. All these years and he's still a mess with cocaine. Not that I should much care, but he was an out faggot when I was just coming out, and I looked a bit fey like him. Now I'm a middle aged balding faggot and I still look a bit like him (which is no longer a good thing).

I've been a fan of the Daily show for years. It's helped me laugh when I wanted to just scream. I'm really curious if they'll be able to maintain without the easy target of Bush. Maybe I shouldn't doubt though, since it seems like Nancy Pelosi has been stepping up to the plate :-)

Friday I get an offer in the mail from United Visa. Write myself a check on the card for up to $25K for 0% interest until october. Or, if I'd prefer, 5% until January of 2011. Now I know my credit great. I make a lot and borrow little. I recognize that if I fail to pay my bill on time all this would start bearing interest and screw me, but are there really enough people who will fuck themselves on this deal to make it a moneymaker for the bank? Is money that cheap these days? I sure hope they aren't offering it to every poor schmoo. I think I"m going to take them up on the offer, take the interest, and give the principle back to them in october.

Agree, my 2 visas have 90 warranties for anything bought with them. I think it very likely that any problem would surface in that time if you have a similar deal on your visa.

Given the history of enforcement by vice in Vegas as reported by many of the escorts on these and other boards, I'd be leery of that. I hope it works though. It would give me a good reason to visit sin city.

A quick google of prices tells me 299 for a 26" is a pretty good price. knock another $50 off and it's hard to beat. My guess is that you're not going to do better because nobody on the other end will care enough about it to really negotiate, they'll just say send it back. Though I guess the corollary is that there's no harm in trying either. Asking for a warranty since you don't know what may have been done to it is fair, assuming they normally offer them. Personally, that's more effort than I would put in on a $250 TV. By the time it breaks, buying a new one is probably a much better deal than getting it fixed.

I think the standby is www.xtube.com Though I think if you can learn to navigate gay torrents its an absolute goldmine and far, far better than any of the free sites you'll find. It's worth the effort to figure out.

Don't know much about his work. Just heard he was a bit of a wingnut and that he and his wife lived separately. Can't seem to validate that as I go and read obits. I guess, however, he knew how to generate buzz.

What a shock! Steve Jobs lies and tries to control the media. Color me surprised.

Windbag maybe, but I don't think Keith has done the left's equivalent of calling the 9/11 widows harpies. He's not a shock jock. If we're just listing windbags, it will be a very long list. For that you'd have to pick Al Sharpton or the equivalent.