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Well, if I can get Air Asia for a total of $150 after all the surcharges, why not? it sure bets the $309 from Expedia on Thai. The only reason not to wait is the two week advance purchase rule. Does that apply in LOS? Actually, there is another reason to wait. I might meet a Thai guy who wants to go to Laos with me...

Issues like this...well, there is a guy at the gym who used to escort. In his ad, he stated: "No Asians." Is that just being honest, saving the Asian client from a bad time? Or is he just a bigot? Hard to say. Like many other minorities, overweight people, or people of a large size, are also not understood by those who have no experience with the same. Assuming a person is clean, then his weight should not matter, at least to an escort who is providing services for money. The reason for the qualifier is that we all have our tastes, the flip of which is to say that we all have our biases. Many of us were raised to scorn those who are different. When we realized that we ourselves were different, it became, for some, an educational tool to understand the differences in others. Nonetheless, I have particular and maybe peculiar tastes. I am not at all attracted to hairy white men, most likely because that is what I am. I like the more exotic, smooth-skinned brown guys. Try as I might, I can't change my tastes. However, having had the opportunity to have sex with an overweight smooth-skinned brown guy, I went for it, and found him just as fun as anybody else. One other bias is against older guys. Many, if not most, young guys don't even see us as potential sex partners. I was the same way when I was young, so I can't fault them. Four Aces, thanks for sharing your experiences. Hopefully you have found the way to a healthy sex life.

She won't be leaving, but at 65 may have to slow down a bit. The resistance has splintered over the years, and her own political party has been disbanded for failing to participate in the recent phony elections. China and India continue to fund the junta, so sanctions are virtually useless.

Expedia wanted to charge $309 RT from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, which seemed high to me. So OZ suggested I try Air Asia. Wow, they were only $100...until I continued with the booking and found that they charge for luggage and charge for picking a seat. Not charge for the seat, just for picking it. I think. I gave up until I learn more. Plus that $100 didn't include taxes.

Much better than the thumbprints. Let those fucking amazing guys go at it now!

If the UN is not up to the job, perhaps installing a Catholic priest as president will get it done.

Big lips too!

He still works out, so if you need some Manhattan real estate, try Fredrik Eklund and hope that he is horny. After all, he is not a porn star now, but is still gay! Eklund did 6 gay movies under the name of Tag Erikkson, and is now being considered for a Bravo series on...real estate. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/fashion/14eklund.html?hp

Townsend, you weren't supposed to use it on all of us!

Grady Sizemore is a true heartthrob. I have been lusting after him for years, so these pix were particularly exciting for me.

The doctor tells me that ass we age, women develop fat in their buttocks. The stomach muscles weaken with age, and men find their fat moving to this area. the bulge there is almost unavoidable, but I do know older men with completely flat stomachs.

The new discussions on dieting and nutrition took on a new life today as One Finger revealed a group diet effort at his office wherein 4 people were trying to lose at least 100 pounds each. That's a pretty lofty goal, and, hopefully, by doing it together they will reinforce each other's determination. For me, I was a skinny did most of my life. It definitely affected my self-esteem. Even when I finally put on weight by going to the gym faithfully, I still saw myself as the skinny kid I always had been. For those hiring escorts, the idea that we get nervous beforehand is common. The reality is,of course, that there is no need to, but, being human, we worry what another person's reaction is going to be when we finally strip down. Thankfully I have pretty much gotten over that, realizing that the escort is a professional, and, even if not, wants my money more than he cares about my looks. When I grew up, being fat, or overweight, was considered a weakness. One did not need to be fat if one didn't want to be. All it took was discipline not to eat so much. Now we know that being overweight has medical causes, and genetic causes, and it does not carry the same stigma it used to. Health reason prompt many to lose weight when necessary, but when not, many find that self-acceptance is the issue more than being overweight. Skinny people also got their share of razzing. All of this interests me now because, for one, I am interested in how other people live their lives with the issues facing them, and also because I am getting bigger all the time. I now carry an all-time high weight of 234. At 6'1, not too bad, but I have never had such a belly. My days of discipline at the gym are declining, and I am looking at other ways to motivate me to diet and exercise. We all know how hard it is to get started. And I am right back in that position after years of regular gym work. Getting old and getting bigger, what a combination. (No doubt there are worse things, yes.) So, I guess all this is to say that I admire people who have the discipline to diet, who succeed with their personal goals, and who, no matter the age, seek self-improvement. I know it isn't easy to make the big changes that the folks at One Finger's office are attempting. I wish them well. I would like to hear other's stories on how they meet, or try to meet, their personal goals. What keeps you going? What stops you? Do you ever give up?

Ah, but he is a guy with a huge platform as the editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post. And, if I may ask, is it ever okay to be sore about losing?

I forget that FOX broadcasts the Simpsons. 23 years now.

That could make a great line for a commercial. Why didn't I think of that?

I admire folks who can stick to a diet. I find giving up my comfort foods just about impossible, although I did it once for a good 6 month stretch. I liked being in shape, but the world just makes it so easy to eat junk that sooner or later the world won.

Here I offered living proof of the great conspiracy and it is about to fall off the page. Don't blame me when a bomb strikes MER. You could have been warned about it on TV.

A Minnesota Catholic bishop has issued a DVD to his parishioners supporting male-female marriage and is pretty harsh on those who disagree. One woman was told that supporting her gay son's right to marriage may condemn her to hell, another woman fired from her church job. Both sides get their say: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/11/mncatholic.html

Sexy Cleveland outfielder Grady Sizemore saw his nude pix go wild on the internet last year, and he claimed that he had been hacked. He denied spreading them himself, and, he was telling the truth. The story, along with a pic: http://deadspin.com/5686492/now-we-know-where-grady-sizemores-coffee-mug-dong-shots-came-from

Californians went through the election being told that the state faced a $19 billion deficit. Now that the election is over, we are told it is really $25 billion...not exactly small change in a state that is broke. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/11/MNJA1GA39R.DTL&tsp=1

Got the message! Okay, it was a sweeping mandate for change. And so shall it be. Health-care reform shall be repealed, and the number of Americans who have no insurance shall rise in the face of ever-increasing health-care costs. They will not receive regular care but will be able to visit over-crowded emergency rooms when their untreated chronic condition becomes critical and it is too late to help. The rich shall continue to collect and own a higher and higher percentage of the economy, and the legislature, and the courts. Product and food safety rules will continue to be weakened, but there will always be the overcrowded emergency rooms to deal with that. Minimum wage laws shall be repealed, and you will have the freedom to work three jobs for the rest of your life without the ability to retire ever because Social Security shall be privatized and your three jobs don't pay enough for you to save anything. The climate shall deteriorate, and a freak tornado where, hey, we didn't USED TO get tornadoes here at this time of year, will blow your house down. There will be no FEMA and not even a Brownie to help you out. When your equally devastated neighbors come prowling around looking for food, you will have plenty of guns to shoo them away. Although they will have their guns too. Because of police department cuts, you can work that out for yourselves. The loser can go to the overcrowded emergency room. Oh, wait, that just got closed for budget reasons. --Tom Toles

Not only was the 9-11 attack on the WTC predicted in an episode of the Simpsons, so was a false flag nuclear attack last Saturday. A false flag attack is one perpetrated by a cadre in the US government in order to further their right wing causes and the sales of arms. However, now wise to the Simpsons, this last attack was stymied in the nick of time by devoted patriots. Think I'm joking? It's all here in the New York Observer,a respected newspaper. Check it out. The first video is also included in the second, longer but interesting, video. http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/why-conspiracy-theorists-think-simpsons-predicted-911

Shortly after I read your question, I came across this article on a trade that the Oakland A's made today: "I (writer) spoke to (Coco) Crisp, who was (David)DeJesus' teammate in Kansas City, and he wows about him as a hitter and noted that he very rarely makes an error. Crisp also noted - and then later tweeted - that he believes the A's now have the best-looking outfield in the league. "David is a handsome man," Crisp told me with a laugh. "You put him out there with Sweeney, me, Conor, Rajai - that should get some ladies to the stadium." Crisp added later, "David's a pretty boy, a stylish cat. But he's a good baseball player, too. He'd established himself as one of the premier hitters in the game before he got hurt last year." Other than this, I would say the answer is no.

MsGuy started a thread on this in the Politics forum as well.

One reason medicare is expensive: they cannot consider the cost of a drug when deciding to approve it. And, now this from the NYTimes: Prostate Cancer Drug Gets Lukewarm Review By ANDREW POLLACK There is only “moderate’’ evidence that the newly approved prostate cancer drug Provenge helps patients, according to an analysis done for Medicare that was made public on Wednesday. The analysis is part of a controversial review by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of whether to pay for Provenge, which costs $93,000 per patient and extended lives by about four months in clinical trials. Medicare advisers will meet next Wednesday to discuss the drug, which was developed by Dendreon, a Seattle-based biotechnology company. Provenge is the first so-called therapeutic cancer vaccine – meaning it works by training the patient’s immune system to attack the tumor – to win F.D.A. approval. The treatment is made for each patient from his own blood. Sales have been small so far because Dendreon’s manufacturing capacity has been limited. While Medicare generally pays for drugs that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration, its debate over paying for Provenge has raised concerns among some cancer patients, doctors and investors who say the government is sending a warning shot that it will not automatically pay for high-priced medicines.