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"There's not a racist bone in my dad's body." Not even when Senator Craig had him bent over the sink in the congressional restroom?

Time Warner cablemodem, wish I had FIOS.

The argument for outing is that knowing there were gay 'prominent' guys in your town--not just the occasional stereotypical hairdresser whom everybody made fun of--would've made you feel a lot less isolated. Again, I'm not for outing (except for the Ted Haggard-type hypocrites) but I am finally seeing why people want as many as possible out of the closet.

Maybe that's what he was thinking--but man was he in for a disappointment. In its' glory days the only women at Numbers were older trannies and/or selling photos or rrrrroses. It wasn't a 'gay bar', it was a hustler bar, which seems to be pretty different. Not many women (who've always been women) at The Spotlight either. Speaking of which, now that it's practically the only game in town, has it picked up at all? Anybody been lately?

It's at least the third major time. I thought 'digits' was a fiasco, but Moz trying to use it to get girls has to take the cake. So very sad. Anybody got tabs on the sexy waiter/matre'D (never saw him at Moz's)? Now there's no place I know of in Hollywood to go to reliably find a working boy...

But all Brandon's boys drink for free and live with him!

Well, if you get fired there's Cobra--and thanks to Obama's recent actions it's actually affordable the first 9 months or so. But yeah, after that--or if you quit--you're fucked. But come on now, what's more important? Healthcare coverage for anybody who needs it or the profits of a private industry that didn't even exist 30 years ago?

Was it at least breaking even back when he 'tolerated' the bars' clientele or was going straight a desperate attempt to stay in business? It seemed fairly busy the couple nights we met there, but maybe not busy enough considering how much of each day it sat empty and how many people were on the payroll (especially useless people like the manager...). Maybe rentboy.com should buy it, Brandon seems to want to get back into hospitality management...

As usual, they're being massively hypocritical. It's good enough for their parents (Medicare) and for them (Senate heath plan) but would be horrible for everybody else...

Reminds me of a quote I just heard on TV again: "I mean, who keeps silver bullets in their gun?".

The Vice President of the United States outed a CIA operative. As repugnant as everything Novak did for that administration was, he was just a reporter slipped an exclusive. One that any true journalist wouldn't report, yes... but there were so few of those around in the rush to the Iraq war. NSA's still going strong--probably reading this right now, you mean OSA?

Any patriot that recognized him on the street, I could see. But Novak was the administration's shill, and the CIA went along with everything else the administration did.

I think the simplest and most sensible thing is as follows: Everybody can buy into Medicare, at cost within 50% of poverty, up to 15% over based on income, maybe with enrollment capped at some income level. Everybody can buy into the senate health plan, starting at 5% over cost, up to 15-25% over. The extra money ensures Medicare is set, and once that's accomplished could be used to reach-out to those who can't afford. Everybody could get health care regardless of employment or medical condition. Some margin is left for private competition, though they should also be better regulated (no kicking people off, etc). Probably makes way too much sense to have a snowball's chance in hell.

If it's somebody who's actively worked against gay rights (Larry Craig, much of the "religious right") then I support it 100%. Otherwise it is pointless and damaging. Why alienate somebody who may come to your side a couple years down the road and become a great advocate?

On the other hand, I'd think a call somebody who found them here would lead to actually being hired a higher percentage of the time.

Damn, he was one of the few Democrats that could effectively stand up for something. When JFK died we got Medicare, so maybe in death that generation of Kennedys can serve one last time...

I'd be happy to give it a try, I can find fault with anything!

I've run into trouble twice now giving a guy I'd been seeing regularly a review. The most recent had even started advertising on Rentboy--with his face picture--but somehow a review on here was just too much... even though he'd needed the money and gotten a couple extra clients in the week or so the review was up. Don't get it.

I agree with TY, Mexico seems to have slipped from 2nd world to 3rd these last couple years and now finds itself with many of the same crime problems as Columbia and the like. It even seems to be fueled by drugs--just like central America. It's too bad, with it being so close and the birthplace of Kristian there was a lot to recommend it. But even in TJ I've never seen anything online that implies there is anything special available for us. Catholic repression? Maybe when Cuba opens up...

I think an eyebrow piercing is sexy, just about all the others, not so much (or at all). Have to say I have yet to notice a real difference from tongue piercing--clearly need to do more research there.

I've often felt LBJ was very underrated, he certainly had many great accomplishments. But I worry that was a different time, one we'll never get back to. It's hard to imagine most of the Republicans in congress responding with anything other than a snort to "your president needs you". And it's not as if there was any reward for all the Democrats who went along with that kind of nation-first thinking post-911 and gave Bush everything he asked for right through the authorization for Iraq... LBJ didn't have an inexplicably popular opposition media network of multi-millionaire talking-heads (owned by a multi-Billionaire) successfully convincing its' viewers (most of whom are within a few paychecks of being homeless) that the critical issues of the day were the DEATH TAX and NOT TAKING PRIVATE INDUSTRY PROFIT OUT OF HEALTH CARE. But I agree with the sentiment that it sure would be nice if any of the democratic leaders (other than maybe Hillary ) had LBJ's balls.

I liked the movie but just didn't get the point of re-writing the end of WW2 in Europe.

Or you could go all out. http://www.419eater.com/ I find some of the tales on there hilarious... Even if you don't have time/inclination to pursue, reading them may make you feel better.

Yep, I noticed they put m4m back too, so far many fewer postings. Now that people can't be explicit in their ads it means you have to discuss at some point what you expect for the money, and that's where the cops could get you... I still mainly search the personals (or just m4m) for words like generous, rent, donation, avail (though ads from working boys often get flagged off, unfortunatly) or put up an ad stating I'm generous and look through the replies for anybody interesting.

Heh, posting at the same time. You hear about Murdock's NY paper losing over 20% of its readership?