MsGuy

Different strokes for different folks,TY...I prefer guys who've tamed their gag reflex.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Thailand is at http://www.gaythailand.com/ Found this on one of its threads and thought AdamSmith might appreciate him: or maybe this guy: This fellow is for Suckrates... ...if he can find the key.

Good for what ails you!

Not an uncommon position, Suckcretes, and well supported historically, but it skips over the question sub judice: what do we do with the guys who are too insane to understand that you're about to pluck out their eyes (but sane enough to be eligible for the plucking)?

So there's this case (from Texas, where else) wherein the defendant was judged sane enough to be convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death but too insane to be executed. Quite a conundrum for the courts. The problem has its origins in the use of two different standards for deeming someone 'insane'. One can be sane enough to 'understand the diff...' or 'control one's actions' or 'appreciate the consequences...' or whatever standard a given state uses to determine guilt and still be too whacked out to reasonably comprehend why the folks in those uniforms are about to stick a needle in one's arm (or even what will happen when they do so). Not to fear, the wisest of our legal minds have long since figured out the solution: Provide adequate psychiatric treatment (pump the condemned full enough of anti-psychotic drugs) and eventually he will be able to fully enjoy the prospect and then the actual experience of being killed. Of course if at any time the stress of this ordeal spins the individual into a relapse just back the process up and start over. ---- So what do you folks think? Should the condemned be coddled back to sanity before execution or should we just knock him in the head and get it over with? Extra credit question: Should the admittedly insane prisoner be given any choice in the matter? If so, how much? What if his objection to the meds is based on sincere religious beliefs? Graduate level section of exam: What if the insane version wants to be executed sane but the sane personality would druther be hallucinating he's in the Garden of Eden while you stick in the needle?

My spy at the New Yorker tells me Packer posed for this family portrait. That's his wealthy fund manager life partner on the right with current boy toy left. (I'm proud of myself...tonight it didn't take but two or three minutes see the humor. )

For a pol, relatively small personal gains almost always outweigh any resulting (even far greater) harm to the larger society. Consider the current mess in Iraq: the new government reports that north of 50,000 ghost soldiers are being carried on the muster rolls of the Army so that officers can pocket their pay.. This when ISIS is making a serious threat to take down the whole fucking lot of them and chop off their heads in the public square! What would any sensible brigade commander do except destroy unit morale to grab a few thousand bucks a month for himself? The greater the local culture of impunity, the smaller the private gain needs to be. Witness the Mexican mayor who murdered a bus load of college students because the noise they made was disrupting his wife's garden party. ==== My favorite political story of all time is one told in Brazil in the 1960s: Tourist at the celebration of the opening of a small town's new bridge: "How much did the bridge cost?" Local: "100 million reals. We all love President Goulart for building it!" Tourist: "What? No way that bridge cost more than 10 million." Local: "of course not. Goulart embezzled 90%." Tourist: Then why do you say you love him?" Local: Only a fool of a tourist would ask such a stupid question. The last three presidents took the money and didn't build the bridge!" ==== It's no use worrying about pols who do idiots things because it benefits them. That's the nature of the beast. The only standard to which you can realistically hold them is whether they get the bridge built.

Exactly my reaction, RA1. It's called a 'primary budget surplus'. The general idea is that as long as the interest on the debt accrues more slowly than the economy grows, then (eventually) it will be easier to keep up payments on the debt. 'Eventually' is usually measured in decades. The unmentioned joker in the deck is that the government should 'eventually' be able to select some opportune time to inflate the currency and thereby cancel some largeish chunk of the debt w/o a formal default. Of course this assumes that the same pols who fucked everything up in the first place are capable of keeping their paws out of the jam jar long enough for all this to work itself out.

Naw... I often don't get breeder jokes either.

I don't get it. I mean the joke part. The science part, yeah, ok, maybe. Insufficient evidence at present to make a judgement.

Technically it was a Soviet Socialist Republic, an entirely sovereign country in free & voluntary association with the other SSRs that (together with various provinces and other dependant territories) composed the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Not unlike a Southern separatist's conception of the pre Civil War United States of America actually. But yes, a 'Soviet state'; close enough for government work. My understanding is that the old Soviet bureaucratic structure would make a flow chart of the Department of Homeland Security look simple but, again, close enough. Which is exactly the POV the kleptocrats who run the Ukraine counted on when they chose the 2nd alternative.

Chernobyl is in what is now the Ukraine, not Russia. Some folks downwind aren't too enthused about waiting for those two to get their act together and fix the mess. Besides seems like the guys running the Ukraine considered their options: 1) spend billions roofing over the temporary containment because it would be the responsible thing to do or 2) squander said billions on theft and foreign bank accounts, wait everybody else out and then steal a good chunk of the money foreigners would eventually pony up to do the job for them. Hmm...what to do, what to do? Don't you hate difficult decisions?

I'm still waiting for that seal, Mr. Tomcal.

Takes just one frail liberal justice to wake up dead and it's game over. Why do you think the four 'hell no' justices voted to take a pass on hearing a marriage case next year? Yeah, I know it's still procedurally possible to take up the 6th Circuit case in time for hearing in the 2015 term but that's only if a majority of the court goes into a 2 minute drill to hurry things through and what are the chances of that? Remember the 6th Circuit is the one where two of the judges opined that it was perfectly reasonable to presume gay marriage would induce large numbers of breeders to abandon their young or sell them to Arab slavers or some such. And a tie vote on appeal lets that decision stand. Sez here that we can get the best price from the Gypsies.

Shit eating grin.

Physicists have established the origin of those pesky dried rings on the bottom of your shot glasses, AS. I was going to email you this article in Scientific American but then I got to thinking that there's probably any number of folks here who might be puzzling over the same problem.

Actually almost all studies of the subject indicate that , once they obtain legal status, immigrants start shifting into more stable and better paid employment. Surprise, surprise. Actually the shift starts as they they become more fluent in English but it accelerates with the green card. ==== That's a little bit of a fudge. Sounds to me like the committee chair critter would really rather duck the issue as much as possible.

Pay attention, lookin. Besides, Tomcal is far too much the gentleman to get cum stains on his friend's tie.

I knew a guy whose parrot used to perch on his shoulder whenever he lit up a joint. It loved to get a snort of smoke. Oddly enough, this behavior turns oput to be common enough that several pics of such are to be found on the net. Not clear whether the boy or the bird is getting a bigger kick out of this.

Taken from the article AS cites. I've also read that the issue of water tights has been one of the most contentious between the Israelis and the Pals. Imagine what the results would be of several years failure of the annual monsoon rains in the Indian subcontinent.

Who says America doesn't have talent. Top that, China! ---- Besides I just noticed that we here at BoyToy have managed to gin up 194 posts in a thread about fart filtering underwear. Does anyone know how to contact Guinness Book of Records?

In a speech at the U of Minnesota law school, Justice Ginzburg opined that it would be an urgent matter for the Supremes to take up a gay marriage case if the 6th Circuit let stand its current position, otherwise there seemed to her to be no immediate need for the court to address the issue.

Exceptionally good post. That's a risk that's hard to avoid in any venue.