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Also the Japanese had a chunk of Caucasian genetics mixed into the gene pool back in long long ago times. And the Yuzuru family is from the Northeast region, where the admixture is still strongest. So anything is possible.

Can't really find fault with that, but... when you really stop to think about it, until some perv sneaks a camera phone into his locker room, we've got no reason to believe Yuzuru isn't the proud possessor of a twelve inch pole. Now wouldn't that be a quandary? Uber cute twink packing massive lumber! What to do, what to do?

Yes, it does, Oz. And if you marry all three of them, you'll be three times as manly!

OK, I checked him out on Wiki and he's 19 and entirely legal. So... Crank up your gaydar, Oz, and let us know which side he bats for. All that glittering cuteness has fogged my screen. His Wiki bio does say, "His combination spins usually include the biellmann spin and the doughnut spin, both of which are known for their difficulty, for male skaters especially, due to the flexibility required." Is that a hint, maybe??

Did I forget to mention flexible? Really, Sucky, you need to broaden your horizons. AdamSmith would crawl naked through razor wire to boff this guy. And Hito would wear ugly, ill fitting shoes just to hold his hand!

Good Lord... Beautiful: Glamorous: Friendly: And utterly, indescribably CUTE: He's a yaoi wet dream come to life!

Not to mention no snow plows and no road salt. Here-a-bouts we just close the schools, throw some sand (that we got!) on the bridges and wait it out. Normally it melts on its own in a day or so.

Near as I can parse it out, the yellow shirts have one legitimate (in Western eyes) gripe. Thailand is a major exporter of rice. The rice price support has been set so far above the world market price for rice that it's bankrupting the government. (The yellows claim not to be against a 'properly administered' price support but that's just hooey.) The rest is just a squabble between Thaksin, a billionaire, and his bunch and a competing traditional elite over who gets to enrich themselves. A very third world type fuss. The Thaksin back story reminds me of the way Ceasar and his mega-rich ally Crassus rallied the proles to gain power over the then governing Senatorial class.

The mayor of New York is pounding his hairy chest and allowing as how the Big Apple don't stop for no stinking snow! I loved his reasoning behind keeping the schools open: "Lots of parents have to work and need somewhere to stash their kids." The TV shots of NYC school buses inching along in near blizzard conditions were priceless.

A serious argument can be made that the existence of nuclear weapons prevented WWIII between the Soviet Union and the USA. potential casus belli: 1) Possibly the USSR put up with that silly but embarrassing Berlin airlift because of nukes. One would think that they had already calculated US ground forces were incapable of forcing an opening before starting the blockade. 2) Other than nuclear weapons, one wonders why the Soviets didn't try to advance their frontier to the Rhine sometime in the 50's or 60's. 3) Again, other than nuclear weapons, one wonders why the US failed to take advantage of the collapse of governments in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and, repeatedly, Poland.

Chicken soup, Paragon, not fried chicken. What sweater vest guy left out was that you have to thoroughly marinate the chicken leg in lime juice* before adding it to the soup. Salt and pepper to taste goes without mentioning. * An acid bath serves to denature the protein, i.e. 'cooks' it. "When a protein is denatured, secondary and tertiary structures are altered but the peptide bonds of the primary structure between the amino acids are left intact."

Sorry. My bad. Maybe it's because I've actually seen people fucked sideways by those laws. Makes me a little touchy on the subject.

Different strokes for different folks:

Long way from could be to know. What we do know beyond any reasonable doubt is that locking up hundreds of thousands of people for weed use does some pretty significant damage both to the individuals and to society as a whole. So maybe we should hold off on all that until we know that it's worth it. Ours is a culture with a strong puritanical bias. We want/need sinful folks to be punished and be seen to be punished. And sometimes, like with those folks who smoke weed, we get tired of waiting for a just God to visit his wrath upon them and decide to hurry things along a bit.

Or it could be that kids whose personalities/social circumstances/ genetics/what-have-you incline them toward transgressive &/or risk taking behavior are more likely to both do marijuana and pop pills. It does seem to me that hyperbole in warnings about demon rum and weed may serve to reduce the perceived danger of pill popping once the former have been sampled. I would grant you though that use of a criminalized substance like weed would necessarily teach the skills and behaviors necessary to move on to other drugs (how to find and deal with a source; creating a secret stash; masking the symptoms of use). So, yeah, in that sense, it could well be a gateway drug. Well, no point scratching our heads over this question. We've just embarked on a social experiment on a massive scale that will generate the data necessary to resolve the question. Ten years from now, if we have millions of folks laying around with needles in their arms, there will be all the evidence you could ask for that marijuana. And if no humongous hard drug problem occurs, that should settle the matter too. In the mean time, I hope the FDA stops hindering the scientific investigation into the medical uses of marijuana.

Just the thing for those mornings after when you just don't feel like getting out of bed.

In all candor, Oz, I can not imagine the culture shock of you moving your little preacher boy ass from rural Alabama and plunking it down right in the middle of Sodom on the Hudson. No way I could have coped, no fucking way. You are my hero.

"As they danced, they sang: "AdamSmith has scored his dozens. And Totally Oz his tens of hundreds." * There is a difference, AS. No skull fractures for you. * with a nod to: 1 Samuel 18:7

Oz, if you start regaling us with 'coming out in NYC' stories about how many dicks you sucked and how many asses you rammed, I swear to God I will track you down and take a baseball bat to your punkin head. My own coming out bar was the Corner Pocket in New Orleans. I had to drive 4 1/2 hours just to get there. Seriously dude, I will find you. I just finished telling Sucky I was jealous of his god damned feather boa! Think about it!

Paragon, it's not that I'm not interested, it's just that I don't know to root for. It's all too confusing for the likes of me. I will say that my gut feeling is that Thaksin has shattered the Thai body politic the same way Peron shattered Argentina's. And with a similar result: the country will be unstable and near ungovernable for decades. Here it is sixty years since his death and Peronism still poisons the politics & economy of that sad country. I only hope Thailand doesn't have to go through the same thing but somehow I doubt whether all the King's men will be able to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Once you break down a broad social consensus on how the world should work, it's no simple job to patch it back up.

Well, don't feel bad. I didn't even get a fucking boa. Guess I was just being jealous of your loot.

4Aces, just wanted you to know, should any 4-flusher cheap out with a cheap domestic Twink, I'm open to re-gifting.