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I miss Keith Olberman. For a straight guy, he sure knows how to deliver some serious SHADE. Keith Olberman is one of the few talents who can do a take-down video presentation like this one with terrific aplomb. It is amazing to me that he got through all 50 Trump villains. The video is not easy to sit through, but my god, Olberman is right on the money, revealing anecdotes that I had not heard before.

Thank you for the explanation. Oh the trials and tribulations of dealing with advertiser's coding. Sometimes I think this whole internet stuff is for shit. I'm glad I remember the days before computers. I had no problem enjoying life and finding fun things to do. No problem going back if we must. You never know.

I still can't believe Trump is on-record saying this: "The secret of my popularity, honestly, my looks." I sure do love the moments when Trump decides to get "honest." I don't know why I should be so surprised by the unadulterated gall. By now, everyone knows about the narcissistic shit that comes out of Trump's mouth. I don't have a problem with loving oneself. It's far healthier than being a self-hater. But being a public figure and believing you're more attractive than you really are, well, that's where you cross a line. Many photographers have captured the orange orangutan as his true self. And of course I love what some of the Photoshop artists have created. I share these as a tribute to the entertaining member, JKane. I've read that Trump openly complains about the press capturing his triple-chinned profile. Brilliant!

I wonder what the gays think of this ad: Covey Spreader

Except in 2-party America, one of the parties, in the highly respectable name of Lincoln, wishes to trample all over the Constitution by imposing their power over the majority, suppressing people's right to vote, and winning by any means necessary, even if that path is illegal. In a normal time, given the details spelled out in the Mueller report, Trump would have been impeached and removed from office. These are not normal times, and many would argue the U.S. Constitution is failing us. Our dear, brilliant founders NEVER imagined a Trump. Who could picture the orange orangutan in 1775?

"The secret of my popularity, honestly, my looks." ---a direct, televised quote from Donald Trump Here's Carly Simon's anti-Trump political ad: This post probably belongs in Politics, but the more people who see it the better.

I saw the article in The Guardian. I don't know a single American, let alone a Trump voter, who gives one stinking shit what a British newspaper has to say about Trump, especially the left-leaning Guardian. Given how Britain is dealing with its own cascade of crises, specifically Covid, Boris and Brexit, I imagine this well-written article is getting a good laugh all over the place. But it is rare these days to see the challenge of Trumpism spelled out so clearly, especially from an outside observer. I wish everybody had the guts to read it. Even with a Biden election, America's troubles are far from over.

That's the most unflattering angle for streamers. Toobin was taught to never allow the camera to point up towards the face, especially from one's lap. Most professionals know that the laptop needs to be slightly elevated in an effort to get the camera lens to be even with or slightly look downwards to the face. Many streamers struggle with the physics of proper lens position in relation to the subject. Just because people own a smartphone, that doesn't make everyone a smart photographer.

I could arrange a private concert just for you.

That's quite an understatement. The Toobin story is international. Toobin has been a star legal reporter since Iran-Contra. The OJ Simpson trial made him a household name. He was born of TV producer parents in Manhattan. Toobin's television exposure is older and more substantive than Donald Trump's. He's written seven books. For many years, Toobin was the legal opinion juxtaposed with Dershowitz', on a variety of network channels. Perhaps Trump voters don't know who he is, but they're all cultural nincompoops. To all the news junkies and readers out there, Toobin is as well known as Fruit Loops.

I thought this Lincoln Project poll on the Vice Presidential Debate was cute:

Not good. KTLA is reporting that Toobin was caught rubbing one out on Zoom. I can't believe it, but there were many on the call, so someone has to know what they saw. Not sure how someone like this ever faces the public again, let alone gets reinstated as a TV legal authority. Oh how the mighty and famous can fall.

Out on a public street is one scenario, for sure. In the comfort of your interior space is a whole other animal. If the situation is protected (not assumed), discretion is really not necessary. Speaking of out in public... I have to confess to several public occasions when adjusting through pant pockets was not an option. Some pants don't have pockets, and some pockets aren't deep enough to reach. I'm a low hanger. My cock skin is sensitive, so I don't enjoy when it gets mangled in fabric. It can be the down side of wearing boxers. I can think of several occasions when I reached into my pants from the waist to quickly fix an issue. I was discreet in public, but I didn't really give a shit if someone saw me. It's not like I was attempting to jack off and put on a show. If some hidden security camera caught me touching my cock, I hope the security guard got a cheap thrill. There aren't enough of those these days.

This showed up on my post page this morning: Have no idea what it means, but the word "fatal" always causes me some concern. Nothing, however, that a penis-pick can't fix.

Of course my son and I had a fairly strong debate on this one. Toobin has not fully explained the circumstances, which suggests the details may be embarrassing, or too private to address in public. My son insisted the details involved sex, but I wasn't convinced. I've always liked Toobin, so I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. It seems Toobin was on the call, but he wasn't necessarily "active." He was listening. So, imagine him getting bored and his mind wandering. What if he suddenly realized that his pubic hair was strongly stuck in his foreskin, causing pain in the sitting position. Wouldn't you stand up, drop trow, and fix the problem so the pain would stop? Sometimes that problem doesn't fully fix itself in the sit position. You need to stand, pull back, and release. Or, what if he had a persistent itch and his mind wandered to the point of finally checking it out? How else does one discover cancer on the scrotum? It's very difficult for me to believe that Toobin was engaging with porn viewing during a Zoom call. But when I think of the other possibilities, none are easy to explain away. What a way to have a very successful career on television and print disappear overnight. Very sad and mysterious. We may never know the full truth on this one.

I never had any desire to see his cock, but apparently, others were forced to by accident. It forever amazes me how smart people can be so utterly stupid. One would think since Covid March, the very last thing you want to do in front of your computer, during a Zoom call, is drop your pants to expose your junk. Zoom and Doom.

Speaking of falling in love in college with athletic hunks... I have no idea why certain files end up in my Feed, but here's a fun wrestling video that should bring back fond memories of our younger school days. The Black wrestler is a real standout. Not only is he packing some serious junk in his singlet, he's having a tough time keeping his hands off of it. I love a guy who isn't shy about grabbing his junk. Some guys do it so naturally, with macho verve, it simply makes you want to fall to your knees and say to him, "Here, let me fix that for you." Makes me wonder how Joe Biden behaved in school when another guy hit on him.

I'm not sure I would have been able to keep my hands off of him if he was my college roommate.

This documentary is a serious shocker. It's got Emmy Awards written all over it. It deserves a much broader audience than MSNBC could provide. Not only is Pete Souza a fabulous photographer, his journey from being apolitical to political is fascinating. He took a chance opportunity, like most photographers do, lucked out with one of the greatest subjects of all time - the opportunity changed him so much, he found a new calling - and now, he is his own star, his own shining light in our world. A true American Dream story. I get to see a lot of documentaries, but this one really punched me in the heart and left me gasping for new political air. BRAVO to the entire creative team and to Pete. ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!

Apology easily accepted. Shit happens.

@AdamSmith My quote should read: "Racism is the biggest issue associated with Trump voters. Until we tackle that as a country, there will always be room for Trumpism in America." Your quote reads: "I had forgotten criticism is the biggest issue associated with Trump voters. Until we tackle that as a country, there will always be room for Trumpism in America." Not sure what is going on if we're seeing two different things.

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Yesterday, editors of The New England Journal of Medicine made serious news. One of the world's oldest and most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals did an unprecedented act: They got political. Signed by nearly three dozen of the journal's editors, they published a letter denouncing the U.S. reaction to Covid, and not very discreetly pointed fingers at the Trump administration without mentioning his name. Some news organizations are reporting on this. I'm not sure how the software here would handle a PDF, so I copied the text and re-formatted it. This is a must-read by everyone. Dying in a Leadership Vacuum The Editors Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world. This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good options to combat a novel pathogen, countries were forced to make hard choices about how to respond. Here in the United States, our leaders have failed that test. They have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy. The magnitude of this failure is astonishing. According to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering,1 the United States leads the world in Covid-19 cases and in deaths due to the disease, far exceeding the numbers in much larger countries, such as China. The death rate in this country is more than double that of Canada, exceeds that of Japan, a country with a vulnerable and elderly population, by a factor of almost 50, and even dwarfs the rates in lowermiddle-income countries, such as Vietnam, by a factor of almost 2000. Covid-19 is an overwhelming challenge, and many factors contribute to its severity. But the one we can control is how we behave. And in the United States we have consistently behaved poorly. We know that we could have done better. China, faced with the first outbreak, chose strict quarantine and isolation after an initial delay. These measures were severe but effective, essentially eliminating transmission at the point where the outbreak began and reducing the death rate to a reported 3 per million, as compared with more than 500 per million in the United States. Countries that had far more exchange with China, such as Singapore and South Korea, began intensive testing early, along with aggressive contact tracing and appropriate isolation, and have had relatively small outbreaks. And New Zealand has used these same measures, together with its geographic advantages, to come close to eliminating the disease, something that has allowed that country to limit the time of closure and to largely reopen society to a prepandemic level. In general, not only have many democracies done better than the United States, but they have also outperformed us by orders of magnitude. Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly? We have failed at almost every step. We had ample warning, but when the disease first arrived, we were incapable of testing effectively and couldn’t provide even the most basic personal protective equipment to health care workers and the general public. And we continue to be way behind the curve in testing. While the absolute numbers of tests have increased substantially, the more useful metric is the number of tests performed per infected person, a rate that puts us far down the international list, below such places as Kazakhstan, Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia, countries that cannot boast the biomedical infrastructure or the manufacturing capacity that we have.2 Moreover, a lack of emphasis on developing capacity has meant that U.S. test results are often long delayed, rendering the results useless for disease control. Although we tend to focus on technology, most of the interventions that have large effects are not complicated. The United States instituted quarantine and isolation measures late and inconsistently, often without any effort to enforce them, after the disease had spread substantially in many communities. Our rules on social distancing have in many places been lackadaisical at best, with loosening of restrictions long before adequate disease control had been achieved. And in much of the country, people simply don’t wear masks, largely because our leaders have stated outright that masks are political tools rather than effective infection control measures. The government has appropriately invested heavily in vaccine development, but its rhetoric has politicized the development process and led to growing public distrust. The United States came into this crisis with enormous advantages. Along with tremendous manufacturing capacity, we have a biomedical research system that is the envy of the world. We have enormous expertise in public health, health policy, and basic biology and have consistently been able to turn that expertise into new therapies and preventive measures. And much of that national expertise resides in government institutions. Yet our leaders have largely chosen to ignore and even denigrate experts. The response of our nation’s leaders has been consistently inadequate. The federal government has largely abandoned disease control to the states. Governors have varied in their responses, not so much by party as by competence. But whatever their competence, governors do not have the tools that Washington controls. Instead of using those tools, the federal government has undermined them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which was the world’s leading disease response organization, has been eviscerated and has suffered dramatic testing and policy failures. The National Institutes of Health have played a key role in vaccine development but have been excluded from much crucial government decision making. And the Food and Drug Administration has been shamefully politicized, 3 appearing to respond to pressure from the administration rather than scientific evidence. Our current leaders have undercut trust in science and in government,4 causing damage that will certainly outlast them. Instead of relying on expertise, the administration has turned to uninformed “opinion leaders” and charlatans who obscure the truth and facilitate the promulgation of outright lies. Let’s be clear about the cost of not taking even simple measures. An outbreak that has disproportionately affected communities of color has exacerbated the tensions associated with inequality. Many of our children are missing school at critical times in their social and intellectual development. The hard work of health care professionals, who have put their lives on the line, has not been used wisely. Our current leadership takes pride in the economy, but while most of the world has opened up to some extent, the United States still suffers from disease rates that have prevented many businesses from reopening, with a resultant loss of hundreds of billions of dollars and millions of jobs. And more than 200,000 Americans have died. Some deaths from Covid-19 were unavoidable. But, although it is impossible to project the precise number of additional American lives lost because of weak and inappropriate government policies, it is at least in the tens of thousands in a pandemic that has already killed more Americans than any conflict since World War II. Anyone else who recklessly squandered lives and money in this way would be suffering legal consequences. Our leaders have largely claimed immunity for their actions. But this election gives us the power to render judgment. Reasonable people will certainly disagree about the many political positions taken by candidates. But truth is neither liberal nor conservative. When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs. The New England Journal of Medicine October 8, 2020

I didn't think it did. But a lot gays think of "daddy" when the issue of older/younger relationships appear. I wanted to mention that aspect. I have always been a mentor to younger guys, even when I was in my twenties talking to a Freshman high school audience. And there are SO MANY younger people looking, searching for wisdom, guidance, and support. And validation, too. I am a person who enjoys listening and giving, especially giving back what has been given to me.

Dear Adam, Perhaps your struggles with the software are causing deeper problems than I imagine. Here is your post: The quote from me is not as I wrote it. If you didn't alter the words, and it's a software glitch, then I apologize.