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Not yet. Here is a website that DID talk about Patrick as a sex object, but with a wink! My Wink

No, I didn't know that. I thought 525,600 was the number of Thai boys you have been with!

Then you have a fight on your hands! And no fair using money!!!!

The son of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick, is in the hip clothing business, according to Gawker. Given how hard it must be to be the son of Arnold, give the kid credit for starting young. He is 17, thus we report only his business dealings, and not on his recent topless photo: http://gawker.com/#!5793511/arnold-schwarzeneggers-son-to-sexily-conquer-the-world

I suppose if you don't aspire to more class than Sarah Palin and her ilk then it is okay. But why do it on a site that tries to appeal to a cross section of gay readers, including those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God? Should they have to see that every time they log in? If so, maybe they will stop logging in. Christianity is the major religion here, and insulting it will win you few friends.

The Warblers, fronted by Darren Criss, and performers from the TV show Glee, appeared on the today show today. Groupie Marc Anthony did not appear with them! You can see them here: Marc's Warbler Buddies (I tease Marc Anthony here because apparently he knows one of the Warblers. I am jealous if he is the one I like!))

Well, duh. The study was conducted on women, so of course it would show only that.

Would a camp for gay kids be okay? They could learn from each other and from their counselors, engage in wholesome activities to become comfortable with their identity...oops, unless it was a camp in Malaysia, where effeminate boys are sent to learn how to butch it up: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/19/malaysia-gay-counseling_n_850883.html

"P.S. Marcos has one of the most beautiful dicks I have seen! 8" of perfection! lol " Hehehe...yes, I heard that you rank it #31 out of the 8768 that you have been with! LOL

I am probably looking forward to lurkerspeak's tales of his trip as much as he is looking forward to his trip.

A short piece? It's 4 pages long! Short for the New yorker, I guess. What it did, though, was remind me why many don't like David Remnick. His sense of intellectual superiority reigns here, as he purports to review Manning Marable's book but essentially proselytizes for Alex Haley's earlier "autobiography" which Marable has now reduced to a pack of lies*. Apparently Remnick wants the Malcolm X that he remembers, not the Malcolm X that existed. *Not in total, of course, but in many of its essential parts.

Don't we all already know that sex makes us happy? So why is it so controversial when the head of the newsletter Surgery News writes that it is the semen itself that works as an antidepressant? http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/forget-chocolate-on-valentines-day-try-semen-says-surgery-news-editor-retraction-resignation-follow/ His argument is that women having unsafe sex are happier than women using condoms because the semen works as an antidepressant. Granted, that is a stretch from the simple statement that having sex can make you happier. It might encourage unsafe sex. But say if a woman is married and trusts her husband, do you think she is demanding condom use? No. And apparently she is happier for it! Anyway, the guy who wrote the article has resigned, the article has been pulled, and no one seems happy at all. I wonder is semen as a facial can work just as well...

And how was Pride Weekend in Phoenix?

Thanks for sharing the story. I found it an uplifting start to my week.

As a ticket fixing scandal erupts in New York City, I am reminded that fixing tickets has been common in America since the first ticket was issued. "It is a practice that by all accounts has been around almost as long as the traffic laws: fixing a traffic ticket. In the annals of small-bore corruption, there are few things more commonplace than a police officer’s making a ticket disappear for a friend or relative. Yet now this curb-level cronyism is threatening to erupt into a New York Police Department scandal. Some two dozen officers in the Bronx could face criminal charges as a result of a lengthy inquiry into the practice, and hundreds could face disciplinary action by the department, a law enforcement official and several other people briefed on the case said." The Times did not contact me on the subject, but I remember as a young lawyer that every lawyer in town knew how to fix a ticket. The courts had ruled that the standard summons did not meet legal muster for charging a crime, but the city kept using them anyway since they were so convenient. All a lawyer had to do to get the ticket dropped was file a motion to dismiss, citing the court decision. The average Joe did not know this and just paid his tickets. The catch was that the prosecutor could refile the ticket, using the proper forms. But that task was assigned to one woman, and she was, um, quite popular.Lots of tickets never got refiled, and even if they did, the cop had usually given up by then and did not even appear in court. (Less than half of cops usually show up for ticket fighting cases anyway, in my experience.) At our little law firm, we would get people wanting parking tickets fixed. At that time, the fine was only $2, so we would assure them that, yes, we could get the ticket fixed, then we would just go over and pay it. They were never the wiser and seemed to think that we had some clout, which didn't hurt when future business was at stake. Tickets have long been unpopular as it is usually the driver's word against the police officer's, and you know who courts decide to rely on. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/nyregion/ticket-fixing-by-police-investigated-in-new-york.html?ref=nyregion

Well, in other religious news, an apparent inconsistency in the Bible might have been solved. From Yahoo news: LONDON (AFP) – Christians have long celebrated Jesus Christ's Last Supper on Maundy Thursday but new research released Monday claims to show it took place on the Wednesday before the crucifixion. Professor Colin Humphreys, a scientist at the University of Cambridge, believes it is all due to a calendar mix-up -- and asserts his findings strengthen the case for finally introducing a fixed date for Easter. Humphreys uses a combination of biblical, historical and astronomical research to try to pinpoint the precise nature and timing of Jesus's final meal with his disciples before his death. Researchers have long been puzzled by an apparent inconsistency in the Bible. While Matthew, Mark and Luke all say the Last Supper coincided with the start of the Jewish festival of Passover, John claims it took place before Passover. Humphreys has concluded in a new book, "The Mystery Of The Last Supper", that Jesus -- along with Matthew, Mark and Luke -- may have been using a different calendar to John. "Whatever you think about the Bible, the fact is that Jewish people would never mistake the Passover meal for another meal, so for the Gospels to contradict themselves in this regard is really hard to understand," Humphreys said. "Many biblical scholars say that, for this reason, you can't trust the Gospels at all. But if we use science and the Gospels hand in hand, we can actually prove that there was no contradiction." In Humphreys' theory, Jesus went by an old-fashioned Jewish calendar rather than the official lunar calendar which was in widespread use at the time of his death and is still in use today. This would put the Passover meal -- and the Last Supper -- on the Wednesday, explaining how such a large number of events took place between the meal and the crucifixion. It would follow that Jesus' arrest, interrogation and separate trials did not all take place in the space of one night but in fact occurred over a longer period. Humphreys believes a date could therefore be ascribed to Easter in our modern solar calendar, and working on the basis that the crucifixion took place on April 3, Easter Day would be on April 5.

Not to leave Jesse Jackson out of it! "From that gay teacher, I got a good grade, I got to use his car, I got 10 dollars and I got my dick sucked. That's not gay, that is surviving." -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson, "regaling" a former Rainbow PUSH Coalition employee with details of a male teacher who took him under his wings in high school and told him that he needed an education to go along with with beloved football. The former employee, Tommy Bennett, alleges Jackson targeted him for taunts and "humiliating tasks" and asked him for oral sex -- and is seeking $450,000 in back pay and damages.(from kennethinthe212.com)

I am all in favor of people making their own choices, but we do need to know what risk we take when we take it. If I had known that kissing can pass germs, why, I might have never paid it any attention.

Gosh, it's not like the second gunman people have actually come up with any proof, and George Bush on trial? I think that's a good idea too!

You are, of course, entitled to use any lead you want on a thread, but this one turned me off. It's not that I am so religious, but I don't think it's the kind of thing that our more religious readers want to be associated with. We are a mix of people here. On the other hand, I have used some shockers myself in order to draw attention to a thread, so...

The Truvada train has derailed completely now that a study in Africa was halted when it showed that women taking Truvada were just as likely to get HIV as women not taking it: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/18/state/n051845D59.DTL&tsp=1http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/18/state/n051845D59.DTL&tsp=1 (Why do I so often mispell a word in the title, when that is one thing we cannot edit after it goes up?)

Well, I have read another 100 pages. Malcolm becomes friends with Bayard Rustin, a gay intellectual, and gay author James Baldwin. But the subject of his sex life is no longer paramount to the discussion. He now comes across as more asexual than anything. But then he meets Cassius Clay, and the two become great friends. Clay's trainer is heard to remark: "Malcolm X and Ali were like very close brothers. It was almost like they were in love with each other."

It may also help further the idea that no matter what the religion is, they need gay men to keep it going!

Forget the theologians. if you want a real argument on the existence of God, turn to the trial lawyer. Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor of Charles Manson and author o the riveting book Helter Skelter has written a new book, this one debating the existence of God. "If you're deeply religious," he said, "this isn't a book for you." His main concern is why people must suffer under an all-knowing and loving god. "Christian theologians, among others, have formulated various theories to explain why there is evil and why terrible things happen to apparently good people. None satisfies Bugliosi." http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bugliosi-20110417,0,1432458.story

I think I could come up with some lingo for him.