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What are your gay friends in Ft. L doing to get rid of this guy? He's been in office so long that it seems as if the gay community there just doesn't care. Last week a jury of Fort Luaderdale citizens actually convicted a guy for masturbating...in his jail cell! No one could see him except for the sheriff's deputy watching on security camera. Yet they wasted time and money to prosecute him. Sounds like the gay citizens of Fort Lauderdale have been sitting on their haunches, content with the money from gay tourists and not doing much to change the homophobic environment. So why shouldn't we boycott?

Mr. Yankee...your headline is misleading. You haven't even seen the movie! And graffitti is illegal...plain and simple. There may be mitigating circumstances here where the boys were forced to do the vandalism under duress or some other such factor. If necessary, I would volunteer to interrogate them to get at the truth. No means of torture or other Bushism techniques would be used. I would do it the old fashioned way...with a paddle!! Believe me, they would never graffitti again after I am finished with them. They wouldn't need to as I would provide each of them an alternate way to exercise their artistic side. So, Mr. Yankee, my birthday is coming up. Just send me the DVD and I will let you know if the show is, in fact, scorching...or not.

AN LA Times sports writer in the news today: Sports Columnist: 'I Am a Transsexual' Thursday, April 26, 2007 (04-26) 13:43 PDT Los Angeles (AP) -- A veteran sports writer for the Los Angeles Times said in his column Thursday that he is a transsexual. Mike Penner told readers of his struggle to embrace his gender, and said when he returns from vacation in a few weeks he will be known as Christine Daniels. He did not say whether he was having surgery or why he's changing his last name. "I am a transsexual sports writer," Penner wrote. "It has taken more than 40 years, a million tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching therapy for me to work up the courage to type those words." The 49-year-old Penner said his brain has been "wired female" and he's tried to fight off the urge to change sexes. He called writing a story about his sexuality the "most frightening of all the towering mountains of fear I somehow had to confront and struggle to scale." "How do you go about sharing your most important truth, one you spent a lifetime trying to keep deeply buried, to a world that has grown familiar and comfortable with your facade?" Penner asked. Penner, who is married to another Los Angeles Times writer, said he started coming out about two months ago by telling his boss, his barber and a soccer teammate, and that he now feels happier and healthier. "Mike Penner has been an exemplary contributor to the Los Angeles Times sports pages for over two decades and today's column is no exception," Randy Harvey, the newspaper's sports editor, said in a statement. "The decision to go public cannot have been an easy one and, while we do not make a habit of commenting on the personal and private lives of our journalists, we do look forward to continuing our relationship into the future." John Amaechi, the first NBA player to publicly come out of the closet as being gay, said he read Penner's column Thursday after returning from a speaking engagement in Berkeley at the University of California. "It's incredibly bold and far more courageous than anything I could have done," said Amaechi, who spent five seasons in the NBA. "I commend him." Penner has spent more than 20 years at the Los Angeles Times and has covered the Olympics, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and has served as the Times' sports media critic. ___

Sorry, Epigonos. It's my fault. Ever since I introduced Oz to the Aneros Helix he hasn't been able to concentrate on the site, Yes, I know he wants you to think it is because the servers are being changed, but that's just for public consumption. Next I hear he and TY are going to get a double Helix so they can squirm together!

Was that garage for sale? Maybe that's where everybody is this weekend...at garage sales. They are sure not at the Pub.

If the price is keeping you from getting the Helix, shop around. I got mine at a garage sale.

Totally Oz has his toys, I have mine. He'll forget all about that Ipod when he finds the REAL Playstation, which is the Aneros Helix. This super stimulating toy is the best of the Next-Gen models and designed for those who like an aggressive experience. It's Saturday night. Where' s your toypen? http://www.malegspot.com/default.php

Well, if it is a "set-up job" then no one should be taking delight in it despite any feelings towards the person arrested. A malfeasance of justice is bad for all of us no matter whom it affects the most directly. Even if not a set-up job, I am disturbed by how quickly we lose the presumption of innocence in these times. Having said all of that, I do understand that these matters notwithstanding many people have negative feelings towards Mr. Forest. And management here has not yet explained that very ODD posting in his defense. Are there separate rules for friends of David?

Good question, Townie.

March launch for Smith £20 note Adam Smith will have a new "see-through" feature! His exciting new look, shown here, will fatten the wallets of Brits everywhere! http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/po...10/img/laun.jpg A £20 note featuring economist Adam Smith will be issued on 13 March, the Bank of England has said. The note will also include a number of new security features designed to tackle counterfeiting. While the Bank has yet to reveal the safety measures, they are thought to include a see through feature and a holographic strip. The current £20 note, which features composer Edward Elgar, will be phased out after the launch of the Adams note. Enhanced security "The introduction of the Adam Smith £20 from 13 March will be a major undertaking for us as the £20 denomination is by far the most common note in circulation," said Andrew Bailey, the Bank's executive director for banking and chief cashier. "This means that the proportion of Adam Smith £20s will gradually increase over time. Smith will gradually replace Elgar on the £20 note "The note's enhanced security features will play a key role in our continuing fight to prevent counterfeiting. Maintaining public confidence in our banknotes is paramount." Bank governor Mervyn King announced in October last year that he had chosen Smith to replace Elgar on the £20 note. The decision is an historic one because the philosopher and economist will become the first Scotsman to appear on a Bank of England note. He is already featured on a Scottish £50 note. Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife - part of Chancellor Gordon Brown's constituency. The economist is most famous for his book the Wealth of Nations, which many regard as almost inventing the concept of competition and market forces.

Congratulations, OZ. Thanks for sharing your wonderful experience.

I used to stay at the Coffee Boy which had a great bar attached. The owner was pretty cool, or so I thought. He later made several adversaries and I never found out what that was all about. But I met my favorite Thai guy there. He came in as a customer, so I thought he wasn't available, I being new to Thailand. The next night I saw him dancing at another bar. He had already been offed but promised to wait for me the next night. Well, I forgot that you have to make your move without hesitation and while he was performing a sexy dance for me onstage, another customer offed him! So I had to wait yet another night, but it was worth the wait. When I came in I actually heard him telling a customer that he was taken already...hehehe, by me! We saw each other many times over many years.

Ditto to Boston Guy. This dastardly deed is sickening. I hope there is a way to track them down.

I helped him! I am the one who actually spoke to the boy, asked him his name and what he was up to, and introduced him to Towny. The rest of these guys got sudden onset of laryngitis! Scott, were you there this weekend? Sorry if I missed you, I would have said hello!!!!

Thanks for the info, tl. I guess it is a reminder to us not to jump to conclusions since these pix do get used by others.

Townie, your dumb friend was on again last night. He makes it clear that he has the favors and even gives his phone number. So, if CL is a hotbed of police, as some say, look for pinstripes soon!

I monitor the Palm Springs listings from time to time but have never bitten. I do wonder how stupid some of these people are: smoking and staying up late looking for company - 34 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to: pers-274187252@craigslist.org Date: 2007-02-06, 2:00AM PST here partying looking for other like minded go fast men to pnp with at my place in south palm springs rick 760 four nine zero ****

Why bother? Why do people look for diamonds in manure fields?

Hopefully the police are working diilgently to find the killer. The most effective investigative techniques would not look first to long-ago encounters of the kind described in his reviews, but would look for more recent contacts, or situations where the reviewer clearly knew the suspect well. So, theoretically, riptide could be right, but practically speaking, there is little risk to previous clients. The reality is that many clients do not want to be exposed as such but there is a greater good to be accomplished here so their interests would have to go by the wayside. My guess is that any police investigation would be discreet as they are looking for information, not exposure. Personally, I would be glad to help if an escort I had hired turned out to be a murderer. Unless, of course, if he had murdered me, then I would hope that you guys would help!

"I have never been drunk once and I don't like any alcohol" And he doesn't watch porn, either...I wonder if that excludes the SuperBowl

As of 9 pm tonight, PDT: PENNSYLVANIA CRIME STOPPERS IS OFFERING A CASH REWARD OF UP TO $2,000.00 THAT LEADS TO AN ARREST IN THIS ARSON/HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION.

Well, good for you, Oz. Of course adult people should have the right to make decisions about their own behavior, and other people should have the right to profit from their stupidity. It's these profiteers who have drawn a line...all the way to the bank. So while the barebackers will end up counting their T-cells, the bareback promoters will end up counting their money, and everyone will live happily ever after, won't they? Just like cocaine dealers who are just giving people what they want...and they are...people that profit from human weakness only have to draw the line where their own conscience starts. As for me, the only line I draw is that I don't bareback. What other people do is obviously out of my control. As for my statement that you quote, yes, I would not want to associate with you if you were the owner of Cobra Video. That's my choice. You obviousy don't like porn, so you don't watch it. That doesn't make you any better or worse than anyone who does. And who is saying that people can't watch porn? Not me. But I don't have to associate with the Kocises of the world if I don't want to, and I don't. Except here, of course, where every kind of weirdo, including me, gets his say. In the end, we all go on with our lives and get a snicker out of the way someone responded to someone else. I do think that you are an upright guy, I just don't pat you on the back the same way that you do over the choices that you have made. Thanks, though, for giving me the forum to speak my piece. That I like!

As Jay Leno said last night, this scandal will be good for San Francisco as it proves there is straight life there! The mayor, who recently showed up drunk after a police shooting, was screwing his campaign manager's wife. She revealed this during her rehab process for substance abuse. Fun and games in SF...

Please note that Barry is speaking in response to post #49, not me!

Okay. I will withdraw my description of him as a predator. It is a moot point anyway.