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I'm not sure the reprehensibles would have the stomach to impeach, let alone throw a former POTUS in prison. But I do think he's going to resign for "health reasons" RSN.

I agree that Pence is boogeyman there to make liberals think twice. But as long as they're immune to hypocrisy and embarrassment Trump is the best option for both factions of the Republican base, big money/business and 'social conservatives' aka bigots. Think about it, this month they gutted some important EPA rules and are openly discussing rolling back many environmental regulations. Net Neutrality is already being neutered. Trans people are being shoved out of bathrooms and into closets again. There's a dozen more things that haven't even gotten the attention those got which are all important. If Pence did any of those things there'd be serious debate and everybody would be aware, even people on the right would start to say, wait, I like clean air and water, do we have to go so far? Many are speaking up about healthcare but Trump and team will undermine any discussion of details/policy by stating outright lies and getting called on it, will take up all the time that otherwise would look into actual costs to consumers, increased profits by the insurance lobby, and vastly decreased care available. Worse, most of Trumps hardcore supporters will believe the obvious lies and back him 100% as they gut their own healthcare--for which they'll blame Obama! With Trump most have no idea about the real substantive issues because it's all about the latest BS--like this fucking Obama wiretap thing. It's an abject lie harmful to the future of our democracy and embarrassing as hell at best, but they don't give a shit about that because we're all talking about that instead of all these other actions that have been in Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell's wet dreams for decades. Everybody's so focused on the circus the don't notice they're lighting the tent on fire all around us. Bonus look into McConnell's other wet dream:

I liked it a lot too, but it's basically the Billy Bob show. The big case comes down to him chewing the scenery, I would have preferred more cleverness to it.

It's worse than that. She's staying at Trump Tower in NY (with her anchor baby) and we're paying a fortune to secure that gaudy shithole for her to do so!

Before this weekend I didn't know we had a Gay Ann Coulter. The world doesn't need any Ann Coulters...

I watched the episode of Bill Maher she's talking about. Jim Jefferies could have been more eloquent and Piers was more likable than I expected but yeah, well-spoken doesn't change full of shit and sometimes the proper response to utter bullshit and lies is FUCK OFF. You know, progressives and liberals have tried patiently explaining with science and facts to back us up and failed miserably... Time for a new tack?

http://www.towleroad.com/2017/01/national-pride-march-planned-june/

It's notable that theoretically the main point and traffic item on her site is generated by others and given to her for free (though there's no counting how many are actually generated by her...). In return the people who bother to do her that favor find it takes a month or more for the review to go up. Presumably negative reviews of people who donate to her simply don't go up...

AIs / Machine learning is getting quite interesting. But I was just reading an interesting article in Wired about the how inscrutable the decisions are. They are by definition a black box and the most you can control is the initial data they learn from. So say a machine is used to approve mortgages, it could decide race is a factor and be making decisions that are illegal without anybody's knowledge. The people that build them can't necessarily tell you why a certain decision was made. And they're going to be making decisions in healthcare, finances... maybe everything.

Thank you for the thorough reporting! Argentina is sometimes tempting (to me anyway) because there are less hoops to jump through for an American to travel for the first time than Brazil. But then again it sounds like going to Columbia directly would cut out the middleman and be even easier...

I wonder if Backpage can survive this... Who used it over Craigslist for anything other than adult services ads? And now CL has the k/o by still having operational adult categories but not explicitly participating in (somewhat discouraging actually) escort ads in addition to having all the legit revenue... I always enjoyed the more diverse selection including occasional first timer non-pros on CL over Backpage but it sucks to lose another choice. And if this and especially Rentboy.com is what happens in a supposedly liberal administration... what are we in for? (Then again the closet-case hypocrites probably relied on these services more so...)

Hmm, that might have given me second thoughts voting for Kamala Harris.

I'd mostly drifted away before the upgrade but still checked in, however I'm now having very similar problems, when I go to the bookmark I've used for years I see the normal page with the login in the upper right, click to login and it takes me to a database error page in a loop. It's like the system isn't going to let me in 'till I agree I'm over 18 on the front page. As soon as I click that I'm logged in and happy. Wish I could just go straight to the forums, maybe with one click still. The drifting away is mostly do to work and family issues. I regret it though and wish I was still in better touch with the original Weho crowd. Was just thinking the other day it'd be nice to have a brunch or dinner. But I'm probably too busy for the next month...

It's a terrorist act and a hate crime. I'm not sure the religion used as the excuse is that critical to the discussion (but many will make it so). Think of it this way, the guys who killed Mathew Sheppard, I'm fairly certain they were brought up Christian and were told that their god hated fags, and that mindset/justification may well have played into what they did. Yes, Islam's currently creating the greater atrocities against us but Christianity has been for thousands of years too. I dunno what I'm saying, I guess it's that all religion is used by powerful men to control those of poor education and intellect, and having "Christians" use an event like this to get US to treat another group as shitty as they had just been treating us doesn't seem right.

Hello! Couldn't log in from my normal bookmarked page but did get in.

God damn, Santa Monica BLVD was never THAT good by the time I was looking but I do miss it sometimes. These days you're lucky to notice one gigantic trannie where before there'd be a half dozen or more and maybe a guy or two.

I'm now at a very gay workplace, one of the 3 owners is gay as is the head of HR, various others as well. And yet... there's no real reason for it to come up. Unlike them I don't have a husband in my life to talk about. I just don't see any real positive because it's just not a part of my working life. Maybe some closer to me have an inkling but then again even gay people are usually surprised to find out I'm gay...

Beautiful pictures! (Mostly the boys! Exactly my type!) But also the couple city ones. For some reason I was under the impression Mexico City was dingy and very polluted...? Are in a particularly good part, are you seeing any of that, is my impression wrong? Do you feel safe? I figure it's mostly the border towns with the real problems, but the magnitude of their problem gave me pause about the whole country...

Always the "flight of the chicken" in South America, it would seem.

Doesn't matter. One day under 18 years old in the US, especially if "the adult" is more than a couple years older and it's statutory rape (and the couple year 'Romeo and Juliet' exception often doesn't apply to gay intercourse in different states) . The "minor" don't have the legal ability to consent and can not even prevent prosecution once the police find out. Then add in a bunch of mandatory sentence provisions like the sex offender registry and the adult's life can be pretty much ruined. If there's any doubt whatsoever (which there really should be with a 15 year old...!) one needs to play it safe, think with the big head. It's also a great way to held get over a barrel blackmail-wise if somebody underage tricks you into it. Again, legally, it's all on you.

Those guys are screwed, but I wonder if they also have some recourse against Grindr? It's supposed to be 18+, right?

I figure the meeting was setup by some right-wing asshat politician without the Vatican fully understanding the issue, but the Pope did specifically mention in one of his speeches something about people being able to stand by their religious convictions... still, a 3-4 time divorcee as the poster child for family values is the height of hypocrisy. If people want something to be pissed at the Pope/Vatican about it should be that they are still against the distribution of condoms and instruction on use in AIDS plagued Africa, not this silly stupid bitch. She wants to stand up for her "religious convictions"? Then she can fucking resign! She wants to take a salary of taxpayer dollars then she can fucking do her JOB and follow the law of the land! It is either-or, cut and dried, and her behavior is hopefully the last nail in the coffin for any thinking person. Unfortunately that leaves out an alarming percentage of the US electorate...

I also wish to send my best wishes to Townie (or BGP as I still think of him), hope he's better soon and we can all do another WeHo dinner sometime soon! I've been dealing with a family medical emergency myself though and am likely to be out of town for the the next several weeks, but hopefully we all come out on the other side!

I learned that apparently none of the top Republicans can name an historically important woman, all seem to think that wives/mothers/daughters are the only useful role for women in America. Yeah, I suppose kinda new that already, but to have it blatantly demonstrated...