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This is something I'm concerned about too, and I'd guess many other gay guys are as well! It's hard to imagine myself in a marriage-type relationship (even if it wasn't explicitly outlawed under my state's "proposition 8"). So once my mother passes I won't even have siblings should something go wrong. No idea how to plan a will or much more importantly who should make decisions should I be medically or mentally incapacitated... But I'm glad you're doing better, Lurker!

If Russians are anything like American politicians it's because he's actually a huge closet-case himself!

I'm not sure that's what they did, they may've been naked together on their balcony, or may've been visible having sex within their private cabin. For all we know they could've just been kissing on *their* balcony... Either way, for a country to invade a ship and take people into custody--for something not illegal in the country the ship is flagged under--seems problematic, more so when it's something as loaded as sodomy. Even if it'd been public display of affection or sex on land, this seems like lose-lose for the country that chooses to prosecute, given the prevalence of homosexuality among cruise employees (and passengers) combined with the importance of cruise ships to the local economy!

Well, it's just a petition, so the result may well be between fuck and all, but it's worth a shot!

Couple more weird things I've noticed: After you've posted a comment you have to leave the thread and come back to be able to edit it. No longer a button to link media, luckily I remembered it's [media] youtube.link [/media][/CODE] I'm wondering if there's a more automatic way that I just don't know about. Like how copy/paste of news stories post, keep all their formatting and even links...

I will certainly have a whole new respect for her if she gets herself arrested protesting Russia's actions in this matter... Author of St. Petersburg's Anti-Gay Law Will Attend Madonna Concert, Prosecute If Necessary The man behind St. Petersburg, Russia's gay "propaganda" bill is threatening Madonna over her plans to speak out against the law when she comes to the city for a concert, ABC News reports. The bill’s author, city assemblyman Vitaly Milanov, says he wants Madonna charged under the new law if she speaks out against it during her concert. He said he was willing to attend the show “to control its moral content.” “I’m ready to personally suffer a couple of hours of her concert,” he told the Russian Interfax news agency. Read more: http://www.towleroad...l#ixzz1q4nCF300

Alan Turing is a national hero. His contribution to computer science, and hence to the life of the nation and the world, is incalculable. The ripple-effect of his theories on modern life continues to grow, and may never stop. http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31659 Best way England could recognize his importance to his field and apologize for their past bigotry... Probably no point in non-subjects signing it though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgiWu_ANSU I hope to hell cruise ship companies start bypassing this shithole and it tanks the local economy! Update: Retired police officer Dennis Jay Mayer and his partner, John Robert Hart, the gay couple arrested on the Atlantis Cruise ship in Dominica are speaking out about their experience, KTLA reports. "I'm not going to implicate myself one way or another, but we were charged with being naked on the balcony," he said. A photo shows Mayer and Hart, under police escort, being led from court to go to a bank to withdraw money for their fine, as a crowd of residents watched. "I've never seen something like this," Mayer said. "I've never seen people chanting and protesting in the street. It was amazing." Mayer and Hart have been together 17 years, and told the station "We weren't trying to put on a show for people." Mayer says the judge called them "rogues and vagabonds and authorities wanted to have them medically evacuated to determine whether or not they had engaged in anal sex. The charge of "buggery" (sodomy) was dropped. Mayer and Hart say they were taunted all night long in a jail cell with no light, no water, and no toilet. Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/#ixzz1q4kjO3gk

Yesterday afternoon the Rick Santorum campaign dropped the weirdest, most terrifying ad of the American political season thus far. They did it via YouTube, where, as noted at MSNBC.com, the video is unlisted: Only those with a link can see it. Seems like a silly way to disseminate an ad. Maybe it'll hit our televisions after the opinion makers weigh in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DApjHZq9o7M&hd=1 Entitled Obamaville, it presents a horror-show vision of America in the dread year 2014. In Obamaville the streets are empty, and scary-looking crows are everywhere. Children's shoes are discarded in the dirt -- and where are the children? They're gone! Look at the abandoned playgrounds, the equipment therein manipulated by naught but the lonely wind. (Or is it something more sinister?) This is 28 Days Later, reimagined in the rustbelt. Lookit the little lonesome baby, squirming in what might be a bathtub. Lookit the psychotic smiling nurse wearing too much lipstick, saying "Shhhhhhh" -- is she euthanizing us? Is that horrible nurse lady euthanizing the American Dream? And see the man who appears to be blowing his brains out with a gasoline pump. And see, in particular, the television sitting on the floor in some dilapidated Obamavillian house, relaying pictures of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The narrator intones: "A rogue nation, and sworn American enemy, has become a nuclear threat." As the narrator says "sworn American enemy," Ahmadinejad's face is replaced for just an instant with Barack Obama's. They are one and the same, goes the implication; brother jihadis beneath the skin. The ad's got no ideas, no arguments, no obvious references to the actual objective reality inhabited by actual citizens in the actual world. Whoever made it doesn't think the American people are smart enough to be swayed by such things. Rather, the ad's an appeal for the votes of idiots and paranoiacs -- which, you'd think, would be galling to the potential Santorumites at whom it's aimed. It may sometimes be difficult to discern who the good guys are in American politics, but the really bad guys are never hard to locate. They're the ones who make ads like this. Read more: http://www.towleroad.../#ixzz1q4irSuGP

The problem is this runs right into the establishment clause. Sure, Catholics won't marry a gay couple, but Unitarians, Church of England, etc... would be happy to. I get the idea some Jewish congregations would be happy to as well. Why do a couple of Christian sects get government permission to decide for everybody whether or not they can be married? Especially when there are other Christians backing the opposite! And the other problem is currently we have marriages in some states not recognized in others which is also constitutionally problematic, I believe. But we've been here before with mixed-race couples...

Every bit of his pandering mewing about imposing *Christian* values on everybody would be in direct contradiction of the establishment clause of the constitution, if enacted.

So I noticed the lack of the spellchecking as I created a topic, and again as I made the post above. But now it's working?!

Just found out getting my taxes done this year cost me $400. But I also got a lot more back on them than I expected, so overall a win. WTF, now the underline spellcheck is working?!

I don't watch the other two (though How I Met... seems tempting) but I've recently gotten hooked on Big Bang Theory. And I love the Christine Baranski episodes!

Noticed a major problem with the update: It doesn't allow Firefox's red-underline spell checking to work! And doesn't seem to have any built in of it's own either!

I think the video looks great as well. Some fucking hot guys, and while I didn't find them hot the effeminate dancers in heels are interesting. The team should win some kind of award for making her look hot again, great job covering the turkey-jerky arms too!

Hmm, no way to enter sub-title when creating a new topic now... I knew nothing of the books (other than hearing they existed and were popular) so I went in a blank slate. The vast majority of the audience was much like a Twilight audience, which had me worried. But this is pretty much the anti-Twighlight: it's smart, moving, has a point, and has a strong lead actress (who CAN ACT) and she takes her life by the horns instead of being a pouting victim. Even better, it has a subversive message that is very, very timely at this point in history, especially in light of the 99% vs. the Romneys of the world. Visually it's not nearly as spectacular as John Carter but it is very touching and well done. Highly recommended! Anybody read the books?

Yeah, I think it's just a ploy by Expat to get *further* ahead in the post count!

Hahahaha! Perfect! And the look on his face.

Making fun of the Bieber amuses me!

It's funny, I hadn't the least interest in watching GCB until I just saw this:

I think someone should remind Pope Rick that yes, a previous AG {and fundamentalist Christian loon and mind bendingly awful singer} under George W. Bush did, in fact, decide to wage a War on Porn™ as Pope Rick points out. And that man was John Ashcroft. Who, you all may or may not recall {clearly Pope Rick does not recall}, got a request from the FBI early in the Bush administration for additional counter-terrorism funding. Ashcroft not only refused the request for the funding, but in order to fund his War on Porn™ that Pope Rick apparently wants to emulate in his administration, Ashcroft instead actually cut $58 million from the Fibbies budget. And what was the date that Ashcroft ordered that $58 million counter-terrorism budget cut? September 10, 2001. And we all know how choosing the War on Porn™ as a priority for an administration to focus on over counter-terrorism worked out for all of us. Scott manages to put into words exactly what I'm thinking, as usual.

Very well done! Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up, please stand up, please stand up... I'll probably have that in my head all day!

I do cinnamon with coffee every morning, it's great at removing the bitterness, don't need cream or sugar!

But it's like 50 degrees out there!! IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA!