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The Confederate flag needs to die a death here in the United States. It is quite frankly, shameful, that an entire region of this country embraces it as THE symbol of their heritage. The South just can't help but to continue to embarrass itself on the national and world stage. The fact that most southern politicians were in support of keeping the flag up (even after the shooting) until today is a disgrace.

Men are bigger, faster, stronger. Sports has also been a traditionally male-dominated thing, both in playing and watching. Put any professional mens team up against a professional women's team and the men will run over them. Most people are more interested in men's sports simply because men are better athletes overall. Its not PC, but its true.

Williamsburg was already a hot neighborhood in the early 2000s. You would have had to buy in the 80s or early 90s to cash in significantly on the gentrification of near Brooklyn. I read a story of one couple who bought a couple of brownstones in Williamsburg for $75,000 a piece in 1986, fixed them up and rented them out for a while, and sold the three for well over $5M in the mid 2000s.

Eamon killed it in his solo in this. Also, I can see my apartment building in this video.

I love, love, love, love, love this song.

A great Irish-American take on a British (I think?) World War I remembrance song.

Night Visions, by Imagine Dragons. Particularly the songs Tiptoe and Bleeding Out.

It'll be an advancement for human dignity and liberal values the day the Middle East falls apart.

I am solidly a Millennial (1992) and I played Oregon Trail all the time. My dad went out and bought us a copy of it and my brother (a '94 baby) and I played it so much we probably wore the thing out. Granted we spent 90% of the game just dicking around on the hunting feature, but hey we were boys.

It'll be interesting watching Arabs tear themselves apart once their oil economy dries up. Their only usefulness is oil, and once that is gone the world will be a better place without them.

Find me a gay guy, and I will show you the definition of resilience. We have learned how to be resilient, survive, and now thrive. Now matter how much they have tried to stamp us out, we always found a way to survive.

If you want interesting and seemingly completely original/made up names, work at a mostly black school like me. As a white guy growing up in an all white area, I had never heard of 99% of my kid's names until I moved to the city. La-a (translated to "Ladasha") Kenyano (named after the country I guess). Linguina (makes me think of Italian pasta) Princess I feel bad for these kids when they actually have to start applying for jobs as adults.

I'm gonna write this blog entry off as youthful ignorance.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/the-ultimate-beginners-full-body-workout.html Here is a link to a really good beginner's workout. It has a lot of good advice, all the exercises are pretty basic, and it explains how to do each one.

To an extent, true. I'd say only New York could rival you on that one. I've always just thought of West Coast cities (maybe except SF) as too decentralized and un-pedestrian to build the kind of truly dense and "urban canyon" type downtowns that BosWash does. Not necessarily a bad thing per say, just different depending on taste.

You say you want to tone up but don't want to "gain muscle". Since you said your out of shape and have never been one for athletic things, you probably don't have any significant muscle mass to speak of. If you were to just "tone up" and skipped any muscle building activity, you'd end up as skinny fat or just flabby. To tone up, you need to put on muscle mass, and to put on muscle mass you need to start weight lifting. One of the biggest misconceptions about weight lifting is that it only makes you big. Wrong. To tone up, you have to lift weights to build a better physique. My suggestion to you as someone who works out on the regular. Go onto http://www.bodybuilding.com and find a beginner workout that you think would suit you and that you could see yourself sticking to. Join a gym (most gyms have cheap discount rates for kids home from college over summer) and start. Gradually you'll start to see strength and physique gains, and when you start to see physical change you'll become addicted (or at least I did). Also, things like running outside or other physical activities work. For example, I play in a flag football league, and now that the weather is warm, like to go for jogs through the city.

The original still terrifies me as an adult. The book, while very long, is great too. Too bad the ending absolutely sucked though. I'm looking forward to this.

I first joined this site when I was 17. Back then there were a lot more active teenage members between 15-19, but most of us are in our early and mid 20s now. The 'Gay Teens' forum was a lot more active back then too, but now it seems like it has just sort of slid into the abyss. GA also hasn't seemed to have attracted a group of active teenage members to replace the ones like me who aged out over the years.

Well you can't really defend a skyline as ugly as LA's. Leave it to us East Coasters to build build sexy skylines.

So this past week was Teacher Appreciation Week, and I think it is all very important that everybody thank a teacher that really taught you something valuable. The very fact that you can enjoy reading on Gay Authors all stems from an early elementary school teacher showing you all the skills and techniques of being an effective reader. The fact that so many of you can write wonderful, sweeping, complex stories all began with learning how to write basic sentences in preschool, kindergarden, and 1st grade. What a lot of people don't realize is how much work it takes to be a teacher. Its not a "just during school hours" job, as some idiotic detractors will have you believe. Its an around the clock, non-stop passion. Papers don't grade themselves, supplies don't just magically appear, and parent emails don't get answered by magic. All that has to be done outside school hours on the teacher's own time. With the economic clusterfuckery of today, school budgets are being squeezed tighter and tighter, even in nicer districts. Who do you think buys all those supplies for your kids when the budget doesn't allow for it? Yeah, teachers out of their own paycheck. And as a teacher myself, I can tell you that teachers are woefully underpaid for any worker, let alone a skilled professional who works considerable hours. Republicans love to demonize us for being public employee leeches, but those who do are just fucking morons. Have you ever met a rich teacher? Yeah, neither have I. And you should especially thank those teachers who work in tough areas, often inner cities, under considerable stress for even less pay, and with hardly any resources. Not only are they just teachers, but often stand-in parents, social workers, psychologists, and behavior specialists, all rolled into one without proper pay or training. They are the only support group that many of those kids have, and we as inner city teachers often work so hard for so little progress. Remember that. So whether you came up through the boarding school elite or the rough and tumble inner-city public system, thank a teacher because they did a lot for all of us.

Oh my god, I heard this song in the club last weekend and was wondering what the name of it was!

My dad took me to see IV, V, and VI when they re-released them into theaters in the '90s. I still remember almost crying when Obi-Wan got struck down.

Throwin' it back to the Disco Era. Stayin' Alive, by Bee Gees. Seriously, how can people say disco sucks with awesome songs like this?

Some of the most beautiful sounds to ever be made.

J.R. Celski is an example of a much hotter half White/half Asian boy.