JamesSavik

The sad part is that I was actually doing it before I knew what it was. I had no sex education and had only heard the word homosexual on the radio.

Never make the go/no go decision when you are drunk. It can only end badly.

I noticed this too. This is often because a person hasn't come to terms with their sexuality. It is very common for a person with this problem to hustle or sell sex. They rationalize that since someone is paying for it, they aren't really gay. I know- it sounds stupid and crazy but those are the kind of tricks the closeted mind plays upon itself. One might argue that some of the worst enemies ever to square off against gay rights were screwed up closet queens that hang out in mens rooms and pass homophobic legislation.

Another couple thought... on a more serious note One of the many problems that victims of childhood sexual abuse suffer from in adolescence and/or young adulthood is a tendency toward "hyper-sexuality" or even full fledged sexual addiction. It is almost always rooted in sexual abuse. People like this tend to think that relationships/friendships always have a sexual component and if you aren't interested in sex, you aren't interested in them. This causes a great deal of confusion and angst on the part of the abuse victim and his friends and relations suffer for it. When you said "rent" on first read, I didn't understand the implications but it fits the profile to a tee. Rent/hustling is very common especially in the young adult Gay/bi community- more common than we would like to admit. Usually when we think of someone who is "on the rent" or hustling, we tend to think of homeless youth or addicts who are doing it for survival. More and more, it is being done for convenience or expedience. Whether it be a "special friendship" with someone who is older for their help with jobs, a place to live or money, whatever you call it to justify or rationalize it, it is still trading sex for money. I won't judge a person who is doing it. I did it myself to support an addiction when I was younger. The problem is that each and every time you lose a little bit of your soul and there is a point where you can quit but you'll never be the same. Again, this is very bad for relationships because who wants a used up hustler? If you don't tell the truth there is a power secret out there somewhere that can really kick your ass. All I can say is this is a game that you don't want to play. Psycho Johns, Pimps, sexually transmitted diseases, cops, dirty cops, bashers, rapists: it is a seriously bad scene. You will never get enough money to cover what your dignity was worth.

It depends... Sometimes only a coke will do and other times it is Mountain Dew or nothing.

Better to retire on top than to to be wheeled off the field with a career ending injury like so many pro athletes. Brett Farve is a Mississippian and we are very proud of him. We look forward to having him home.

Tristain- Sounds to me like you've got a leg hound. From the Urban Dictionary: Leg Hound: 1. a male dog the humps your leg 2. a young man with a powerful sex drive that will f**k anybody, anything, anywhere, anytime. 1. What could be more awkward than meeting your girlfriends parents with their damned leg hound humping and nutting on your shin You will need to keep one of the following items within reach: Garden Hose Mace Taser stick cattle prod If he can't get any from you, he will eventually move on to someone who will give it up.

Tea. Can't stand the smell of coffee...

Has anyone seen Wild Tigers I have Known I've heard that it was good but that's all.

I agree Razor. I used to love Metallica (and still do) but since they became the poster children for the RIAA I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire. There are too many mediocre artists crying crocidile tears over piracy who are clearly trying to position themselves for some sort of settlement. Have you seen the numbers that they claim to have lost due to piracy? I have to call bullshitte on that. Those estimates are clearly based on drugs and/or wishful thinking and have nothing to do with their business model.

Sumbloke- all my best on your birthday!

Here are my guidelines- 1) for music, I only download music that I own, what I own in another format or is out of print. 2) for video I download whatever has been on the air (broadcast TV). 3) for ebooks, I download whatever I can get my hands on. 4) I don't download software or games

other, other & other I'm afraid of the plague. Not the old plague but the new one that we're contributing to by throwing anti-biotics around like candy and deforesting parts of the planet that are best left alone. We are forcing pathogens to become drug resistent while exposing new pathogens all the time. It's only a matter of time before this lethal combination rolls snake eyes and we're all royally f-ed. Whether you believe in it or not, evolution is happening all the time and at the level of microorganisms generations occur hourly. I expect the resulting plagues to kill at least 2/3rd of the worlds population and the remaing 1/3 will be endangered by the population crash and afterkill-- additional causalties caused by collapse of services. Typically starvation and death caused by minor diseases for which there is no care available. The survivors will be faced with additional outbreaks for some time. For some time after the worst of the plagues the number one killer will be suicide. The population will continue to decline. Humans will reach a critical point: that point is the number of people left that will be able to sustain advanced society. This crash could take us all the way back to tribal units or even extinction. ________________________________________________________________________________ ________ Now that you've had a peek inside my head you'll understand why they keep upping my medication.

Happy 20th Billy! Don't mourn for the loss of your teens. Take it from me: you can only be young once but you can be immature anytime you like.

Tip of the hat to you Captian. May your next year be the best yet.

One of the biggest difficulties that I had in coming to terms/accepting being gay was that you generally don't get to have kids. I wanted kids but that's just not happening. It's something that I felt that I would have to just forget about. In my state gay adoption is prohibited by law. In others, you will find various barriers that will hinder your efforts. Unless you are rich and can afford a fleet of lawyers, it's probably best to forget about it and get a cat.

planetology is merely a sub-genre of astronomy.

No- just a dedicated geek. When you study the sciences, you will quickly discover that many of them overlap. For instance it is difficult to study any science without some basic knowlege of chemistry. The new science of planetology or the study of planets constantly refers back to the well known benchmarks and baselines of geology. Geology is a relatively weak area for me so it is something that I've been working on.

I usually have two books going at once: one for fun and the other to address my interests. For fun I'm reading the third book of the The War Against the Chitorr series by David Gerrold A Rage for Revenge. The War Against the Chitorr series is about an alien invasion- not with ships and soldiers but with a tough and aggressive ecology. First came the microorganisms and plagues that killed about 60% of the population. Then came the plants and animals from that ecology and they are hungry. For the first time since the Stone Ages mankind isn't on top of the food chain anymore. The other track is for fun too but I doubt everyone would think so. I like to read Science and Technology titles. The latest in my stack: Physical Geology by Plummer, McGeary & Carlson. Typically stuff in this pile will be physical sciences, computer languages, databases, etc.

The Milky Way is twice the size we thought it was University of Sydney 20 February 2008 Source Link We were tossing around ideas about the size of the Galaxy, and thought we had better check the standard numbers that everyone uses," Professor Gaensler said. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) It took just a couple of hours using data available on the internet for University of Sydney scientists to discover that the Milky Way is twice as wide as previously thought. Astrophysicist Professor Bryan Gaensler led a team that has found that our galaxy - a flattened spiral about 100,000 light years across - is 12,000 light years thick, not the 6,000 light years that had been previously thought. Proving not all science requires big, expensive apparatus, Professor Gaensler and colleagues, Dr Greg Madsen, Dr Shami Chatterjee and PhD student Ann Mao, downloaded data from the internet and analysed it in a spreadsheet. "We were tossing around ideas about the size of the Galaxy, and thought we had better check the standard numbers that everyone uses. It took us just a few hours to calculate this for ourselves. We thought we had to be wrong, so we checked and rechecked and couldn't find any mistakes." The University of Sydney team's analysis differs from previous calculations because they were more discerning with their data selection. "We used data from pulsars: stars that flash with a regular pulse," Professor Gaensler explains. "As light from these pulsars travels to us, it interacts with electrons scattered between the stars (the Warm Ionised Medium, or WIM), which slows the light down. "In particular, the longer (redder) wavelengths of the pulse slow down more than the shorter (bluer) wavelengths, so by seeing how far the red lags behind the blue we can calculate how much WIM the pulse has travelled through. "If you know the distance to the pulsar accurately, then you can work out how dense the WIM is and where it stops - in other words where the Galaxy's edge is. "Of the thousands of pulsars known in and around our Galaxy, only about 60 have really well known distances. But to measure the thickness of the Milky Way we need to focus only on those that are sitting above or below the main part of the Galaxy; it turns out that pulsars embedded in the main disk of the Milky Way don't give us useful information." Choosing only the pulsars well above or below us cuts the number of measurements by a factor of three, but it is precisely this rejection of data points that makes The University of Sydney's analysis different from previous work. "Some colleagues have come up to me and have said 'That wrecks everything!'" says Professor Gaensler. "And others have said 'Ah! Now everything fits together!'" The team's results were presented in January this year at the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas. About Professor Bryan Gaensler: Professor Gaensler is a graduate of the University of Sydney and a former Young Australian of the Year. After working at the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University he was lured back to Australia on prestigious Federation Fellowship. One of the world's leading astronomers, his research interests include studying the essential role that magnetic fields play in the generation of turbulence and large-scale structures, the production of high-energy cosmic ray particles, and the formation of the first stars and galaxies.

Keep in mind that religions have traditionally been very populist when it come to deciding what exactly a sin is and how severe it is. Most religions have held up things that were social taboos and made them into moral taboos. For instance- Baptist might not like gambling and drinking but every Sunday after church you can find them piled high at the casinoe buffets. Religions are not and have never been about rightiousness. They are about power and are designed to appeal to as many people as possible to bolster that power be it economic, military or civil authority.

The taboo of incest (and a number of other sexual taboos) is illegal. I think that most people, fantasies or not, want nothing to do with something that would give them that sort of trouble. Here in the US, District Attorneys love to grandstand sex cases and the public eats it up- the raunchier the better. That's one railroad you never want to ride.

A few thoughts: It is estimated that there are 3 1/2 guns per person in the US. Other sources makes the ratio go even higher. We forget that teenagers, kids 14 to 18 have always been the the foot soldiers in insurgencies, rebellions and civil wars. Students have long been a target of political adgitators because they can easily be moved to action. I could make something in any chemistry lab that would be more deadly than any gun. So could any kid with the smarts and motivation. Frankly I'm surprised no one has done it. If you liked school shootings, waith till you get a load of school nerve gassings. I live about 20 minutes from Pearl, MS where the first high profile school shooting ocurred. The shooter was a kid who was tormented for years in the most cruel sort of ways by the "in crowd". One of the girls he shot had played like she liked him and was his girl friend for a couple of weeks and then humiliated him in public. Some of the wounded were the children of city officals and the powers that be- you know: the kids who could and did get away with anything. Many people here believe that the Shooter was an easy scapegoat and there should have been a deeper investigation which looked at the environment created in the school for the "in-crowd" and everybody else. What actually happened is that kids that played D&D with the shooter the year before were arrested and charged with a conspiracy in the form of a Cult that required the shedding of virgin blood. This fell apart but branded seven geeky kids as guilty but got away with it because of legal trickery. In these school shooting situations, we have to ask: what has the administration done to discourage and/or punish bullying in the affected school. When the Pearl HS shooting happened, I angered some people when I said that while I deplore the action, I understand why it happened and was surprised that it hadn't happened already. BTW- I worked with several of the Pearl 7 to help them get jobs and get on with their lives.

If you pay careful attention to these shootings, the media is playing an essential part of the problem. The media will HAVE to be a essential part of the solution. The national media responds to every school shooting, there are profiles of the shooter/victims, commenttators discuss the incident at length and then you never hear anything else about it unless you do some digging. The way this is portrayed, you might think, and I'm sure some people do think, that nothing ever really happens to the shooters. I believe that the media has to show more of the process other than the initial shock and hysteria of the initial incident- specifically the trial (or at least highlights of the trial) and most important, the penelty. BTW- the law often has problems posed by the age of the perps. In the Jonesboro shootings of 1998, Mitchel Johnson (13) and Andrew Golden (11) were under Arkansas's 14 year old cutoff for trying the pair as adults. They were both held by the Arkansas Youth Authority until they were 21 and released. Johnson has since been arrested for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and faces more time than he served for all of the the Jonesboro killings.

I find mine to be a bit on the froggy side.