JamesSavik

It's inevitable I suppose. When a boy is born, he is expected to be heterosexual. From our earliest years, we are raised with and by heterosexuals. Go to school with them. Play with them. Have friends of family that are heterosexual. It's no wonder that occassionally we might fall in love with one. Sometimes, usually in early adolesence, a gay kid may actually have a physical relationship with a str8 friend (more factually, a bisexual leaning str8). Sometimes even later in their teen years boys who are predominatly heterosexual may have a relationship with a gay person. In my experience, these relationships are quite emotional and tender. The bisexual partner would never consider having sex with another man. These relationships may have a strong sexual component, there is much more to it than hormones. Str8 males often have difficulty showing their softer, more vulnerable sides. If they find a gay person that they trust and feel safe with, it can be a beautiful and positive thing. On the other hand, some men are simply pigs and want oral sex any way they can get it. They don't mind using a gay person to get it. These guys are usually at least mildly abusive to some extent and relationships like this will cost you more in self esteem than they are worth. Then there are the str8s that won't cross over. They will break your heart. It niether bad or necessairly self destructive to love them. Just keep their love in the context of a brother or cousin. Resist the urge to fool around with them when they are drunk. Such liasions can cause big problems later and give str8 guys big time complexes.

It's hard to beat a Norse accent (Norway, Sweeden, Denmark) for a sexy accent. Shame on you for forgetting to list them. Accents from some American Indian tribes are quite sexy. The German accent is kinda scary- they can say good morning but it sounds so harsh, he could also be saying run away from my BMW panzer like a dog! The English and Aussie accents can be very sexy depending on who is speaking of course.

Q: What was the last thing to go through Pakistani oppisition leader Benazir Bhutto's mind when she was killed by a suicide bomber? A: Her hubcaps. A man was riding in the back of his limousine when he saw a man eating grass by the roadside. He ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate. "Why are you eating grass?" he asked the man. "I don't have any money for food," the poor man replied. "Oh, please come to my house!" "But sir, I have a wife and four children..." "Bring them along!" the rich man said. They all climbed into the limo. Once underway, the poor fellow said, "Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us in." The rich man replied, "No, you don't understand. The grass at my house is over three feet tall!" Two frat boys on a weekend fishing cruise are blown way out to sea and their boat is crippled. They are stuck out there for days and run out of food and water. After a week of being stranded out there, a friendly Genie comes by and grants the two frat brothers 1 wish. Instantly one of the guys said, "I wish this ocean was really beer." POOF. Done. The Genie disapeers. His frat brother looks at him in disgust and says, "I guess you know that now we're going to have to piss in the boat."

The Scrolls of Icaria is an Awesomedude.com exclusive but certianly not the only good reason to look up that site.

I don't know NJ. Anyone that wins at this level has an agenda so bland that the oldest old fart in the rest home can stomach it. That's not the kind of medicine that the country needs at the moment. If we're to survive the economic collapse that is coming, we're going to have to take some very bitter medicine and the American people are too dumb and too spoiled to vote for it. They voters don't want to hear the truth- they will vote for the canidates that say what they want to hear. The US economy is designed to run on cheap oil and without some voodoo economics, which the republicans are very good at, we simply can't last without major economic consequences with oil at (or over) $100/barrel. Don't believe me? Have you noticed that everything costs more and the economic indicators dismiss inflation?

I think that some people may be intimidated by the number of authors, some of them quite well known, that actually post here. It takes a good bit of confidence to post your thoughts in the midst of Comicality, Graeme, Dom Luka, et al with out being afraid of appearing dumb.

Head to head, the US can't stand on the same field as Canada. For health care, human rights, progressive vision, a population that understands and supports the value of diversity and dismisses religious fanatics and bigotry: Canada has it all over the US. This is one match the US had better sleaze its way out of of they'll be reminded what an embarrassment that they really are: the spoiled wretched weak children of strong parents who deserved better: trading freedom for fear, looting the wealth of generations yet to come and allowing the nation to slip into a neo-feudalism that is in fact no better than the third-world warlords that we can't defeat with state of the art firepower. Now the 2008 election is upon us and what wretched excuses for humanity do the two parties offer us? Queen Hillery? Obama? Huckleberry hound- the Nazi dog from Arkansas who would have sent us all to concentration camps? John "I crashed my plane" McCain? Fred "Law & Order" Thomas? Pardon my French but Jesus! These clowns couldn't come up with a single working brain if both parties worked together. We have traded the voting booth for a suicide machine. It is time to move. The bloated caucus of America is dying of dementia and it's time to get out before the whole shit house collapses upon us.

Head to head, the US can't stand on the same field as Canada. For health care, human rights, progressive vision, a population that understands and supports the value of diversity and dismisses religious fanatics: Canada has it all over the US. this post is leaning political so see my blog entry for more ranting.

Bring me back some baklava. No wait, some loukoumia. How about some Loukomades? Argh... just have fun and eat yourself into a warm, sunny Mediterranean stupor. The great part is that most Greek food really is good for you. James

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Don't count on an SEC team to be a pushover in a bowl game. Even poor ole Mississippi State won their bowl game... granted, it was the Tidy Bowl.

I too agree. A civil union may be a compromise and not exactly what we want but it is way better than a smack in the face with a frozen fish [nothing]. There has been an attitude of all or nothing in the gay rights movement leadership that has, more often than not, left us with nothing. There is a saying in American football: never take points off the board. Those "points" are hard to get and you never know when or if you are going to get anymore of them.

I think I can make it!

There are two examples of this issue in the publishing world: the unfinished works of J R R Tolkien and Frank Herbert's Dune series. In both cases their heir is the driving force behind continuing the work. I have no idea whether Tolkien or Herbert discussed their wishes for either series with their heirs. As far as net authors go, if they are still alive, it shouldn't be done without express permission. Following the work of deceased authors should only be done with prior arrangement.

Bear in mind that when the constution was written, there were several huge cans of worms left completely undisturbed because those issues were simply too devisive: slavery of course was number one on the list pitting North vs South. Others were the status of debts owed to foreign companies incurred before the revolution, Indian affairs, alcohol (abolition or management), land policy and a host of others. The issues tended to be more of local than national interest. eg. Land policy was a no brainer in original 13 colonies but how do you handle it in newer territories like those gained by the Louisannia Purchase or the far West? The Indian nations in the east, the so called civilized tribes were a sedate lot. The plaines indians and those further west however were quite fierce. Eastern states were generally apathetic about indian affairs but to the territories, it was a matter of life and death. These were issues on which no national consensus could be reached and were handed off to the various states for the most part. States weren't given carte blanch to do just anything they wanted. The early supreme court spent a great deal of its time defining the limits and bounds of both federal and state powers. Some of these matters were returned to the Fed by the Court. In 1812 Congress created the General Land Office which eventually became the Bureau of Land Management. In 1824 the Bureau of Indian Affairs was created to curb graft and corruption in dealing with the independent tribes by oppertunists in the territories. Other powers were returned to the states- like the imposition of various taxes, the granting of franchises and licenses , etc. Point being: historically these powers have been shifted from state to federal levels and vice versa typically after one or both of those entities had royally screwed it up. A good case could be made for a national age of consent: as it stands now, it is confusing, contradictory and so uneven from state to state that the issue begs for oversight. This is not something that can be done by congress alone. It would involve a supreme court decision followed by congressional action. Last but not least, the state laws that we seek to superceed have to be proven discrimitory or unconstutional and struck down. I would suspect the the broadest type comprimise would be made where the federally recognized age of adulthood is defined as 18 with 16 being the age of consent for partners 3 years. Nothing radical but some states would raise hell over it.

Don't forget to set aside a lot of time in your schedule for REAL LIFE. It has an ugly habit of making hash out of our best laid plans. James

sounds like any number of daytime soap operas... Gay stories aren't the only ones oversexed by a long shot.

I still say wait untill they are thirty. The Neo-Puritianism that is taking hold here in the States is really quite frightening. With all of the grandstanding politicians, judges and prosecutors lining up for soccer mom votes, before long if you are accused of a sex crime, you'll be shot without a trial and your rotting corpse will be left in the street. As it stands, sex crimes are the only exception to innocent until proven guilty. The problem is that we have created a monster that can easily be mis-used to destroy almost anyone with the thinest of circumstantial evidence.

Why is everybody trying to make me cry this Christmas?

Oh... nothing much really. Just something to warm the winter's chill... ...like an enemies heart in a box or perhaps his head on a pig pole. Things like that just make me feel all warm inside.

Just be safe and wait till they are thirty. What they lose in cuteness & hotness, they gain in stability and knowing who they are.

Another definition of fag is a small piece of wood used to start a fire. How fag ever came to be a euphemism for homosexual, I just don't kn... unless they refer to the flaming variety.

What about other offensive words? the N word? Kike? Honkie? Whop? Spic? Rican? Wetback? Guido? White-bread? Doush-bag? Dingle-berry? Scatologist? Twirp? the K word? Drunken Paddie? In for a penny, in for a pound I would think... and probably why the BBC backed off.

Sigh. We English speaking peoples are separated by a common language. You are Ron White's youngest son??? Ron "Tater Salad" White

I don't know about the kindle per see but I've got ~300Gbytes of ebooks of all sorts: vast majority of which are pdf, lit or djv. Since I am a tekkie, my library is slanted that way (nonfiction, science & technical)) but there are tons of hard sci-fi, fantasy, westerns, mysteries, etc that I simply don't collect. I keep it on a Seagate usb drive and backed up on a second. I have a serious indexing and management system to keep track of it all. It is impossible to tell what its monetary value is but it is an exceptionally powerful information repository that is jammed full of topics of interest to me.