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Tuesday, October 7, 2008 02:44 PM

Consenting adults?

Linda Lovelace (Deep Throat) did not freely consent to being filmed acting in a "fictitious" film.

Defining s/m pornography as "entertainment", now THAT sounds like Yoo.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 02:30 PM

You are not alone, John

Mark Twain said, "There is nothing as uncommon as common sense."

A good friend of mine, a retired General, USAF, fighter pilot in Viet Nam, instructor at the Top Gun school at Miramar Naval Air Station, told me once, "I don't really mind people shooting at me, but if I walk into the Officer's Club and someone starts whispering, I'm sure it's about me and I can't stand it."

They say high school is the best time of your life, not for me!

If you watch too much tv you might start to worry about 're-growing hair', 'getting washboard abs', or 'if an erection lasts for more than four hours...' and it's all bullshit.

I try to watch funny movies, "What About Bob?" or "Stewart Saves His Family". What are your favorites?

Sunday, September 28, 2008 09:13 AM

Act as if ye had faith...

and faith will be given you. Today, YOU are the LAW. And the character who spoke these words had been intruding at a wake and lying to the grieving widow, surviving on booze and hard-boiled eggs, the only objective measure of success tabulated on a pinball machine. Yet he moved 12 common folk to deliver justice.

The world is a better place because Paul Newman portrayed in such a believable way what had previously been merely a concept.

And the way he held his arms in Hombre...

Thursday, September 18, 2008 05:29 PM

Two questions:

Could it be that the adoptive parents have a reason other than "...a need to 'own' the child completely"?

If the strength of your beliefs compels you to act, why would you hide behind anonymity?

Friday, September 5, 2008 03:43 AM

Overhang CSI

Do you really want to know? And if you did, would you remember tomorrow? And imagine the copycats...

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 06:32 AM

What about Dad? P.S.

It was only 32 days in neo-natal. They would have kept him forever, laying there 24/7 with a feeding tube in his nose, if insurance kept paying.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 06:28 AM

What about Dad?

Sandeeb,

My youngest was 10 weeks early, 3lb. 13oz., the surgeon butchered his Mom so I held him for six hours a day in the neo-natal unit and for a long time at home. I'm sure a male mammal in the Alaskan wilds would have done the same. We humans can be such arrogant creatures.

Saturday, August 30, 2008 08:25 PM

Do you mean to infer that...

I should have recognized, "...ah, ah, don't stop don't stop" as her challenging my masculine identity???

That's what ED is, right? I mean, I never really asked...

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