The national media over the past 20 years have carried stories about two Laramie men who left Matthew Shepard to die on a Wyoming fence; the assailant who beat James Sappalorti to death on a lonely Staten Island beach; the two God-fearing Alabamans who took Billy Jack Gaither to a remote forest in Coosa County, Alabama, beat him to death with ax handles, and burned his body on a pile of trees; the hunter who stalked and gunned down a lesbian hiking with her mate on an Appalachian Trail; the gang of several men who lured Julio Rivera into an alley in Queens, NY and killed him with a claw hammer; the Vietnam veteran who was so ashamed that his last name was "Gay" that he opened fire in a Roanoke bar, killing Danny Lee Overstreet and wounding six others; the two Nebraska men who shot Brandon Teena to death in a wheat field; the New York man who shot and killed his nineteen year old step-son, Steen Keith Fenrich, for being gay, and then wrote "Gay Nigger #1" on the boy's decapitated skull; the two teenagers in Fairmont, West Virginia who stomped Arthur Warren to death, then drove over him repeatedly in an effort to mask the crime; the Oregon man who murdered a lesbian couple in their pick-up truck; the two young men in Happy Valley, California, who entered the home of a middle-aged gay couple who had befriended them and killed the middle-aged men in their bed; the gang of Idaho men arrested by the FBI as they attempted to blow up a Seattle gay bar with a pipe bomb; the two Oregon men who firebombed a Portland home, burning to death the young gay man who lived there; the three men in Tyler, Texas, who took twenty-three year old Nicholas West to a remote gravel pit and pumped nine fatal gunshots into him. And just the most recent killings this past winter in Queens, NY where a group of thugs with baseball bats beat to death a young Latino man who was walking down the street arm in arm with his brother to stay warm. The shouted anti-gay slurs as they murdered him. This is just a sampling. In the same sampling period that these stores were pulled from the national media, the same database contains no article about an event where a gay man, whether singly or in a pack, murdered a heterosexual for being that way.

The only people ruining gay lives SoberNut are people like you.

What is the murder and assault rate against gays, compared to the rest of the population?

So we're not deserving of equal rights because not enough of us have been killed yet by kooks and gay bashers?

Please don't stop taking your medications.

The day before you mean to serve the salad (potato salad improves with age):

Boil the potatoes, (Russets are best for soaking up the sauce), in their skins until fork tender.

Boil a half dozen eggs.

Peel the cooled potatoes and dice into a large serving/mixing bowl.

Peel eggs, dice and add to potatoes.

Chop Gherkins or any similar sweet pickles into small pieces, add to mixture.

Add enough good mayonnaise (not Salad Dressing!) to hold it together.

Add about a fourth cup of prepared yellow mustard.

Stir and turn gently until all is mixed together

Add celery seed to taste. (Celery is a strongly flavored veggie that can overwhelm the other ingredients after a day or two. The seeds don't seem to do that. I would avoid onions for the same reason.)

Salt, pepper, sugar are all optional, to taste.

Add whatever other ingredients, herbs and spices, suits your fancy.

Ignore SoberInput. He's too stupid for words.

I blame the Romans really for all this corrupt, Christian nonsense and hypocrisy. They had the best chance in history to nip it in the bud, but they themselves were too corrupt and bankrupt to bother much imposing their normal procedures for cleaning the gene pool.

Blame the victim, yes. This is America. It's part of our Puritanical past that we've never shed, our cultural heritage. It just manifests itself in different guises. It's the theology that asserts, "Whatever befalls you is your fault." That's why New Age malarkey is so popular in this country. Oprah has lengthened her TV career from it. Good old Cotton Mather, still with us.

Store-bought potato salad is always very sweet because the producers load it down with sugar as a preservative so that it can set on the shelf for three months. They do the same thing to pimento cheese and so disgrace that as well.

Speaking of the Republicans and the elections over the past several years, Harry Reid says, "The last eight years have shown us the American people want us to work together."

This is what Harry Reid takes away from the past several elections where Republicans have been handed their collective asses by the voters, in practically every election at every level throughout the country? Bipartisanship? This is what Reid thinks it's all been about?

The Democrats will piss this opportunity away, being as equally corrupt and whorish as the Republicans, and the Republic will not be restored and the citizens, the hard working, modest, common citizens, will once again be heaped on the funeral pyre of corporate greed to be roasted and eaten by the mafia cartels that own everything, even your DNA.