Patrick McEvoy-Halston: Spare us your bullshit pseudo-psychological theories about the origins of homoosexuality. Let me break it down simply for you - homosexuality is an inborn genetic trait. Period. It has nothing to do with "over-mothering" or "feminizing" of male children by mothers and female siblings. Study after study has proven this.

Are you not sick of the studies? We've been studying the "causes" of homosexuality for 150 years. I say we stop. I'm tired of being studied. I don't care if homosexuality is the result of intergalactic space dust shortening gamma rays as they impact the interuterine mitachondria at the moment of conception or if it's all Moma's "fault". The whole discussion of is-it-genetics-or-parenting or some other as yet unexplored or unimagined "causal" factor is tiresome, overworked bullshit. Human beings have been engaging in homosexual acts for eternity in every culture; even before there was culture. We do it because it feels good as a form of sexual expression. So have other animals. We're all horny. I say stop with the studies of homosexuality already, all of which spring from a "it must be caused by something = disease" mentality", including the genetic explanation (the verdict of which is still out). Let's just everyone relax and enjoy it for a change without having to defend it or justify it or if you revile it then by all means avoid it, but please shut up about it. Nothing you say about it is going to stop people from doing it.

I say we start trying to find out why people are heterosexual, which is a far more improbable, greater unlikelihood (and yet billions seem to be able to pull it off!) than any sexual activity involving people of the same gender. Heterosexuality is downright weird and fraught with all kinds of bad outcomes. The newspapers are full of the evidence, everyday. Why is it no one's stopped to ask, "Does this make sense?"

You spout such unadulterated bullshit. The alarming thing is that you seem to actually believe it.

It takes a gay man to have the balls to stand up to this nonsense. He spoke the truth and shamed the devil. Mr. Frank is one of my heroes too.

For this corporate cocksucker to get out there and demand that we not question the motives of organized corporate health care interests and their hired prostitutes is galling in the extreme.

Please! I take offense to your choice of labels for Lanny Davis. Please stop insulting cocksuckers.

["Whore" is] a slur since gender is the ultimate target here, tying vice to a femaleness itself.

So there are no male whores? You two don't get out much do you.

I've already put out the word to about 25 of my friends about the rally in D.C.on the 13th. Several of us are going. I can't really afford it and it will require me to drive 12 hours each way within a 48 hour period in order to be back to work on Monday morning. Right now it looks like I'm sleeping in the car.

I lived in NYC for twenty years. I grew up on a farm outside a small town in Kentucky. Most people in NYC are no less decent or more rude of ill-mannered than the people I grew up around. And a great many of them are smarter. NYers get a terrible, unjustified rap most of the time simply because there are so many crowded into such a small space. The sense of competition in the public square should not be mistaken for selfish, greedy, uncaring behavior. You shouldn't be surprised to learn how much of that kind of behavior is common in small towns. NYers of every ethnic origin are some of the kindest, most thoughtful, generous people you could ever hope to meet, even in the street, despite the tensions that sometimes flare over a place on line or getting a cab.

I was living in NY on 9/11. I'll never forget the way all of NY came together that day to help each other do the one thing that was on everyone's mind after the planes struck: finding loved ones and getting home. I was so very proud of all of NY that day who were patient and kind to each other, helping each other maneuver the traffic and infrastructure of one of the most complicated cities on earth, even as I was crying for the tragedy and horror that all of us were experiencing that day.

I also see people who don't work, have no intention of working, and openly brag about working the system living better than me.

So you are Ann Coulter. You should stop telling on your rich friends, Ann. They hate that. Look how they've treated Gore Vidal all these years. I didn't know you'd moved to MA.

Let me quickly add here that like a certain small town in KY that bills itself on its Welcome to Town billboard as the "Home of 2,450 Happy Souls and A Few Soreheads", NYC is not exempt from the same phenomenon. I submit NYCGrrrl as Exhibit A, but since she left there's at least one less sorehead in town.

In the dictionary under "lunatic" is a picture of jc4. Dude, don't forget to take your meds.

I liked the robot..."Danger Will Robinson, Danger!" as he flailed his arms around.

His arms were made out of clothes dryer exhaust tubing, right?