Rob Ford was the lone member of council not to stand up to applaud city staff and volunteers that worked on World Pride Toronto. Although Ford did clap briefly, he didn't join councillors in two standing ovations as they saluted World Pride officials. Ford has had a rocky relationship with the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) community since he swept to office He objecting to the raising of the Pride flag during the Sochi games as it caters to 'special' interest groups He also objected to $1.5 million in taxpayer cash to help prevent HIV/AIDS, arguing most people don’t have to worry about acquiring the ailment unless they’re gay or intravenous drug users. “It is very preventable,” he spouted in his typically bombastic fashion. “If you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn’t get AIDS probably, that’s bottom line.” “These are the facts,” he added when asked if he backed his earlier comments. "How are women getting it? Maybe they are sleeping with bi-sexual men,” he responded. Not surprisingly he opposes same-sex marriage saying he believes in "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve"

Gets a rave review in Guardian. I find it fascinating that Linklater kept the filming a secret for so many years (for those who don't know about the film, it chronicles the life of a boy and his family over 11 real years). He is a great director and I love that he is not a shameless self-promoter. He just sort of keeps it really quiet and announces his films when they're ready to be shown. Any other DLers like his work?

Linklater's new film BOYHOOD

Nipples previously starred on "Tomorrow People."

Large-nippled actor Robbie Amell joins "The Flash"

OK! Magazine reports Mendes is seven months pregnant with Gosling's baby. “She’s been ready for motherhood for a while now and to be sharing this experience with Ryan is a dream come true for her!” a supposed insider told the tabloid. A source also said wedding bells may ring soon, too: “Ryan doesn’t think they need to marry just because they are having a baby, but Eva believes it’s important to have their lives fully intertwined." "Access Hollywood" also reported on the pregnancy, citing an unnamed source.

Apparently, Eva Mendes Is Pregnant With Ryan Gosling's Baby, But Hey Girl, Who Knows

I don't know when this shit became all the rage, but it has GOT to stop.

Hot guys defacing their bodies with God-awful tattoos

Or is it just no longer an issue.

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I wonder if this will be good as THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? I wonder if this will be an anti-God movie like NOAH? Christian Bale as Moses Aaron Paul as Joshua Joel Edgerton as Rhamses Anton Alexander as Dathan Maria Valverde as Sephora John Torturro as Seti Hiam Abbass as Bithiah Indira Varma as Miriam But who's going to play Nefretiri? Also, Sigourney Weaver is in this, she plays some bitch named Tuya, but I don't know who that is.

EXODUS (2014) starring Christian Bale as Charlton Heston and Aaron Paul as John Derek

I suspect she was lead here by those MichFest threads but she's been around for a while. She's all over the site, posting threads linking to bizarre, fringe websites most people have never heard of, unless she's posting to Rachel Maddow. Any hint of anyone not agreeing with her or questioning her claims or sources is immediately met with a barrage of insults like "libertard" and "freeper" etc. It's clear she hasn't been around too long and doesn't really know how to spot a true freeper. She's also super paranoid about something called "Storm Fronters" which I've never heard of until this troll began claiming DL is full of them. Of course, she seems to insist all these libtards and freezers are men, (of course). If you follow her around, she bitches about men every chance she gets, has said a few things about "AIDS" that are less than positive toward gay men and is generally a pain in the fucking ass. We definitely have our share of freeper types lurking here, but this one troll is unhinged, paranoid and appears to be stirring up flame wars just for the sake of doing so.

General bs thread and also continuation of the Louis football thread. They are all in their 20's now, they must be growing tired of this schtick... how long until the collapse begins?

Just curious. He's tried and failed on the Datalounge for ages. Everyone ridicules him other than his sockpuppets and maybe one or two fellow-lunatics. He's even given rise to the Anti Idiot Libertarian Troll Troll. Aside from his intellectual limitations and obvious mental illness, is the Idiot Libertarian Troll(TM) some kind of cyber-masochist? Does he have a dull-witted messiah complex? Is there some reason all the other Idiot Libertarian Trolls won't let him join in any Idiot Libertarian reindeer games? They have lots of websites where they congregate and wallow in their collective stupidity. What on earth is it doing here with us?

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Joey Luft remembers it well: appearing on the 1963 Christmas episode of his mother Judy Garland's CBS musical-variety series with his two older sisters, Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli. On a recent afternoon, Luft was rewatching the show, his eyes wide and a smile dancing across his face as his younger self broke into "Where Is Love?" on the classic yuletide show. "She opened the show with 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,'" said the 59-year-old Luft, a slight man who is a bundle of energy. "Our living room [of the Lufts' house] on Rockingham Avenue was copied so the Christmas show looked like our living room." Though half-sister Minnelli, who is an Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy award-winner, and Lorna Luft have followed in their mother's footsteps, their baby brother has largely lived out of the public eye. "I've been more behind the camera," said Luft, who has studied photography and sound and has worked as a kind of editor-runner. Though he may not be famous, "I have a life that has been fascinating," said Luft, who appeared with his siblings at the Oscars this past March for a 75th anniversary tribute to "The Wizard of Oz," the 1939 classic that made Garland a star. "I can tell stories for days." He's finally getting the opportunity to tell the stories about his mother in "A Judy Garland Concert With Joey Luft," which opens Friday and continues through Sunday at the Pasadena Playhouse. The evening features colorized footage from "The Judy Garland Show" of the legend performing such standards as "Stormy Weather," "Come Rain or Come Shine" and of course "Over the Rainbow." In between clips, Luft and the show's producer, John Kimble, his childhood friend and longtime associate of his late father, producer Sid Luft, will talk about Garland. "It's just so fun just getting out there and talking about her and letting people know, 'Here's what really happened,'" said Luft in a recent interview at Kimble's Culver City home. "I don't want to talk about the bad things," said Luft, who was 14 in 1969 when his mother died of an overdose of barbiturates. "That isn't what my mom was about. She was a performer. She was a mother. She loved people. She was the most caring person. She had the greatest sense of humor." Luft stood up to imitate his mother when she guest-starred on NBC's "The Jack Paar Show." "He introduces my mom and she comes on stage with a broom," said Luft, as he mimes sweeping the floor. "She puts the broom down and walks over and sits down with Jack and said 'People told me I would clean up in this business.'" The story lead to another memory of watching a hockey game with Lorna and Garland in his mother's bedroom. "My mom was kind of tired and she looked kind of frustrated," said Luft. "I said 'How do you feel? She looks at us, walks over to the TV and she goes, 'How do I feel? See that hockey game? You know the puck? That how I feel." And she walks off. Then we started laughing." His father was Garland's third husband and is credited with resurrecting her career after she was fired from MGM in 1950. He colorized the black-and-white "Judy Garland Show" before his death in 2005 at the age of 89. "It took us years and years to do because there was so much detail and so much work to go into it," said Luft. "My dad spent so much money that near the end of his life he went broke because he put so much into it. He wanted to put a show together." "We have cleaned up all the audio and made it look like it was shot yesterday," added Kimble. Kimble said that they have booked a fall tour of the show in Canada, invited theaters to a workshop production of the show a few weeks ago in Culver City and currently are making tweaks to the evening before they open in Pasadena. The playhouse will also have an exhibit of rare photos from Garland's life and career as well as Michael Siewert's collection of costumes from many of her classic films. Luft's siblings won't be attending the show. Lorna lives in Palm Springs and is awaiting the birth of a grandchild. "Liza is in New York," said Luft. "She was going to come out and see the show but she couldn't make it out." Luft hopes his show will keep the memory of his mother and her talent alive for years to come. "They know 'The Wizard of Oz,' but people don't even know Judy," said Luft, who added that he could listen to her recordings for hours. "The show is to educate people and show who she was and what she did and what she was all about — one of the world's greatest entertainers."

JOEY LUFT HONORS MOTHER WITH NEW SHOW

Racist? Homophobic? Nah! 'course not! *wink* - - - - - - You are not a black woman, and you do not get to claim either blackness or womanhood. There is a clear line between appreciation and appropriation RECOMMENDED FOR YOU David Letterman Walks Out During Joan Rivers Interview TIME Cover Story: Interview With Trans Icon Laverne Cox Donald Sterling Visits Black Church In Los Angeles by Taboola I need some of you to cut it the hell out. Maybe, for some of you, it’s a presumed mutual appreciation for Beyoncé and weaves that has you thinking that I’m going to be amused by you approaching me in your best “Shanequa from around the way” voice. I don’t know. What I do know is that I don’t care how well you can quote Madea, who told you that your booty was getting bigger than hers, how cute you think it is to call yourself a strong black woman, who taught you to twerk, how funny you think it is to call yourself Quita or Keisha or for which black male you’ve been bottoming — you are not a black woman, and you do not get to claim either blackness or womanhood. It is not yours. It is not for you. MORE Texas Slaughter: Suspect in 6 Slayings Surrenders NBC News Britney Spears' 'Alien' Without Auto-Tune Is Not Meant To Be Heard Huffington Post Good Day to Go 'Bad'? Emmy Noms to Be Revealed NBC News Thursday's Top 6 News Stories NBC News Uruguay eliminates Italy; Did Suarez bite again? Sports Illustrated Let me explain. POPULAR AMONG SUBSCRIBERS Eat Butter Fat Time Magazine Cover Ending the War on Fat Subscribe The End of Iraq How Many People Watched Orange Is the New Black? No One Knows Black people can’t have anything. Any of these things include, but aren’t limited to: a general sense of physical safety, comfort with law enforcement, adequate funding and appreciation for black spaces like schools and neighborhoods, appropriate venues for our voices to be heard about criticism of issues without our race going on trial because of it, and solid voting rights (cc: Chris McDaniel). And then, when you thought this pillaging couldn’t get any worse, extracurricular black activities get snatched up, too: our music, our dances, our slang, our clothing, our hairstyles. All of these things are rounded up, whitewashed and repackaged for your consumption. But here’s the shade — the non-black people who get to enjoy all of the fun things about blackness will never have to experience the ugliness of the black experience, systemic racism and the dangers of simply living while black. Though I suppose there’s some thrill in this “rolling with the homies” philosophy some adopt, white people are not racially oppressed in the United States of America. White people are not racially oppressed in the United States of America. White people are not racially oppressed in the United States of America.

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Having gotten wonderful and helpful answers about whether Britons actually eat baked beans for breakfast, I would like some advice about how to prepare a most satisfactory cup of tea. As an American, my first reach is for a mug of strong coffee. But now, instead of getting a second one at the office, I am drinking tea instead. While I appreciate that how one takes their tea will differ from person to person (I enjoy a little cream and a half teaspoon of sugar...never liked lemon in my tea), I wondered if perhaps there are techniques or tips that you, the undisputed masters of tea, could impart? For example, I am using tea bags. Should I get a teapot and strainer and use loose tea instead? Also, I drink Bigelow's "English Teatime" (it's what the company stocks the kitchen with), which I find acceptable. Is Bigelow's acceptable from your perspective, or would you recommend a different brand? Thanks in advance!

And other regional American accent quirks. Actually rather funny.

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The U.S. Constitution protects gay people’s right to marry the person they love. It does not, however, protect them from getting fired for doing so. Throughout the first decade of marriage equality, most states that legalized gay marriage also proscribed anti-gay employment discrimination, rendering this legal dissonance moot. But as more and more states find marriage equality foisted upon them by a judicial mandate, this discordance in rights presents something of a ticking time bomb for the LGBT movement. Currently, Pennsylvania is the only state in the nation with both gay marriage (thanks to a federal judge) and no employment protections for gay people. But as this dizzyingly polychromatic Guardian chart illustrates, several other states also boast same-sex marriage while lacking hospital visitation, adoption rights, or housing protections for sexual minorities. In New Mexico, a man can marry his male partner—but can be forbidden from visiting him in the hospital. In New York and New Hampshire, trans people can be evicted from their houses and fired from their jobs for being trans. In Hawaii, a gay student can legally be kicked out of school based solely on his orientation. And when the Supreme Court almost inevitably legalizes marriage equality nationwide, the chasm between gay marriage and broader LGBT equality is going to expand rapidly in dozens of red states. Marriage equality was supposed to be an umbrella issue, pulling purportedly lesser gay rights into its sweep. To some extent, this strategy has succeeded: Most Americans now profess a generalized support for gay equality. But in direly reactionary states, it may take decades to convert this support into legislative action—even after the judiciary renders gay marriage a settled issue. There are some stopgap solutions here. President Barack Obama has ordered most hospitals to provide visitation rights to gay couples, extended LGBT protections to federal employees and federal contractors, and forbidden gay and trans discrimination by HUD-assisted housing programs. But administrative regulations and executive orders can’t extend as far as a federal measure would, and a Republican president could swiftly reverse them on his first day in office. An ENDA-type federal law could permanently outlaw this kind of discrimination everywhere, but the Republican-controlled House refuses to pass one, and LGBT job discrimination remains legal (and common) in 29 states. What’s the solution to this coming crisis? The fight for nationwide gay marriage will turn out to be a hollow joke if gay couples in red states are too afraid of discrimination to actually get married and enjoy the dignity of true, state-prescribed equality. Because the Republican House refuses to consider gay rights measures—and because states like Tennessee and Alabama seem unlikely to act on their own to protect sexual minorities—the best solution is probably the one gays have relied on for decades: the courts. Thanks to federal lawsuits, judges are already considering the idea that existing law outlaws anti-gay discrimination in every state and that the Constitution guarantees same-sex adoption rights. The same logic that shoehorns anti-gay discrimination into sex discrimination could be used to turn the Fair Housing Act’s sex discrimination clause into a protection for LGBT people. That’s not to say that a lawsuit trumps a law: The best-case scenario remains the one in which once-homophobic Americans wake up to the beauty of equality once gay marriage is imposed on their states, and Republicans across the country suddenly preach the gospel of gay rights. As the judiciary outpaces red-state America, though, this dream seems increasingly absurd. We didn’t get marriage equality just by changing hearts and minds; we did it by taking the government to court. It’s nice to imagine that, once we achieve marriage rights, our court battle is over. But in reality, it’s just beginning.

Gay Couples May Soon Have to Choose Between Getting Married and Not Getting Fired

It's a good one. This is SEVERELY redacted from the original, which is about the length of a Dead Sea Scroll. Short version: She wants strangers to send her a ticket, get her there and provide all the necessities, including "the wages I will lose by coming": [quote]I simply cannot not come. If all I come away with is an experience of showering naked amongst others as a "shame reducer", it will have been worth it...to not hate my body as I do....to see beauty in myself as I see it in all other womyn...and I know I will come away with much more. I also appreciate the warnings of how overwhelming it will be....because it already is. But you have told me it is ok...and to do whatever I need to do once I am there to take care of myself through that. The truth is, I am terrified. Terrified to need help, to ask for it, to come and not know beforehand how my tent and gear (which I don't even have most of) will come together, but to trust that it will. To plan this not knowing beforehand how I will get there, or back. To need any of you.....or this....or the healing....and yet, I am so ready and willing to feel terrified and do it anyway. So, to combat the anxiety that is building around how to make this happen, I am looking at it one step at a time. The first thing I need is a ticket and something to offset the wages I will lose by coming. So, that is my first order of business. I need help with this. Apparently she got some money. In her update, however, she wants more: [quote]I realized, my excitement at having that ticket in my hand has had me lose focus as to what I still need to raise in order to actually get home. Travel expenses and something to counterbalance lost wages for the days I will be at fest. This is based in faith that I will have a job by the time August gets here. In the meantime, my money is running out without work. So, I am asking if those who expressed a desire to help but had to wait, would be willing to do so now?

This year's Michfest begfest

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Hillary Clinton may have had a rocky start as she tests the waters, but a new poll finds if the presidential election were today she would trounce every Democratic and Republican politician -- by a large margin. he non-partisan Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday finds Hillary Clinton "sweeps" both the Democratic and Republican field if she were to run for president. Clinton would take 58 percent of the vote in a Democratic primary, and would trounce every Republican challenger, by seven to nine points. In a match up against Republicans Chris Christie, Rand Paul, or Mike Huckabee, Clinton would win by nine points. Against Jeb Bush or Paul Ryan, she would win by seven. She would also take the women's vote in those races, by 16 to 19 points. "Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton takes a ton of heat on wealth, book sales and her legacy at the State Department, but she emerges with no serious Democratic challenger, while the Republican field remains clustered and flustered," Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in the poll's release.

New Poll: If Election Were Today, Hillary Clinton Would Beat Every Democrat And Republican

A Russian lawmaker wants his country’s Central Bank to change the 100 rouble note and remove naked images of the Greek god Apollo because it violates Russian law by exposing minors to “gay propaganda.” “You can see clearly that Apollo is naked, you can see his genitalia,” says Member of Parliament Roman Khudyakov. The note, worth less than $3, depicts an image of a statue of Apollo riding a four-horse chariot atop the Bolshoi Theater, one of Russia’s main cultural symbols, reports Reuters. “I submitted a parliamentary request and forwarded it directly to the head of the central bank asking for the banknote to be brought into line with the law protecting children and to remove this Apollo,” said Khudyakov. The Central Bank had no immediate comment.

Russian MP says naked Apollo on banknote promotes ‘gay propaganda’

This was a LONG movie and seemed to take forever to get to its point. I thought the ending was kind of anti-climactic. But Anne Baxter is the real standout in this film. She definitely earned her Oscar playing the drunk widow. That scene with her and Gene Tierney and the Perpovska was so suspenseful!

Depressing

University of Miami linebackers arrested for raping teenage girl

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According to Charles Busch and John Epperson, on the commentrary track for "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", that is. I think they made actually very good choices--they are all immediately identifiable by gay men according to what movie they're from. The first is from "Baby Jane," of course: "But ya ARE, Blanche! Ya ARE in a wheelchair!" Can you guess the other four? One other was also said by Bette Davis. (Don't go for obscure choices--all four are super-famous.)

21 Things You Didn't Know It Could Do.

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This buff, ruff muscleman could send Momma running for her latest mussy simile — and then he opens his throat in song...

Purses FLYING everywhere!

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Six dead including four kids.

Yawn. Another day, another mass shooting.

Except the gay ones. Like all races, they're the only good ones.

I think James Franco has definitely been around the block. Also Channing Tatum and Andrew Garfield. Who else?

I remember when he was a young buck....thinking the name Blackie rings a bell?

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I am. It's getting some respectable reviews, which is enough for me to give a summer series a try.

Are we excited about Extant starring Halle Berry, premiering tonight on CBS?

They really do exist.

gay pride MN... Right.

Delusional evangelicals claim to have "converted" over 80 gays during

I am enjoying it thoroughly. Anyone watching? I like the actress playing the lead character and her clones, and really enjoy the gay foster brother (I've always had a thing for hot campy guys). Maria Doyle Kennedy does "woebegone and stern" very well (The Tudors; Downton), but I have a feeling she'll get a chance to show more as the foster mom/grandmother as this goes on. Is the setting supposed to be Toronto?

That lucky bitch Jennifer Aniston. First Brad Pitt, now Justin Theroux Who would know under Justin's skinny frame lay a hunky muscle man

Justin Theroux Showing off his muscular body in Details magazine

What's exactly natural about hairless?

Summer is here. Now what?

His collapse is complete

Obama's Poll Numbers in the Toilet When it Comes to the Economy, Foreign Policy, Healthcare, Terrorism

Can you: 1) Parallel park without problem 2) Back into a space 3) Still make your exit, even when you're in the fast lane in rush hour traffic 4) Etc.

Was this a prime-time thing? Was it really popular, or just a SNL type thing for late night TV?

Following her parents on the Speakers Circuit.

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I have no hope things will get better. I lost my job 2 years ago which paid around $60K and all I can get is a part-time chauffer job. I've gained 85 pounds eating pasta and mashed potatoes. I can't afford to get my haircut, so I trim it myself. I have 6 pairs of underwear and about 5 socks. My car is 11 years old.

Just sayin, not my cup of tea

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I hope he has a good exercise regimen for those jaw muscles. Now it's Phaedra's turn. [bold]'Real Housewives Of Atlanta' husband Apollo Nida gets prison for fraud[/bold] (CNN) -- Apollo Nida, husband of "Real Housewives of Atlanta" co-star Phaedra Parks, is headed to prison for eight years on fraud charges. Nida, who appears on the reality TV series with Parks, was arrested in January and pleaded guilty in May to charges in a fraud scheme that federal prosecutors say stole millions of dollars from at least 50 people over four years. A hearing on July 17 will determine how much restitution Nida must pay to his victims. Nida, 35, must serve five years under parole supervision after he completes his eight years in a federal prison, U.S. District Court Judge Charles A. Pannell, Jr. ordered during sentencing Tuesday. It will be the second prison stint for Nida, who previously served five years in a federal prison for auto title fraud before marrying Parks in 2009. Nida created two fake collection companies to gather personal information used to steal victims' identities, U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said after his sentencing in Atlanta. He used the information to get fraudulent auto loans in the names of his victims, according to the criminal complaint. He was busted after a year-long investigation by the U.S. Secret Service. "Today's sentencing exemplifies impartial justice regardless of economic class or perceived celebrity status," U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Reginald Moore said. "Nida's sentence should be an eye-opener for other like-minded criminals who scheme to steal victims' identities, defraud them and ignore the consequences of their actions." The break in the case came in September, when federal investigators arrested Gayla St. Julein, a woman who "described herself as Nida's 'right hand b****' in executing the legwork of his fraud schemes," the complaint said. St. Julien, who previously served prison time for identity theft, told agents that Nida "only paid her 'scraps'" for her work, compared to the amount of money he made from the fraud schemes," the filing said. She turned on him and agreed to let agents record their phone calls, it said. Nida "knowingly and willfully (did) execute and attempt to execute a scheme to defraud federally insured financial institutions by depositing stolen and fraudulently obtained checks and fraudulently obtained auto loan proceeds into bank accounts opened in the stolen identities of real persons, and conspire with others to do so, and knowingly convert to his use and the use of others stolen and fraudulently obtained United States Treasury Checks," Special Agent Alexandre Herrera said in a sworn affidavit. Nida's fake companies fraudulently signed up with "LexisNexis, Equifax, and Mircrobilt databases" to steal personal information on people. Along with the fraudulent auto loan checks, Nida stole U.S. Treasury checks, "retirement checks issued to Delta Airlines employees, and checks in the names of real people that were owed unclaimed property from various state and federal government agencies," the complaint said. Agents recorded phone calls St. Julien made to Nida during which he discussed details of pending fraudulent auto loans and "details of future auto loan checks that he was expecting to receive any day now from in the mail," the affidavit said.

***BREAKING: Apollo Nida Gets 8 Years

A number of high profile music figures, including George Michael and all four members of British band Arctic Monkeys, are among 1,600 people who collectively tried to shelter £1.2 billion ($2 billion) in a tax avoidance scheme, reports The Times. Investors in the Liberty tax strategy also include Sir Michael Caine and Take That star Gary Barlow, alongside a number of top businessmen, QCs, NHS doctors, party donors and a judge, according to a secret database leaked to the British newspaper. George Michael reportedly sought to shelter £6.2 million ($10.6 million) in record and tour sales after paying £443,000 ($750,000) in fees to Mercury Tax Group, the Leeds-based company that ran the scheme. The singer’s investments in Liberty were made about 7 years ago – around the same time that he embarked his “25 Live” world tour. It was also reported that the four members of Arctic Monkeys - Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Nick O’Malley and Matt Helders - sheltered between £557,000 ($950,000) and £1.1 million ($1.9 million) in the Liberty scheme. George Michael’s publicist and representatives of the Arctic Monkeys all declined to comment, states The Times. Katie Melua, meanwhile, sought to shelter £850,000 through Liberty in 2008. Two years later, she was nominated for Christian Aid’s Tax Superhero Award after publicly stating that she paid “nearly half of what comes to me in taxes”. .. Speaking to The Times, Melua’s lawyers said that she had invested in Liberty at the suggestion of her accountants but repaid the sheltered tax to Revenue & Customs and so had not avoided tax. HM Revenues and Custom (HMRC) has spent more than a decade investigating Liberty, which generated huge artificial ‘losses’ offshore which its members could then use to avoid tax on other income. HMRC is due to challenge the legality of the scheme in court next year. However, under new Treasury rules due to be brought in this month, Liberty members may have to pay back hundreds of millions of pounds in disputed tax before any hearing takes takes place. The Times states that Gary Barlow, who reportedly invested over £4 million ($6.8 million) in the Liberty scheme, is among those who can expect to receive a large tax bill in the coming weeks. Barlow also faces a separate tax bill over his involvement in a second tax avoidance scheme called Icebreaker, which was discredited by Judge Colin Bishop at a ruling earlier this year. Barlow’s Take That bandmates Howard Donald, Mark Owen and band’s manager, Jonathan Wild, were also reported to have invested in the Icebreaker scheme, which was used by around 1,000 people and wealthy individuals to shelter approximately £340 million ($580 million).

George Michael, Arctic Monkeys and Katie Melua Implicated In Tax Avoidance Scheme

Starts streaming on Netflix June 6! We're just hours away from finding out how dead Pennsatucky might be. Now, please stay tuned for an important grammar lesson from Taystee:

Orange Is The New Black Season 2!!!

Obama 33% George W 28% Nixon 13%

Quinnipiac Poll: Obama Worst President Since WWII

Cisgender white gay men are scum! Check your privilege!

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Showing signs of dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.

Mary Tyler Moore has three months to live!

Should I be ashamed?

Like father, like son! Patrick Schwarzenegger displays enviable physique as he steps out with girlfriend for Independence Day celebrations in LA

For the Patrick Schwarzenegger fans...

Let's say there were two candidates you had to vote for in an election One was an extreme right-wing Tea Party candidate The other was socialist democrat who proclaims he is a functioning addict. Drinks himself to a drunken stupor and does drugs regularly. Those are your only two options. Spoiling your ballot or not voting is NOT an option. You have to chose one of the two. Who would you vote for?

Name the first two movie actors that come to your mind and the next person must make a movie connection between them in six steps or less. You can use the help of IMDB. OK, I'll start with Matt Bomer & Greta Garbo: MATT BOMER - Flightplan - Jodie Foster Jodie Foster - Candleshoe - David Niven David Niven - The Pink Panther- Peter Sellers Peter Sellers - Being There - Melvyn Douglas Melvyn Douglas - Ninotchka - GRETA GARBO Next: Colton Haynes & Charlie Chaplin

It's important, and the other thread got closed... so present away, men!

Once Again, It's Men Presenting Their Holes

Goddess I love this movie...Charlie Ruggles and Charles Laughton.. All you kindergays should take a look and see what movies can be...

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It started on Torch Song. Crawford went in for some slight, surgical improvements. "The face and the breasts are new, but my ass is the same -- as flat and as firm as a twenty-year-old's." Described by one critic as "a drag Queen let loose on film," she had her hair dyed apricot-orange and styled ina "brutal page-boy." The coup de grace for Joan was that her singing voice had been dubbed by Indian Adams, "in a voice so husky it could pull a dog sled." Crawford knew the end was on the horizon. She began drinking more. Her next film, Johnny Guitar, proved disastrous to her reputation. The film was a flop but a month before the opening an enterprising reporter named Roby Heard of the Los Angeles Mirror called Republic's press office and said he wanted to do a story on Crawford, to break when the movie opened. It was to be part interview and part overview of Joan's long, illustrious career, the writer informed. Crawford gave the interview, the "overview" was expanded, and hte piece was scheduled as a series. "I am thrilled," said Joan, granting Heard access to members of her family and to her friends. That was her first mistake. "JOAN CRAWFORD -- QUEEN OR TYRANT? The Star Thrives on Feuds" was the headline of the article. Offering their help in the dissection were Marilyn Monroe, Jack Palance, Mercedes McCambridge, Greg Bautzer, Gloria Grahame, Nick Ray, Joan's mother and brother, and her ex-servants. Crawford, herself, addressed the remarks she made about Monroe at the Photoplay Awards: "I criticized Marilyn Monroe as I would my own daughter," said Joan. "No comment," said Marilyn. "Jealousy caused Crawford to attack Marilyn. She should develop benevolence towards other human beings," said Marilyn's former roommate Natasha Lytess. Joan's behavior on Sudden Fear was the "talk of Hollywood," an unnamed columnist confided. "Once, in the presence of the entire company, she berated the director and slapped him in the face." She also abused Jack Palance. "Look, I don't want any more squabbles with Crawford. I have my future to think about. She's difficult. Unless she's handled properly she's lots of trouble. She's a woman and has to have her way in everything." "She hates all women," said Mrs. Sterling Hayden, "except for those who can help her. If I ever see her again, I'll probably strike her in the face." "It is apt to be necessary to step on people on your way to the top," Joan's mother, Mrs. Anna LeSueur, believed. "I have the same driving force. But those of us with talent and ambition must develop tolerance, must make allowances for people less gifted," said former silent star Theda Bara. "I haven't seen my sister in more than five years. For personal reasons, I must refrain from saying why," said Hal LeSueur. "Ask Joan why we stopped going out together. No comment from me," said attorney Greg Bautzer. "Ask Miss Crawford why she abused a Johnny Guitar actress so badly the player had to travel 28 miles across the desert to enter a hospital," said Mrs. Sterling Hayden. (cont'd.)

makes me get up early just to watch some news. What a mensch

What are your opinions on payday loans? Why would somebody get one instead of just getting a credit card?Would you date a guy who got them?

I've been wondering whether this movie will be a big flop, or a mega hit. Well, this trailer makes me think the latter. If it is half a funny, half as exciting and half as stylish as this trailer it will be a HUGE HIT. Marvel is doing it right.

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"What could ruin a vacation more than to hear news like this?" Hasselbeck said. "Here comes to 'The View' the very woman who spit in the face of our military, spit in the face of her own network, and really in the face of a person who stood by her and had civilized debates for the time that she was there." Video/audio:

Elisabeth Hasselbeck Is Livid About Rosie O'Donnell's Return To 'The View'

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Magic Johnson's son EJ lounges poolside in a caftan

It's like they're struggling to break free.

Henry Cavill's gigantic tit muscles arrive in Michigan for Superman/Batman filming

Ranks the US Presidents...will you be shocked at all?

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Because the last thread is just about full

YET again, it's men presenting their dicks!

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Caption this! 7/09/14

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Dress shirts, t-shirts, wifebeaters, jackets, whatever. For the nitpickers, don't shit over someone's post if you don't happen to like it for whatever reason. Just move on! Other than that, let the hotness begin!

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Christian Anti-Masturbation Group’s Mascot Arrested For Public Masturbation Phoenix, AZ — In an ironic twist of a fate, a mascot for a Christian anti-masturbation group was arrested Sunday for masturbating in public. The organization recently finished a federally funded 31-city nationwide school tour which it says focused on educating both children and parents about the dangerous consequences of masturbation. Fappy The Anti-Masturbation Dolphin, whose real name is 35-year-old Paul Horner, was arrested on Sunday at Metta Yoga in Phoenix after employees notified police about a man with no pants on peering through office windows. Tom Downey with the Phoenix Police Department, who took Horner into custody, spoke with Arizona news station ABC 15 about the arrest. “We thought at first he was possibly intoxicated or mentally unstable, ya know, talking about children and how deadly it is for them to masturbate. Telling us he was in town with a Christian organization aimed at talking with children about the dangers of masturbation. Saying things like, ‘They need to stop playing on the Devil’s playground, stop pounding their Devil stick or ringing the Devil’s doorbell’,” Downey said. “Things got very odd when Horner broke down crying in the back of my cruiser and began making noises, kind of like a fish, saying that he believed himself to be an actual dolphin. It was really strange.” Lonnie Childs who is president and founder of Stop Masturbation Now spoke with reporters about the future of the organization after this recent setback. “Thanks to your tax dollars, Fappy has helped tens of thousands of adults and children learn to live a masturbation-free lifestyle. During his visits to schools around the world, Fappy has collected thousands of signatures from children promising to never masturbate; he has done great things,” Childs said. “It’s a shame how the media is portraying Fappy right now. Paul Horner is a great man. He’s passionate about his work, he loves being Fappy, he loves the kids. They even have a nickname for him, they call him the tickle monster. But now, all of that is possibly ruined by some trumped-up charges by the Phoenix five-oh, such a shame. I have activated my prayer app and I ask each and every one of you to keep Fappy in your prayers until this incident is resolved. Praise Fappy!” Horner told CNN by phone that he plans to make the most of his imprisonment. “I want to apologize to all my amazing fans out there, I love and miss you all,” Horner said. “You have my word that I will make the most of this bad situation. Jail is just a hotbed for self-rape and immoral acts. I plan to do everything in my power to stop the masturbation currently happening in this jail.” On the group’s Facebook page this morning, news was posted of the arrest. I have some bad news everyone. I want you to hear it here first before the media outlets spread their lies about the incident. Fappy The Anti-Masturbation Dolphin, whose real name is Paul Horner, was arrested yesterday by Phoenix police. Our lawyers tell us he is being charged with public masturbation, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. He is currently being held at the 4th Avenue Jail in Phoenix, Arizona until a bond is set by a judge, this happening hopefully soon. Please don’t jump to any conclusions about this until we have all the evidence. Please keep Fappy in your prayers during this difficult time. Fappy The Anti-Masturbation Dolphin and Stop Masturbation Now are federally funded programs designed to teach both children and adults about the dangers and consequences of masturbation. For more information or if you would like the group to visit your child’s school call (785) 273-0325.

Christian Anti-Masturbation Group’s Mascot Arrested For Public Masturbation

When I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps. *** On the fence here. I get her reasoning, but had I been in that situation, I probably would have sold the Benz.

Her eyes confirm it.

Does Taryn Manning Suffer From Down's Syndrome?

This water slide just opened at Shitterbarn in Kansas City, KS. Would you ride it?

Ok, this is on my OH HELL NO LIST

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From Emmy-Award winning director [bold]RYAN MURPHY[/bold] and Tony-Award winning playwright [bold]LARRY KRAMER[/bold] comes the long-awaited adaptation of [bold]THE NORMAL HEART[/bold], Larry Kramer's searing indictment of cowardice and hypocrisy in the early days of AIDS. Starring Academy Award Winner [bold]JULIA ROBERTS[/bold] and Academy Award Nominee [bold]MARK RUFFALO[/bold] with [bold]MATT BOMER[/bold], a gay man who ordered a biological child and then lied and pretended he was not his father so he could get cast in "White Collar", then refused to publicly acknowledge his husband & children for several years, then had his husband buy him an AIDS award for "activism" just to give him an excuse to publicly acknowledge said husband because he was too chickenshit to come out in an interview, and who now won't shut up about what an honest and upstanding gay man he is and how he suffers more than other artists. Also starring three-time Emmy winner [bold]JIM PARSONS.[/bold]

Seems highly likely. No bulge in those skintight jeans, 3 daughters/no sons, he's fat, and his name is Garth for God's sake . . .

It's THAT time of year (for the first time). We need to get organized, people. Location/Venues Music Events Workshops Food Volunteers "Rules and Boundaries" (Or should these be two categories?") and of course….."What about the children?"

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Our city publishes city salaries, by person and by job title. A Parking Enforcement Officer (meter maid) makes a starting wage of $56,000 a year. Did I doze off for about 20 years or whut?

Just because someone played one sport in high school doesn't mean he's a jock at 25 or 35 or 45. What is it with these fat guys who still claim to be jocks when their best days are long over?

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I believe that television shows are not a forum for expressing personal religious, social or political views. However, I have not objected when fellow performers have worn a Stand Up 2 Cancer T-Shirt to express their support for cancer research; that's their choice. My choice is NOT to wear a Stand Up 2 Cancer T-Shirt. Readers should know wearing a Stand Up 2 Cancer T-Shirt is no longer entirely voluntary. Those who began by offering these T-Shirts to performers at the Stand Up 2 Cancer event now resort to extreme tactics in pursuit of their express goal of 100 percent conformity. When performers arrive, individuals who attempt to force a T-Shirt on them accost them. A performer who declines may be accosted at the pre-show, again while waiting backstage and after the show. Offering these Stand Up 2 Cancer T-Shirts to celebrities was, in my view, a benign and pro-social act. On the other hand, aggressively badgering performers to compel the wearing of a Stand Up 2 Cancer T-Shirt is no only demeaning to cancer patients and to the desperate need of continued support, but an offence against personal freedom. By attempting to force 100 percent conformity, these activists are now attempting to make the Stand Up 2 Cancer T-Shirt a visible litmus test for separating those individuals who empathize with cancer patients from those who do not. This is a misguided and dangerous notion. First, it misguidedly politicizes human tragedy. These Stand Up 2 Cancer T-Shirts provide a means by which public figures can appear to make a 'politically correct' statement in favor of a cause they do not support. Second, any attempt to force conformity to a single social agenda attacks the freedom of expression. The extreme activities that resort to harassment to compel actors and actresses to wear these Stand Up 2 Cancer T-Shirts are practicing a '90s brand of McCarthyism – and their behavior is deplorable. Our community was devastated by political extremists in the 1950s and again became a target during the last presidential campaign. It surpasses belief that men and women in the entertainment field would resort to shameful practices that the enemies of artistic freedom have used against us. Sadly, it falls to some of us who ardently support cancer patients and programs to resist these tactics by personal example. Believe me, the easy way out would be to wear the T-Shirt and keep silent. But I won't, because I don't want these appalling tactics to succeed.

A Manassas City teenager accused of “sexting” a video to his girlfriend is now facing a search warrant in which Manassas City police and Prince William County prosecutors want to take a photo of his erect penis, possibly forcing the teen to become erect by taking him to a hospital and giving him an injection, the teen’s lawyers said. A Prince William County judge allowed the 17-year-old to leave the area without the warrant being served or the pictures being taken — yet. The teen is facing two felony charges, for possession of child pornography and manufacturing child pornography, which could lead not only to incarceration until he’s 21, but inclusion on the state sex offender data base for, possibly, the rest of his life. David Culver of NBC Washington first reported the story and interviewed the teen’s guardian, his aunt, who was shocked at the lengths Prince William authorities were willing to go to make a sexting case in juvenile court. “The prosecutor’s job is to seek justice,” said the teen’s defense lawyer, Jessica Harbeson Foster. “What is just about this? How does this advance the interest of the Commonwealth? This is a 17-year-old who goes to school every day, plays football, has never been in trouble with the law before. Now he’s saddled with two felonies and the implication that he’s a sexual predator. I don’t mind trying the case. My goal is to stop the search warrant. I don’t want him to go through that. Taking him down to the hospital so he can get an erection in front of all those cops, that’s traumatizing.”

WaPo: Police Want to Photograph Teen's Erect Penis in Sexting Case

For liberals, it’s not exactly “breaking news” to find out that Fox News is mostly comprised of misinformation or flat-out lies. Anyone with even a shred of common sense can watch just a handful of their featured shows and see that the entire channel is nothing more than a propaganda mechanism for the Republican party. Punditfact, a branch of Politifact, has put together profiles for CNN, MSNBC and Fox News detailing just how honest each of these networks are. And while it’s obviously not a completely comprehensive profile (it would be nearly impossible to fact check every single thing said on each network) it’s a decent measure of the honesty of each. And what do you know, Pundifact found Fox News to have only told the truth 18 percent (15 of 83) of the time for the statements they checked. And even of that 18 percent, only 8 percent of what they said was completely “True.” The other 10 percent was rated as “Mostly True.” A staggering 60 percent (50 of 83) comments were found to be either “Mostly False,” “False,” or “Pants on Fire.” The other 22 percent were rated “Half True.” Essentially well over half of what Punditfact has fact-checked on Fox News has been a lie and only 18 percent has been deemed factual. To compare, CNN was found to have been honest about 60 percent of the time, while only having 18 percent of their comments found to be false. As for MSNBC, they were found to have been honest about 31 percent of the time, while 48 percent of the comments they had fact-checked were deemed untrue. So while MSNBC’s numbers aren’t exactly worth bragging about, they’re still far better than the “fair and balanced” Fox News. Though I’m sure any conservative who might run across this article, or the Punditfact profiles, would simply dismiss the results as “liberally biased lies.” You know, because anything that’s not approved by Fox News or some other right-wing media source is clearly “liberally biased propaganda.” Which is really a fantastic piece of rhetoric, isn’t it? Fox News, and other right-wing media sources, can lie as much as they want. Then if any other source debunks the nonsense they’re spewing, the conservative media simply dismisses it as “lies perpetuated by the liberal media.” It’s how conspiracy theorists manipulate their sheep. They perpetuate some kind of asinine conspiracy, then when it’s completely debunked, they claim the information debunking it is “all a part of the conspiracy.” And that’s exactly what the right-wing media does. Which is why tens of millions of conservatives believe that Fox News is a “fair and balanced” beacon of truth, despite the fact that Punditfact found only 18 percent of their comments to be factual among a fairly large sampling of 83 relatively important statements made on the network.

Fact-Checking Site Finds Fox News Only Tells the Truth 18 Percent of the Time

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“I am so tired of this with you," she told O'Reilly. "I’m so tired of your mocking — mocking liberals because they care about people, that there’s something self-righteous about wanting to take care of children. You know, I thought this was a Christian thing, Bill.” Video:

Fox News Contributor Kirsten Powers Tells Bill O'Reilly She's Tired Of His 'Mocking' Comments

Growing up, spaghetti aglio e olio. Can't get much cheaper than that when it comes to feeding a whole family. I always when I see it fancied up on Italian restaurant menus. (Thread obviously excludes the silver spoon/GOOP crowd).

We were winding down from a particularly drama-filled play date. There had been sharing-related skirmishes; LEGO lay strewn about the playroom like carcasses on a battlefield; there had been tears. And after much cajoling and promises of future bounty, there had been a meager "I'm sorry" from my little force of nature to his playmate and host. JJ can sometimes be like a giddy locomotive off its tracks. Full steam ahead, tooting its merry horn, nary a thought for the fact that it's derailed and tearing through the countryside, mowing over everything and everyone in its path. Yet while he may be full of drive and boundless energy, he's always been very affectionate. Which, for me -- his somewhat introverted and decidedly less adventurous Dad -- makes it all manageable. After we'd made our apologies and gathered our things to go, JJ approached his friend -- six-years-old to JJ's 4.5 -- to tell him thank you. He followed with one of his epic hugs -- both arms flung out fully extended, not closing them until he'd fully enveloped the huggee. His friend seemed a little overwhelmed, but hugged back; then my son tilted his head, stretched up on his toes, and moved in to give his pal a smooch on the cheek. The friend jerked his head away, reacting with an annoyed "WHAT THE...?!?" JJ just kind of shrugged and let go. But my heart broke a little. My heart broke for this six-year-old friend -- normally quite sensitive -- whose parents are progressive and gay-friendly and all the other stuff that is supposed to equip a boy to be OK with hugging and smooching his male friends. My heart broke as I saw perhaps the first seed being planted in my son's head -- that kissing your friends isn't cool; a seed I fear will grow and spread and cause him to withhold kisses from his dear, old dad in the not too distant future. Somehow these notions are sneaking in unnoticed. You're supposed to hate pink because it's for girls. Boys can't be pretty or beautiful. Don't choose the cup or the sleeping bag or the shirt with flowers or bunnies or ladybugs on it. And under no circumstances, boys never kiss boys. Does it come via parents of the other kids at school? Are there subliminal messages hidden in episodes of Spider-Man or The Aquabats or Super Why? Do they hide it in the syrup my son pours on everything he eats? My husband and I have never communicated messages like these, and I doubt the friend's parents have either. In actuality, JJ has corrected me on three of the four; to which I always offer counter arguments. He's yet to enact a boy-kissing ban, but I know it's coming. My head (and own experience) starts to tell me, "We all go through stages where we don't want to kiss our dads or show any kind of affection to our friends." But must it be that way? It's not that way in Italy, where everyone -- male, female, young, old, friend, relative -- greets one another with a kiss on each cheek. It's not that way in Japan, where pairs of young men walk down the streets arm-in-arm. In neither case is it about sex or sexuality. It's part of the culture, a way to greet and to connect and have community. Perhaps our country -- with far more gun-related killings than any other developed country (the vast majority carried out by men) -- could do well with an increase of platonic male affection In case you're wondering if being affectionate toward men comes naturally to me because I'm gay... the opposite is actually true. I spent the first 26 years of my life afraid to interact physically with my male friends for fear of my sexuality being discovered. Even after coming out, it took several more years to learn how to express myself in a healthy, confident way with other men, whether they were gay or straight, friend or boyfriend. I had all the typical American male stereotypes to unlearn, plus nearly three decades of shame to overcome. It's surprising how deeply affected I am by this. Yet I shouldn't be surprised. One of my favorite things in the world occurs when I pick JJ up early from preschool. While he may overwhelm his classmates at times, I'm always so proud to see him run back through the circle of three- and four-year olds listening to a story, and give his buddy a big hug and kiss goodbye. Especially when he doesn't knock the other kid down. And my absolute favorite thing in the world is to kiss my son. I've kissed plenty of people in my life -- family, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, my dog. (Papa's on his own special list) Nothing in my life prepared me for how much peace and strength and joy I experience from kissing my son. On his fingers and toes as an infant, on his ever-increasing number of boo-boos, on his lips every morning as I send him and Papa off into the day, on his sleeping cheek every night before I head to bed. And then there are the spur-of-the-moment times he crawls in my lap, or puts his hand on my leg while watching TV, or gives an unsolicited "thank you" or "I love you" -- which of course, all require an accompanying smooch. I'm struggling with a point to all this, a nugget of wisdom to show what I've learned and that I'm moving on. But I have none. I don't want my boy to stop being the loving, hugging, kissing free spirit he's been up till now. I guess I just want the world to know it, and to stop telling him it's not okay.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana won't recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages that were performed before a federal court halted a lower-court's decision to lift the state's gay marriage ban, the governor's office said Wednesday. Gov. Mike Pence's decision, first announced in a memo from chief counsel Mark Ahearn, applies only to state agencies that report to his governor's office and would affect state services controlled by those agencies, such as food stamps or the ability to file jointly for state taxes. Hundreds of couples were married from June 25, when a U.S. district court judge struck down the state's gay marriage ban, to June 27, when a federal appeals court stayed the decision. Pence, a Republican, told reporters at a Statehouse event Wednesday that the state was only abiding by the decision of the federal appeals court that stayed the earlier ruling that struck down Indiana's gay marriage ban. The Indiana attorney general's office, which is handling the court challenges, had no immediate comment. Also Wednesday, Utah opted to challenge a different federal appeals court ruling on its gay marriage ban, taking it to the U.S. Supreme Court. Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes' office said in a statement the appeal will be filed in the coming weeks to get "clarity and resolution" from the highest court. American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana Legal Director Ken Falk said Wednesday he believes Indiana is wrong and the marriages are legal. "During the time they were married they were lawfully married and the fact that the law, in effect, changed subsequent to their marriage does not void their marriages," Falk said in an email to The Associated Press. The sole exception to the appeals court stay in Indiana was an order for the state to recognize the out-of-state marriage of Amy Sandler and Nikole Quasney of Munster; Quasney is dying of ovarian cancer. The memo said the state would follow that order. Senate Democratic Leader Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, called the governor's directive "excessive" and that it only confused the issue. "I believe the governor has jumped to conclusions that don't clearly come from the order of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals," he said in a statement. Democratic Marion County Clerk Beth White, whose office performed more than 450 same-sex weddings, called the governor's decision disheartening and disappointing." "Gov. Pence owes these couples an explanation on why he continues to deem them as second class citizens," she said in a statement.

Indiana won't recognize same-sex marriages

“Raju was in chains 24 hours a day, an act of ­intolerable cruelty. The team were astounded to see tears roll down his face during the rescue," Pooja Binepal, a spokesman for Wildlife SOS, said, per the Mirror. "It was incredibly emotional. We knew in our hearts he realized he was being freed. Elephants are majestic and highly intelligent animals. We can only imagine what torture the past half a century has been for him." Video:

Raju The Elephant Cries After Being Rescued Following 50 Years Of Abuse, Chains

FX does it again! The premiere tonight was killer.

Um, no. Formerly of EARTH, because she's been dead quite a few years now. So give it a rest and go away!

Incredible video.

Free Diving into the Abyss: Underwater Sinkholes

Does anyone else get a kick out of listening to old radio shows? This site has some good ones. I like Crime Does Not Pay and Lights Out

Old radio shows

What say we?

A whole 'nother kind of camwhore

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This is a creepy story

Anji Dean, 17, is missing, feared snared by sex traffickers in Camas

As President Obama heads to Texas to talk with Governor Rick Perry about the surge of undocumented children from Latin America crossing the border, Australia is facing a long-simmering immigration crisis of its own. For years, refugees from Asia have boarded unsafe boats and tried to land Down Under, sometimes with tragic results. An Australia-bound boat carrying 200 men sank in June 2012, with about 90 people suspected to have died. That was just one of a series of fatal incidents since 2010 in which boat people died trying to find refuge in Australia. Tony Abbott, the conservative prime minister who won election last year while promising to crack down on asylum seekers, is determined to avoid the fate of his Labor Party predecessors. Julia Gillard, prime minister at the time of the 2012 sinking, fumbled the immigration issue and eventually became the victim of a party coup by former premier Kevin Rudd—who went on to lose the general election to Abbott’s Liberal-National coalition in September. “It is indisputable that the right to seek and enjoy asylum applies to people regardless of their mode of arrival,” the Australian Human Rights Commission said in a statement published Friday. “It would be a flagrant violation of international human rights and refugee law to return asylum seekers to their country [of] origin without conducting a fair and robust assessment of their claims.” Abbott doesn’t seem to mind. Undeterred by the criticism, he also wants to send back another 153 Sri Lankan Tamils recently intercepted at sea in a separate boat. In an interview with Australian television’s Channel Nine today, he said Australia won’t be held “over a moral barrel” on the issue.

Facing Its Own Immigration Crisis, Australia Tells Refugees to Get Lost

So GM is now trying to blame its ignition switch safety scandal on a low-ranking “lone wolf” engineer. That doesn’t even merit an “oh puleese”! Instead, it deserves scorn, derision and sharp poke in the eye. The fact is, no “lone wolf” has ever survived long enough to collect a single paycheck at General Motors anytime during the last century. It has always been the ultimate corporate bureaucracy ever since the legendary Alfred P. Sloan Jr. organized it that way back in the 1920s. After all, GM did originally master the art of mass production. You don’t roll-off the assembly line 1500 cars in one day from a three shift operation without layers upon layers of management, and without procedural manuals and operational paper flows that in the pre-computer era took down a good sized forest every month. To Be Continued...

Gays, bakeries everywhere erupt into applause.

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What's the dirt on him? Anyone know him or met him? He seems like a sweetheart. I never found him attractive before, certainly not fuckable, but now as I'm watching "Looking", my opinion has shifted. I never watched "Glee" fwiw.

Suffice it to say it was not pleasant.

Sheryl Lee Ralph (Original Dreamgirl) Discusses First Run-In With Diana Ross

New show on SyFy... you have to think that the double-entendre was done on purpose, right?

Two hot brothers from Madrid.

Chaturbate twins

Judge rules Colorado's gay marriage ban unconstitutional District judge C Scott Crabtree rules 2006 voter approved ban violates state and federal constitutions Associated Press in Denver; theguardian.com, Wednesday 9 July 2014 18.34 EDT\t A judge in Colorado has struck down the state's gay marriage ban. District court judge C Scott Crabtree on Wednesday ruled the 2006 voter-approved ban violates the state and federal constitutions. He immediately put his ruling on hold pending an appeal. Crabtree is the 16th judge to void a state's gay marriage ban since the US supreme court ruled last year that the federal government has to recognize gay marriages in the states.

Judge rules Colorado's gay marriage ban unconstitutional

Well guys, the likes my Facebook posts get these days isn't what it used to be, and I really want some attention from my friends and loved ones. How do I give myself cancer? Is there an OTC pill I can take? Help me maximize the likes.

I like these pictures of him, especially the smoothness and a relaxing absence of women.

I don't know if we have any Rafael Nadal fans around here.

There are no words.

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Why didn't Penn happen? He's cute, seemed fairly likable, and was on a hit show. What happened?

Is it Irish (always grass-fed), French, or other?

But lifts weights. This is some sad shit.

Anorexic?

Waitress: Morning! Man: Well, what've you got? Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam... Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam. Wife: Have you got anything without spam

Sisters - does this ring true?

Lesbian Bar Death

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"History of the Eagles" Really, really good. What great writers and musicians. And wow, Glenn Frey was one hot 70's piece of ass.

Watching The Eagles documentary on Showtime

Have faith. He isn't a gay god or a straight god or conservative god or liberal god. Have faith, hold on. Listen and know he's there. And he loves us.

Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi and Frances de la Tour, three of the world’s most esteemed actors, and Misfits star Iwan Rheon, star in the new British sitcom Vicious, a show which centers around an older gay couple (McKellen and Jacobi) and their sexually ambiguous new neighbor (Rheon). Written by Will & Grace and Family Guy scribe Gary Janetti, many had high, high hopes for this new comedy. Well, the reviews are in, and the critics are not in love. See what some of them had to say below. “What on Earth were they thinking? The makers of Vicious, ITV’s latest stab at a sitcom, have squandered not only the estimable acting talents of Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Derek Jacobi and Frances de la Tour, but also the combined screenwriting welly of Olivier Award-winning playwright Mark Ravenhill and Gary Janetti (Will & Grace) on perhaps the least funny new comedy in recent memory.” – The Telegraph “The basic schtick in Vicious is high-camp bitchiness, a form that reached an apogee in the American sitcom Will & Grace (on which Gary Janetti also worked). This is a sadly depleted version, though, and it’s delivered by McKellen and Jacobi as if they’re playing in Wembley Stadium and only the upper tiers are occupied, with a heavily semaphored effeminacy that seems to belong to an entirely different era.” – The Independent “It’s just a shame that the vehicle in which they find themselves isn’t a better one. It’s not just old-fashioned, pre-Office TV comedy (as opposed to post-office comedy, which is something else, possibly), it’s also, frankly, a bit lame. Ding dong, who can that be at the door, ooh hello, a handsome young man to see the flat above. [Turn handle that produces jokes revolving around Freddie and Stuart flirting with handsome youth, putting each other down, and trying – subtly, they think, but actually very unsubtly – to ascertain whether he's gay or not.]” – The Guardian

Critics Really, Really Don't Like Ian McKellen's New Gay Sitcom

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I'm thinking of applying for a study abroad semester. I grow up in NY state so used to cold but will I be inside because of rain all the time?

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It is my birthday month so tomorrow at our monthly staff meeting I get to chose what to have for a treat. I REALLY want to avoid cake/cupcakes, I think they are so played out. Does anyone have a good suggestion? Something sweet would be nice.

This is a pretty damning report on how The Company orchestrated political murders, suppressed voters to ensure the US-approved dictator won, and encouraged deadly clampdowns on dissent. Stephen Weissman writes in Foreign Affairs: We now know that even though the threat of communism in Congo was quite weak at the time of Congo’s independence, the CIA engaged in pervasive political meddling and paramilitary action between 1960 and 1968 to ensure that the country retained a pro-Western government and to help its pathetic military on the battlefield. So extensive were these efforts that at the time, they ranked as the largest covert operation in the agency’s history, costing an estimated $90–$150 million in current dollars, not counting the aircraft, weapons, and transportation and maintenance services provided by the Defense Department. The CIA had a hand in every one of Congo’s major political turning points during the period and maintained a financial and political relationship with every head of its government. And contrary to the conclusion of the Church Committee, Lawrence Devlin, the CIA station chief in Congo for most of the period, had direct influence over the events that led to Lumumba’s death. Not only was U.S. involvement extensive; it was also malignant. The CIA’s use of bribery and paramilitary force succeeded in keeping a narrow, politically weak clique in power for most of Congo’s first decade of independence. And the very nature of the CIA’s aid discouraged Congolese politicians from building genuine bases of support and adopting responsible policies. The agency’s legacy of clients and techniques contributed to a long-running spiral of decline, which was characterized by corruption, political turmoil, and dependence on Western military intervention. So dysfunctional was the state that in 1997 it outright collapsed -- leaving behind instability that continues to this day.

I think we need an investigation.

I really feel for this guy (and his dog, for that matter). Though I really doubt any action will be taken against this asshole, Officer Olsen, I do hope this incident brings attention to the issue of "authorities" treatment of living creatures.

Pissed Off Man Confronts Police After They Shot His Dog

The bombshell IRS audit released in May omitted information about liberal groups at the request of House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s office. A spokesman for Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George told The Hill on Tuesday that Issa had requested investigators “narrowly focus on tea party organizations.” The subsequent audit concluded the IRS used “inappropriate criteria” to single out for additional scrutiny tea party groups that applied for tax exempt status. The findings lead almost every politician, including President Barack Obama, to denounce the IRS. Several Republicans suggested the audit indicated the White House had a Nixonian “enemies list.” Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, Issa said the IRS appeared to have been targeting Obama’s political opponents “perhaps not on his request” but “on his behalf.” But new documents have revealed that liberal and progressive groups received similar treatment from the IRS. The “inappropriate criteria” used to single out tea party groups — so-called “Be On the Look Out” (BOLO) memos — also singled out progressive and “Occupy” groups. “We did not review the use, disposition, purpose or content of the other BOLOs. That was outside the scope of our audit,” the Treasury inspector general spokesman told The Hill. The BOLO memos stated tax exempt status for progressive groups “may not be appropriate” because they were engaged in “anti-Republican” political activity. On the other hand, the BOLO memos only directed IRS employees to send tea party applications to a particular group. IRS officials have said the tea party applications were “centralized” to insure they received consistent treatment. Exactly how the BOLO memos were used remains unclear. The report identified 298 groups that were subjected to additional scrutiny, and identified 98 of those groups as either tea party, patriot or 9/12 groups. The remaining 202 groups were labelled as “other.” During congressional hearings, George was repeatedly asked if these 202 “other” groups included liberal organizations. He said he couldn’t “make that determination” based on the available evidence. However, several liberal groups received the same level of IRS scrutiny as tea party groups. The omitted information has caused Democrats to question whether the audit was truthful. “Failing to make this clear in these documents and at Congressional Hearings even when asked directly has been fully misleading,” Rep. Sandy Levin (D-MI) wrote in a letter to George on Wednesday. “It has contributed to the distortion of this entire investigation, including use of innuendo and totally unsubstantiated assertions of White House involvement.” The Associated Press on Wednesday confirmed that liberal and progressive groups were subjected the same treatment that conservative groups had complained about, including excessive questioning and extremely long waits. The liberal group Catholics United, for instance, waited seven years before receiving tax exempt status, far longer than any tea party group was forced to wait. Meanwhile, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s office has continued to defend its audit of the IRS. Karen Kraushaar told the Associated Press that the inspector general was only “asked to look at the treatment of organizations known to be affiliated with the tea party in its review, and was asked to audit the way those organizations were being treated when they applied for tax-exempt status.” Kraushaar implied information regarding liberal and progressive groups was omitted simply because of the narrow scope of the audit.

Issa directed Treasury inspector general to ignore IRS treatment of liberal groups

It's my birthday year, so I get to choose the urinal cakes. Which do I choose, Sani-Cakes or Uri-Geller.

We plan to fire the liberals in our company vanity | June 29, 2012 | max "Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:18:24 AM by max americana We have a small production office and after today's decision by those putrid traitors on the SC. We will fire our obama-worshiping employee. Hey, it's not my fault. WE CAN'T AFFORD HIM now after the decision. I hope for the worst on those scums on the SC and this POS p-resident." "We were actually saving this clown for November as therapy if Odumbo manages to win again. 2 posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:19:45 AM by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)" "The plan is due to “performance” issues that we are letting him go. He signed a contract where termination is for any reason anyways (kudos to our employment attorney). I need some enjoyment after the death of our country today. 20 posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:33:08 AM by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)" "My business partner and I, including management have a couple of “subtle” questions which picks out the liberals in the group during interviews. 31 posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:42:54 AM by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)" (Link to Free Republic. You have been warned)

FReeper shitstain says he'll fire liberal employees because "Obamacare" upheld

The IRS has been stealing tax refunds from poor people for the last 2 years, claiming that their parents got more money than they needed. I hope this will help some DL denizens get the money they stole from you back. --- Tens of thousands of Americans have been bushwhacked by a single arcane sentence in a 673-page law Congress enacted six years ago. The Internal Revenue Service is seizing both federal and state tax refunds for individuals whom the Social Security Administration accuses of having received excessive benefits years ago. Except that the government often has zero evidence of the overpayments, and the feds have held children liable for the alleged debts of their long-dead parents.

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I am cleaning out my parents house, which they have lived in since the early 1950s. I have found a lot of things still in their original packaging and have been looking up the prices in today's dollars on an inflation calculator. While it is great to find out that 1.50 in 1955 equals 12.00 in 2010 dollars, it doesn't help with context. For example, I found a cheap, dime store, plastic doll in it's original box. The sort of doll one bought to crochet or knit clothing for. It was originally 1.50. It would be 12.00 in today's money, but the same doll would not sell for 12.00 today. It would probably be under 5.00 (made in China). It seems that an inflation calculator appear to compare apples to apples, but it is actually comparing apples to pancakes. It also raises the question of what would happen in products were at 1950s prices? Would everything be more expensive? Just certain items?

Three weeks ago Michael Hastings was killed in a spectacular car crash, so fiery that it is rarely, if ever, seen outside a cinema. Hastings had written a profile of Gen Stanley McChrystal for Rolling Stone in 2010, the fallout of which resulted in the General retiring, disgraced. Hours before the crash Hastings had contacted his lawyers about a new, explosive and damaging journalistic piece exposing criminal activity by high ranking government employees. The police and fire departments, as well as the Medical Examiner, have refused to release any internal reports. In this video, San Diego-based reporter Kimberly Dvorak discuses the Michael Hastings crash. She mentions the unusual intensity of the fire and the unusual location of the engine relative to the body of the car. This looks like a political murder, perhaps as payback and warning to other whistleblowers.

Well, that's what the AP is reporting.

Former IRS Official Lois Lerner Refuses to Testify at House Hearing on Tea Party Targeting

it's like the stupid catholics and protestants killing each other over in Ireland. If they want to kill each other off over some stupid sky wizard, PLEASE GOP AHEAD. Good riddance and massive Darwin Award.

Wacky, quirky, highly entertaining film. Tilda Swinton will get a Best Supporting Actress nomination. Chris Evans should have done a love scene with Ed Harris.

What do you expect? What do you hope?

Gravity star says paper has crossed 'far beyond just a laughable tabloid and into the arena of inciting violence' Actor George Clooney has accused the Daily Mail of concocting a false and irresponsible story about his fiancée, the human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin. He issued a strongly-worded statement to the popular American national newspaper, USA Today, following the publication of a Mail article which claimed that Alamuddin's mother, Baria, opposed their forthcoming marriage on religious grounds. It cited unnamed family members as its source. Clooney wrote: "I want to speak to the irresponsibility of Monday's Daily Mail report. I seldom respond to tabloids, unless it involves someone else and their safety or well being. The Daily Mail has printed a completely fabricated story about my fiancée's mother opposing our marriage for religious reasons. It says Amal's mother has been telling 'half of Beirut' that she's against the wedding. It says they joke about traditions in the Druze religion that end up with the death of the bride. Let me repeat that: the death of the bride." In his statement he dismantled the key details of the Mail's story: "None of the story is factually true. Amal's mother is not Druze. She has not been to Beirut since Amal and I have been dating, and she is in no way against the marriage." But that, in his view, was not "the issue." After claiming that he is used to the Mail "making up stories" about him, he argued that "this lie involves larger issues." He wrote: "The irresponsibility, in this day and age, to exploit religious differences where none exist, is at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous. We have family members all over the world, and the idea that someone would inflame any part of that world for the sole reason of selling papers should be criminal." Clooney, 53, whose father was a TV journalist and broadcaster, continued: "I'm the son of a newsman; I accept the idea that freedom of speech can be an inconvenience to my private life from time to time." But he was concerned by the fact that the Mail's false story had been picked up by hundreds of other outlets, such as Boston.com, New York Daily News, Gulf News and Emirates 24/7. Daily Mail story on George Clooney's fiancée Daily Mail story on George Clooney's fiancée He concluded his statement by writing: "The Daily Mail, more than any other organisation that calls itself news, has proved time and time again that facts make no difference in the articles they make up. "And when they put my family and my friends in harm's way, they cross far beyond just a laughable tabloid and into the arena of inciting violence. They must be so very proud." He cited three "idiotic" and false stories that the Mail has fabricated about him and Alamuddin: she was pregnant, their marriage will take place on the set of Downton Abbey and he is running for political office. These are, he claims, stories "they sit at their computers and invent." The latest Mail Online version of the story is different from the one published in the newspaper on Monday. It was amended six hours after it was originally posted on the website. But it still states that Alamuddin's mother, Baria, "is not so impressed" with Clooney and "wanted her to marry within their strict Lebanese religious sect, according to close family friends." USA Today reports that the Mail "did not respond to requests for comment."

George Clooney attacks Daily Mail over 'irresponsible' story on his fiancée

I love her. Why doesn't she work more.

What the hell happened to Carter Oosterhouse? Didn't he used to be considered a major hunk? Wasn't he named People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive at one point? He looks like shit now. What happened? At least he's working again.

Rowhouse Showdown with Carter Oosterhouse

Sitcom about two senior gay partners airs in Metro New York on WNET-13, 10:30-11:00 this evening. Check local listings.

'Vicious"

1. Womanly butts 2. White/Caucasian with yellow skin 3. Feminine-looking pecs (manboobs, moobs) A guy with one of those features is great. Two is better. Three is the trifecta!

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Even now that he's going beyond NSA and revealing state secrets? Sounds like he was maybe in China's pocket all along. Glen Greenwald ... fail.

Is Edward Snowden still our hero?

What happened to the previous thread? Anyway, a new Cody ass-shaking gif.

Big Brother 16, Redux

H8rs (yes, I hate that "word", but it's appropriate) have been predicting this would be the first "failure" in the "Marvel Movieverse" since "Iron Man". Barely recognized by comic nerds- it was too obscure, too nerdy- and risky, it would tank. Wow. I am lucky enough to get to see it. A friend knows I'm a nerd (and he is working on the VFX) so he got me into a special screening for ad execs. We laughed our asses off. The story is rote, and hits every note you've ever seen in a "space fantasy" but the execution is mostly flawless. I love Pratt on "P&Rec" and this is a BIG win for him. Oh, and Rocket Raccoon is the coolest thing I've ever seen.

They've been enjoying an Italian getaway together. And unlikely friends Zac Efron and Michelle Rodriguez were pictured flying into Sardinia Airport via a private jet on Thursday. They were accompanied by their host, Italian businessman Gianluca Vacchi and his girlfriend. That day, Gianluca shared an Instagram video hopping out of the private jet and kissing the ground, with the caption, ‘SARDINIA finally!!! enjoy #GVlifestyle’ Zac, 26, and Michelle, 35, were last pictured together at Porto Cervo in Sardinia on July 25, embarking on a boat ride. It appears they have returned after vacationing elsewhere. Sardinia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Zac and Michelle looked coordinated on Thursday, and were both clad in head to toe black. The Neighbors actor sported a sweater over shorts with high socks and sneakers and a duffel bag slung over his shoulder. Feeling warm, he then removed his outerwear to reveal a blue and white T-shirt.

Michelle Rodriguez and Zac Efron share a kiss while on vacation in Sardinia

Gunther is going to Peru with his girlfriend? Aaron Hill is gone and Luann has an Australian BF? It was only 29 years ago she was a flat chested junior student. What will the strip be about now?

I'm scared!

Could a clash in Ukraine trigger WWIII?

Shaun of the Dead. Hot Fuzz. The World's End. I love all of them but Hot Fuzz is still my favourite. "A GREAT BIG BUSHY BEARD!"

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Paying for the convention was the top criterion for the 12-member site selection committee. The previous two GOP conventions have sapped party dollars during election years, and Priebus insisted the host city not leave the central party picking up the tab, which is expected to be around $60 million. Video:

Republicans Will Hold Their 2016 Convention In Cleveland

I decided a couple years ago that I can't participate in celebrating the 4th of July any more. It seems like the meaning of this holiday has changed so much in the last several years, mainly after 9/11. It used to be a jubilant holiday, a celebration of our Independence as a country, our country's history. Now, it is this weird, nationalistic, somber military holiday, at least where I live. I went to our city's annual 4th of July fireworks a couple of years ago, and was really repulsed by how much of a "support our troops" theme there was. They play music along with the fireworks on the local radio station, and they had all of these "shout-outs" recorded to people in the military, and then they started thanking them for providing us with the "blanket of freedom" under which we sleep every night. What in the holy fuck? They barely mentioned the original purpose of the holiday. Now this year, someone on Facebook posted an article saying, "Don't just 'thank the troops' this 4th of July, you should tell them why you're thankful" including snippets like this: -Tell them you're thankful to them that you are free to travel around your country -Tell them you're thankful that they protect your freedom of speech -Tell them you're thankful that they protect your right to pray every night. I'm sick of it. It used to be a fun, interesting celebratory holiday. Now it's like Veteran's Day/Memorial Day/Support Our Troops that are Pointlessly Stationed in a Thousand Different Countries Day. Two years ago, part of the broadcast during the fireworks was "Now, let's salute our policemen, firemen, and EMTs!" WTF?

Make your arguments.

Let's resurrect the Visible Penis Line thread!

VPL Reborn

Yes, it’s time to celebrate. We're in a historic bull market. GOP conservatives keep fighting the wrong war, against the Obama economy. Meanwhile, the Obama bull market keeps roaring ahead!.

The Great Obama Bull Market will roar till 2016

If they need doctors and people to help the veterans AND there's a shit ton of people out of work; why doesn't the government pay 1,000 people to go to medical/nursing school if they commit to working in the VA Centers for 10-15 years after school?

15 years ago. Her dealer had just made a delivery of heroin and coke. She's lucky to be alive. Hope she's clean now - you know, with the kids 'n all.

Shocking Video Of Angelina Jolie Strung Out On Smack!

It's fucking hot.

This is from MetaFilter, and the comments are astonishing and amusing. ------- This week the FDA announced it will not permit American cheesemakers to age cheese on wooden boards, potentially destroying the ability to make or import a wide variety of artisanal cheeses. Despite being legal in the various cheese making states and having been used for hundreds of years, the FDA is cracking down under the Food Safety Modernization Act. A sampling of cheeses impacted: Pleasant Ridge Reserve, Cabot Clothbound, Marieke Feonegreek, Bleu Mont Bandaged Cheddar, along with parmesan, aged cheddar and the only American produced Limburger. Critics quickly point out that there is no proof of any actual illness due to boards used in cheese making and that the FDA's interpretation of underlying studies is misguided. Cheese boards are a part of preserving the (bacterial) culture that generation after generation allows a cheesemaker to reproduce artisanal cheese. A brief introduction to cheese making (especially in Wisconsin) and the use of wood.

First they came for your raw milk, then your Parmigiano Reggiano

Of course not! The government worries when you worry, so they will announce the new thing this week. Watch on the tayvee for that little grandmotherly lady who knows how money really works.

Does this come naturally or is it learned? Some men are very obvious but what about the straighter looking ones? Do you chance it that you may get punched out?

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Unemployed Idol: Wannabe Congressman Clay Aiken Gets $90K Per Year In Child Support, Claims Source Clay Aiken is really hoping to win the Congressional seat in North Carolina this fall, and not just because he wants to serve his country. RadarOnline.com has learned that he could use the paycheck because the only other steady source of income the former American Idol contestant collects each month is the child support payment from his baby mama, Jaymes Foster, sister of mega record producer, David. Even though Jaymes has primary custody of her five-year-old-son with Aiken, Parker, “Clay is given a substantial amount of child support from her,” an insider revealed. “The basis for the child support payment — which is more than $7,500 a month — is that Jaymes is raising Parker in a very luxurious lifestyle, therefore, Clay needs to be able to maintain and provide that for his son also. So, mommy pays for that.”

Clay Aiken's Baby Mama Drama

Post your pics of love and affection.

Men Showing Affection To Each Other - Chapter Two

Watching some episodes from 2012 - anyone ever see it? Lots of nudity you don't want to see, and lots of gross things, but damn it's a fascinating show to watch.

Because the original was so popular. Original thread at link.

Naked except for a t-shirt, PART 2

Who pays for all that travel? Number 16 in a saga.

Colton Haynes travels too much

The old thread was closed... and there's just not enough eye candy in this world, so this thread is here to fix that! No nudes, just totally gorgeous men:

The Return of Male Eye-Candy!

Beyonce's daddy is sloppy!

Mathew Knowles' second baby mama: TaQoya Branscomb

Meryl who?

A friend told me this today over lunch! I was so shocked and amazed! I didn't know how to respond! What to you tell your rapey friends?

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When I wake up at 6:30 tomorrow morning, tell me what to do differently to make my life better. And don't say "Stop posting on Datalounge" because that's impossible. I'm only human. So experienced Dataloungers, give me one thing to do Thursday that will begin changing my life for the better.

Two developments are occurring simultaneously: women are rejecting the female role, and life is being created in the laboratory. Unless the structure is totally transformed, we can expect that when women no longer function as biological breeders we will be expendable. As men learn more and more to control reproduction, as cloning becomes a reality, and as the technology of computers and robots develop, there is every reason to think that men as we know them will use that control and technology to create the sex objects that will gratify them. Men, after all, nave throughout history resorted to gynocide as a stratagem of social control, as a tactical way of attaining/maintaining power. That is the simple, compelling reality. There are only two other options: women must seize power, or we must accomplish the transformation into androgyny.

Because hairy chest is a thing of beauty...

Revenge of the "Lets Post Pics of Guys Presenting Their Hairy Chests" thread

A spin-off to our other Bipolar thread - how do you/did you tell your boyfriend/girlfriend that you were Bipolar? I mean, if you're diagnosed and then start dating, at what point do you tell the person? How do you tell the person? It's not really an icebreaker. You can't hide it forever if you're taking medication. Of course I'm referring to getting involved with someone long-term, not just a fling.

Damn, if Lifetime is good enough for Whitney Houston, why not Aaliyah? Her family has notoriously shut down any posthumous music or projects, yet they are holding out for her to have a major motion picture. Gurl, I love Aaliyah, but after a while nobody is going to care. Her family needs to get over themselves.

Aaliyah's family refuses to support upcoming Lifetime network biopic, which will chronicle her marriage at 15 to R Kelly

I love the new Acura Gulliver's Travels commercial. The way Gulliver whines about wanting to go home and then flexes his toes is so sexy. The Acura Chariot literally made him curl his toes. The giant dirty flip flop at the end is awesome too. They're going to turn this into a series of commercials. They already made a sequel. Let's hope Gulliver and his flip flops become the new Flo.

Wasn't she going to beard for Tammy Cruise? hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Joe Manganiello dating Sofia Vergara!!

We have them where I work and they are soooooo hot. One has tats on his arms and a bubble butt for days...and the pants really show it off. And the big shiny badge just pulls everything together. I want to walk up to one if them and say "put it in!"

Seriously, whose cock???

Britney Spears' song 'Alien' without auto tune...

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What are your favorite places to stock up on fun and funky furniture? Bonus if I can order online. Thanks...

She is planning on doing it. She says the sex is awesome thus far. She has already purchased the equipment. Apparently she also once had a threesome with this guy and his best friend when she was drunk. She doesn't remember if the guys touched each other or not. What does Datalounge think of this? Is he bi?

Now with poll.

Couldn't live without Datalounge after all. Are we friends?

After learning that her former View colleague might return to the program for its eighteenth season, the Fox & Friends co-host called into her new show to dredge up old drama. Hasselbeck, who is on vacation, brought up her infamous fight with O'Donnell, which led to the comic's premature exit from the show. "What could ruin a vacation more than to hear news like this?" Hasselbeck asked Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade. "I know Rosie very well. We worked quite closely. Talk about not securing the border! Here in comes to The View the very woman who spit in the face of our military, spit in the face of her own network, and really in the face of a person who stood by her and had civilized debates for the time that she was there, coming back with a bunch of control ready to regain a seat at the View table." According to Hasselbeck, O'Donnell's possible re-hiring is "not surprising" at all. As the conservative television personality explained to her co-hosts, "I think this has been in the works for a long time." "I'll go back to the reunion show for [Barbara Walters]. How odd is this, when you have the woman, who again, insinuated that our own troops were terrorists in Iraq at the time, then left the show...to have such ease the day of Barbara's goodbye show was shocking to me? She walked around with a lot of control and I had the chance to talk to her," the Survivor alum, 37, said. She continued, "Rosie herself told me, on-set, while we were mic'ed up, that she produced the reunion show to have everybody together and it was her idea. Now, would you think that the woman who left in the way that she did would be producing Barbara's goodbye show? Here's the shocker: It was actually her hello show." Hasselbeck said she will be "very interested" to see how O'Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg might interact, particularly because Goldberg is an EGOT winner and O'Donnell is not. "I don't think it would be wise for Rosie O'Donnell to challenge Whoopi Goldberg on anything. I really don't," she warned. "And I would also say that after years of being there, Rosie found out one thing about me: Don't mess with a pregnant mama and do not mess with our military when it comes to this girl sitting next to her." "I'll go back to the reunion show for [Barbara Walters]. How odd is this, when you have the woman, who again, insinuated that our own troops were terrorists in Iraq at the time, then left the show...to have such ease the day of Barbara's goodbye show was shocking to me? She walked around with a lot of control and I had the chance to talk to her," the Survivor alum, 37, said. She continued, "Rosie herself told me, on-set, while we were mic'ed up, that she produced the reunion show to have everybody together and it was her idea. Now, would you think that the woman who left in the way that she did would be producing Barbara's goodbye show? Here's the shocker: It was actually her hello show." When O'Donnell made her first appearance on the show in February 2014 since leaving the show seven years earlier, she joked about their feud. Hasselbeck, who played nice with O'Donnell when cameras rolled in May 2014, also dropped another secret about The View's reunion episode. "I do believe that this has been in the works for a long, long time. She wanted to re-do the split-screen and voice it over from our original confrontation right there. I was not up for that," she recalled. "She seemed to have a lot of control for Barbara's farewell show. Again, it is Rosie O'Donnell's hello show, in my opinion." Though she may sound bitter, Hasselbeck is much happier on a different network. "I could not be more thankful to be at Fox & Friends. You all are an outstanding group," she said. "I'm so thankful. Days like this remind me of that. You're all doing a great job. Mark my words, this is just the beginning—again!"

Bitter Elisabeth Hasselbeck's Vacation Ruined Because Rosie is Rejoining The View

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Reuters) - President Barack Obama expressed concern on Wednesday that his request to Congress for $3.7 billion to tackle a border crisis could fall victim to partisan politics and urged Texas Governor Rick Perry, a sharp critic, to get behind his effort. "Are folks more interested in politics or are they more interested in solving the problem," Obama said he told Perry. "If they are interested in solving the problem then this can be solved. If the preference is for politics then it won’t be solved." Obama visited Texas for the first time since the influx of child migrants from Central America overwhelmed border resources. He had talks with Perry aboard his Marine One helicopter and in a group meeting with local officials that Obama called constructive.

Obama meets Texas governor about border crisis

What do we think? Love it? Hate it?

A bearded Montgomery Clift

He's one of the hunkiest men in baseball!!! Let's celebrate his looks, especially that muscular ass.

The magnificent masculinity of Anthony Recker

No longer just in the West, as we think. For those of us still relatively new to these creatures, do they pose any threat to humans or just small pets?

They seem to have a chip on their shoulders about 1) being black; 2) being lesbian; and 3) being female. How can I stop being afraid, and understand their rage?

There is no way Hamas thought they could kidnap and murder 3 Israelis in cold blood without any retribution. So then, this was planned. But why? They knew it would stir shit up and Hamas has to know Israel will blast them to Hell and back. This can't be simply a PR move so then, why?

Or does he lie out in his speedo in his backyard? Because his skin is so tan at all times that it looks like leather.

Discuss.

Fat fuck leaves his baby in the car on purpose

From SCOTUSBlog: [quote]The Supreme Court sent a fairly strong signal on Tuesday that its ruling giving some for-profit businesses a right not to provide birth control services to their female workers goes beyond the specific methods at issue in that decision. It issued a series of orders on six cases, each of which involved owners who objected to all of the pregnancy-related services mandated under the new federal health care law. Last year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled against Eden Foods in Eden Foods v Burwell, in part because the company's owner had given interviews saying he didn't have "particular" religious beliefs, he just didn't think the government should be in his business. But now that the Hobby Lobby case has been decided, SCOTUS has ordered Eden Foods v Burwell to be revisited. From Think Progress: [quote]Should Eden Foods prevail, however, it could shatter what may be the most fundamental assumption of any law protecting the free exercise of religion — religious exercise laws protect religious exercise, they don’t protect the right of an anti-government CEO to make a federal case out of every single thing the government does that he disagrees with. Our courts are going to be tied up for years with this kind of crap, CEOs using vague "religious beliefs" to try to save a few pennies. So far, these religious beliefs are overwhelmingly Catholic, but expect that to expand to any (and every) religion.

The Wider Impact of the Hobby Lobby Ruling: Eden Foods v Burwell

Someone in a bar offered the president a hit on his joint. Pot is legal Colorado now.

What would you write? I would definitely write about the time that my father laughed when a neighbor told my 7 year-old self that I was fat and shouldn't be eating my Halloween candy. When I called him on it, he told me to shut-up and just lose some weight. I would also write that he could be very kind to everyone in the room when he was in the company of his older, more-successful brother, who secretly terrorized my two girl cousins by screaming at them whenever they made the most minor of infractions. I never knew about the latter until I was an adult.

As requested here is a new gym sex thread...

There are genuinely great moments in it, like Michael Jackson and Diana Ross dancing up the yellow brick road while singing "Ease on Down the Road" to an Emerald City of Chrysler Buildings, and the Winkies singing "Ev'rybody Rejoice" to Twyla Tharp choreography. And the cast could not be beat (though Diana Ross was far too old to play Dorothy, and in most of her scenes seems like she's having a seizure). But the film is such a terrible mess.

The endlessly fascinating world of HKN is not quite so fascinating anymore. Is this because there's just so much a person can take when it comes to the sorry state of affairs in the land of delusion? The name-calling is growing old and repetitive. The We Believe! mantra is becoming more and more transparent. And, well, honestly, just how many laughing gifs can a person stomach in one day? And then we have the subjects of this thread themselves. Unless one of them comes out or learns to act or finds some talent, the fact is that they will not be able to hold our attention much longer. Then again, one can always hope. Right?

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Who gay on the various national teams?

The fuck is this? I can't tell if it's brilliant or retarded.

The Congress

Best comment:"What the movie doesn't do is answer the question, "Why did I just spend 134 minutes watching the Frankie Valli episode of 'Behind the Music'?"

Critics to "Jersey Boys" : Meh

I mean, should you put the wedding plans on hold until you get a handle on, "We need a little openness if this is going to work?"

Could you at least wash your feet? I'm sitting across from this guy at work who's wearing them. There's a terrible odor and at first I thought it was this girl's smelly pussy, but I just noticed this straight guy's feet and they look like he's been walking in tar barefoot. I'm pretty sure that's what stinks. Should I say something?

fillin' yer hole!

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Let's post pictures of amazing balls... goose-eggs, low-hangers, or just plain amazing sacks. Whatever, as long as the focus is on the balls!

Amazing Balls

What are the signs? I'm not talking about someone who likes to toke up on the weekends. I'm talking about daily use, serious dependancy types. How can you tell?

This Making Of...special is fairly interesting. Mr. Jennifer Aniston is hot.

Anybody going to watch The Leftovers?

Continue

As requested on the Dahmer thread. Never say I didn't do anything for you.

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka

I'm the sense of disappointment and constant apologies made in public, though deep down I love the attention I'm receiving.

Unless i get to see The Rock's rock, count me out.

Hilarity ensues - Check out the Instagram vids at link to her dad yelling at her. (and a capture of the sext message) hahahaa

Stupid girl accidentally sends nude to her dad

Im 33 and have a degree in marketing but cant seem to find a decent job in this field. I have an ok job but I only make $38,000 a year. I live in Chicago which is expensive. I'm thinking of going back to school and going into dentistry (and accruing more student debt). My question is, is it too late to go back to school and start a new career?

Who's producing this fucking show?. The music choices. The contestants, Nigel? Its all just so unbearable and corny as shit. Im turning to something less lame.

My oldest cousin who is in his early forties and only has a high school diploma, told me this morning he wants to go back to school to study law. I asked him if he knows how much schooling that takes, and he said he's "going to look into it." So does anyone know what amount of schooling it takes to become a lawyer?

Send me money TIA

Singer Garth Brooks tonight told the 400,000 people who have bought tickets for his Irish concerts that he will play five shows in Dublin or none at all. In a statement issued after Dublin City Council refused to licence two of the five concerts; those due to be held on July 28th and 29th, Brooks said: “For us, it is five shows or none at all.” “To choose which shows to do and which shows not to do, would be like asking to choose one child over another. However this plays out, Ireland has my heart and always will.” The singer thanked Irish people for making him feel welcome and said he had “faith that Dublin City Council will make the best decision for the people of Ireland”. Earlier promoter Peter Aiken warned all the Brooks concerts were at risk of cancellation following the council’s decision. Speaking to RTÉ Mr Aiken said he had been in contact with Brooks but no solution had been found to the issues surrounding reducing the number of shows planned. “It’s up in the air. That’s the honest to God answer. I can’t turn around and say the three shows are going to happen.” The nature and scale of the shows planned was such that it would take five shows to “get it right” Mr Aiken said. He added that their scale also meant that it would not be possible to use another venue for the two concerts which cannot now be held in the Croke Park Stadium. “It’s a one off show ...we can’t strip that down and move to another venue.” Mr Aiken said he or members of his staff had been in daily contact with the city council and had been given no indication there would be problem with running five concerts. The council said it was refusing permission for two of the five concerts over fears of noise, traffic disruption, illegal parking and “potential antisocial behaviour”. The “scale, magnitude and number” of concerts, with an expected attendance of in excess of 80,000 people per night over five consecutive nights, three of them being week nights, was “unprecedented” for Croke Park Stadium, the council said. Licences have been granted for just three concerts on July 25th, 26th and 27th. The concerts on the 28th and 29th of the month will not proceed. About 160,000 concert-goers will be affected by the cancellation of the two concerts. It appears unlikely that the cancelled concerts can be relocated to another venue as planning laws require an application to be made ten weeks before an event. Some 400,000 tickets for the five concerts were snapped up within days when they went on sale earlier this year. In its decision the council noted that three consecutive concerts have already taken place in Croke Park, the One Direction concerts held in May. It said Croke Park was situated in a heavily populated residential area and that five shows in a row following the three concerts earlier this year was an “over intensification” of use of the stadium for special events. “It would be in effect permitting an increase of 100 per cent in terms of the maximum number of concerts that had previously been held in Croke Park in any given year since the redevelopment of the stadium.”

Garth Brooks: "For us, it is five shows or none at all"

I was coerced into watching it with my bf, and hated it. What a waste of money.

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Is this a legit non-sexual bathhouse where straight guys go to let off some steam? I remember a guy I dated a few years ago telling me that he would go there with his dad, who'' straight, on occasion for some steam and straight male bonding. Anyone ever been?

Tell me about the Russian/Turkish baths in the East Village.

Tuesday, 8 July: Brasil versus Germany Wednesday, 9 July: The Netherlands versus Argentina

You with your pageboy, your opera glasses, your velvet cloak, your lorgnette, your high-button shoes, your pearls -- it's so five minutes ago, I don't even know how your wife puts up with it.

Oh the sanctity of marriage.

Shocker to no one, Pam Anderson files for divorce from Rick Solomon..6 months after getting married.

The SATC for Dudes sketch was awful but the other stuff was fun. I like PubLizity the best.

He was magnetic. So gorgeous that it almost hurt to look at him. It's worth watching these scenes from ATWT just to see his animal magnetism. It's especially worth watching from 2:34 to just after the 3-minute mark just to hear him talking about being in the middle of a field, "...buck naked with the lightning all around me..."

Jon Hensley was walking sex in the '80s

Do the boiz still frolic in the bushes? Ah, memories

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No Kate Bush?

Vinyl Cut: Tori Amos goes record shopping with the Guardian

KATU (Portland, OR) new morning host Rob Youngblood. Former actor-turned-news host. He's had some bad eye work done. Says he is a single dad. What do we think?

Which one of you Dataloungers has had him?

I think I would.

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First of all- If you've never read Viktor Frankl’s book "Man’s Search for Meaning" then go. NOW! It will twist your mind and make you a better human. Seriously. After that you can understand this post. -------- The surface facts make abundantly clear that the case for the Ex-Im Bank is truly lame. In the most recent year (2013), its credit guarantees and other programs accounted for $37 billion of exports or less than 2% of the $2.2 trillion of exports generated by the US economy. Moreover, by the bank’s own reckoning only about $12 billion of these Ex-Im deals deployed taxpayer subsidies in order to “meet competition from a foreign, officially sponsored export credit agency”. So suppose those latter export deals which purportedly faced unfair competition from foreign governments would not have happened absent Ex-Im financing. We are talking about 0.6% of exports and 0.1% of GDP. That is, we are talking about economic “noise” that is so feint that even Janet Yellen could not detect it! Actually, we are talking about something even more spurious. Fully $8 billion or two-thirds of this $12 billion in competitively disadvantaged exports were attributable to a single customer —the Boeing Corporation (BA). Moreover, the company’s own financial director publicly admitted that it could “find alternative funding sources” without the Ex-Im Bank. So the issue is not $8 billion of commercial jet sales or nothing. Its about the marginal cost of export finance, and whether any incremental costs needed to offset the dumb subsidies of foreign governments should be absorbed by the taxpayers of America or the shareholders of the Boeing Corporation. And the answer to that question is not very hard to ascertain.

[quote]Rosie O'Donnell has made her deal with "The View" ... sources connected with the negotiations tell TMZ. We're told the show will make the announcement shortly. TMZ broke the story ... the negotiations fired up a few days ago and the deal was almost completed by end of business day Monday. The deal is now complete. Rosie will join Whoopi Goldberg on the show. As we reported, producers are also looking for a Latina and a conservative. Two conservative candidates who are being scoped are Abby Huntsman and Margaret Hoover.

Rosie: BACK ON THE VIEW

He's a schlubby, pampered man boy who struggles to be a grown-up. He's balding and pasty and mental in a pathetic way.

The Ramoncoaster is in full swing. Will she pop someone's eye out with some more plasticware? Aviva is shedding "friends" faster than body parts. Given her on again/off again appearance in the opening credits, will she stick around for another season? Will her dad's dick finally fall off from some nasty STD? Heather's only significant contribution is still her hot husband. Will he and Mario finally get some drunken alone time? Will Sonja's tooth get lost (permanently) at the bottom of a champagne bottle? Will Carole finally finish her transformation into Steven Tyler? Will Lumann be un-demoted and be brought back as a full housewife? Will we get to see some of her short, thick Frenchmen? Will Kristen--oh who cares. Zzzzzzzz!

I'd be pissed too if that fat ass stepped on me.

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This morning while driving on the highway my car was actually running well, the windows were down letting the cool breeze in, the sun was shining, and I was in the zone. Then a feeling came over me that I haven't felt in years, the same tinges of hope which I haven't felt in a long time, that I used to carry inside me daily in my younger years. The feeling that, maybe, I can actually do something with my life. I haven't felt like this in years, and why I suddenly felt like this today, I have no idea. But a feeling washed over me that if I could get just get my shit together, I could actually achieve something for myself.

I wish I lived here!

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Another thread where the OP was moaning about "relapsing" made me wonder about this phenomenon of pity for alcohol and drug addicted people and their constant relapsing and going on the wagon bullshit. Obese people receive virtually no such support for indulging in their addition. There are no commercials for special rehab resorts which promise to "care" and "understand" them, or hoarders, or people with any other addiction they won't man or woman-up and take care of. Yet we see movies and TV programs devoted to the "struggle" of worthless pieces of human shit who have had multiple chances, multiple tries, public support, love of family and friends to help the fix the problem THEY created. Why is that? I'm sorry to sound harsh but I have zero pity, zero heartfelt sympathy for druggies and drunks. They created the problem. Society bends over backwards in efforts (and public money) to help them, mostly to no avail. Why are they special? Why do they get a free pass? They're awful, horrible, dishonest monsters of the human race.

Can't stand seeing a fat woman succeed?

in Hollywood. Have you ever slept with one, or more? Generally speaking, do they tend to be better in the sack than your average person (minus the mystique, of course)?

Biographer Robert Hofler''s book is only so-so but the late train wreck that was Allan Carr makes an interesting topic for a book. Has anyone read it?

Bookworm

Post your TRUE stories of meeting a (seemingly) heterosexual man or woman who immediately started giving off the vibe that they were interested in you. Were they married or single? What did they do to show their interest and how did you respond? What was the outcome? No "straight-acting" fantasies or anything along those lines. This is for true stories.

Doesn't she have anything better to do than pretend to act?

Thanks to one of the posters from the last thread for suggesting this thread title! Continue chatting about Kevin and Aaron the phony

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"Help! Despite accruing large sums of money my entire life and saving up an enormous nest egg, I can't spend my money! I'm too frugal!" Your turn!

I've read several stories, and there's that Youtube video of his and James Deen's "East of Eden" screentest where they are obviously flirty with one another.

So, was Paul Newman gay or what?

... but an 8" dick. Will you or won't you?

At night, I lock the doors so no one else can see.

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Why do you think she did it? She must be really humble and open to good opportunities. After all, "Beaches" is still a movie that people remember. Have you ever seen Kazan live? I imagine that she is great as a cabaret performer. Any stories?

She doesn't seem to work anymore or even appear.

He's the bf with the stubby little dick, who cries when you break up with him.

Ed Sheeran

So it's Friday night and I'm thinking of rejoining... I was with the service for about eight months, but left a year ago. Since then, I haven't had much action dating-wise (and I'm not talking about a hookup, but a date). The profiles were often interesting, and I corresponded with people around the country, but never met anyone in my city. Does anyone have any experiences (good, bad, indifferent, lurid, whatever) with OKC or sites like it? Are there some out there worth trying? Or is it really just a Grindr/Growlr world in 2013?

Are your parents much more supportive than your GPs? My grandmother doesn't understand the "gay sickness" at all and my grandfather is so opposed to the "lifestyle he won't even discuss it. My parents are cool though.

What does that mean? What is an "unfair question"?

I'm one of the nosy neighbors, because barging into somebody's house when you're not wanted is a scream.

From Wes Anderson to Zooey Deschanel to Brooklynites on bicycles, a terrifying aesthetic is overtaking America. Eight years ago or so, the alternative paper I was working for sent me out to review a couple of folk-noise-psych-indie-beardie-weirdie bands. I had a dreadful night. The bands were bad enough—“fumbling,” I scratched in my notebook, “infantile”—but what really did me in was the audience. Instead of baying for the blood of these lightweights, as in the Darwinian days of old, the gathered young people—behatted, bebearded, besmiling—obliged them with patters of validating applause. I had seen it before, this fond curiosity, this acclamation of the undercooked, but never so much of it in one place: the whole event seemed to exult in its own half-bakedness. Be as crap as you like was the message to the performers. The crapper, the better. We’re here for you. I tottered home, wrote a homicidally nasty nervous breakdown of a review, and decided I should take myself out of circulation for a while. No more live reviews until I calmed down. A wave of Twee—as I now realize—had just broken over my head. Is Twee the right word for it, for the strangely persistent modern sensibility that fructifies in the props departments of Wes Anderson movies, tapers into the waxed mustache-ends of young Brooklynites on bicycles, and detonates in a yeasty whiff every time someone pops open a microbrewed beer? Well, it is now. An across-the-board examination of this thing is long overdue, and the former Spin writer Marc Spitz is to be congratulated on having risen to the challenge. With Twee: The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and Film, he’s given it a name, and he’s given it a canon. (The canon is crucial, as we shall see.) And if his book is a little all over the place—well, so is Twee. Spitz hails it as “the most powerful youth movement since Punk and Hip-Hop.” He doesn’t even put an arguably in there, bless him. You’re Twee if you like artisanal hot sauce. You’re Twee if you hate bullies. Indeed, it’s Spitz’s contention that we’re all a bit Twee: the culture has turned. Twee’s core values include “a healthy suspicion of adulthood”; “a steadfast focus on our essential goodness”; “the cultivation of a passion project” (T-shirt company, organic food truck); and “the utter dispensing with of ‘cool’ as it’s conventionally known, often in favor of a kind of fetishization of the nerd, the geek, the dork, the virgin.” The aesthetic lineage that Spitz proposes—his connect-the-dots survey of Tweedom across the decades, from Peanuts to Jonathan Richman to New Girl—starts with Mickey Mouse. Mickey’s shorts, his hooting eunuch voice, his taking arms against a sea of troubles: Spitz appoints him “the first American Twee icon.” Close behind in the Twee parade trots Ferdinand the Bull, followed by the contemplative elephant Horton, and then—trying hard not to be a virgin—Holden Caulfield. The point of these characters is the bravery with which they assert their tender selves. Or perhaps the tenderness with which they assert their brave selves. Whatever: in a shitty world, they’re taking a stand for beauty. We might quibble, you and I, with elements of Spitz’s Twee taxonomy, his Tweexonomy, what he calls his “heroes’ gallery of pajama people.” I can’t accept, for example, that Sylvia Plath, rising from the ashes with her red hair and eating men like air, was ever Twee—although I can accept that thinking she was Twee is Twee. And shouldn’t Kerouac be in there somewhere? (“Don’t you know that God is Pooh Bear?”) What about Vonnegut? But all of this just puts us further inside the Twee-dome. To bandy names like this, to compare pedigrees, is to play the deep game of Twee.

The Twee Revolution

As requested.

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Michael Phelps Strips Down to His Tan Lines For ESPN the Magazine's 'Body Issue'

I like Wendy. I like her show. It´s the best antidote for Oprah or The View. What does Datalounge think?

You can't judge a book by its cover? Yeah well, I'm judging. Photo:

Cameron Diaz Frolics In A Bikini With Hideously Tattooed Benji Madden

The premiere was tonight. What was that mess with all of the A's waving their arms around in the park?!?!

We need a good backstory first.

As requested:

Luke Macfarlane is the Hottest Celebrity. Part three

Queen Helene Mint Julep Masque.

Things you never heard of before you found the DL

It looks like the other thread is closed so I thought I would start up another on. I think this place can be hot sometimes (especially at lunchtime). They have a downstairs area that you can do whatever you want and I have been there and had fun with some super hot dudes. Looking to know if there are any other times when this place (xpressions on 53rd) is crowded - weekends? late night?

I never heard about this until it was a Youtube video recommended after I watched Teena Marie's "I Need Your Lovin'". Interesting.

Season 4 premieres tomorrow! YAY! Allison and the twins are gone, and some new cast members (including a new gay character) are on deck! Anyone else excited?!?

Teen Wolf Season 4!!

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Eva Mendes is pregnant with Ryan Gosling's love child. Vomit!

Nice ass.

Model Trey Waldman

Twenty. Three.

Jennifer Lopez has created 23 fragrances

I was always under the impression that most celebrities don't really hang out with other celebs as much as we'd like to believe and act super friendly with them only on red carpets or when there are cameras around. I mean, can you imagine Nicole Kidman crying on Naomi Watts' shoulder? Or Matt Damon telling Ben Affleck all about his mysterious skin rash? So, who are A-list celebs' real best friends and confidantes? Are they people like their personal trainers and hairdressers? Or are they other super rich people with lower profiles (like businessmen). I guess we can rule out the common folk, huh?

There is evidence at least 20 prominent figures - including former MPs and government ministers - abused children for "decades", a former child protection manager has claimed. Peter McKelvie, whose allegations led initially to a 2012 police inquiry, said a "powerful elite" of paedophiles carried out "the worst form" of abuse. The government has already announced two reviews into claims of abuse. The Home Office's top civil servant will appear before MPs later. BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson said the child abuse probes had been spurred on by "dramatic shifts in public attitudes". Permanent secretary Mark Sedwill will face questions from the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee about his department's handling of child abuse allegations made over a 20-year period. 'Almost exclusively boys' Announcing the reviews in the House of Commons on Monday, Home Secretary Theresa May said the first would be a wide-ranging inquiry - similar to the inquiry into the Hillsborough disaster - led by an independent panel of experts on law and child protection. The second review - which is to be led by head of the NSPCC Peter Wanless - would cover how police and prosecutors handled information given to them, she told MPs. Jump media playerMedia player helpOut of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Home Secretary Theresa May: "With allegations as serious as these, the public needs to have complete confidence" The chairman of the wider inquiry is expected to be named and the inquiry's terms of reference are set to be unveiled on Tuesday. These may or may not include allowing evidence from alleged victims of abuse. Following the announcements, Mr McKelvie - giving his first television interview for 20 years - told the BBC he believed there was evidence to link a number of former politicians to an alleged paedophile network. "I would say we are looking at upwards of 20 (people) and a much larger number of people who have known about it and done nothing about it, who were in a position to do something about it," he said. Mr McKelvie said some of those who were alleged to have abused children had now died. He told the BBC he had spoken to victims over "many, many years" and that children - "almost exclusively boys" - were moved around like "lumps of meat". They had been subjected to the "worst form of abuse", including rape, he said. Mr McKelvie was a child protection manager in Hereford and Worcester and worked on the conviction of paedophile Peter Righton - a former consultant to the National Children's Bureau. Righton, who is now dead, was also a founding member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), before he was convicted of importing child pornography. However, Mr McKelvie told the BBC that the evidence discovered in the case went much further than simply Righton. 'Boxes of evidence' Mr McKelvie - who had access to documents relating to paedophile networks linked to the Righton inquiry - said he told police in 2012 there were seven boxes of potential evidence being stored by West Mercia police. He said the evidence included letters between Righton and other alleged paedophiles. In 2012, Mr McKelvie took his concerns to Labour MP Tom Watson, who then raised the matter in Parliament, prompting a preliminary police inquiry in 2012 that became a formal inquiry in 2013. (more at link)

Is the pedophile scandal in the UK really hitting the fan now?

I was reading about how self-proclaimed uber-gay Leo Domenico and Mitch Vaughn have girlfriends, even though they claim to be gay. Honestly, don't you feel weird about "gay" men who lie about their sexual orientation and in reality are into women?

Are there any GAY gay porn stars?

You know it's true.

A young actor in Theatre Gossip #139 has requested a thread where people who are currently working as actors and people who are getting started can post, ask questions, and discuss the business. Here ya go, kid!

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People like you, who are humble, self-effacing, sincere, and hardworking? Failures. You will stay at the bottom of the food chain eating the shit of your superiors for a long time, my friend. On the other hand, little pricks like Nathan, who somehow seem to get every break, even though you know for a fact that he doesn't know how to fill out his reports properly, and he's always late to work, and he leans on nice people like you to make himself look good? Yes, well, he is perfect. *** Sad, but true.

Manipulative Narcissists Succeed in the Workplace

He really, really beats that bitch up! Now her grifter family are looking for their payday. "A lawyer representing a woman taped being beaten by a California Highway Patrol trooper on the side of a highway said her family wants authorities held accountable for 'beating a great-grandmother in broad daylight.' Los Angeles attorney Caree Harper declined to disclose the woman's name or answer questions about what the woman was doing along the edge of one of the city's busiest freeways. 'We want the focus to be what he was doing to her, not what she was doing' prior to the confrontation, said Harper, who said she is representing the family. 'She was getting beat like an animal. No one should ever be beat like that.' The California Highway Patrol has vowed to carry out a thorough investigation - but authorities claimed he simply stopped her for her own safety. The woman had been walking on Interstate 10 west of downtown Los Angeles, endangering herself and people in traffic, and the officer was trying to restrain her, CHP Assistant Chief Chris O'Quinn said at a news conference. O'Quinn said the woman had begun walking off the freeway but returned when the confrontation occurred."

Great Grandma Smackdown bu California Highway Patrol

Along with Michael Chiklis.

Wes Bentley to join "American Horror Story: Freak Show"

There sure are a lot of threads about The View.

Vote for the one with the most inborn, natural talent.

I watched it earlier On Demand and thought it has potential. Did you like it?

If you were allowed to make one of these real, which would you choose?

And I've had a butt plug in for the last hour. Top that bitches.

Those of you with smart TVs or streaming and who have discontinued cable service, are you happy with your decision? Have you felt you are missing out on anything that was a normal part of your viewing before discontinuing cable? I'm thinking in particular of local news and/or several of the news stations (MSNBC, CNN, etc.) Would love to be able to save almost $200 per month!

Elisabeth Hasselbeck sure can hold a grudge. After learning that her former View colleague might return to the program for its eighteenth season, the Fox & Friends co-host called into her new show to dredge up old drama. Hasselbeck, who is on vacation, brought up her infamous fight with O'Donnell, which led to the comic's premature exit from the show. "What could ruin a vacation more than to hear news like this?" Hasselbeck asked Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade. "I know Rosie very well. We worked quite closely. Talk about not securing the border! Here in comes to The View the very woman who spit in the face of our military, spit in the face of her own network, and really in the face of a person who stood by her and had civilized debates for the time that she was there, coming back with a bunch of control ready to regain a seat at the View table." According to Hasselbeck, O'Donnell's possible re-hiring is "not surprising" at all. As the conservative television personality explained to her co-hosts, "I think this has been in the works for a long time." NEWS: Elisabeth Hasselbeck's most controversial moments on The View "I'll go back to the reunion show for [Barbara Walters]. How odd is this, when you have the woman, who again, insinuated that our own troops were terrorists in Iraq at the time, then left the show...to have such ease the day of Barbara's goodbye show was shocking to me? She walked around with a lot of control and I had the chance to talk to her," the Survivor alum, 37, said. She continued, "Rosie herself told me, on-set, while we were mic'ed up, that she produced the reunion show to have everybody together and it was her idea. Now, would you think that the woman who left in the way that she did would be producing Barbara's goodbye show? Here's the shocker: It was actually her hello show." Hasselbeck said she will be "very interested" to see how O'Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg might interact, particularly because Goldberg is an EGOT winner and O'Donnell is not. "I don't think it would be wise for Rosie O'Donnell to challenge Whoopi Goldberg on anything. I really don't," she warned. "And I would also say that after years of being there, Rosie found out one thing about me: Don't mess with a pregnant mama and do not mess with our military when it comes to this girl sitting next to her."

Elisabeth Hasselbeck Furious—But Not Surprised—About Rosie O'Donnell's Possible Return to The View

Sigh

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Something about his saying that foreign kids should be running into the US or some shit?

OK, I know this will get me a lot of grief, but it's a serious question. I'm in my early 60s, retired, and reasonably well off. I've always been frugal and thrifty, because while I had a steady government job, and now have a good pension, I always wanted to make sure I had enough to take care of myself (and my mother) in my old age. Now I'm alone - my mother and siblings have all passed, and I have no children, nieces or nephews. And while my income was more than sufficient, I have inherited some money and two houses, one of which I sold and the other of which I'm renting. So ... here's the issue: I find it difficult to spend my money! I still use coupons and look for deals. I never stay in upscale lodging establishments or do things I've always considered to be wasteful extravagances, like massages or spas, or resorts. I have no one to leave my money to, and who knows how much longer I'll be around? How do I force myself to use my money?

Oh God, she's still a delusional mess! In a new interview with the San Francisco Examiner, Jackson talks about his upcoming part in Ryan Murphy’s HBO pilot about open relationships. Jackson, himself in sober recovery, will play a meth addict. Teasing the new HBO show, the actor, who has already appeared nude onstage, admits he has no caveats when it comes to getting naked for his HBO role "only" if it’s “germane to the story.” In September, Jackson filed for divorce. A month later, he publicly began dating a fellow actor. At the same time, Jackson shaved his head, grew a mustache and got Elvis Presley lyrics tattooed on his arm. The media labeled the drastic transition for the once clean-cut actor as a sign of a midlife crisis. “I have had quite a difficult and transitional year. Despite this newfound reputation as a 38-year-old bad boy, Jackson said settling down and raising a family is something he’s always wanted.“I have known I was going to be a dad as long as I can remember,” he said. Addressing the daily barrage of twitter and Instagram selfies Jackson has been posting of himself kissing his new boyfriend. Cheyenne tagged his latest selfies WeAreWellAwareHowAnnoyingWeAre

Cheyenne Jackson Still Cray Cray - Part III

A work on a military base and like a lot of military bases, there is a considerable amount of poverty in the area. What do you find are the best ways to donate money so that it does directly to those in need? I think Catholic Charities generally does good work, but I'm a little squeamish about the politics of the Catholics. I try to give money to our local food bank though it's not very accessible to anyone who does not have a car. What organizations do you find are best at channeling money to people in need and not a lot of administrative overhead?

Why are they so damned sexy?

Romanians

I'm posting from Brazil. It feels like NYC on 9/11.

Has she finally gone too far?

Joan Rivers: Obama Is Gay; Michelle Is A Tranny

When did they meet? Did Halls already have the kids? Did Bomer have much of a career at the time they got together?

Jerry Sandusky's son

Oprah to interview Matt Sandusky

I'm interested in trying these pills. Although I don't have erectile dysfunction, it might cut some anxiety at times. Has anyone had success? What dosage do you take and what form of the medication?

Sean Hayes Joins CBS’ ‘The Millers’ as Series Regular JULY 8, 2014 | 02:15PM PT, Shelli Weinstein Sean Hayes has signed onto CBS’ “The Millers” as a series regular for the comedy’s upcoming second season. Hayes will play Kip Withers, Carol Miller’s (Margo Martindale) new best friend and source of friction for her son, Nathan (Will Arnett). “After years of being a fan and hearing from others how wonderful he is to work with, I couldn’t be more excited about Sean Hayes joining ‘The Millers,’ ” said Greg Garcia, series creator and executive producer, in a statement. “The thought of he and Margo Martindale as BFF’s makes me smile every time I think about it. We’re only just getting started, and writing this season’s stories has been a blast.” Hayes most recently starred in and executive produced the sitcom “Sean Saves the World,” which was canceled by NBC in January. His additional credits include “Smash,” “Up All Night” and most famously “Will & Grace,” on which he played Jack McFarland for eight seasons. “The Millers” returns for season two at 8:30 p.m., Oct. 30 on CBS.

Sean Hayes returns to television AGAIN

What are your thoughts?

I hear a

symphony.

Just abandoned the Tour de France in only stage 5. Best Sky wish they'd brought Bradley Wiggins now.

Neal Baer writes "I'm gay. There, I said it, and it only took five decades." When I told my son Caleb, who's in college, 10 months ago, he asked, "It took you this long to figure it out?" "No," I said. "It took me this long to say it." "Oh," he replied. "Where do you want to go for dinner?" “Then I started writing for television, and I didn't realize it, but who I really was seeped into stories on ER and SVU. I wrote about the struggles and accomplishments of gay youth, destigmatizing HIV/AIDS, whether transgender youth should be allowed to take hormone blockers, bullying, the pain of being on the down low (I really know about that one), AIDS deniers. Those stories were preparing me to come out.”

Has anyone else noticed this keeps appearing in the sidebars of Facebook? Is he attempting to be relevant again with teens or 20-somethings? The guy has been over for several years now. If anything, he needs to try a new approach or court a new demographic. He's bound to have tons of money by now, he's been around since I was a kid, and I'm no spring chicken. Why can't he just face the fact that he's no desired TV host or late night comedian?

At first he lost a few pounds, but now he is like a skeleton with a lot of hair. Is he suffering from the anorexia? He seems very emo but he puts on a happy face for the group.

Zayn Malik is wasting away

Foodie-loungers: Help me out here with restaurant suggestions, please? For my niece's birthday, I'm taking her to any restaurant, in any city of her choice in the continental US, for dinner. Where should we fly to? Departing Los Angeles. Top cities right now are Miami, Chicago, San Francisco or Seattle. But it can be elsewhere. What say you? Thanks!!

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New York probably isn't the best place to retire for someone who hated the media, nosy fans and the paparazzi. Why didn't she buy some small farm in Sweden and make Swedish meatballs in peace for the rest of her life?

Moses looks like he wandered in from the moors of Wales, and Ramses looks like a drag queen. The Sig looks fab, at least.

"I'll NEVER stop crapping out half-assed epics," vows Ridley Scott

Simon Halls's Plague of Oranges

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- CBS says popular sitcom star Sean Hayes is joining the cast of its comedy "The Millers" as a series regular. Hayes will play the new best friend of the character played by Margo Martindale and a new source of friction for her son, played by Will Arnett, CBS said on Tuesday. Hayes is best-known from eight seasons on the sitcom "Will & Grace." Last season he starred in the comedy series "Sean Saves the World." "The Millers," which premiered last fall, is a family comedy also starring Beau Bridges and J.B. Smoove. Its second season begins October 30.

Can anyone recommend a good plastic surgeon for this? And save your bitchiness. TIA.

58 Percent Bitchy, not so bitchy after all.

Quiz: How Bitchy Are You?

They show it on the feeds but not on the network....hmmmm?

Is Big Brother ignoring the budding romance cuz it's gay?

Dumbo may fly again. Disney is developing a live-action take on its 1941 animated classic Dumbo and has Transformers franchise writer Ehren Kruger penning the script. Justin Springer, who worked on Tron: Legacy as well as Oblivion, is producing, as will Kruger. At 64 minutes, Dumbo is one of Disney’s shortest features but remains one of its most emotionally satisfying ones as it tells the story of a baby circus elephant who is made fun for his large ears. When his mother steps in to protect him and is locked up for it, he ends up on the road with a mouse as his companion. The mouse instills into Dumbo the idea that with the help of a magic feather, he can fly. The movie produced several classic songs, notably "When I See an Elephant Fly"; "Baby Mine," which was nominated for a best song Oscar; and "Pink Elephants on Parade." The new take involves the adaptation of the original movie while adding a unique family story that parallels Dumbo's story. Also, the studio believes that because of the current state of CG technology, live-action movies featuring a soaring pachyderm (or any animal for that matter) are viable. This is the latest classic animated title that Disney is turning into a live-action movie, and it’s a strategy that has paid off: Maleficent, the most recent example, is a re-imagining of the 1959 movie Sleeping Beauty and has grossed more than $630 million worldwide since its May 30 release. The granddaddy of them all is the Johnny Depp version of Alice in Wonderland, which has earned more than $1 billion. Among the projects in the pipeline, Disney has a live-action take on Cinderella opening March 13, is in preproduction on The Jungle Book that Jon Favreau is directing and just put Bill Condon on a live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast. The Transformers movies have occupied Kruger’s life for the past several years. He has sole writing credit on the current Age of Extinction and co-wrote 2011’s Dark of the Moon and 2009’s Revenge of the Fallen with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. He also is known for his twisty thrillers such as Arlington Road, Skeleton Key and The Ring.

Disney to remake "Dumbo" in live-action with a script by the writer of the "Transformers" movies. This is not a joke.

It's from those MichFest threads and you queens who're posting them and going over to the MichFest forums to taunt them!!! I've never been particularly drawn to those threads but began reading the latest one while dozing off last night. Apparently the hyper sensitive, anti-male, "AIDS queer" trend we've been seeing around here for a while is NOT happening at the hands of one rogue frau or baby dyke.... They're being summoned here by whatever queen/queens keep posting that MichFest shit. Apparently a certain contingent of DLers has been posting here, and trolling the chat groups of the dyke festival. Ironically I'm guessing we have gay men to think for the unrecognizable destruction of DL by these angry women.

OMG! When does this shit end anyways??? I'm tired of those stupid cartoons being on Google everyday.

Yes we all know that Julie played Eliza in My Fair Lady on Broadway. And then was denied the chance to recreate her role in the film, which was played by Audrey Hepburn (with vocals dubbed by Marni Nixon).\ \ Then Julie got her revenge, so to speak, when she played Mary Poppins and won the Oscar. And Audrey wasn''t even nominated. Rex Harrison won the Oscar for My Fair Lady and in his acceptance speech thanked BOTH his Fair Ladies.\ \ But in watching both My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins, in your opinion who gave the performance, Audrey Hepburn for My Fair Lady or Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins?\ \ Choose between these two actresses only. Discuss.

with no info or anything except a word and pronoun: gravidness; they.

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Chess genius Magnus Carlsen is apparently considered uber-hot over there; he looks like he has a mild case of downs syndrome. He even models.

Europeans Really Do Have a Different Standard of Beauty

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During the week, 34-year-old Ottawa native Jimmy is happily married to Judy, 35. They have two children, ages three and four. Jimmy is a project manager for the government, and he often travels for his job. Judy is a teacher. They have been together since high school. Jimmy takes his vows seriously and would never leave Judy, because he loves her and his children. Not only do he and his wife share children and friends, they also do sporting activities and go on vacations together. They are both very active people. They have a great life together. But Judy can’t give Jimmy everything he needs. During the weekend, Jimmy loves sucking men’s cocks. He feels he needs this quiet outlet away from his vanilla heterosexual lifestyle. But if Judy were privy to this secret, he fears she would leave him. “I started cruising for men as an army cadet in my late teens. I went out of town a lot and realized I liked oral sex with men, but I didn’t want to be labelled gay or bisexual. I also didn’t want to lose Judy,” says Jimmy. Aside from the odd out-of-town bathhouse, Jimmy says he meets most of these men on Craigslist. He posts a free ad, usually consisting of the words “I’m looking for a guy to please.” He specifies that he’s looking only for oral, not anal, evenings before 10pm, aged 40 and under. Throughout the workday, Jimmy checks his BlackBerry for emails from a nondescript Gmail account. Pictures of penises, abs, daddies and trans men are sent from guys looking for an after-dinner assignation. He’s picky and only goes out a few times a month.

They identify as hetero but love to shag us on the side

It must be a day ending in Y.

Oh look, Mark Consuelos is on vacation again with a group composed of almost entirely gay men

If you are male and over 40, a bit overweight, gray hairs sprouting hither and thither, and still wearing the same wardrobe retained from your college years, please take the time each morning to give yourself a good shave. There is no need to wander around town looking like a disoriented hobo. The world will thank you. That's all.

We bash fatties a lot, but have we ever done a poll? BE HONEST. It's anonymous so why not? Just answer according to what your weight is right now. No lying and claiming that swimsuit body you're planning for July prematurely. Don't copy/paste the weight you use on Manhunt. Get on the scale now if you have to. We'll wait. (I did include a poll option for those whose weight fluctuates around their ideal zone). You can tell us all about your thyroid condition, that old athletic injury or your mother's eating disorders that you witnessed growing up inside the thread. We can't keep the trolls out so I won't even claim this is a judgment-free zone. So put yer big girl panties on before entering the thread. Are you overweight?

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“I appreciate the offer to greet you at Austin-Bergstrom Airport, but a quick handshake on the tarmac will not allow for a thoughtful discussion regarding the humanitarian and national security crises enveloping the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas,” Perry wrote Monday in a letter to the president. “I would instead offer to meet with you at any time during your visit to Texas for a substantive meeting to discuss this critical issue.” Video:

Rick Perry Refuses Obama's Offer For A Tarmac Handshake

Police in Washington state are searching for a teen who mysteriously disappeared after leaving a cryptic message in her journal. Angelic Tracy "Anji" Dean, 17, of Camas, a city roughly 25 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon, wrote, "If you're reading this, I'm either missing or dead" in her journal, and has not been seen since, according to KWG.com Dean's parents reportedly found her wallet, bank card and glasses in their house when she vanished on June 23. The journal entry, according to her parents, was not discovered until after she disappeared. A cryptic text message was also reportedly sent to Dean's boyfriend's cellphone from her number on the day she disappeared. The message read, in part: "They were going to kill you and my family." Police have not said if there are any indications that Dean has been abducted, but family spokeswoman Michelle Bart told Camaspostrecord.com that the family believes Dean "has been trafficked, or is in a position of that nature." Dean's mother, Lynda Jorgensen, told KGW on Monday her daughter had recently made bizarre statements to teachers and counselors that she was mixed up in something she could not get out of. Just exactly what that something was remains unclear. "We have no idea where she is or who she's with," Jorgensen said. Neither Bart, Jorgensen or the Clark County Sheriff's Department returned calls for comment from HuffPost on Tuesday. Dean is described as 5 feet, 6 inches tall, 135-145 pounds, with brown hair, blue eyes and pierced ears. She was last seen wearing black tights with mid-calf legs, white Nike shoes with light green soles and a white tank top. She might also have a white backpack with her. Anyone with information in the case is asked to contact the sheriff's office at (360) 397.2028. The family has also created the "Help Find Anji" Facebook page to share information about the case.

Angelic Dean Disappears After Leaving Cryptic Message

[italic]The March 2012 incidents included Craig and Jeter driving the victim to the desert and forcing him to dig his own grave. They then made him get in and threw dirt on him. While the boy was showering, one of the men rubbed salt into the cuts on his back The victim was later tied to a chair with zip ties and placed in the shower. Mace was sprayed on his face At a Bible study later that evening at Remmers' home, Remmers asked the boy to sit in the middle of the group and then squeezed his nipple with pliers.[/italic] I'm not sure if just burning their church to the ground would be enough. I imagine putting their heads in a vice and cutting their eyes out would just be the beginning. I'm hoping they get a taste of prison justice when the other inmates find out they're convicted child abusers.

Pastor, church members plead guilty to beating 13-year-old boy

Hey Look! fuckass tattoo of my dead dog #Floyd who got eaten by a coyote. My adoration fuxation daddy bro Wayne Coyne plus squeeze Katy got copycat Floyd tatts!!1 Suk that!

Let's Pretend We're Miley Cyrus

It makes me jealous; he thinks I'm greedy.

It has the most beautiful of all the Rodgers and Hammerstein songs. And its message is so timeless: if you really love someone, he can hit you hard and you won't feel it at all. Also: if you fuck Richard Rodgers, it doesn't really matter if you can't do a Maine accent: you'll still get the lead.

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For 20 fucking years or so I have tried to like Cameron Crowe's Say Anything. Let me just finally come out and say I HATE this fucking movie. It is relentlessly overrated, boring as SHIT, not remotely incisive, charming, or funny as people would have you believe.. I did my once a year, Let me try to love Say Anything this morning. Put it on(On Demand Comcast) and within an hour I was like I give up. I absolutely hate this film. Anybody else? I used to love Almost Famous, but that hasn't aged well at all.

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"I suppose you think that's very funny, Harold."

co-starring bat shit crazy Halle Berry!!!!

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Starting on ESPN now (3:30PM EST) with James (Ham-ezz) Rodriguez ready to entertain us some more with great goals.

I'm 70 years old, on disability, and my house is about to be condemned. I have no savings and have not been employed for decades. My sister has money and a big house with 6 extra bedrooms. There's plenty of room for me, my cats, and my unemployed roommate who is also on disability. I've always expected my sister to take care of me in my old age, but she's suggesting I look for senior housing. I don't know how to find government housing. I've prayed about it, but God keeps telling me to live with my sister. What should I do? Also, I love gyros and Chikfila and I'm afraid they won't be served in a senior living facility. Shouldn't my sister take care of me and share her spacious home and money?

Is it better than Santa Fe? Do residents really call it "The Big Q"? I drove through at sunset on I-10 and it was a beautiful vista, mountains, fading light hitting the color in the stones. It was awesome. But what kind of industry/economy is there? What's the weather like? Can you get anything other than SW/Mexican food? How much does a nice home cost? A nice condo? I have an urge to make a very stupid, very rapid decision...

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It's on every cooking show, used in nearly every prepared item at places like Whole Foods. It's referenced ad nauseam anytime food is brought up. It's incredibly bitter and not at all practical but it seems to be pushed everywhere. Why and how did this become such a strange fad??

Show us the fActs And other silly after midnight things!

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The UK has gone nuts over this track. She said she's obsessed with the 90s, and music critics say that it captures the very essence of the house music of that decade. I like it. Funny that the video is so 80s. Looks like a rip-off of Janet Jackson's dance moves in "When I Think of You". She did it with a broken rib. She's a trained ballerina. I heard her speak in an interview - you would never believe that she could sing like this.

Current 90s House Music Queen - Kiesza

After two years of sobriety with multiple anti-alcoholism medications and trying to deal with some recent demeaning developments at work, I have had 1/4 of a bottle of whiskey tonight. God, I feel amazing. No drug is better than this feeling. Fuck trying to live without it. Life is too tough and too short.

Gosh, it's gonna be a LONG summer!

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Definitely James Wood's kid right?

Jodie Foster's eldest boy

Would someone make a mint coming up with a gay combat/action game?

Clark and Carole and cute kitties and a cigarette in the plate with a pickle.

More Amazing Candid Photos of Movie Legends Pt III

A friend of mine just got back from the Lake Como region, where she said her Italian friends all swear up and down that not only does everyone in the area know that George Clooney is gay (despite the engagement), but that he's had an affair for years with some sort of male psychiatrist or psychologist who practices in Florence. Have any of you heard about this before?

It got me.

Honestly. how f@#$ing narcissistic and ignorant and unaware do you have to be not to know this… or to act as if it isnt true. LOOK AROUND PEOPLE

Sad.

Justin Timberlake is now fat

What do we know about him? Big cock?

I was watching Monty Python’s The Life of Brian from 1979 recently, a hilarious rewriting of the life and death of Christ, and I realized how outrageous most of the jokes from the film would seem today. In fact, the film, with its religious satire and scenes of Christ and the thieves singing on the cross, would never make it into cinemas now. The Life of Brian was certainly received as controversial in its own day but when censors tried to repress the film in several different countries, The Monty Python crew used their florid sense of humor to their advantage. So, when the film was banned in a few places, they gave it a tagline of: “So funny it was banned in Norway!” Humor, in fact, in general, depends upon the unexpected (“No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!”); repetition to the point of hilarity “you can have eggs, bacon and spam; spam, eggs, spam and sausage; or spam, spam, spam and spam!”); silliness, non-sequitors, caricature and an anarchic blend of the serious and the satirical. And, humor is something that feminists in particular, but radical politics in general, are accused of lacking. Recent controversies within queer communities around language, slang, satirical or ironic representation and perceptions of harm or offensive have created much controversy with very little humor recently, leading to demands for bans, censorship and name changes. Debates among people who share utopian goals, in fact, are nothing new. I remember coming out in the 1970s and 1980s into a world of cultural feminism and lesbian separatism. Hardly an event would go by back then without someone feeling violated, hurt, traumatized by someone’s poorly phrased question, another person’s bad word choice or even just the hint of perfume in the room. People with various kinds of fatigue, easily activated allergies, poorly managed trauma were constantly holding up proceedings to shout in loud voices about how bad they felt because someone had said, smoked, or sprayed something near them that had fouled up their breathing room. Others made adjustments, curbed their use of deodorant, tried to avoid patriarchal language, thought before they spoke, held each other, cried, moped, and ultimately disintegrated into a messy, unappealing morass of weepy, hypo-allergic, psychosomatic, anti-sex, anti-fun, anti-porn, pro-drama, pro-processing post-political subjects. Political times change and as the 1980s gave way to the 1990s, as weepy white lady feminism gave way to reveal a multi-racial, poststructuralist, intersectional feminism of much longer provenance, people began to laugh, loosened up, people got over themselves and began to talk and recognize that the enemy was not among us but embedded within new, rapacious economic systems. Needless to say, for women of color feminisms, the stakes have always been higher and identity politics always have played out differently. But, in the 1990s, books on neoliberalism, postmodernism, gender performativity and racial capital turned the focus away from the wounded self and we found our enemies and, as we spoke out and observed that neoliberal forms of capitalism were covering over economic exploitation with language of freedom and liberation, it seemed as if we had given up wounded selves for new formulations of multitudes, collectivities, collaborations, and projects less centered upon individuals and their woes. Of course, I am flattening out all kinds of historical and cultural variations within multiple histories of feminism, queerness and social movements. But I am willing to do so in order to make a point here about the re-emergence of a rhetoric of harm and trauma that casts all social difference in terms of hurt feelings and that divides up politically allied subjects into hierarchies of woundedness.

You're triggering me! The Neo-Liberal Rhetoric of Harm, Danger and Trauma

Because the old one vanished. I'm starting The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer--so far it looks good.

What's your fetish?

I get turned on by guys wearing high tops

Anyone excited about watching the final year? God help me, but after watching several trailers, I think it looks kinda good. BTW, what's the real story about Luke Grimes (James) leaving? After watching the most recent preview, I hope it was not homophobia.

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham (in the 70's.. not now)

I'd love to watch them fuck:

The bf and I just came back from a 12 day European vacation. Saw Madonna's concert in Hyde Park and Stade de France. It was a lot of fun. Anyway, this time, we fell in love with London. We went to Harrod's and also took in the gay district (GAY, etc.). Met a Harrod's retail queen. What is with $$ in London? Seriously, living in SoBe, I see a Bentley, or two, but I've never seen so much REAL $ as in London. Is it real? Or is everyone hawked to bankruptcy? Harrod's was amazing. The lessons American retailers could learn. Simply amazing. And delicious. The "supermarket" makes the best Whole Foods look like a Food Lion. We met a retail queen at a club in London. According to him, due to Arabs and Chinese, London will always be uber expensive. What gives?

What a piece of shit!

Kelli

I grew up in England, but my parents were American and much of my childhood in the '70s seemed to be spent at coffee shops in American hotels in London. & I sort of liked them. There were far fewer burger joints and cafés in London then-so there was less choice if you wanted a late burger type lunch on a Saturday afternoon. I also remember hotel coffee shops in America in many of the hotels we stayed at. But for some reason I think they seem to have disappeared from most hotels. Am I correct? Why?

I had bad credit for A LONG time. I've been aggressively working on improving it. I just noticed that my credit line on a store card was doubled. I don't recall asking for this. Is this a good thing? A sign my credit is improving?

A follow-up to our Baba Wawa thread. [quote]"We supported Castro. Then we found out he was a communist."

George HW Bush's federal judge says: "Five male Justices of the Supreme Court, who are all members of the Catholic faith and who each were appointed by a President who hailed from the Republican party, decided that a huge corporation, with thousands of employees and gargantuan revenues, was a 'person' entitled to assert a religious objection to the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate because that corporation was 'closely held' by family members," he wrote. "To the average person, the result looks stupid and smells worse."

Bush-Appointed Federal Judge to Supreme Court: STFU!

What list is Gale Harold on? Is Gale Harold on the A-list or Z-list? Why does Gale Harold not have a career? Why does Gale Harold not have fans? Why does Gale Harold not have talent? Why does Gale Harold grow old? Why does Gale Harold not look like George Clooney? Why? Why!? Why!!?

Drugs?

How did he lose all this weight?

When they automatically self-destruct. I swear I saved that email (work related thing) and no I am not Lois Lerner.

Original Buffy the Vampire Slayer Kristy Swanson doesn''t agree with Joss Whedon that revisiting the 1992 movie is a bad idea.\ \ In fact, the 40-year-old actress is touting for a role in Warner Brothers'' remake.\ \ "If they wanted me to be a part of it, I think that would be fantastic and that it would be a blast," she told Entertainment Weekly.\ \ Her enthusiam isn''t shared by Buffy creator Whedon, whose response to the remake announcement came via a sardonic written statement to E! Online, in which he called it "a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths."\ \ But Swanson has no such reservations, adding: "There are die-hard Joss Whedon fans who absolutely love him to death, and rightly so; he''s a brilliant man, no doubt. I love everything Buffy. I don''t care who''s doing it."\ \ Swanson''s co-star Luke Perry has so far declined to give his reaction.

Original Buffy Kristy Swanson Fishes for a Job with the Buffy Reboot

Fortunately, the news media has elected not to cover it. The few obscure outlets which ripped 'n reprinted the wire reports has blamed the initial 1% decline in Q1 GDP on bad weather. When it was revised to a catastrophic negative TWO-POINT NINE percent, it was determined that the weather was worse than we thought. Bottom line, not to worry.

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Blind Item OBVIOUSLY About Darren Aronofsky And Natalie Portman

I'm looking for something new. I want a man to make me a girl. If you can do that I will be able to pleasure you in any way. I just ask for an exchange in emails. And clothes for me to wear. If you can do that our relationship can go anywhere so hit me up on my email so you can change my life and I can change yours;)

Boy into girl - m4m

Yes, of course, I think she's cute, but I also think she's a viable candidate for "the next Meryl Streep." Anyone agree?

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I defy you to watch this video and then tell me this cop wasn't using excessive force!

Great-grandmother brutally beaten by an LA trooper

Legendary swimmer Ian Thorpe to address sexuality in Parkinson interview 6th July 2014, 1:28 PM, Nick Duffy Ian Thorpe will address his sexuality next week Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe will address his sexuality in an interview with Michael Parkinson next week. The five-time Olympic gold medalist, 31, has faced rumours about his sexuality for years, which he has always denied. He previously spoke about the rumours in 2012, saying: “I accept there’s nothing else I can say or do. There’ll always be people who are sceptical; people who want me to be gay, and others who’ll try and use it against me.” He is set to open up about his experience in an interview with veteran broadcaster Michael Parkinson next Sunday. In a brief preview clip, Parkinson asks him: “You’ve always said that you’re not gay… is all of that true?” During his career, Thorpe has won nine Olympic medals – five gold, three silver, one bronze – in addition to 11 World Championship titles, and 10 Commonwealth Games gold medals. Parkinson said: “Ian Thorpe has always been near the top of my list to interview. The reasons are obvious. Not many athletes can claim to be the best of all time. Ian can. “The story of a boy who was a teenage World Champion, conquered the world and then seemed to give it all away is a fascinating and intriguing one. “His fight against depression offers a unique insight into the darker side of celebrity and success. “What fascinates me most about Ian is that apart from the very beginning of his career, he never seemed to enjoy and celebrate his success. It will be interesting to find out the reasons why.” ‘Ian Thorpe: The Parkinson Interview’ will air in Australia next Sunday, July 13 at 6:30pm on TEN.

Lay it on us.

Starts this week... Who else is excited to see Mike Vogel's hot ass?

CBS's Under The Dome Season 2

I’m sure this story will ruffle the feathers of many Winona-stans, but I think this is good news for Winona Ryder. Her career comeback is going well, she spent a few years doing smaller parts in smaller movies, getting some critical acclaim again, getting photographed more often and coming out in public more often. So it’s good news when the tabloids start discussing her as a scandalous and/or bizarre person. Winona’s always been a little strange, and now a new generation of tabloid readers get to enjoy it. For the young’uns, let me tell you: Winona Ryder used to be like Kristen Stewart, Selena Gomez and Jennifer Lawrence all rolled into one. Winona was HUGE. She dated her costars, she was a child actor who transitioned to adult roles beautifully, she won awards and praise, she was BFFs with some of the biggest celebrities out there and there were plenty of scandals and drama. Ah, the halcyon days of the 1990s. So this Enquirer story references some of those older scandals. Like, Johnny Depp and Winona were crazy about each other way back when (before Kate Moss, even), and Winona used to be BFFs with Gwyneth Paltrow. So, enjoy: Winona Ryder is getting weirder by the day, becoming a virtual recluse and taking potshots at her former friends. Insiders say she’s dyed her hair bright white and become obsessed with online shopping, filling her closets with unworn clothes that still have their tags. And just about the only time she leaves her home is when her cleaning staff arrives, because she can’t stand talking to them. Winona has also been trash-talking her ex-BFF Gwyneth Paltrow and former flame Johnny Depp, a source tells The ENQUIRER. “She’s alienating so many people it’s no wonder she’s turning into a hermit,” said a longtime friend of the 41-year-old actress. Winona has a “major grudge” against Gwyneth because she believes the blonde-haired beauty made unflattering comments about her in an online lifestyle blog four years ago. And Winona also never got over Gwyneth beating her out for a plum role in the 1998 hit movie “Shakespeare in Love” – and winning an Oscar for it! “Those comments were a huge embarrassment for her,” the pal said. The friend says Winona has also been blasting Depp, 50, for hooking up with 27- year Amber Heard not long after split­ting with his long­time love, Vanessa Paradis, 40, last year. “Johnny couldn’t care less,” said the friend, “but she’s really ragging on him for being so predictable and going for a blonde in her twenties.” As The ENQUIRER reported in April, Winona had a fleeting hope she and “The Lone Ranger” star would reunite. “It’s really sad she’s become so vindictive,” the friend continued. “She rarely leaves the house because she hates being around people so much. And she makes sure her housekeepers don’t speak English because that way they are less likely to know who she is. “When she was younger, her eccentricities were perceived as cute and quirky, but now she’s just bizarre.” [From The Enquirer] I think the Gwyneth reference is about an old Goop post from a few years ago where Gwyneth talked about “how to break up with a friend”. And the Hollywood rumor back in 1997 was that Gwyneth outright STOLE Winona’s script for Shakespeare In Love and Goop went behind Winona’s back and got the part. And they were never friends after that. As for the Depp stuff… I’m not sure I believe Wino and Johnny still talk. She might talk smack about him (as she should, because he’s absurd), but I doubt Johnny even hears about it. Oh, and remember how Matt Damon dumped Minnie Driver (while appearing on Oprah!!!) and then he started up with Winona two seconds later? I wish people still brought that up, because that was an amazing scandal. God, I miss Winona’s scandals. I want her to start dating someone really controversial. Not Charlie Sheen! I want her to throw it down old-school, like Winona could steal Garrett Hedlund away from Kirsten Dunst. That would be fun.

Winona Ryder still ‘trash-talks’ former BFF Gwyneth Paltrow

Why is he such an obnoxious smart ass? Is it because he looks like the mongoloid from "Deliverance"?

Hamilton Nolan of "Gawker"

Some stupid fuck with more money than common sense was caught on camera sleeping at a Yankees Red Sox game. He is now suing the Yanks, ESPN and MLB for $10 million saying the remarks by the announcers have caused him harm. Two problems: 1 - no one would know his name or who he is had he not brought the lawsuit. 2 - none of the things he is claiming the announcers said were actually said.

Idiot Meets the Streisand Effect

Come out already!

Kristen Stewart Gets New Butch Haircut

(as Kellan would spell it) See his pecs and nipples ripple.

"I'll NEVER stop posing shirtless," vows Kellan Lutz - Part Too!

They are way too into him.

Another day, another veiled New York Times article about Cockgobbler Aaron Schock

my cooter is itchin SO BAD right now! I AM SERIOUS!

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My credit is "very poor" at 550. I need at least a 640 to qualify for an FHA mortgage loan. At 45, I'm so tired of living with a roommate and I want to find a simple condo. I finally landed a good job after 2 years of unemployment, during which my good credit tanked. I have $5,000 of cc debt in collections, but some online advice says think twice before paying collection debt off. What to do? Also, I would appreciate hearing your stories of how you were able to rehabilitate your own credit.

It's not total dreck, and does have some poignant moments. But mostly it's just 'off'- like the director had a really high fever throughout the shoot.

Missy Peregrym!!!!! So nice when the butch/femmes find each other.

Does me talking and fighting about this foreign conflict make me look butch?

Hi Gurrrrlllls! It's me, Miss Lindsey Graham!!!!

Lots and lots of balls.

Jeremy Renner Plays With Balls

I like him but this is ridiculous. He is asking people to help him buy a van so he can drive around the country and make gonzo porn. Bitch, get off your highhorse and get your ass to Swinging Richards if you need $$$ so badly. Don't act like it's beneath you.

Colby Keller begging for money on Indiegogo

for r598 in the last theatre thread

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So, I'm about to jump back into the job market, and I need some suggestions. I've generally had good skin all my life, and am careful to wash it (with a gentle scrub). But I noticed a few small bumps on one side - I think these are the sebacious bumps people are talking about. I've also noticed gray specks in my goatee. What should I do, and what can I do without pouring a bunch of toxic chemicals on my skin and hair?

Dish the dirt!

Another great morning with smart witty reporting.

Sherri Shepherd does not want anything to do with her unborn surrogate baby ... because she believes her estranged husband defrauded her into having the kid in the first place so he could get child support ... this according to multiple sources connected with the couple. TMZ broke the story ... Sherri and her husband Lamar Sally each separately filed legal docs to end their marriage. The big complication -- a baby will be born this month to a surrogate who signed a contract with Sherri and Lamar. Now our sources say ... the baby was conceived with Lamar's sperm, but NOT Sherri's egg. Now here's where it gets tricky. We're told Sherri does not want custody or even to be considered a parent ... because she doesn't want to get stuck with massive child support payments. Sherri wants a judge to rule she has no parental rights or responsibilities -- which would shut the door to child support. She claims Lamar defrauded her -- that he got her to sign on for a surrogate birth knowing full well he would divorce her and then nail her to the wall for child support. Our Lamar sources say Sherri tried to get pregnant in vitro and when it didn't work she got deeply involved in the surrogacy process. Another twist ... Sherri has filed for divorce in New Jersey and Lamar has filed in California. This is not a coincidence. We did some digging, and found New Jersey courts generally do NOT recognize surrogacy agreements, which means Lamar would probably be shut down. Not so in Cali.

Sherri Shepherd says she won't pay child support for baby born via surrogate since it's not hers

I want to do unspeakable things to him, specifically to his butt. He is just so handsome. And he''s so masculine, it''s hard to believe the rumors that he''s gay. So, you know, does he like to play hide the salami? Surely I can''t be the only one who finds him hot. What was SVU thinking killing him off, unless it was his decision to leave.

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Who was the best? Is Hickey upset he didn't get to repeat his Tony role? He said online he'd be in the film in another part. (What happened?) Is there cat fighting!!!!!!?

Jesus, that show was a piece of shit. How on earth did it stay on the air for all those years?

What was her Hollywood story? Any gossip? Yes, I know about her tragic death and the rumor about her husband, Robert Wagner, being in bed with a certain actor with the first name Christopher, thus causing her to throw herself off of the boat and leading to her death. I think that things were probably much different. I think she would have been surprised if R.W. WEREN'T in bed with Christopher. Anyway, Natalie should have won an Oscar. As has been discussed here, most Oscars are given as overall career achievements of as make-ups for past losses. Natalie fit both categories. God, I would have loved to have known her. She was gorgeous.Her eyes spoke volumes.

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They first decided to invite Susan Saint James and Jill Saint John. Then they called John Heard, John Hurt and William Hurt and said they simply MUST come. Amy and Amy need ideas -- who else should be invited?

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Apologies ahead of time for the NYC centric thread, but didn't know where else to take this rant. Ok, for those of you who don't know, the Fireworks in NYC for the last five or so years have been held on the Hudson River which is on the west side of Manhattan. It worked out perfectly for me because I live in Chelsea and I could go to my roof and watch them. But it didn't work out for most since the bulk of NYC, which includes Brooklyn and Queens is on the East side. People were upset that NJ and the west of Manhattan were getting the best views. I could understand their complaint, to be honest. So our Mayor, DeBlasio decided to move them back to the East River this year. In the past on the East River they were between 59th and 34th St. I believe. This year they were held way down at the South St. Seaport which is at the tip of Manhattan. This area is populated by about 1% of the population of Manhattan, BUT directly faces Brooklyn - where our Mayor is from. So DeBlasio moved the fireworks from one small NYC viewing area to an even smaller one with the excuse of being more fair. If you're in the Bronx, well you're always screwed. But at least in the past Manhattan, Queens and upper part of Brooklyn got to enjoy the show. This year it was mainly a show for Brooklyn alone. What's with that? Yes, I am stamping my feet because it is no longer easy for me to see the fireworks by casually walking up to my roof.

"I'd like to affirm that ANY singer when first at the mic at the start of a long session can make a multitude of vocalisations in order to get warmed up," Orbit wrote. "Warming up is essential if you’re a pro, as it is with a runner doing stretches, and it takes a while to do properly. I’ve heard all manner of sounds emitted during warm-ups. The point is that it is not supposed to be shared with millions of listeners. Audio:

Britney Spears' 'Alien' Without Auto-Tune Is Not Meant To Be Heard

There have been plenty of (sometimes heated) discussions on DL regarding racial issues, but how many of you actually know which race/subrace you are? Take a look at the chart and then take the poll.

The DL Subrace Poll

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I always wondered.

Why Italian guys grab their crotch

Another Republican scandal has been blown to tiny bits as Hillary Clinton has confirmed that all of her speaking fees from universities are donated to charity. Former Sec. Clinton told ABC News that her speaking fees from universities get donated to the Clinton Foundation, “All of the fees have been donated to the Clinton Foundation for it to continue its life-changing and life-saving work. So it goes from a foundation at a university to another foundation.” The last point the Mrs. Clinton made was an important one. She is not accepting money from a university’s general fund, which comes from student tuitions. University foundations are funded by donations from alumni and others. The whole idea that Republicans have been pushing is that Hillary Clinton was accepting six-figure speaking fees while students are being crushed under rising tuition costs and student loan debt. Republicans are trying to stop Hillary Clinton by taking a page out President Obama’s book. Just as the president did to Mitt Romney in 2012, Republicans are trying to label Clinton wealthy and out of touch. The hypocrisy of this position is mind boggling as it has been the Republican Party that has refused to raise taxes on the wealthy, create jobs, extend unemployment benefits, and offered a platform that can best be described as protecting the rich while screwing the rest. In other words, it is impossible to take their claims that Hillary Clinton doesn’t care about regular folks seriously. It is a valid question to debate whether or not any university should be dishing out six-figure speaking fees to anyone. There are probably better ways to spend their money, but that question has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton. If students don’t want the university to spend the money on big dollar speakers, it is something that they need to take up with university itself. What Hillary Clinton is doing is much more transparent than how Republicans collect their speaking fees. Top Republicans have for years insisted that they be paid for their appearances in book purchases. Before he ran for president in 2012, Mitt Romney declined speaking fees, but insisted that institutions buy thousands of copies of his book. Romney was just one example of how Republicans push books that nobody seems to read to the top of the bestseller list. If a university decides that it just has to spend big bucks to lure a national speaker to campus, it is better that the fee goes to charity instead of getting wasted on thousands of copies of a book that nobody wants. This is another attempted Republican scandal that is going to nowhere, but it says a lot about the Republican Party that they are trying so hard to damage Hillary Clinton before the 2016 process has begun. America remains ready for Hillary, and this fact is terrifying Republicans to death.

Republican Scandal Dies As Hillary Clinton Reveals University Speaking Fees Donated to Charity

I'm not a slave to fashion, but I do like to look decent. I tend to do most of my clothes shopping at independent men's stores, and the nicer chains like J. Crew. In the last year or two, it's been more difficult to find stylish pants that are not of a slim/narrow fit. I do like the way they look on me, but I find it nearly impossible to hide my bulging junk. My cock is average size, but I have a set of great big nuts ... and particularly when I'm sitting, there's just a big genital pouch in my crotch. I get a little self-conscious about this, particularly in professional situations. But I'm not going to switch over to, you know, dad-sized Dockers or something. I guess I just have to accept that from time to time, people are going to get a pretty good idea of my goods?

God, I hope so. I''ve always had a male stripper "thing." Something about a hot guy stripping fully nude for a group of other guys in public-guys who are getting all sweaty and breathing shallow and getting obvious hard-ons-makes my precum drip!!!\ \ I see in other countries-particularly in South America and Europe, that fully nude male strippers WITH BONERS (!!) is a common sight.\ \ I love my internet porn and relationships are great but sometimes I just want to see a hot body IN THE FLESH gyrating just for me with no strings attached. Is that so wrong? Give me strip clubs across America with boners!!

There, I said it.

Just wondering

I see those damn Activia commercials and think to myself; [italic] "THIS [/italic] is the woman who has held his interest for almost 3 decades!?!?" He produces such brilliant film work what the hell do they talk about at the breakfast table?\ \ I mean, ...really.

I just can''t reconcile the fact that Christopher Guest is married to Jamie Lee Curtis.

Jerry Sandusky's adopted son who has said he was also abused by the convicted pedophile is breaking his silence. Matt Sandusky, whose allegations never resulted in charges, has revealed details about his alleged abuse to Oprah, and the interview is scheduled to air next week, her network announced today. The television interview, which will air on OWN at 9 p.m. on July 17, will be his first since his adoptive father was convicted in June 2012. Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky is serving out a 30- to 60-year prison sentence for molesting 10 boys. Matt Sandusky gave a statement to local police officials while Jerry Sandusky was on trial, saying that Jerry had started abusing him when he was about 10 years old. While criminal charges were never filed, Matt Sandusky was one of 26 victims awarded a financial settlement from Penn State. He shares a deeply personal account of the grooming, methodical control and manipulation he faced as a child and responds to the accusations his adoptive mother, Dottie Sandusky, made on national television accusing him of lying and stealing from the family.

Jerry Sandusky's Adopted Son Gives Interview to Oprah About His Years of Sexual Abuse By Jerry

Even if they were name brands and the expiry date was two years away? Vote below and discuss.

What are some good hat styles I can get away with in Europe? I'm going bald and opportunities for haircuts will be few and far between. Was considering going to the store at the link:

Summer Hats for Men

Beyonce’s self-titled surprise release, which hit iTunes exclusively on Thursday evening (9 p.m. PT), has now sold over 430,000 units in just over one day, guaranteeing it the top slot on the Billboard 200 once that chart’s top 10 is revealed mid-week. As reported yesterday, “Beyonce” shifted slightly over 80,000 in the three hours from 9 p.m. PT to midnight on Thursday evening, putting her Friday sales at roughly 350,000. With two more days left in the sales tracking week, the title could sell over 600,000 before the buzzer sounds. The iTunes exclusive “visual” album, retailing for $15.99 contains 14 tracks- not available for a la carte purchases until Dec. 20- and 14 accompanying videos, along with other bonus video content. No set date has been announced for the CD release to physical retailers or of its availability on other digital download sites. At 430,000, “Beyonce” is already set to become the biggest debuting album by a female artist since Taylor Swift sold an astounding 1.2 million copies of “Red” in the week corresponding to Billboard 200 chart dated Nov 10, 2012. And if predictions in the 600,000 range hold, the set would grant Beyonce the best debut week- and best sales week period- of her career. Her 2006 album “B’day” started with 541,000 in September 2006.

Beyonce Bound for No. 1 As Sales Soar Past 400,000

I pretty much use my computer as a DVR and have for years, downloading and watching mostly primetime shows I miss while I'm working. Recently, in the past two months, I've gotten three Copyright Infringement Notices from Comcast via email. Is this happening to anyone else? Do I really need to worry about this or take any action? I did notice they were all from HBO shows (which, to be fair, I don't subscribe to).

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Out TV/Radio personality Clay Cane is hot with dreds...

Presenting Hot Black Guys part...whaterver

Lying prick! I worked hard to get this SOB elected. You'd think I'd have learned my lesson with Obama.

So much for NYC's mayor de Blasio

I recently crossed paths with someone I've learned was associated w/ him.

The website says: There's nothing quite like the sexy, silly, naked, stupid bromances of the "Pad". It's a bunch of mostly-straight, ab-tastically hot, college-age guys living in an enormous fake-Tuscan mansion in Arizona. I don't believe they're straight.

Are the guys on Fratmen straight?

It''s some military movie filmed in Czechoslovakia, called "Bang of Brothers." But I swear to God, Channing Tatum is playing one of the soldiers! \ \ Your welcome.

Believe It

Met a guy on Grindr last night. (Should I post pic?) Anyway, he came over and had some ecstasy. Never tried it but he had me put it in my south mouth lol Holy fuck that's some good shit. We watched Enter the Void a bit on Netflix and i could t control myself. His cock was in my mouth within minutes. I felt so physically connected with him. He shot up some coke and I passed out. He woke me up and had made breakfast so that was cool. I asked him if I could buy some ecstasy from him but he said he'd just bring some more tonight. It's not too bad right? We're not talking meth right?

I'm eating in tonight.

Post Pictures Of Your Dinner

Has anyone here seen their parents go through one? Mine have been married over thirty-five years and are both in their sixties. I am getting the sense that with my mother's growing neediness and my father's growing cantankerousness it might finally be too much for either of them to bear. There's no third party. It all seems to be the accumulation of bad habits and co-dependencies over decades taking their toll. My mother has taken to calling me once or twice weekly in absolute bits over the latest perceived slight, while my father has only once in thirty years ever discussed with me any issue in his relationship with my mother, so I'm not sure where his head is at, though I have no doubt that he is being unpleasant and nastily quotable. He's not the mid-life crisis type, though. I think he just wants to be left alone with a book, or to go on a quiet hike in the woods. I wish my mother would just focus on her booming business and social life. They are both accomplished, beloved, very attractive, have money, and have no children in jail - everything you'd hope for at that age.

This is a tribute thread to the greatest, campiest detective show of all time - MURDER, SHE WROTE. The guest stars! The glitz! The glamour! Angela Lansbury's fupa! Discuss it all, here. Oh I love Cabot Cove.

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Boy do I feel old

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I am surfing through YouTube and I am mesmerized by how beautiful she is, how freaking versatile her voice is and now wondering why she never made it to Miss Ross levels of divadom?

It's been too damned long. Help!

Tavis Smiley. GAY! Saw him a couple of weeks ago at a performance of "Porgy & Bess." Sitting in the orchestra next to an other African American guy. They were dressed identically. Both had scarfs tied in the Euro knot. I mean do the math! Over 40, openly against gay marriage "for religious reasons" and seeing a MUSICAL WITH ANOTHER MAN. Gay.

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What does it for you?

I'm not a great fan of fiction. I wish I was, because when, on the rare occasion I find a novel I really like, it gives me great pleasure. If I see there's an interview with a high profile fiction writer on TV, I try to watch, but usually find them completely boring and it reinforces my feelings that I have no desire to experience their imaginations by reading their books. But it would interest me to hear from people who love fiction to respond to the title of this thread. (Let's throw dead writers into the mix, as well).

If they ever end this series, do you think it will be a satisfying ending? How do you think they will wrap everything up?

Orphan is the new black

I quit my last job because I didn't get along with one of my bosses and we had a severe communication problem which wasn't fixed even though I tried to fix it. I have an interview today and need to come up with something plausible enough so that they won't think I'll just bail if this job gets tough.

Why do some seemingly innocuous threads get deleted while their topics still remain posted? For example, the Stock Aitken Waterman thread says it doesn't exist.

I've been having this nagging feeling that I should go back to school. I have always had the feeling in the back of my head that I would do well in law school, and many members of my family have wondered in the past why I never went. The problem is that I am 35 years old and I already have debt from getting a MFA that I probably will never use. Boy, was that a mistake. I feel like I am going to be stuck doing administrative work and will never be able to advance without having a more professional degree. Having the additional debt doesn't necessarily bother me - I can just pay it off at the lowest monthly payment possible. The hours and work don't really bother me either. Am I too old, though? That is my big question.

With more athletes coming out we should do a thread about gay athletes. Carl Lewis has to be a 'mo...right?

Played "Del", Lea Thompson's boyfriend in the first season. He also played Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen's dad in their sitcom "So Little Time". He's still hot.

Remember Eric Lutes from "Caroline In The City"?

Since he's home recuperating from knee surgery and not doing the NBC Nightly News, do you think BriWi has been spending his days at home with his legs propped up, watching porn and masturbating?

Are the South Park guys assholes? They seem like they would be given their politics. Who here has ever actually dealt with them?

Great show, check it out DL! It's about a non-conventional high school teacher ad her family. I know, I know…but really it's not what you think and it's great to see a non-American point of view. She even has a gay teenage son and they don't shy away from him, dating, kissing and having sex…so refreshing. The added bonus is everyone is HOT! Especially the oldest son and Rita is sexy as well. I hear that there's an American remake being made with Anna Gunn in the lead (she plays Skyler on Breaking Bad). As much as I love Anna Gunn, I don't think an American studio will do it justice, even on cable.

Danish TV Show "Rita" on Netflix streaming

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First Madonna, then Mariah, now J.Ho.

J.Lo's Album Is A Flop

Apart from the Ramble.

I'd be grateful to hear from anyone who uses it or from any medical people. Did it make you very sleepy or dizzy? Any allergic reactions to the Zyrtec itself? Any heart racing or irregular heartbeat type of reactions or anything cardiac related at all? Anything bad at all or any dose related problems. My doc wrote for prescription Zyrtec so it might be a stronger than OTC dose. I haven't filled it yet so I don't know and he called it in so I have no prescription to look at. Lastly, does it help with allergies like stuffed sinuses, runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing, etc. or is it not worth any potential side effects? I looked up all the side effects but I hope I can hear from those who have actually taken it if many of those side effects are common. Thanks!

We know that Rachel Ray is a heavy smoker and that our beloved Anne Burrel smokes (thus her over use of salt)...who else in the culinary world is a pathetic addict?

[quote]The show, titled Grace and Frankie, follows two rivals—Grace (Fonda) and Frankie (Tomlin)—who make amends after they discover that their husbands—Sheen and Waterston, respectively—have been keeping up an affair with each other since 1994 and now plan to legally marry. I've always thought Sam kind of 'pinged'.

Sam Waterson and Martin Sheen gay cheat on Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin for Netflix series

Were your teenage years great because you were good looking? Did you get away with stuff ugly teens wouldn't have? What was it like?

I used to hook up there up until a few years ago. Lots of "straight" married guys and others on the DL looking for NSA fun. I saw more wedding rings than the Diamond District LOL. As the weather gets warmer, I've been thinking about going back. Something so hot, animalistic and dangerous about doing it outdoors. I think we all know that the thrill of being caught is a huge rush. So what's the scene like?

From the New York Post: Anderson Cooper and his partner, Benjamin Maisani, will be relaxing in historic splendor in Connecticut’s affluent Litchfield County this summer. Multiple sources tell us the CNN anchor has splashed out on a massive, 10,127-square-foot Tudor revival stone mansion, called Rye House, for the mid-to-high seven figures. The tony estate — sold by Karen Shaw, a former Miss Connecticut who starred on “Dallas” and “The A Team,” and her husband, Marc — was built in 1908 and designed by Wilson Eyre, a founder of House & Garden magazine. The home includes an Olympic-sized swimming pool and tennis court, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Its 18 rooms feature original chestnut wood paneling, limestone fireplaces and a hand-carved marble staircase. There’s also a private four-bedroom guest wing. The 280-acre grounds boast Japanese pagoda trees, wisteria, magnolias, a walkway with stone pillars and a grape arbor. The Shaws, who bought the house 15 years ago and lovingly restored it, have been renting it out for $1,800 per night, sources said. Depending on which local you ask, Cooper bought the property in leafy Litchfield for anywhere between $5 million and $9 million. The anchor will be in good company: The ­Litchfield area has been home to Meryl Streep, “The Normal Heart” playwright Larry Kramer, Henry Kissinger, NBC Sports vet Dick Ebersol and Susan Saint James, and HBO documentary doyenne Sheila Nevins. Anderson and Maisani already own another unusual property, an 8,240-square-foot Greenwich Village firehouse they bought in 2010 for $4.3 million. In April, Cooper also listed one of two waterfront properties in Quogue for $2.99 million. In November, Cooper, who makes around $11 million a year at CNN, signed a contract extension through the 2016 presidential election. Despite being the son of Gloria Vanderbilt, Cooper recently told Howard Stern, “My mom’s made clear to me that there’s no trust fund.” Reps for Cooper did not return calls. Pics of the huge home at link.

Anderson Cooper and bf Benjamin Maisani buy GIGANTIC multi-million dollar mansion in CT.

One Million Moms won't be happy about this! "Children of same-sex couples experience higher levels of general health and family cohesion than those from traditional families, a study shows. But the researchers warn that the stigma associated with their parents' sexual orientation is an ongoing challenge for these children. Researchers from the University of Melbourne surveyed 315 same-sex parents with a total of 500 children. About 80% of the children have female parents, while 18% have male parents. The children raised by same-sex partners scored an average of 6% higher than the general population on measures of general health and family cohesion. They were equivalent to those from the general population on measures of temperament and mood, behaviour, mental health and self-esteem. The lead researcher, Simon Crouch, said same-sex couples are more likely to share childcare and work responsibilities more equitably than heterosexual parent families, based more on skills rather than gender roles. "This appears to be contributing to a more harmonious household and having a positive impact on child health," he said. But about two-thirds of these children experience some form of stigma due to their parents' sexual orientation, Crouch said. "What we have found is that the more stigma these families experience the greater the impact on the social and emotional wellbeing of children." The most recent census counted 6,300 children living in same-sex-couple families."

Children of same-sex couples healthier, says Australian study.

I liked it but was shocked that it was so heavily implied that Kermit was ass raped in prison.

In 2006 he was is angry that the city is doling out $1.5 million in taxpayer cash to help prevent the disease, arguing most people don’t have to worry about acquiring the ailment unless they’re gay or intravenous drug users. “It is very preventable,” he spouted in his typically bombastic fashion. “If you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn’t get AIDS probably, that’s bottom line.” “These are the facts,” he added when asked if he backed his earlier comments. “How are women getting it? Maybe they are sleeping with bi-sexual men,” he responded.

When we were in school together he was a real sweetheart, very cute and a genuinely nice guy. He liked to drink beer and hangout with his garage band buddies. He was an ok student, but I thought he should be grateful that his father owned a construction company, because otherwise he'd never get work when he graduated. I quietly broke off our friendship when he one day casually mentioned that he had gone out "fag bashing" the previous Friday night with his friends. I hadn't thought about him in years, but after digging around this afternoon found out that not only did he graduate, but he went to law school and opened a law office in the same city we grew up in, and handles corporate legal affairs for the city as well as some larger companies. I have to say I'm surprised that burn-out managed to achieve such success. But I wonder if he still likes to go out "fag bashing"?

Who will it be? Serena, Nole....Will Federer or Nadal surprise us or will it be someone new? Let's post here

Maybe because their cupcakes sucked?

Crumbs closing all its locations

According to Popnography, Robert Downey Jr. tells Rolling Stone magazine that his rumored bisexuality was something he manufactured: "A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual. That's OK. Being relaxed about sexuality is something you're born with...[My bisexuality] was manufactured. I didn't have an identity. I was playing around. I expressed it. I grew up in the Rocky Horror Picture Show world, where even my butch friends turned out to be androgynous on Saturday nights."

Robert Downey Jr: My bisexuality was manufactured

Writing on his personal blog in response to the high court's recent 5-4 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, U.S. District Judge Richard George Kopf harshly criticized the justices for taking what he sees as a too active role in controversial cases. "This term and several past terms has proven that the Court is now causing more harm (division) to our democracy than good by deciding hot button cases that the Court has the power to avoid," Kopf, a George H.W. Bush appointee, wrote. "As the kids says, it is time for the Court to stfu."

Federal Judge Says Supreme Court Should Just 'STFU'

I always thought it was until batshit Right-wing loons went on a rampage claiming that it wasn't, probably because they love it so much.

They had neither. WTF?

So she says in an email "interview" with the Hollywood Reporter: [quote]It'd be so much fun to shake it up taking on issues that make audiences objectively consider all sides, and I'd do it with my own real-life groundedness, candor and commonsense that I'm known for. Media needs that today, versus the condescension that oozes from TV and radio. I hear everyone recently got canned from The View, maybe a show like that needs a punch of reality and a voice of reason from America's heartland to knock some humble sense into their scripts. You know, someone willing to go rogue.

Sarah Palin: I'd like to host The View

Now I am alone with my cat. Is this the fate of every "mature" gentleman trotting towards middle age?

And everyone inside was gorgeous. Hot guys with great bods and bubble butts. Pretty girls with big boobs and shapely asses. I felt like I walked into some Bizarro world. I usually feel ugly but after 10 minutes in that place I felt like I should be in a tower ringing bells.

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ooh he hit a part II only took a year !

This A list morning talk show host has been begging producers to not renew the contract of her male co-host. They are not getting along at all. It is crazy behind the scenes and there has been lots of yelling between the pair. Kelly Ripa/Michael Strahan

Well gurl, this eventful season is about to end in read off! Will Peter, the newest housewife, finally check the Moose? Will Apollo be able to get enough brain cells working to not slip up and admit he is a sinister white collar criminal? Will we discover that Phaedra has a top row of the teeth? Is Mama Joyce going to drag someone else before this all over? YASSSSSSS!

Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 6 Part 4!!!

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Wow, no thread yet. Vicki: "What do people in Utah eat anyways?" Eddie: "I better butch it up for this gym class." Heather: "I simply know everything!" Shannon: "You fuckin' eat when I say you fuckin' eat!" Tamra: "Fancy pants. Fancy pants. Fancy pants!!!" Brooks: "Forgive me, baby." Will Ryan lose it and murder his family? Will Tamra have Mexi babies? ...plus the return of babyfat Briana!

Man, I just want to punch him.

Homophobic Douchebag on Vine with 8.7 million followers

The B-52's self-titled debut album was released July 6, 1979. Disco was peaking. My Sharona was unleashed on an unsuspecting public. And during the summer of '79, the B-52's released their debut album. Dance This Mess Around!

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A Russian Orthodox Priest has claimed that the World Cup is an abomination because players wear brightly-coloured shoes. Writing in his column on Russian People’s Line, Priest Alexander Shumsky claimed that players are promoting a “gay rainbow” by wearing green, pink, yellow and blue shoes. He said: “Wearing pink or blue shoes, [the players] might as well wear women’s panties or a bra. “The liberal ideology of globalism clearly wants to oppose Christianity with football. I’m sure of it. “Therefore I am glad that the Russian players have failed and, by the grace of God, no longer participate in this homosexual abomination.” Russia exited the competition in the group stages, failing to win any of their three matches. The priest also criticized the “unthinkable” hairstyles of some of the players in the tournament.

Priest: World Cup is a ‘homosexual abomination’ because players wear gay shoes

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Don't know who wrote this and yes, it is manipulative but it had me, a longtime Calvin and Hobbes fan, bawling like a baby.

Calvin and Hobbes....a final goodbye

[italic]In 1992, Alan Dixon was unseated in his Democratic re-nomination bid as U.S. Senator of Illinois by Carol Moseley Braun, the first (and, to date, only) African-American woman in the history of the U.S. Senate. Dixon has died (aged 86). Here's a part of the report:[/italic] [bold]Alan J. Dixon, 86, Is Dead; U.S. Senator Who Championed Illinois[/bold] Alan J. Dixon, a two-term United States senator from Illinois in the 1980s and early ’90s who was known for keen attention to constituents’ needs and an old-fashioned glad-handing style that won him the nickname “Al the Pal,” died on Sunday [July 6, 2014] at his home in Fairview Heights, Ill. He was 86.

Alan J. Dixon, 86, Is Dead; U.S. Senator Who Championed Illinois

I'm the hungry, naïve worms waiting outside under the dirt.

Is it true that Connor actually called Tristan "crazy"?!

And how does "character" develop in a person? Or is there all along? I have two friends. Both were raised in foster care and orphanages. There was mental and physical abuse involved. They are the same age, from the same place, and were in the same "system" at about the same time. One friend went on to be a humanitarian and successful businessman. The other friend is lost to drugs and homelessness in his adult life. Both of these men are extremely smart and creative. So what happened?

was it on sale? and were you able to buy both a shirt AND some clinique?

I think it's creepy; he says I'm uptight. Should I dump him?

There's a slew of boring singers out there, old and young, whose appeal seems to be based on dull, vague qualities or inoffensive prettiness and a bland style. They always sound the same, usually with some tell-tale signature warble or tone. They lack passion but can seem to imitate it. They're BORING. What can explain the careers of Sheryl Crowe, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Taylor Swift, Michael Buble? Beyonce is so dull that if she weren't creating a draft by snapping her hair and twat around to startle you you'd fall asleep. Charlotte Church. For Christ's sake. It's not just being middle-of-the-road. Plenty of pop can be easy but still manage to be intelligent and committed.

Does that still happen?

And her job is to critique fashion? Bitch, please!

Kelly Osbourne: Horrifying To Look At In Every Way

A friend of mine in Hollywood just told me that.

They just love spending their money to spite liberals! Conservatives who detest President Barack Obama and EPA clean air regulations are modifying their vehicles to purposefully spew black smoke into the atmosphere. So-called “coal rollers” install smoke stacks and special equipment in their diesel trucks that makes the engine think that it needs more fuel, resulting in plumes of black smoke. According to Slate’s Dave Weigel, the phenomenon is not new, but it is becoming more popular among conservatives who want to protest the president and his efforts to clean up the environment. “I run into a lot of people that really don’t like Obama at all,” a smoke stack seller in Wisconsin told Weigel. “If he’s into the environment, if he’s into this or that, we’re not. I hear a lot of that.” “To get a single stack on my truck—that’s my way of giving them the finger,” he added. “You want clean air and a tiny carbon footprint? Well, screw you.” In June, Vocativ reported on the trend of “coal rollers” using their toxic exhaust as revenge against “nature nuffies” who drive environmentally friendly cars, like the Toyota Prius. “The feeling around here is that everyone who drives a small car is a liberal,” a South Carolina truck owner named Ryan explained. “I rolled coal on a Prius once just because they were tailing me.” “It’s bad for the environment. That’s definitely true,” he admitted. “And some of the kids that have diesel trucks can look like tools. And you can cause a wreck, but everything else about it is pretty good.” The Clean Air Task Force estimates that pollutants from diesel vehicles “lead to 21,000 premature deaths each year and create a cancer risk that is seven times greater than the combined risk of all 181 other air toxics tracked by the EPA.” Watch the video below of a 2013 coal rollin’ rally in Wisconsin.

Conservatives newest way to give the middle finger to the world

What is the name for the way that Elizabeth Fraser ended her phrases in early Cocteau Twins recordings? It isn't really a vibrato but more like a staccato effect or something. I think the woman from the Cranberrys did the same sort of thing.

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Sometimes you just can't make this shit up

It's been pushed back to June 12th due to "breaking developments". I've always liked her inside Hollywood reporting, but she seems to be over and simply not aware of it. I'm guessing Deadline's owner is trying to work something out with her, or maybe her lawyers have convinced her she is in fact in violation of her non-compete. Anybody else here follow her on Twitter?

I'm in trouble. "No longer being chatted up or eyed up on a night out was the clearest sign for both sexes that a man had become invisible - chosen by 54 per cent of respondents. The second most popular sign was greying hair - picked by 37 per cent of those surveyed. Other signs included a double chin, thinning hair and having bad teeth."

Men Lose Their Appeal by Age 39

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Has anyone here been? Has it been ruined? I saw they have a food hall now, which is why I'm wondering.

What's the Plaza Hotel (in NYC) like since the refurb?

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And I mean, PROPERLY stalked, by someone psychotic. What did you do about it? I hear a lot about cyberstalking now. It's even easier for freaks to keep track of your every move.

Was there ever a more cynical and predictable summer hit for English chavs?

What's some good summery French pop?

Did anyone doubt that she would be back? They might as well add Kathy Griffin to the mix.

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I have never had an account there. Anyone else?

According to Joe, his copious downtime from True Blood (!) has permitted him to write a screenplay for a spin-off of his now-deceased character, Alcide! Joe claims that Alcide is the closest the film and movies have come to a geniuine werewolf depiction, despite many people who say that Alcide is technically not a werewolf. PS Who is the fat queen interviewing him?

DL's favorite egoist Joe Manganiello is writing a screenplay!

Are we supposed to know who the fuck this coach guy is?! Why is everyone's house always blue and white?!? I want to bludgeon to death the blonde woman who walks in on her husband after he's purchased an entire living room set.. ("What didj'yew DEWWWW?") I fucking hate them and would refuse to buy their shitty service from the irritating, non-stop commercials alone.

Where do you draw the line in helping a family member who has never done anything to help themself? Basic details: a senior citizen (almost 70), nearly broke and their house is about to be condemned. Say it was your sibling though you hadn't been very close since childhood. Would you let them move in with you, knowing you'd basically become their 24-hour caretaker and you and your partner's retirement would be completely altered. Or would you let the sibling essentially go homeless and figure things out on their own?

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Do you follow any celebs? I was looking at some sites and some have a huge amount of followers and they ask questions. Does that mean you can answer them? So that means a celeb with a million followers has the potential of getting a million answers in a few minutes? How do you handle something like that?

After a dust-up with Lea Michele last season, Naya walked and producers were resigned to letting her go. But apparently FOX wasn't having it and insisted that Santana be a part of the final season. Ratings are hideous and FOX isn't willing to let one of the show's few draws walk. Naya doesn't want to return though. Rumor is Lea talked a lot of shit and had a hand in Naya splitting from her fiancé. Instead Lea agreed to $75k an episode as a recurring guest star, a pay increase actually. This is where I get confused. Why not just sign a contract? She's going to essentially be in the same number of episodes, and if they're going to pay her more as a "recurring guest star" then they surely would have done the same with a contract right? Or does a contract extension prohibit pay raises? What's the benefit to her to her here? There must be some strategy on her part? Apparently there's no beef with Murphy and he always wanted her back. Is it just a principle thing?

The Million Dollar Listing boys are back in New York. Million Dollar Listing New York returns with new episodes on Wednesday, April 2 at 9 p.m. and E! News has the exclusive on season three. Fredrik Eklund, Luis D. Ortiz and Ryan Serhant all return for what looks like the most dramatic season yet. There are breakups, breakdowns, fussy sellers, new babies (maybe!?) and some epic cross-country trips. This season there are penthouses at the $40 million mark, $180 million developments and huge commissions to go along with the high-priced real estate. Check out the new trailer below. We'll be here when you pick your jaw up from the floor. Here's what's up with the boys. Fredrik, now married, has baby on the brain and is taking new steps to find his zen. Meanwhile, Ryan's no longer single and on the prowl. Can he balance work and a relationship? And Luis has joined Fredrik at Douglas Elliman and is starting to grow up. Last year Million Dollar Listing New York averaged 1.4 million viewers, making it the highest-rated season yet. Will the boys bring the magic again for season three? Million Dollar Listing New York returns with new episodes on Wednesday, April 2 at 9 p.m. on Bravo.

If one Googles "Donna Pescow, former star of TV's 'Angie'", the only results are DL posts. What are other such terms?

My mother passed away recently and I have her diamond/platinum wedding/engagement ring set. It's from the late '40s. I have no one to leave it to (no siblings, children, nieces or nephews) so I should get rid of it. But where does one go? Do regular jewelers buy them?

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The HBO series "Game of Thrones" premiered in 2011. I wasn't watching it. But, the last episode of its fourth season caused me to realize I should have tuned in "Game of Thrones." I recently have been watching the series, one episode after the next on On Demand, and have completed the first two seasons. I want to ask, "What does Datalounge.com posters think best represents the series?"

Try ten days without a bowel movement sometime.

Awhile back I heard they changed their policy toward gays because they say they're just keeping in line with what the scotus ruled last year. So are we still boycotting them or not? Not sure if it was with regard to domestic partner benefits, a nondiscrimination clause or what.

Did you cry?

Known as "the voice of the name bands," as she served as vocalist for the big bands of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James. I had no idea her childhood was so hellish. Her father died when she was a baby and her mother remarried and ran a whore house with her new husband. After the stepfather tried to rape Helen when she was a teen (and she stabbed him trying to defend herself), she went to live with her piano teacher. She moved to New York at 17 to begin her singing career.

Big band singer Helen Forrest

This was the first "raunchy" movie I saw - it was one tv when I was eight. My sister and I were titillated by the swearing. Just watched it again 30 years later and it's so sweet and innocent! Random thoughts: - have never heard the expression "shit fit" used before or since. - The guy who played Spaz was actually cute. Was this the first movie to denote a nerd by tape on his glasses? - it's cool that Bill Murray's girlfriend is quite butch and actually looks like someone who would work at a camp. - Chris Makepeace was a really photogenic and talented kid. Why did his career peter out?

Is anyone surprised? [quote]Crouch and his team surveyed 315 same-sex parents with a total of 500 children across Australia. About 80 percent of the kids had female parents and about 18 percent had male parents, the study states. [quote]Children from same-sex families scored about 6 percent higher on general health and family cohesion, even when controlling for socio-demographic factors such as parents’ education and household income, Crouch wrote. However, on most health measures, including emotional behavior and physical functioning, there was no difference compared with children from the general population. [quote]Crouch suggested the greater social cohesion among same-sex families comes from an equal distribution of work. He said same-sex couples are likely to share responsibilities more equally than heterosexual ones.

Children of gay couples are happier and healther than straight couple's kids

Still no homo.

Just brahs STILL being brahs

Maybe this is what the girlfriends are for. He expects them to look great. And to just…look? A few weeks ago at a Hollywood bar, playboy was partying without his bonafide. He had two of his crew with him. He’d been drinking. Or something. He seemed very …accessible and uninhibited. Once he found his target, he made his approach, with his friends as backup. After spending some time flirting with the dude, a very cute, young gay dude, he made a special request: He asked him if he would be into a three-way situation, but the third participant would be a woman. The woman would be watching as the two of them got down. In his line of work, it’s all about variety. After so many years of anything at any time, he needs as many flavours as possible.

Blind Item: His drunken proposition

We finally got around to watching it last night and my boyfriend and I kept wondering what the big deal was. It's was painfully boring. We both got tired about halfway through and went to bed. We may or may not finish it. What are we missing? Is there some big, twisted finish? It's apparently two hours of Amy Adams doing an absurd British accent along with the equally annoying Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. And what's-his-name with the bad temper. I don't see what all the fuss was about.

Do Atoms wear clothes???

Routh joins Arrow

And I don't really miss it.

Will the Venezuelan actor be the next William Levy?

The Camera loves Jonathan Freudman

There’s been a lot of outrage over the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case, stating that a corporation can exercise their religious beliefs and block access to contraception for their employees, but the Supreme Court took their ruling a step further today in a 5-4 ruling, that a corporation can force their employees to attend religious services at any denomination the corporation chooses. Justice Samuel Alito penned the majority opinion in the case, and in it he wrote: If a corporation is going to pay money to their employees they have a right to know that the money they’re paying is spent on moral things, and the only way to ensure their employees’ morality is to force them to attend religious services. A corporation’s deeply held religious beliefs should be imposed on all employees, because corporations are people and we need to keep those people happy. Unless a corporation is Muslim, in which case they have no religious freedoms. In Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s scathing dissent she wrote: What’s next? Forcing people to buy those little Jesus bobble heads you put in your car? The conservatives in this court have lost their fucking minds. If you could generate energy from people spinning in their graves the Founding Fathers could power this country through the next millennium right now. Seriously, what the hell is happening to this country? There’s no hope as long as we have justices like this. Alito was asked how he felt about the dissent, and he responded by saying “I respect Justice Sotomayor’s right to her opinion but she’s a woman so I doubt the Founding Fathers would care what she thinks.” While many Americans are angered by this ruling, churches are looking forward to the added money in their coffers. The ruling goes into effect immediately, and anyone who refuses to attend religious services will be fined and forced to return any earnings they have received.

Supreme Court Rules Corporations Can Force You To Attend Church

They seem to love the backyard a lot in a very attached way. I can hear some cackling and I really mean [italic]cackling[/italic] from my room. Holy shit, are they noisy. I wouldn't mind if I couldn't every. SINGLE. FUCKING. THING. They are saying. I'm thinking about purchasing ear plugs.

True or False?

Just had the two thirty minutes ago. Better than a Valium.

At this point, the messiness of the campaign for Mariah Carey‘s new album precedes the project itself. From non-charting singles, to endless delays, to a surprise roll-out that never came to pass, it’s been quite the roller-coaster for ‘Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse’. And with the LP experiencing more lows than highs, all eyes are on how it’s set to fare in the one region it has actually been promoted in — the US. So without further adieu, Mimi’s first week figures await below… According to Hits Daily Double, ‘Me. I Am Mariah’ will open with first week sales of… [bold]56,605[/bold] The numbers see the LP on course to chart at #4 on tomorrow’s Billboard 200. However, as Mimi sold just 500 copies more than nearest competitor ‘Frozen’, the album could actually chart lower at #5 depending on how the raw numbers are rounded up. Standing at this junction, all that’s needed to be said has been said already. It’s a sad state of affairs, but it happens. In Mariah’s own words, let’s hope she’ll ‘Shake It Off’ and begin working on a plan to redeem herself. She’s proven her comeback queen once, it’ll be interesting to see if she can do so again

And The Numbers Are In: Mariah Carey’s ‘Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse’ Sold…

Any suggestions, DL world travelers? Places to stay, eat, visit?

No matter where you hear it--radio, store, music player, doesn't matter; when you hear that song you immediately feel great. I've got a bunch of them, but lately it's been Armin van Buuren's "This Is What It Feels Like". Every time that song comes on the radio I crank it up and just feel good.

"Wun, you wascal wabbit!! Wun!!"

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I thought it was some kind Tyvek or something when I passed by; I thought she was reshingling and putting up some kind of preshingle protection. But no. She's been spending shitloads of money ruining her landscape. She spent a fortune putting in what looks like two attached mini Buddhist temples next to the swimming pool she just installed. She pulled down all the trees in the back and replaced them with the same kind of trees, only more of them and tightly packed together. They're all conifers which will grow into each other and block sunlight to half the trees. Now this. The house is a saltbox. We're 6 miles from the ocean. She'd converted the garage by putting two slit windows in front. It looks like she attached a shed to her house. Now this. The roof is cheap orange tarpaper stuff. And she had the door painted powder blue. Oh... she's an "artist," BTW. Not surprisingly, she was unable to make a living at it and worked for the town. A black saltbox with an orange roof and a blue door in a housing development.

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They are so hot together, they just can't hide it even when they're on a boat where the paparazzi can see them. And take photographs. It must be love or, at the very least, MAD HETEROSEXUAL LUST. For each other. Seriously.

Avowed Heterosexualist Zac Efron and Avowed Heterosexualist Michelle Rodriguez

Remi? Why yes, I will.

Bowties They're really more a political statement than a fashion one at this point.

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I can't keep my eyes off of Clint Eastwood's son Scott. He looks like a man's man and he is naturally fit -- doesn't look like a West Hollywood boy.

Scott Eastwood -- A little dorky, but hot

I'd say this one qualifies by any standard.

Presenting Bubble Butts

Can a Dutch DL'er explain why the man who assassinated this (openly gay, by the way) right-wing politician back in 2002 was released this year after only 12 years? Twelve years for premeditated murder and obstructing the democratic process seems like an unduly light sentence. Does Van der Graaf receive protection? Countless Fortuyn followers haven't exactly forgiven and forgotten what he did.

of late night infomercial fame. Did anyone buy his "No Money Down" course? Did it work, or was it complete and total horse shit?

According to his imdb bio, RS was a conservative Rescumlicunt. So I wonder what Cary Grant thought of that. CG always seemed like either not a Rescumlicunt or a very mild one at most.

Does this guy even write anymore, or just slap his name on stuff written by others?

United Nations to recognise gay marriages of all its staffers Policy expanded to include not just the marriages of staffers who come from countries where gay marriage is legal Associated Press at the United Nations; theguardian.com, Monday 7 July 2014 23.19 BST The United Nations has decided to recognise the gay marriages of all its staffers, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon announced on Monday. Previously, the United Nations only recognised the unions of employees who came from countries where gay marriage is legal, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said. "This is a step forward that many of the staffers at the United Nations had been seeking for some time," Haq said. The new policy became effective on 26 June, and applies to the UN's approximately 43,000 employees worldwide. Employees of separate UN agencies, such as the children's agency Unicef and the UN cultural agency Unseco, are not affected by the change in policy, Haq said. According to the Pew Research Center, gay marriage is legal in 18 countries, plus parts of the United States and Mexico. But prejudice remains deep in many countries. An extreme case is Uganda, which in February passed a law making gay sex punishable by a life sentence.

United Nations to recognise gay marriages of all its staffers

There have been plenty of (sometimes heated) discussions on DL regarding racial issues, but how many of you actually know which race/subrace you are? Take a look at the chart and then take the poll.

The DL Subrace Poll

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I heard Barbara Walters say this. First of all, "we" did?? Secondly, "Communist" just means evil in the US, not the type of communist Castro was?

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I used some and I was surprised it didn't burn at all. It does smell funny and the little buddy is still hanging around back there. Is rubber band ligation the next step?

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I''m watching the film "Gypsy" on TCM. Do you have a reaction to Natalie?

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The canceled show burned off its remaining episodes last night and BJ guest starred and showed off his beautiful beefy body.

Brandon Routh shows off tit muscles on "Enlisted"

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"The View" is cleaning house. Network sources tell us the cast has been fired... except for Whoopi Goldberg. Our sources say there was a meeting at ABC late Thursday afternoon and they announced Sherri Shepherd was out. We've also heard but have not confirmed Jenny McCarthy and executive producer Bill Geddie may be gone too. Maybe not coincidentally ... Barbara Walters is scheduled to be on the show Friday (though it did tape on Wednesday). "The View" has been in turmoil since Jenny was hired ... it messed up the chemistry on the show. So far no word official word on who is replacing the panel, but we're told the list includes Ross Mathews and Jesse Palmer.

Mass Firings at "The View"

Dolly Parton offers to take home dog found at Glastonbury festival Country singer says she will take white lurcher named after her back to America if owner does not come forward Press Association; The Guardian, Sunday 6 July 2014 Dolly Parton has offered to adopt a dog that was left behind at Glastonbury. The American country singer said she would take the white lurcher back to the US if its owner was not found. The dog was discovered in a tent during a clean-up after thousands of festival-goers left the site. The animal was named Dolly after the singer, who stole the show with her first ever performance at the festival last week. Dolly the dog was taken in by the Happy Landings animal shelter, situated close to the Glastonbury venue at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Parton, 68, said: "I had my manager call the Happy Landings animal shelter to make sure the dog is being treated and cared for properly. At this time, nobody has claimed the dog and the dog is in great hands at the shelter. I will take her home to America if nobody claims her within a reasonable amount of time." She also recorded a video message saying she was "very honoured and flattered" that the dog had been named after her. It is not the first time the singer has had an animal named after her. Dolly the sheep, the world's first successfully cloned mammal, was given the name in 1986 by scientists who were fans of the singer. Happy Landings said Dolly the dog is a "sweet-natured older lady" who arrived with a serious ear infection. The shelter said it had received many phone calls from concerned members of the public.

Dolly Parton offers to take home dog found at Glastonbury festival

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Men Presenting Their Twats!

She's almost 50 and hasn't produced an album since 2008. She's also no longer under a recording contract. She's married to a supposed billionaire.

"To Russia With Love," produced by Robert Redford and Laura Michalchyshyn's Sundance Productions, features figure skater turned broadcaster Johnny Weir as host-interviewer. EPIX is bringing a documentary about gay athletes to the small screen that was partially shot during the Sochi Winter Games. Titled To Russia With Love, the documentary features figure skater turned broadcaster Johnny Weir as host-interviewer and chronicles two generations of Olympic LGBT athletes. The film is produced by Robert Redford and Laura Michalchyshyn's Sundance Productions. Weir was on hand at the Olympics in Russia, which has strict anti-gay laws on the books, as an on-air figure skating analyst for NBC. The documentary will make its world premiere Oct. 22. To Russia with Love examines human rights through the lens of LGBT athletes and includes interviews with legends Billie Jean King and Greg Louganis as well as the next generation of LGBT athletes who participated in the 2014 Olympic Games. Shooting worldwide in locations as diverse as Sochi, New York, Calgary, Toronto, St. Petersburg and Moscow, the film follows these athletes from the ice to the slopes as they bear the brunt of constant media questioning about Russia's anti-gay laws. Noam Gonick, who directed To Russia With Love, collected the Sochi footage without the consent of Russian authorities to protect the gay athletes who participated.

EPIX to Air Gay Athletes Doc Shot Secretly During Sochi Olympics

And a beard (a real one..) Looking damn fine.

Wow, Bradley Cooper gained weight - And it's all muscle.

Let’s put aside the cultural jigsaw puzzle that allowed this kid to become internet-famous in the first place, but the fact remains that Nash Grier currently has 8.7 million followers on Vine. That’s 8.7. Million. People. To put it in perspective, Justin Bieber’s Vine is followed by 1.7 million. The 16-year-old (he was born in 1997 to make you feel extra old) is one of a growing trend of photogenic kids who seem to blow up social media with selfies and short videos, gaining fame and the potential for actual money along the way. As a general rule of thumb, kids can occasionally be huge idiots. It’s just science. And normally we wouldn’t report on a 16-year-old being homophobic, except that there were 8.7 million people listening when ‘lil Nashy posted something not only stupid (also not news since all his posts are stupid) but homophobic, misinformed and insulting. The post was taken down, but not before it could get reposted by another Youtuber, Tyler Oakley. Here’s what Tyler tweeted about it, and below you can see Nash’s Vine: Call me and people like me, 'fag' all you want, but spreading false information about deadly diseases is next level. Charming. Assuming that the vast majority of those 8.7 million followers are young people in this country, we hope Tyler wasn’t the only one who took offense. Maybe it’s about time to hit “unfollow,” America. On a side note, you can buy these sweat pants off of Nash’s website.

Millions Of People Follow This Homophobic Teen Dweeb On Vine

God, what's with the tattoos?!

That Young Just Out of the Closet Youtuber Father Continues To Seek Attention

I was cleaning my freezer this morning and I came across a boneless port loin roast. I defrosted the meat and threw it in the oven and I now have enough roast pork for a week. I'll have figure out a few ways to use it, but I know it will be good. I was expecting it to be quite dry as pork usually is, but it's exceptionally succulent to my amazement.

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World's earliest erotic graffiti found in unlikely setting on Aegean island Racy inscriptions and phalluses carved into Astypalaia's rocky peninsula shed light on very private lives of ancient Greece Helena Smith in Athens; The Guardian, Sunday 6 July 2014 14.57 BST Wild, windswept, rocky and remote, Astypalaia is not an obvious place for the unearthing of some of the world's earliest erotic graffiti. Certainly, Dr Andreas Vlachopoulos, a specialist in prehistoric archaeology, didn't think so when he began fieldwork on the Aegean island four years ago. Until he chanced upon a couple of racy inscriptions and large phalluses carved into Astypalaia's rocky peninsula at Vathy. The inscriptions, both dating to the fifth and sixth centuries BC, were "so monumental in scale" – and so tantalisingly clear – he was left in no doubt of the motivation behind the artworks. "They were what I would call triumphant inscriptions," said the Princeton-trained professor who found them while introducing students to the ancient island world of the Aegean. "They claimed their own space in large letters that not only expressed sexual desire but talked about the act of sex itself," he told the Guardian. "And that is very, very rare." Chiselled into the outcrops of dolomite limestone that dot the cape, the inscriptions have provided invaluable insight into the private lives of those who inhabited archaic and classical Greece. One, believed to have been carved in the mid-sixth century BC, proclaimed: "Nikasitimos was here mounting Timiona (Νικασίτιμος οἶφε Τιμίονα). "We know that in ancient Greece sexual desire between men was not a taboo," added Dr Vlachopoulos, who returned to the far-flung island last week to resume work with a team of topographers, photographers, conservationists and students. "But this graffiti … is not just among the earliest ever discovered. By using the verb in the past continuous [tense], it clearly says that these two men were making love over a long period of time, emphasising the sexual act in a way that is highly unusual in erotic artwork. " Found at the highest point of the promontory overlooking the Bay of Vathy on the island's north-western tip, the inscription has led the archaeologist to believe that soldiers may once have been garrisoned there. Two penises engraved into limestone beneath the name of Dion, and dating to the fifth century BC, were also discovered at lower heights of the cape. "They would seem to allude to similar behaviour on the part of Dion," said Vlachopoulos. The epigrapher, Angelos Matthaiou, said the graffiti had not only shed light on the very personal lives of the ancients but highlighted the extent of literacy at a time when the Acropolis in Athens had yet to be built. "Whoever wrote the erotic inscription referring to Timiona was very well trained in writing," said Matthaiou, for more than 25 years the general secretary at the Greek Epigraphic Society. "The letters have been very skillfully inscribed on the face of the rock, evidence that it was not just philosophers, scholars and historians who were trained in the art of writing but ordinary people living on islands too." Other rock art found at the site include carvings depicting oared ships, daggers and spirals – all still discernible despite exposure to the erosive effects of wind and sea. As the best-known motif of early Cycladic art representing the waves of the sea, spirals symbolised perpetual motion as the driving force in the life and thought of island communities. "We know that Greek islands were inhabited by the third millienium BC., but what we have found is evidence that, even then, people were using a coded language of symbols and imagery that was quite sophisticated," said Dr Vlachopoulos. Unit recently, Astypalaia has been better known for its ancient cemeteries of mass graves containing the remains of newborn infants. Now erotica has to be added to that sorry tale. "Few Greek islands have been properly explored or excavated and these findings are testimony to why it is so important that they are," said the archaeologist.

World's earliest erotic graffiti found in unlikely setting on Aegean island

The most ridiculous one yet, was the other day in the times someone speaking for "the pro-choice community." This is some feminist bullshit, right? I mean no man thinks like that. The "hunting community" or the "sports-fan community." JUST. DOESNT. HAPPEN.

In the earlier seasons of Tosh.O he tried really hard to convince everyone he's straight, and in the later seasons he didn't seem to care. So what's his deal? Gay, straight, bi?

Richard the Lionheart is one of England's most famous kings, and something of a gay icon, as well. Roger of Howden wrote of his relationship with Philip II of France: “They ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them. And the king of France loved him as his own soul; and they loved each other so much that the king of England [Henry II, Richard’s father] was absolutely astonished at the passionate love between them and marveled at it.” Richard banned women from his coronation celebrations. He married Berengaria, but she left him after a few months and I don't think they ever had sex. During his time in the Holy Land during the Third Crusade, he fell in love with a younger knight, Raife de Clermon -- I wish I could find more about this. "Warriors of God" by James Reston, Jr., a "dual biography" of Richard and Saladin, deals forthrightly with his homosexuality. I think it would make for a great mini-series; it's what I wish "Game of Thrones" was really about.

To me it seemed like they were upset that a video about one of the groups they love to hate could have led to a disaster. They want a holy war with Islam. The cover-up crap (Obama conspiracy) was an afterthought. Their initial outrage was over their being called out for their violent rhetoric. They would have done the same thing if it was an anti-gay video that led to a gay youth facility being blown up. They complain that the world is too PC, freedom of speech, blah, blah, blah. They want to open their mouths, spout their garbage, and receive no criticism in return. Not only do they want to find some way to get rid of Obama, but they want to do something about their voices being supposedly silenced by the PC Police. This video and event is symbolic to them - First Amendment rights. That's half the reason they'll never let this thing go. Had the video been about anything else, they wouldn't have given a shit. Because it went after Islam, they love it.

And if you think he has tongue kissed Paola? I just love the educational, cultural information you can share with the rest of us gays so we can know more about this wonderful world of ours.

Enough of this shit already! Some cunts set a bomb off. The brave people are the ones who fought back from their injuries and who suffered the loss of their loved ones and hunted down the bombers. Wearing tshirts and waving Red Sox banners doesn't make you "strong". What the fuck was the city supposed to do anyway, melt the fuck down and cease operations? Seriously, it's become the new "Stronger than the Storm" and "We Will Rebuild". We're going to be deluged with this crap the next 7 days so get ready. It's all going to be about how the city "came back" and is "stronger than ever" etc. etc. When did tragedies become tourism marketing campaigns and why would they make entire cities or states heroes for having lived through it when those people had nothing to do with surviving it?

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The first gay graffiti in history?

Biggest hack artist ever or brilliant satirist of American pop culture?

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Attached is a history of the Speedo from an Australian point of view. This paragraph caught my eye:%0D\ %0D\ ''American men have an aversion to displaying their bodies in public,'' one German visitor blogged. ''Ever since gay men came out of the closet in the ''80s and showed us who they were, straight American men went into the closet to show us what they weren''t. Before the late ''80s men wore shorter shorts and swimwear was short and fitted. Men used to be so free and liberated then. Now they are scared.''%0D\ %0D\ Amen! Americans need to get over their body aversion. The full article attached.

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CHICAGO - At least 11 people were killed and 60 others wounded citywide in shootings in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend, reports CBS Chicago. There were also six police-involved shootings, two of which involved teens who were killed. In the most recent fatal shooting, an unidentified 44-year-old woman was shot at a barbecue around 12:30 a.m. Monday in the city's Morgan Park neighborhood, according to the station. She was shot as she leaned into a car in a parking lot and was pronounced dead at the scene. "While to date we have had the fewest murders since 1963, one victim is too many and there is clearly much more work to be done," said police spokesman Martin Maloney. At least 60 others were wounded in shootings throughout the holiday weekend.

60 shot, 11 killed in Chicago 4th of July weekend shootings

Not the ones who start endless threads about Matt Bomer, but the ones who show up with their tired shtick. I'll start: The one(s) who post "shreeeeeeee eeeeeeee eeeeeee eeeeeeek" on every thread. The Liza troll. The "feets" troll. The "circumcision is mutilation" troll. Which trolls annoy the shit out of you?

He has amazing eyes, post your best lookers.

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Castro wanted to make everyone equal, but he made everyone poor. Discuss.

What was he like? I was 11 when he died, so I don't really have any recollections of him. I recently read that Ann Coulter was one of the writers for his magazine George, which piqued my interest. Was he smart? Wikipedia says he failed the bar exam twice. Didn't he date Sarah Jessica Parker?

He Likes Them Big and Buff He took off for the desert recently. To relax. And party. Without his girl. And gets high and hooks up with random men online (he likes them super pretty and super jacked), inviting them to his hotel room for a night of drugs and sex. Two problems here. First, he’s a recovering addict and second, when he goes on these tears, he doesn’t use condoms. It’s the kind of reckless behaviour he’s been able to control through much of his success and for many years now. Curiously though, the last time this happened it was also during one of his transformations. Back then though, there was no explosion of social media and everyone taking pictures. Considering that he’s been hooking up with dudes who are on the young side (but totally legal), he’s risking being exposed by someone who’s out to show off and exploit.

Any ideas?

Blind Riddle: His Drunken Proposition

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I was looking for one of Enrique Iglesias new song (Loco) on youtube and came upon this video of him serenading a gay guy. It has several years but is very sweet. Never understood why he's always been so critiziced here

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The 40-year-old former tennis player is engaged to 72-year-old billionaire and philanthropist Tom Golisano. She seems to have a history of dating billionaires and no documented history of dating age peers. Never been married and no kids. Do the DL lezzies claim her as a closet case?

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How big a story was it?

There seem to be a lot of people who believe there is something special about being from Texas. Is there anyone who is not from Texas who thinks there is anything special about being from Texas?

Let's say you were invited to a wedding of a close friend. And the person said you had to wear a cultural or religious garment to attend, as it is their custom. Some examples include wrapping your head in a scarf or wearing a yamaka or wearing a robe or even painting your face with war paint. The point is, it is culture to don a certain garment to respect the person's culture. So would you don this cultural garment, without hesitation? Vote below and discuss.

Discuss World Cup eye candy and other matters here.

Someone posted this on FB through a radio station page I'm linked to. It's something about a girl who died from carbon monoxide poisoning. "Angelversery" Jesus fucking Christ.

If you could have any dog in the world what would it be and why. And yes, in real life we should all get a rescue. I know- but this is hypothetical. Irish Wolfhounds are amazing and seem like gentle giants, but I could even begin to afford how much food they eat.

No one in the real world talks or behaves like his characters. He's Edward D. Wood, Jr. with more money.

Douglas Sirk films are big-budget camp

They''re all so ridiculously good looking and hot. And don''t get me started on their thick, meaty bubble butts. They REALLY get my boihole all atwitter. Many of them are bi too. Most of the guys in my gym are Dominican, and I''ve slept with at least six of them in the past year. %0D\ %0D\ %0D\ I moved to Inwood last year, and they''re all around. They''re everywhere. It''s like a wet dream come to life. I never want to live anywhere else. Seriously addicted to these men. Surely there must be a 12-step program for me. Anyone else totally in awe of Dominican men?

I've been watching many of his films last few days and I think he's quite hot and do quite well in sexy, seductive roles. Does anyone like him or is a fan? What are your thoughts on him? I find the fantastic Four, an underrated film, he performed exceedingly well in it.

Yeah, so why did he change his name to Max and hightail it to a farm with his brother?

Who is it? Is he out now? Good for him!

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"Nothing to write home about"

Novak Djokovic hits the beach shirtless with serious bulge showing on the beach with male friends. What do you all think? Hot or Not?

Tennis Star Novak Djokovic Shirtless On The Beach With Male Friends!

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In other words, is there a way to lose 1 lb of fat each day without significant muscle loss (and therefore a slowed metabolism)? Before you say, "Moderation is key" or "change your diet slowly so you won't gain the weight back" or some variant of this, keep in mind that all I'm asking is if it's physically possible. Basically, I just want to know if it there's a scientific limit to how much fat a person can lose in a day without compromising their metabolism. I'm curious because recently I've noticed that a lot of so-called "expert" advice hasn't been true for me. I went from eating 3 solid meals a day to eating 6 smaller ones to now eating 2 regular-sized meals a day (just lunch and dinner), and I feel much better on just meals even when keeping the type of food I'm eating relatively the same. I was surprised considering how much experts like to shove the "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" adage down our throats. It makes wonder what other "advice" I should be skeptical of.

I just spent 10 minutes politely listening to a co-worker tell me about his adult daughter's lab expiraments. He's one of those people who lives vicariously through his children, so it's basically his way of telling me HE'S getting a PhD. However, it actually amazes me that he took me away from work to tell me a drawn out story involving a complete stranger who means nothing to me. I understand the unconditional love part of parenthood, but why should others suffer?

Check out Zac Efron vacationing in Italy with friends dancing to Jason Derulo's "Wiggle".

Zac Efron Dances To Jason Derulo's "Wiggle" With Dancer Guy Friend & Older Businessman!

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NASA creates GIF showing 60 years of climate change.

Proof of Global Warming

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I have three cats who spend most of their time lounging outside on my covered deck in the back of my house. About 3 days ago a stray mama cat and her three kittens appeared. Mama has adopted me but now my three cats are freaked out, whining to be let in and generally act terrified of this laid back cat who essentially doesn't hiss or show any aggression towards them. She's not feral and even rubbed up against my leg the other evening and lays very close. What is their deal. I could see hissing from them but they are on my front porch now and acting like total weenies. P.S. I am going to take her to the vet under the "feral" cat program where they spay them for $35.

Madonna reported on Facebook today that she is headed into New York County's Court House for jury selection. You think they'll choose her?

What kind of trial will she get???

I never read the first three....can I pick up the narrative thread easily?

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Ellen DeGeneres Reportedly Cheated While Portia De Rossi Was In Rehab

He didn't get small, the characters did!!

DL icon Brandon Routh (rhymes with Mouth) continues DC Comics association, to play shrinking superhero the Atom on CW's "Arrow"

Is he any good or just a trash writer? I know Gawker used to always zing him for his self-promotion (which is usually Gawker's way of promoting somebody) but are any of his books worthwhile?

Who has read Tao Lin?

1.Start dating Taylor Swift 2.Become a right-wing, anti-gay politician and pose for fitness magazines as "America's fittest congressman" What else?

… was it just me or did he mean Thomas actually purchased it for him?

Did anybody read this or have a mom who read it... or attempted to read it? What was the appeal? Is it over 1,000 pages of women in parasols and hats having tea? Why was it THE summer read of 1984?

It seems like it's fizzled but it just got an early renewal for a 7th season, even before the 6th season premiers. Jackie will apparently go back to drugs (which she kinda already dead in the close of last season.). No more Dr. O'Hara and 'Dr. Coop' is leaving as a cast regular. I'm sure we'll be smothered with more smearing on of the "precocious and precious" Zoe. I want to see late in life nurses hook up with hot, younger boyfriends! I wanna see more cliche E.R. scenes!

Brandon Routh is set to play another DC Comics super man — this time on Arrow. The erstwhile Man of Steel is joining the CW hit’s third season in the recurring role of Ray Palmer, aka DC superhero The Atom, TVLine has learned exclusively. An unparalleled scientist and inventor, Ray will play an unexpected role in the lives of Oliver and (rumored love interest) Felicity as the new owner of Queen Consolidated. Palmer’s plans for Queen Consolidated’s Applied Sciences Division will be shrouded in mystery. Also joining Arrow this fall — as previously reported by TVLine — are Sin City‘s Devon Aoki (as DC Comics superheroine “Katana”), Karl Yune (as Oliver’s Hong Kong handler/Katana’s husband Maseo Yamashiro), and Peter Stormare (as Count Vertigo). Routh’s TV credits include NBC’s late, much-missed Chuck, CBS’ short-lived Partners and, more recently, Crackle’s Chosen and Fox’s Enlisted. Arrow premieres its third season on Wednesday, Oct. 8.

Arrow Targets Brandon Routh to Play Major DC Comics Superhero in Season 3

I loved this movie as a kid. Not so much as an adult. But it is my favorite musical. I love the songs and the story. Yes I know it is not Sondheim. But the simple Americana I love it. As for Robert Preston- he is so excellent. As is Jones. This is the only movie I like her in.

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Stephen Anal is the new Green Arrow!

It seemed like there was a period where we could post about Pine Valley, Genoa City, and a dystopian version of L.A. without gays in the fashion industry! What happened?!

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Evidently, "The View" quote was done to cover up negotiations with Diane Sawyer.

Anyone see tonight's episode regarding the drought situation and denial in Texas? They just couldn't wrap their minds around something tangible like science and climate change. It was all about Jesus and God. Do Texans realize how much of an embarrassment to humanity they are?

Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that closely held companies cannot be required to pay to cover some types of contraceptives for their employees, ending its term with a narrow legal and political setback for a controversial part of President Barack Obama's health care reform law. In a 5-4 decision, the high court's conservatives essentially ruled that some for-profit corporations have religious rights. The owners of Hobby Lobby, furniture maker Conestoga Wood Specialties and Christian bookseller Mardel argued that the Affordable Care Act violates the First Amendment and other federal laws protecting religious freedom because it requires them to provide coverage for contraceptives like the "morning-after pill," which the companies consider tantamount to abortion. The decision, which comes two years after the justices narrowly preserved the Affordable Care Act and its key funding provision, could serve as a primer for other pending challenges to the health law. The issue before the justices was whether Obamacare could mandate contraception coverage specifically for certain businesses that object for religious reasons. "This case isn't that practically important, except for the employees and businesses involved. There just aren't a huge number of those," said Thomas Goldstein, publisher of SCOTUSblog.com and a Washington appellate attorney. "But everyone can agree the social questions presented -- about when people can follow their religious convictions, and when people are entitled to contraception care -- are truly important," he said. Contraception mandate The section of law in dispute requires for-profit employers of a certain size to offer insurance benefits for birth control and other reproductive health services without a co-pay. A number of companies equate some of the covered drugs, such as the so-called morning-after pill, as causing abortion. The specific question presented was whether these companies can refuse, on the sincere claim it would violate their owners' long-established moral beliefs. The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." "How does a corporation exercise religion?" asked Justice Sonia Sotomayor at March's oral arguments, summarizing perhaps the key constitutional question at hand. "This is a religious question and it's a moral question," added Justice Samuel Alito, suggesting the businesses have such a right. "You want us to provide a definitive secular answer." Conestoga, Hobby Lobby The justices have a good deal of discretion to frame the competing issues and could reach a limited "compromise" through narrow statutory interpretation. They could conclude individual owners can make the religious freedom claim, bypassing the corporate rights argument, but still give female workers the flexibility to get covered drugs. The court weighed two related appeals from Conestoga Wood Specialties, a Pennsylvania cabinet maker, and Hobby Lobby, an Oklahoma-based retail giant that will have more than 700 arts-and-crafts stores nationwide by year's end. Both corporations emphasized their desire to operate in harmony with biblical principles while competing in a secular marketplace. That includes their leaders' publicly stated opposition to abortion. The case presented a complex mix of legal, regulatory, and constitutional concerns over such thorny issues as faith, abortion, corporate power, executive agency discretion, and congressional intent. Health law impact The political stakes are large, especially for the future effectiveness of the health law, which marks its fourth anniversary this year. The botched rollout last fall of HealthCare.gov, the federal Obamacare website, has become another political flashpoint along with other issues that many Republicans say proves the law is unworkable. They have made Obamacare a key campaign issue in their fight to overtake the Senate, and retain control of the House. Supporters of the law fear a high court setback on the contraception mandate will lead to other healthcare challenges on religion grounds, such as do-not-resuscitate orders and vaccine coverage. More broadly, many worry giving corporations religious freedom rights could affect laws on employment, safety, and civil rights. The abortion link The Hahn family, owners of Conestoga, and the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby, said some of the mandated contraception prevent human embryos from being implanted in a woman's womb, which the plaintiffs equate with abortion. That includes Plan B contraception, which some have called the "morning after" pill, and intrauterine devices or IUDs used by an estimated 2 million American women. A key issue for the bench was interpreting a 1993 federal law requiring the government to seek the "least burdensome" and narrowly tailored means for any law that interferes with religious convictions. Monday's decision comes two years after the justices allowed the law's "individual mandate" to go into effect. That provision requires most Americans to get health insurance or pay a financial penalty. It is seen as the key funding mechanism to ensure near-universal health coverage. Under the Affordable Care Act, financial penalties of up to $100 per day, per employee can be levied on firms that refuse to provide comprehensive health coverage. Hobby Lobby, which has about 13,000 workers, estimates the penalty could cost it $475 million a year. The church-state issue now in the spotlight involves rules negotiated between the Obama administration and various outside groups. Under the changes, churches and houses of worship are completely exempt from the contraception mandate. Other nonprofit, religiously affiliated groups, such as church-run hospitals, parochial schools and charities must either offer coverage or have a third-party insurer provide separate benefits without the employer's direct involvement. Lawsuits in those cases are pending in several federal appeals courts. Second generation Monday's decision could signal how the court will approach other lawsuits against the health care law. "We're now getting the second generation of challenges to Obamacare -- about the actual adoption of the statute, and its core provisions," said Goldstein. "We're probably going to see cases over the next five to ten years, as more and more details about the law get put into effect."

Supreme Court rules against Obama in contraception case; motherfucking cunts!!

For 10 bucks you can park yourself at a table and consume thousands of calories in one sitting. I feel for the poor waitstaff. Their tips are going to be in the shitter. A lot of patrons are going to be spending time on the shitter after all of this grease: Loaded Potato Skins, Pan-Seared Pot Stickers, Mozzarella Sticks, Garlic & Basil Bruschetta, Tuscan Spinach Dip, Boneless Buffalo Wings, Crispy Green Bean Fries.

Endless appetizers at TGI Fridays for a limited time only!!!

New series about a ship in a world where an epidemic has swept the world killing almost everyone. Anyone going to watch it?

[quote] Being thick, it's not really something you have like control of," the actress tells us. "It really is a disease, like alcoholism. Why would I choose this?" [quote] "Everyday stuff is a issue. The things most people don't even think about, I got to! Will that chair break if I sit on it? Will it squeak and make everyone think I will break it? [quote] "I don't ever use public restrooms, it's just not practical. But I was at a party for a coworker's new perfume and I had to go! It was that or make an embarrassing exit [laughs]. I ended up wrapping the paper around one of those cleaning brushes to clean myself. I usually will take a shower after going boo boo but that time I got creative [laughs]

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(condensed version of his OP-ED) The gay community has a chip on its shoulder from the politicians and preachers that it once fought, passing it off as a never-again mentality. That’s bunk. It’s not a popular opinion, but it’s true: the gay lobby has become the bully. The absurdity of it all is that we’ve won. Not every member of the queer community. Far from it. And hardly all of our brothers, sisters and fellow queer people worldwide have experienced the same victory that we have. But if we’re talking about middle-class white gay men in Canada? Hell, we arguably have it better than the average straight guy. That’s not a comfortable, or perhaps even conceivable, thought for a population so well trained in cultural guerrilla warfare. At the end of the day, where does it end? Do we go after every person who actively works against us? Do we destroy every funder of anti-gay movements — like Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich? Do we attack everyone who speaks out or makes a one-off comment — like Ted Bird or reality-TV bachelor Juan Pablo? Institutionalized homophobia, transphobia, racism or discrimination should always be fought. But teasing out the personal convictions of anyone and using it as a basis to take them out? That’s exactly what we experienced, and we know how oppressive it feels. The queer community won its rights — and will continue to win its rights — by engaging the debate and winning. We won’t cement those rights in place by turning around and taking shots at those who haven’t come around to seeing us as normal, yet. And we don’t reduce violence by engaging the state to attack our enemies. We do the opposite. Gay rights are not a lucky break brought about by fooling the populace at large. Gay rights are not a fragile peace that can be broken by a man in a sandwich board with a strongly worded leaflet. Gay rights are the product of decades of struggle, and if you think a few holdouts are going to threaten that, you have another think coming, sister. If you want to stand up for closeted youth or marginalized queer populations or our oppressed cohorts overseas, do it not by demonizing the few who don’t like us, but by holding up the millions who do. -Justin Ling

Canadian Gay journalist writes "The Gay Lobby Has Become The ***BULLY***"

My god, only the fourth? With the amount of cast shakeups they've had, I would have thought they would have been at least going into their sixth!

Mine was Beluah Bondi - she was always OLD. Saw a film of hers the other night, from 1934, and she was old then. "It's A Wonderful Life " was over 10 years later - still old, and "A Summer Place", over another 10 years, and still old. Then she ended up on "The Waltons" over 10 years after that ! Freaky.

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Proof that he's gay. Go.

I swear I just noticed my warm brown eyes now have slate blue rings around them.\ \ I''m firmly in middle age and I used to wear contacts (started with the hard ones in 1969) so I am used to looking closely at my eyes over the years.\ \ Anyone else experience subtle eye color changes as you''ve aged?

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And why?

I know about Downton Abbey, The New Normal, Days of Our Lives and Spartacus. Are there any others?

Why? It just doesn't make sense. If anyone should spring for expensive underwear that fits well, it's gay men. Thank you for listening because this is IMPORTANT.

Though famine still takes its toll on the unfortunates across the sea, the greatest nation in the world has transcended such concerns. Here, our Statue of Liberty's upraised torch beckons with the message: In America, our appetizers are endless. In a bid to have its logo engraved on Mount Rushmore alongside our nation's other greatest heroes, indistinguishable flair-bedecked roadside dining hut TGI Fridays is now offering "endless appetizers" to you, the consumer, for the meager sum of $10. For less than the price of a single appetizer at a "good" restaurant, TGI Fridays will allow you, the consumer, to consume an unlimited amount of the following foodlike items: Loaded Potato Skins, Pan-Seared Pot Stickers, Mozzarella Sticks, Garlic & Basil Bruschetta, Tuscan Spinach Dip, Boneless Buffalo Wings, Crispy Green Bean Fries. (For those of you not versed in fine dining lingo, that is: Potato Bacon Cheez, Fried noodle pockets, fried cheese, grease bread, cream cheese dip, chicken fingers, and fried fry.) For the price of a dime bag, TGI Fridays employees will reheat these items, place them on a machine-washed plate, and deliver them directly to your table, until such time that you instruct them to cease doing so. Furthermore, TGI Fridays chief marketing officer Brian Gies assures USA Today that the restaurant's employees will not call the police on you should you choose to order a single order of "Endless Appetizers" and then share your endless appetizers with your broke, deadbeat friend, Taylor Berman: Even then, says Gies, Fridays will respect whatever tack customers take — even if it bends the rules of the promotion. "No one should be embarrassed for coming into Fridays and ordering whatever they want to order," he says. "They will not be bawled out. There will be no policing or hand-slapping." It is our fervent hope that this promotion succeeds in flooding each and every TGI Fridays location with large groups of America's homeless, all of whom will sit at a table all day sharing a single order of endless appetizers, until TGI Fridays is driven out of business, victims of their own generosity. We offer TGI Fridays our encouragement, and watch on in horror.

"ENDLESS APPETIZERS" at TGI Fridays

According to various reports, four gay NFL players will soon come out of the closet. But veteran free safety Kerry Rhodes wants to make it clear: he will not be one of them. Pictures of Rhodes surfaced this week on Media Take Out in which the player's arms are around a man in a tank top, but Rhodes tells TMZ the shots are harmless. "Photos have been circulating of my former assistant and I that have caused some rumors regarding my sexuality, and I wanted to address the situation," Rhodes says in a statement. "I am not gay." The free agent adds that the pics were snapped during a "casual" vacation with his "entire business team." Rhodes does say he agrees with Magic Johnson overall, however: he's all for those athletes who actually are homosexual: "I know a lot of people are recently talking about athletes struggling to come out to their fans right now, and I support them, as well as wish those individuals comfort."

Kerry Rhodes: I Am Not Gay!

He's on Facebook, shirtless all the time, totally pings but seems to imply he's straight. Not sure I can figure out what's with the weird "invisible" tattoo on his torso but he sure does love himself.

Anybody know this Mormon guy?

Would one of you Brits please explain her to me? I only knew of her from my cousins who lived in the UK at the time. I watched some of her early videos today and she kind of makes me cringe. She wasn't punk, really. She was kind of New Wave, I guess. But she wasn't cool and seemed to lack street credibility. She seemed kind of dorky, but in a purposefully arty kind of way. She had a unique look, and her music was different. But it sort of defied labels. I hate to call her a fake. But I don't think she was real rock and roll either.

Watching this really good coming-of-age flick with the always excellent Jennifer Jason Leigh and DL fave Bug Hall as her teen son. There's this scene where he has a wet dream and when he goes to show his mother the mess and ask her what it is, she tastes it to be sure it is what she thinks it is! I was slightly taken aback by that scene, but the film is an endearing slice of life.

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Imagine if you will, Audrey cruising by Tiffany's, munching on that pastry, and there it is---an ugly tag. Somehow, the movie would not be the same. I've recently rewatched Picnic and realize that in today's world, those grain towers would be covered in writing. I know i'll be called a philistine for writing this, but graffiti sucks. There's a rare Banksy and I would not appreciate having anybody spray paint stuff on the side of my building. I think the best punishment would be to make the perpetrator walk around wearing old people clothes and a Lawrence Welk appreciation t shirt.

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Is Luke getting ready to come out of the closet? Again?

Luke Evans poses arm-in-arm with male date at AMFAR Cannes gala

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He looks so sexy in these ad pics for Jimmy Choo.

'Game of Thrones' Cutie Kit Harington Is The New Face of Jimmy Choo!

What the fuck was Beethoven thinking?