I didn't understand it when I was younger, how some guys turned into "Bug Chasers" -- they fetishized barebacking as a way to catch HIV -- on purpose ( Read more... )

I'm frustrated that any effort to try to reform legal immigration in this country turns into a debate about illegal immigration. If I were a legal immigrant, I would probably be offended that people always lump both issues together.

As much as I advocate equal rights for gays, I think if I were to write a letter to the Prez my #1 issue to elevate, both personally and for the health of the country, would be immigration reform. I expect I will write such a letter this week ( Read more... )

The Ladies Professional Golf Association has warned its members that they must become conversant in English by 2009 or face suspension.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/sports/golf/27golf.html

You must realize that anytime I'm resting in bed or on the sofa, Edwina is sitting on my lap, belly, or chest. This makes it difficult for me to post to my LJ. I have to shoo her away, and she has to be willing to stay away, if I am to type anything ( Read more... )

Over the past 30 years, the citizens of Denmark have scored higher than any other Western country on measures of life satisfaction, and scientists think they know why ( Read more... )

The themes of the coming election have emerged with crystalline clarity. Democrats decry the debacles -- the war, the price of gas, the sleaze -- devised by the president and Congress. Republicans allege that Democrats "sponsored a bill to let American homosexuals bring their foreign homosexual lovers to this country on a marriage visa. If ( Read more... )