Dammit, it's not even been a day since my last post and my hopes are dashed already. Sandra O'Connor is retiring from the Supreme Court. That means we will probably have two new Justices by October. What lousy timing. Canada is looking better all the time.

Now the lower house of the Spanish Congress has passed legislation similar to that recently passed in Canada. But this one is even more liberal in that it will also allow gays to adopt children. WOW!!! Amazing in a country that is so heavily Catholic. Not surprisingly, the Vatican is denouncing the legislation (more and more drama for them as ( Read more... )

I was just reading that the House of Commons in Canada has approved a federal law in that country making gay marriage legal (nationwide), although 7 separate Provinces had already legalized gay marriage. This is in sharp contrast to the United States where more and more states are formally adopted legislation making gay marriage ILLEGAL. But I ( Read more... )

There has been a flurry of news reports the last couple of days about a possible bird flu epidemic in the next year or two. Some predictions are that it could be a pandemic on the scale of the 1918 Flu Pandemic that killed many millions of people. But even it is not as bad as 1918, and killed people in the thousands (instead of the millions), it ( Read more... )

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Scientific evidence that gay men's brains react to male pheromones. Paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (website at http://www.pnas.org). Abstract below summarizes their findings ( Read more... )

HAPPY Friday the 13th. Tornados gone and storms moving east, so weather no longer a threat here. Just my luck, my car will be back-ended or side-swiped today. I'm not superstitious, but just had a vague feeling lately that something bad is going to happen. It's not making feel depressed or anything like that, just a little uneasy and unusually ( Read more... )

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HAPPY Cinqo de Mayo in the year 05. Cinqo, cinqo, cinqo-----the world is in sync, and NSYNC had five members. So a high five to you all!!!!! Yes, I am in a good mood.
~~~~~Ken (05/05/05)
P.S. I would have posted this at 5:05, but I was still asleep. ;-)

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