When I first moved here, I was somewhat disappointed in the fact that San Francisco was not exactly what I expected. I had these images of the San Francisco of 70's gay porn. Lots of hot guys walking around, making out on the street, buttless chaps everywhere. You get the picture.

Apparently I'm not the only one who has that incorrect image of San Francisco. Virtually everyone I know from "back east" thinks my life is a non-stop orgy, that sex is readily available on every street corner. Well, that is far from the truth most weeks.

But this weekend, the San Francisco I always imagined shows up with the Folsom Street Fair. The big leather/bdsm/fetish extravaganza along Folsom Street in SOMA. Lots of kinky shit going on. Some great music as well from Berlin, The Presets, The English Beat, and others.

I'm not planning to go to the fair, but the kinkiness spills over into the surrounding area. And, there will be plenty of other activities like Planet Big on Friday night and Bearacuda's big under-bear party at DNA on Sunday night.

Should be a very interesting weekend in San Francisco.

Cute puppy. Fucking hot quarterback. I would lick more than Derek Anderson's face given the chance. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

marriage news.....

Recently, I've been thinking that things were really quiet on the marriage front. I haven't seen anything about it in the news in ages, and I've seen only a couple of yard signs, both opposing Prop 8.

So, I was delighted to read that a new Field Poll just released is showing increasing opposition to Prop 8. According to the new poll, 55% of California voters plan to vote against Prop 8.

Opposition to Prop 8 remains strongest in coastal counties, with the greatest opposition in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. But, the good news is that support for Prop 8 is softening in the inland counties. For the first time, more people oppose than support Prop 8 in inland counties (48%-44%).

Analysts believe the change in Prop 8 verbiage from "definition of marriage" to "eliminate right to marry" is having a significant impact since the latter is much more harsh and negative.

But, despite the good news, we can't assume the battle is over. Right wing nutjobs from churches like the Mormons, Catholics, Southern Baptists, and others are organizing money and support. They are going for blood.

We must continue to do everything in our power to make sure the people are persuaded to vote against Prop 8.

On his AOL Political Machine blog, Andrew Sullivan did an Internet poll, asking the simple question: "Is Alaska Governor Sarah Palin a pathological liar?

Now, Internet polls are notoriously unscientific. However, I found it interesting that of the 39,000 votes, 36% of the respondents said that Palin is, indeed, a pathological liar. That's an awfully high percentage considering how harshly the question was worded.

Even more interesting, Alaska (416 total votes) was more critical of her than any other state. 54% of those Alaska voters said Palin is a pathological liar. That was the highest percentage of any state.

Yes, it's unscientific. But what does it say when your own state appears to distrust you that much?

Presidential debates can make or break a candidacy. JFK gained support because he appeared poised and confident while Richard Nixon was sweaty and appeared nervous. Gerald Ford probably killed his chances by stating that the USSR didn't really control Poland. And Reagan's famous "are you better off than you were four years ago" question slammed the door shut on Jimmy Carter's presidency.

So what is John McCain afraid of? In the midst of the financial crisis, he wants to postpone this Friday's debate with Barack Obama, and return to Washington to work on the Wall Street bailout plan. Obama, rightfully, has nixed that idea, saying that "a president has to be able to handle more than one thing at a time."

Washington has been getting along just fine without McCain for how many months? Why is he now urgently needed back on Capitol Hill? Perhaps he's afraid he'll be upstaged by Obama, or perhaps he wants to give Daisy Duke more time to prepare for her debate with Joe Biden.

One would think if he's so confident in himself, and/or his VP choice, he would welcome the debates. After all, candidacies can be made or broken on them.

Something seems suspiciously fishy here.

Clay Aiken is gay???? Go figure.

Big shocker here. Clay Aiken is coming out in the October 6 issue of People. Clay said the catalyst for coming out publicly is his newborn son, Parker Foster Aiken. He said he "could not raise a child to lie or hide things."

What took him so long to cum out? I'm sure it had something to do with concerns about his career. I'm guessing he finally realized he had none, so he had nothing to lose. Kind of like Mr. Sulu.

Anyway, it's a little anticlimactic, but congrats, Clay, on finally kicking down that closet door.

queer quips......

Freddybear: what's your yahoo messenger name?
Jim: I don't use yahoo. I use AOL.
Freddybear: how 90's
Jim: cyber-snob
Freddybear: are you calling me a liberal elitist?
Jim: if the Ferragamo fits

OK, I'm going to don my liberal, elitist garb now.

Winston Churchill once said, "the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with an average voter."

Even our own founding fathers, whom I revere, had little faith in the common man. That's why they set up the Electoral College, and why Senators were elected by state legislatures, not the voters, until 1913. I guess they were liberal elitists too.

Nothing screams the veracity of this like the current election cycle.

According to the latest AP/Yahoo poll, Obama is having trouble winning over Hillary Clinton supporters. Only 58% of her supporters say they will vote for him. That is exactly where it stood when Hillary bowed out of the campaign.

These people are willing to let John McCain win this election, either out of spite, or because McCain chose a woman as his running mate. Never mind the fact that McCain is part of the machine that has driven this country into the ground. Never mind that Palin is diametrically opposed to everything their beloved Hillary believes in. Never mind that there is little difference between Obama and Clinton on issues. They didn't get their way, so they're going to take their toys and go home.

Unbelievable. No wonder the United States is the laughing stock of the world.

The Internet is abuzz with rumors that the babydaddy of Bristol Palin's love child is actually a young man from L.A named Kevin. He claims to have met Bristol while visiting a relative in Wasilla, and that they hit it off, in more ways than one. I don't, for one second, believe this story. Mainly because the young man seems to have an agenda. He's an aspiring rap singer, and the publicity couldn't hurt. Nevertheless, in the spirit of the dirty, rotten lies that the McCain camp likes to spread, I will do my part to further this piece of sordid gossip.

More evidence that John McCain doesn't give a shit about you......

New studies by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center and the policy journal Health Affairs indicate that the Obama and McCain health plans, while costing about the same, would have vastly different results.

Obama's plan would insure about 34 million of the 47 uninsured Americans, while McCain's plan would insure about 5 million Americans AT BEST. Amazingly, both plans would cost about 100 billion dollars a year. I wonder where all the money is going in McCain's plan.

Oh, and by the way, McCain is planning on taxing health care benefits. Did you know that? He wants to tax your health care benefits, and offer a tax credit of $5,000 for families, and $2,500 for singles, in the hopes that you'll drop your employer-provided plan and sign up for your own private insurance. If you think you can buy health insurance for $2,500 a year, I have a bridge in Alaska I would like to talk to you about.

I'm a card carrying member....

OK, let's see if I got this right. Government assistance to the middle class = BAD. Government assistance to multi-billion dollar global corporations = GOOD. Does that about cover it?

The government announced an $85,000,000,000 bailout plan for AIG. AIG is yet another one of those financial behemoths that got in trouble over the mortgage/credit crisis. A self-inflicted crisis, by the way.

I love the way the government keeps stepping up to the plate to bail out these corporations which are only in trouble because of slimy business practices in the first place.

Wasn't it John McCain who blamed homeowners for the mortgage mess. Back in March, he said it wasn't the government's job to rescue people who were facing foreclosure because of their own irresponsibility. It will be interesting to hear what he has to say about the AIG bailout.

This is typical right-wing sleaze. KBYR Anchorage talk show host Eddie Burke took issue with the anti-Palin rally that was to take place in his town. Instead of discussing the matter rationally, like all right-wingers, he resorted to name calling, referring to the organizers of the rally as "socialist, baby-killing, maggots," among other things. Worse, he broadcast the personal cell phone numbers of said organizers on the air. According to the Anchorage Daily News, the broadcast resulted in the organizers receiving "angry, profane calls, some of them threatening."

What was this asshole's punishment? He received a one-week suspension. WTF???? This jerkoff should be fired for doing that. Of course, I would expect no less from a station that carries such garbage as "Focus on the Family" and Fox News.

Fortunately, this is a very podunk station. It's ranked 15th out of 21 radio stations in Anchorage, a market of 233,400 people. That means about 2,000 people listen to this guy, which, ironically, is the same number of people who attended the anti-Palin rally.

male bonding......

These brothers in the Melbourne, Australia Zoo do a little cuddling.....

Not much traffic on this highway near Sabine Pass, Texas after Ike.....

Alaska women against Palin.......

These are pictures taken from an Alaska Women Against Palin rally in Anchorage......



Looks like a pretty good crowd. Glad to know that there are some thinking people in Alaska.....




Here's my favorite.....

I love the way the pundits are telling us we shouldn't attack Sarah Palin. They say it will backfire on us because "she's a lady," and Americans will be offended at attacks on a lady.

Well, first of all, she ain't no lady. Ladies don't say "we're gonna do this" and "we're gonna do that" in speeches. No such word bitch. Look it up in a dictionary if you haven't banned those from the Wasilla library. Ladies also don't shoot defenseless animals from airplanes and helicopters. Even the most avid hunter will tell you there's no sport in that.

Second, all I can say is "WHAT THE FUCK!!!!" Isn't the whole point of the women's movement to be treated equally? Regardless of gender? Nobody seems to care about the sleazy attack ads McCain is running against Obama. Nobody but Karl Rove, that is. He says McCain has stepped across the line when it comes to stretching the truth, and that says a lot coming from the King of Sleaze.

Third, I guarantee that if Hillary were the nominee today, McCain would be spewing all kinds of sleazy accusations about her. God knows what kind of horrible accusations we would be hearing today if it were a Clinton/McCain race.

I make no apology for my opinion. Sarah Palin is not fit to be Vice President.
She has limited experience in government, and NO experience in foreign policy. Living across the Bering Strait from Russia doesn't count. If she, God forbid, ever became President, she would appoint Supreme Court justices who would further erode our freedoms. Beyond that, she's a fucking redneck, hillbilly, white trash, holy roller, and we must do everything in our power to make sure she doesn't come one heartbeat away from the presidency.

Years ago, Milwaukee talk show host Charlie Sykes, a conservative, wrote a book about the dumbing down of America. He wrote about how the educational system is turning out a bunch of uneducated rubes who lack critical thinking skills, and whose world view revolves around the latest celebrity scandal.

Nothing proves that more than the reaction of America to the addition of Sarah Palin to the Repuglican ticket. As incredulous as it may seem, adding this illiterate hick to the ticket, one heartbeat away from the presidency, has actually helped McCain in the polls.

It doesn't surprise me that the right wing religious nut jobs are flocking to McCain/Palin. Those are genuinely stupid people who believe such things as Noah literally placed two of every species of animal and insect on his ark and repopulated the Earth. But, I am very surprised, and disappointed, in all the others.

These are the people who have run this country into the ground for the last eight years. And now, you want to give them another shot at it?

I'm glad they saved the squirrel.....

I was watching Hurricane Ike coverage on KSLA-TV in Shreveport, when they did this story about a baby squirrel who had become separated from his mother. It's nice to see stories about people treating helpless animals with kindness. Sarah Palin would have stepped on him.

Sarah Palin's weird religious cult.......

The skeleton in Sarah Palin's closet is Pentecostalism. For years, she was a member of the Assembly of God Church, which preaches speaking in tongues, casting out demons, mystical healing powers, etc. Just check out this video to get a glimpse of what goes on in those kind of churches.

For years, I thought GW was the biggest possible embarrassment for the US on the world scene. Unfortunately, someone has come along who would make GW look like Gore Vidal. I can't believe this person is a serious contender for national office. Do we really want this redneck, white trash, hillbilly, snake handler one heartbeat away from the Oval Office?

Please God, I hope someone has some home video of Palin frothing at the mouth, babbling in tongues, and rolling around on the floor, and that it gets the national exposure it deserves.

over promise, under deliver.......

If you're going to use the word "hung" anywhere in your profile name, it's best not to compare your dick to a pack of Marlboro Lights. I measured a pack of Marlboro Lights. It is 3 1/4 inches long. You do the math.

Being a connoisseur of the big dick, I can assure you there are many more impressive things to compare your dick to than a pack of cigarettes.

I've been in the presence of several hung guys in my day, and never once did I think to myself, "gee that's as big as a cigarette."

Here's a pic of one of five otter pups just born at Veszprem Zoo in Hungary. Not that there's any significance to this. I just think he's really cute.

I love Maureen Dowd

Vice in Go-Go Boots?

The guilty pleasure I miss most when I’m out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick.

So imagine my delight, my absolute astonishment, when the hokey chick flick came out on the trail, a Cinderella story so preposterous it’s hard to believe it’s not premiering on Lifetime. Instead of going home and watching “Miss Congeniality” with Sandra Bullock, I get to stay here and watch “Miss Congeniality” with Sarah Palin.

Sheer heaven.

It’s easy to see where this movie is going. It begins, of course, with a cute, cool unknown from Alaska who has never even been on “Meet the Press” triumphing over a cute, cool unknowable from Hawaii who has been on “Meet the Press” a lot.

Americans, suspicious that the Obamas have benefited from affirmative action without being properly grateful, and skeptical that Michelle really likes “The Brady Bunch” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” reject the 47-year-old black contender as too uppity and untested.

Instead, they embrace 72-year-old John McCain and 44-year-old Sarah Palin, whose average age is 58, a mere two years older than the average age of the Obama-Biden ticket. Enthusiastic Republicans don’t see the choice of Palin as affirmative action, despite her thin résumé and gaping absence of foreign policy knowledge, because they expect Republicans to put an underqualified “babe,” as Rush Limbaugh calls her, on the ticket. They have a tradition of nominating fun, bantamweight cheerleaders from the West, like the previous Miss Congeniality types Dan Quayle and W., and then letting them learn on the job. So they crash into the globe a few times while they’re learning to drive, what’s the big deal?

Obama may have been president of The Harvard Law Review, but Palin graduated from the University of Idaho with a minor in poli-sci and worked briefly as a TV sports reporter. And she was tougher on the basketball court than the ethereal Obama, earning the nickname “Sarah Barracuda.”

The legacy of Geraldine Ferraro was supposed to be that no one would ever go on a blind date with history again. But that crazy maverick and gambler McCain does it, and conservatives and evangelicals rally around him in admiration of his refreshingly cynical choice of Sarah, an evangelical Protestant and anti-abortion crusader who became a hero when she decided to have her baby, who has Down syndrome, and when she urged schools to debate creationism as well as that stuffy old evolution thing.

Palinistas, as they are called, love Sarah’s spunky, relentlessly quirky “Northern Exposure” story from being a Miss Alaska runner-up, and winning Miss Congeniality, to being mayor and hockey mom in Wasilla, a rural Alaskan town of 6,715, to being governor for two years to being the first woman ever to run on a national Republican ticket. (Why do men only pick women as running mates when they need a Hail Mary pass? It’s a little insulting.)

Sarah is a zealot, but she’s a fun zealot. She has a beehive and sexy shoes, and the day she’s named she goes shopping with McCain in Ohio for a cheerleader outfit for her daughter.

As she once told Vogue, she’s learned the hard way to deal with press comments about her looks. “I wish they’d stick with the issues instead of discussing my black go-go boots,” she said. “A reporter once asked me about it during the campaign, and I assured him I was trying to be as frumpy as I could by wearing my hair on top of my head and these schoolmarm glasses.”

This chick flick, naturally, features a wild stroke of fate, when the two-year governor of an oversized igloo becomes commander in chief after the president-elect chokes on a pretzel on day one.

The movie ends with the former beauty queen shaking out her pinned-up hair, taking off her glasses, slipping on ruby red peep-toe platform heels that reveal a pink French-style pedicure, and facing down Vladimir Putin in an island in the Bering Strait. Putting away her breast pump, she points her rifle and informs him frostily that she has some expertise in Russia because it’s close to Alaska. “Back off, Commie dude,” she says. “I’m a much better shot than Cheney.”

Then she takes off in her seaplane and lands on the White House lawn, near the new ice fishing hole and hockey rink. The “First Dude,” as she calls the hunky Eskimo in the East Wing, waits on his snowmobile with the kids — Track (named after high school track meets), Bristol (after Bristol Bay where they did commercial fishing), Willow (after a community in Alaska), Piper (just a cool name) and Trig (Norse for “strength.”)

“The P.T.A. is great preparation for dealing with the K.G.B.,” President Palin murmurs to Todd, as they kiss in the final scene while she changes Trig’s diaper. “Now that Georgia’s safe, how ’bout I cook you up some caribou hot dogs and moose stew for dinner, babe?”

What The Fuck????

I never knew there was rehab for sex addiction. That is, until now, when I heard cutie David Duchovny admitted himself to a rehab facility last week for treatment of said addiction.

Sources close to Duchovny say the sex addiction is related to porn, not extramarital affairs.

Who knew that spanking the monkey too much was a mental health issue? Or, that one COULD spank the monkey too much?

they've found the whore gene...

More and more, I wonder if man has any free will at all, or if we are merely pre-programmed for behavior by our genes. Now, scientists have announced they have found a genetic link that makes a man either a loving, monogamous, husband, or a whore. From the San Francisco Chronicle:

Men are more likely to be devoted and loyal husbands when they lack a particular variant of a gene that influences brain activity, researchers announced Monday - the first time that science has shown a direct link between a man's genes and his aptitude for monogamy.


The finding is striking because it not only links the gene variant - which is present in 2 of every 5 men - with the risk of marital discord and divorce, but also appears to predict whether women involved with these men are likely to say their partners are emotionally close and available, or distant and disagreeable. The presence of the gene variant, or allele, also seems predictive of whether men get married or live with women without getting married.

"Men with two copies of the allele had twice the risk of experiencing marital dysfunction, with a threat of divorce during the last year, compared to men carrying one or no copies," said Hasse Walum, a behavioral geneticist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm who led the study. "Women married to men with one or two copies of the allele scored lower on average on how satisfied they were with the relationship compared to women married to men with no copies."

The scientists studied men because the hormone being examined is known to play a larger role in their brains than in women's brains.

on second thought.....

As a sweaty hockey player, Levi Johnston looks pretty hot and yummy.....

But, after these pictures started popping up allegedly from Johnston's now-defunct Myspace page, I have to rethink this. He looks pretty trashy and dirty.

I would definitely need to give him a haircut and throw him in the shower before I would lick his mangina.

I would carry his baby too......

Meet Levi Johnston, the guy who knocked up Bristol Palin. How sexy. How dreamy. He looks like every parents' worst nightmare. This 18 year old self professed "fucking redneck" is a senior this year at Wassilla High School, home of the Warriors. He's a bad boy, too. He has a criminal record, for catching King Salmon out of season.

He stated on his now-defunct Myspace page that he doesn't want kids. It will be interesting to see how great of a father he will be.

Once married, Levi and Bristol Johnston will realize just how hard it is to be parents. There goes that college education. Kind of hard to go to class, study, have a full time job to support the family, and clean babies' shitty diapers all day.

This Sarah Palin thing keeps getting better and better. Now we receive word that Palin's 17 year old unmarried daughter is knocked up. Not only is she knocked up, she's 5 months along. How long did the McCain camp spend vetting this bitch? A couple of hours?

And in typical Repuglican hypocritical fashion, they are embracing this unexpected pregnancy. Imagine the outcry if Chelsea Clinton had gotten knocked up at 17. I can hear it now. "Oh, what a big whore that Chelsea Clinton is. Obviously a product of her upbringing. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."

I love this statement from Palin: "Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family." I am so glad I read that before breakfast, for I would surely have barfed.

Was this bitch the mayor of Wassilla or Wonderland?