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E.J.

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  1. ....I'm not sure Samsung would be my first choice for computers....

    They're not...just curious. I'm also looking at Toshiba, HP and Dell. I'm also not certain that a laptop is what I need, so I'm looking at everything.

    The cheaper the better

  2. A new CBS News/New York Times poll released this afternoon shows 57% of Americans approve of "homosexuals" serving in the military. Change the word "homosexual" to "gay men and lesbians" and the support jumps to 70%. The change in support holds when respondents were asked whether they think "homosexuals" vs. "gay men and lesbians" should be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. armed forces.

    On the "serve openly" question, 44% were in favor when the word "homosexual" is used, and 42% were opposed. When that word was swapped for the alternate "gay men and lesbians" wording, support for serving openly jumped to 58%. Just 28% were opposed.

    Read the rest HERE

  3. AND THE WINNER IS.....

    Jonathan Littell has won the seventeenth annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award, for The Kindly Ones (Chatto & Windus).

    an excerpt from the winner:

    Her vulva was opposite my face. The small lips protruded slightly from the pale, domed flesh. This sex was watching at me, spying on me, like a Gorgon's head, like a motionless Cyclops whose single eye never blinks. Little by little this silent gaze penetrated me to the marrow. My breath sped up and I stretched out my hand to hide it: I no longer saw it, but it still saw me and stripped me bare (whereas I was already naked). If only I could still get hard, I thought, I could use my prick like a stake hardened in the fire, and blind this Polyphemus who made me Nobody. But my cock remained inert, I seemed turned to stone. I stretched out my arm and buried my middle finger into this boundless eye. The hips moved slightly, but that was all. Far from piercing it, I had on the contrary opened it wide, freeing the gaze of the eye still hiding behind it. Then I had an idea: I took out my finger and, dragging myself forward on my forearms, I pushed my forehead against this vulva, pressing my scar against the hole. Now I was the one looking inside, searching the depths of this body with my radiant third eye, as her own single eye irradiated me and we blinded each other mutually: without moving, I came in an immense splash of white light, as she cried out: 'What are you doing, what are you doing?' and I laughed out loud, sperm still gushing in huge spurts from my penis, jubilant, I bit deep into her vulva to swallow it whole, and my eyes finally opened, cleared, and saw everything.

    Excerpts from the other nominees can be found HERE

  4. A group in California has started a petition drive for a ballot initiative (like proposition 8 ) called "2010 California Marriage Protection Act". This law, if enacted, will make illegal the act that is threatening to destroy marriage......that act is of course divorce.

    I didn't think they were serious, but the first PSA (commercial) has been released:

  5. The justice department isn't involved....yet.

    Quote by the Judge:

    The Executive Branch, acting through the Office of Personnel Management, thought otherwise. It directed the insurance carrier not to process Ms. Golinski's form 2809, thwarting the relief I had ordered.

    From the second link:

    Sidestepping constitutional questions about equal treatment for gays under the law, he agreed that the Defense of Marriage Act forbids the government from recognizing gay marriages. But Kozinski's argument centers on the Federal Health Benefits Act, which says that coverage must be provided for an employee's family, including a spouse and children under the age of 21. While the Administration interpreted that as meaning the coverage could only be provided for couples whose marriages are recognized under federal law, Kozinski reasoned that the law should be seen as setting a minimum standard for coverage, and that policies could include grandparents living at home, children until they are 25 or, as in Golinski's case, a woman with whom she is raising a child and is married to under state law.
  6. The Finalists are:

    Paul Theroux for A Dead Hand

    Nick Cave for The Death of Bunny Munro

    Philip Roth for The Humbling

    Jonathan Littell for The Kindly Ones

    Amos Oz for Rhyming Life and Death

    John Banville for The Infinities

    Anthony Quinn for The Rescue Man

    Simon Van Booy for Love Begins in Winter

    Sanjida O'Connell for The Naked Name of Love

    Richard Milward for Ten Storey Love Song

    More HERE

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