Fourteen Tough Questions for Heterosexuals!

Fourteen Tough Questions for Heterosexuals!


1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality?

2. When and how did you decide you were a heterosexual?

3. Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase that you may grow out of?

4. Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?

5. Do your parents know you are straight? Do your friends?

6. Why do you insist on flaunting your heterosexuality? Can't you just be who you are and keep it quiet? and/or do Your roommates know?

7. Why do heterosexuals put so much emphasis on sex?

8. Why do heterosexuals feel compelled to introduce others to their lifestyle?

9. A disproportionate majority of child molesters are heterosexual. Do you consider it wise to expose children to heterosexual teachers?

10. Just what do men and women do in bed together?

11. Bearing in mind the current divorce rate, why are there so few stable relationships between heterosexuals?

12. Considering the menace of overpopulation, how could the human race survive if everyone were heterosexual?

13. There seem to be very few happy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change if you really want to. Have you considered aversion therapy?

14. Would you want your child to be heterosexual, knowing the problems they would face?

---thanks to my Toronto buddy dr. Paul P. for sending this to me

Political Humor: Best Jokes from Late Night Comics

Collected by Daniel Kurtzman, About.com
Friday, February 20, 2009
"Senator Roland Burris, who was appointed by Governor Blagojevich, could be in trouble for perjury and for giving conflicting statements in his testimony about campaign contributions. That's the trouble with politicians. They think the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are three different things." --Jay Leno

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The Case for a Truth Commission

A photo of a prisoner at Abu Ghraib. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) has called for a "truth-finding panel" to investigate "abuses" during the Bush administration's tenure. (Photo: Reuters)

Thursday 19 February 2009
by: Sen. Patrick Leahy, TIME Magazine
More than 30 years ago, a special Senate investigation peered into abuses that included spying on the American people by their own government

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Q: Was Bush's exit from office a "Class Act" compared with Clinton's?

February 18, 2009
Q: Was Bush's exit from office a "Class Act" compared with Clinton's?
There is a new chain e-mail going around – also posted on blogs everywhere – comparing the behavior of the outgoing Bushes to the outgoing Clintons and incoming Obamas:

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Sean Hannity's Ridiculous War Against Socialism

by Bob Cesca, for the Huffington Post
February 18, 2009
When I watched the video of Sean Hannity's Tuesday night show, I was half expecting him to leap out of his chair, grab his producer by the lapels and scream something about a goblin on the wing of the airplane -- all puffy and bloodshot, hair mussed, tie undone, spittle and sweat flying all around.

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“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

December 25, 2008
It’s the Age of a Child Who Grows From a Man
A.O. SCOTT, The New York Times
Published: December 25, 2008
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” which occupies around 25 pages in the collected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a slender piece of whimsy, a charming fantasy about a man who ages in reverse, descending through the years from newborn senescence to terminal infancy. As Fitzgerald unravels it, Benjamin’s story serves as the pretext for some amusing, fairly superficial observations about child rearing, undergraduate behavior and courtship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Blogger's Note: In my run-up to Sunday's Oscars, I saw Benjamin Buttons today. I hardly noticed it's 2 3/4 hours long. The stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchette are marvelous, but so are the vast second tier of talent. It's funny, hot, sexy, romantic. Yeah, I was sobbing in the theatre.

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California, the Drama Queen

The Editors, The New York Times
February 19, 2009
After five days of round-the-clock wrangling, the California Legislature finally agreed on a budget plan to close a huge $40 billion deficit. While the plunging economy has been cited as the cause of the bitter standoff, the state is famous for its perennial eleventh-hour budget dramas and crises.

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Amidt the grieving, a rare act of aportsmanship

Johntel, the basketball player whose mother died.

Associated Press
February 18, 2009
A high school team purposely misses free throws as a show of support for an opposing player.
The coach never considered any other option.

It didn't matter that his DeKalb, Ill., High School basketball team had ridden a bus two and a half hours to get to Milwaukee, then waited another hour past game time to play. Didn't matter that the game was close, or that this was a chance to beat a big city team.

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Peace Corps will be central again to help others

In 1960 President John F. Kennedy put together a plan to bring volunteers from the United States to help needy countries by teaching skills. Hillary Clinton reminded people this week that the Peace Corps will be central again to help others.

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Humor? Heart Attack Cafe

A message from my daughter: My soon-to-be new roommate and I were talking about how funny it was when I worked at Wendy's people would come in and order the triple burger combo super sized and then say they should probaly get the diet coke. He then told me about this place in Phx and then sent me these photos. It seems like such an American phenomenon. Caroline

It's located in metropolitan Phoenix (city is Chandler). Click here to visit their website.

$275 Billion Plan Seeks to Address Crisis in Housing

February 19, 2009
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and EDMUND L. ANDREWS, The New York Times
MESA, Ariz. — President Obama announced a plan on Wednesday to help as many as nine million American homeowners refinance their mortgages or avert foreclosure, saying that it would shore up housing prices, stabilize neighborhoods and slow a downward spiral that was “unraveling homeownership, the middle class and the American Dream itself.”
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Spotlight: The Right To International Love Affairs

by Ramon Johnson
February 16, 2009
Shine a light on unequal immigration rights in this Gay Life feature: You meet a man (or woman) while traveling or cruising around the world. A chance meeting leads to a dream vacation and on to a long distance relationship. You phone card, Vonage and Skype until your laptop battery runs dry. You plan trips across oceans budgeting for hundreds of dollars just to share an embrace. You love each other, you legally marry, but one of you has to move. The lands between you are just too vast. Your country or theirs? You pick the one with the best opportunity (or circumstances) for your relationship to survive.

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Same-sex marriage movement looks to 'Obamify'

Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, February 16, 2009

As gay marriage supporters prepare for a noon demonstration today in Sacramento, a growing number are planning their next ballot campaign. Their new strategy: "Obamify" the gay marriage movement.

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The New Yorker: Partisanship, by the Bye

Hendrik Hertzberg
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by Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
February 23, 2009
Throughout the fortnight-long Battle of the Stimulus Package—the Capitol Hill confrontation that culminates this week in a signing ceremony for a historically unprecedented piece of legislation that will inject more than three-quarters of a trillion dollars’ worth of adrenaline into America’s fluttering economic heart—one question preoccupied commentators and observers, especially those desperate for relief from the daunting substance of the matter: was President Obama being “bipartisan” enough?

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Obama Scores Early Victory of Historic Proportions

By Michael D. Shear and Alec MacGillis, Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, February 14, 2009
CHICAGO, Feb. 13 -- Twenty-four days into his presidency, Barack Obama recorded last night a legislative achievement of the sort that few of his predecessors achieved at any point in their tenure.

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They Sure Showed That Obama

February 15, 2009
By FRANK RICH, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
Am I crazy, or wasn’t the Obama presidency pronounced dead just days ago? Obama had “all but lost control of the agenda in Washington,” declared Newsweek on Feb. 4 as it wondered whether he might even get a stimulus package through Congress. “Obama Losing Stimulus Message War” was the headline at Politico a day later. At the mostly liberal MSNBC, the morning host, Joe Scarborough, started preparing the final rites. Obama couldn’t possibly eke out a victory because the stimulus package was “a steaming pile of garbage.”

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Mumbai Attacks Politicize Long-Isolated Elite

December 7, 2008
By SOMINI SENGUPTA, The New York Times
MUMBAI, India — Last Wednesday, an extraordinary public interest lawsuit was filed in this city’s highest court. It charged that the government had lagged in its constitutional duty to protect its citizens’ right to life, and it pressed the state to modernize and upgrade its security forces.

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