Gay porn sent to Italian Senators
If you are like me, you are getting up to 75 spams a day advertising Viagra, other stimulants, “hot lesbians in leather”, or some such. To all the porn people sending their gay porn to the Italian Senators, you know my email address. Send it to me damn it!!!

Italian senators opening attachments promising gay porn have triggered the government’s computer system.

The worm penetrated the AV checker and then opened a back door to shed loads of gay porn which swamped the server.

Are Americans Stupid?
In a word, YES!

As shown in the last election, the majority of Americans will buy into just about anything, as long as it makes them feel safe. Safe from war, terrorism, queers, gay marriage, and the ever popular umbrella, “attack on the American Family” (which covers everything else that I’ve left out).

People today, for example, know gay people. The majority of Americans know someone who is gay, either through their work, or someone who is a member of their immediate or extended family. Yet, many of the people I know voted for President Bush because it is “for the good of the country”. Deep down they tell me that it was for fear of terrorism, and a few has said that we have to stop gay marriage, and President Bush “has a plan” to do that.

Yet, there’s absolutely no evidence that giving full marriage rights to committed gay couples will harm America. They have bought into the fear and, despite knowing what gay people are really like through their personal relationships with them, they have opted to give into that fear.

In a perhaps less virulent way, this is what many people fear if today’s liberal intellectuals should ever get their way: Restrictions on liberties ordinary Americans prize (such as parental, private-property, and gun-ownership rights, economic liberty, religious freedom). The repudiation of morality (homosexual marriage, sexual permissiveness, abortion, cultural license). Experimentation that discards and seeks to redesign human life (the destruction of embryos for their stem cells, genetic engineering, cloning, designer babies).

But the question remains, are Americans stupid? Mental functions involve two different spheres: intelligence (mental ability) and knowledge (mental content). It is possible to have one without the other. Americans across the spectrum do seem to have intelligence, whether highly specialized mental abilities or down-to-earth common sense. They are certainly not so stupid as to allow intellectuals to rule over them. Americans do tend to be smart. Sometimes, though, they lack knowledge, or the knowledge they think with is untrue. [...]

Americans are smart enough, but it would be helpful for Americans—liberals, conservatives, Christians, and everyone—to know more, to be open to truths that go beyond their own limited interests, desires, and preferences. “My people are destroyed” not for lack of intelligence, but “for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6).

ACLU sues Missouri school district
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. It’s a trite saying, but it’s true. If you give one student or group the ability to express themselves, it opens up all kinds of possibilities.

This has all come about because of a 1969 Supreme Court ruling that said schools cannot force students to give up their right to freedom of expression. In this particular case, a gay student has worn gay pride-themed T-shirts to class and was asked to either reverse the shirt or be sent home.

Other’s have worn anti-gay themed T-shirts and the gay student wants the same right. I agree with him.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday sued a southwest Missouri school district for prohibiting a high school student from wearing gay pride-themed T-shirts.

The district has said the T-shirts were disruptive and therefore a violation of school dress code. The lawsuit filed in federal court also names Webb City High School Principal Stephen P. Gollhofer.

“Because I’m gay, my school is trying to take away my constitutional right as an American to express myself,” the student, Brad Mathewson, said in a statement.

“The school lets other students wear anti-gay T-shirts, and I understand that they have a right to do that,” he said. “I just want the same right.” [...]

The ACLU is basing its case on a 1969 Supreme Court ruling that said schools cannot force students to give up their right to freedom of expression.

‘Alexander’ the Not-so-Great
Ok, I admit... I was looking forward to seeing the hot sex scenes (hot gay sex scenes) with Colin Farell. They were originally filmed, but were taken out of the final cut because it was deemed “too controversial” for many in society.

Well, because of that, along with the bad reviews this movie is getting, I won’t go see it. It’s not because the gay sex was cut out. I just believe that if you are going to do a project, you owe it to your audience to be accurate. The truth of the matter is, in the time period that Alexander lived, gay sex was a norm and was fully blessed by society. To give the movie historical relevance, Oliver Stone should have pulled his head out of his ass and done it right. What he ended up with is a half-assed attempt to show a sanitized Alexander who is just as boring as anyone else in today’s world.

The bad acting coupled with the daytime drama-like music gave the picture an unintentionally campy feel. The dialogue was either trite or overreaching. The action scenes were too obviously computer enhanced with a cheesy CGI hawk guiding the focus of the cinematography. The whole movie had a very clichéd feel to it and it made me embarrassed for the filmmakers while I was watching it.

The only somewhat compelling storyline was the relationship between Alexander and his gay lover Hephaistion. But even that was half-assed. They only show the lovers hug. And what lovers do you know who only hug?

Or, as another reviewer put it:

Aristotle (Christopher Plummer) teaches the boys to wrestle-- Alexander loses to his special friend Hephaistion (Jared Leto)-- and lectures them on when it's okay for men to “lie together.”

You’ve heard the rumors. Stone doesn’t gloss over Alexander’s well-documented bisexuality. In fact, he goes a step further and points out the gay element Wolfgang Petersen left out of Troy earlier this year, as Alexander and Hephaistion frequently compare their love to that of Achilles and Patroclus.

But while they talk about love and exchange longing looks (there are a lot of longing looks in this movie), Stone applies a double standard to avoid grossing out homophobic viewers. The two men never kiss, only embrace-- in a manly way-- three times. Alexander kisses a male dancer in one scene, there's some male-male hanky-panky going on in the background at some orgies, and there's a big smooch as prelude to an assassination; but we never see the main character kiss the love of his life. (source)