Tamara

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Calleigh

VAR. OF CALLIE
Straight Talk From an Athlete: Pay Up or Be Accused of Rape
COMMENT
What bothers me isn't so much that professional athletes and otherwise rich and famous dudes think this way, but that average shmucks do too. I can't tell you the number of women I know who are or have been involved with a guy (who is usually not even in her league) who says shit like "I want a good woman at home, but I need variety." And then they use Tiger Woods as an example and talk about how evolution means that they need to be assholes and spread their seed. And most of these women put up with it, because what else can you do, when practically every single guy has this attitude?

[...]

When these stories are posted, people always say If you want to fuck around, just don't get married! But these guys do want to be married. They want a woman who loves them, someone to go home to. They don't want to just juggle a bunch of "whores" who don't care about them and don't want anything from them. That's lonely and cheap. It's classic "wanting to have their cake and eat it too".

EMAIL
Sleep with a multi-million dollar pro for a dress and some jewelry? Bah! He MUST be kidding. When's a whore not a whore? Money up front or near the end? I hope Playa gets tested on the reg, cause that's one peen you don't want to sample unsheathed.

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Sonia

VAR. OF SONYA


SAVAGE LOVE
I'm a 24-year-old straight female in a relationship. The sex is great, except for one thing: My boyfriend is so fucking quiet while we are having sex. No words, no moans, a stone-cold facial expression. I know he is enjoying himself because he always comes and he initiates sex as often as I do. However, his stoic demeanor makes it hard for me to really get into stuff that isn't directly pleasurable for me. It's hard to be motivated to choke on someone's cock when they look and act like they can't even feel anything.

I've mentioned this to him several times after sex, and he just laughs it off and then says something like "Do you expect me to scream like a girl?" I've told him that that's not at all what I expect. I just want some sign of life! One time, I purposely remained completely silent during an orgasm, like he does, and he became very self-conscious. He didn't believe me when I told him I came, and I asked him how he likes it when I'm quiet. He thought this was funny, and then things went back to normal.

Why is he so quiet? What can I do?

We're Not In The Library

Stop treating this like it's a problem, WNITL, even if you experience it that way, and start treating it like a challenge and a game.

Give him a blowjob, choke on that cock, bring him right to the edge, then pull his cock out of your mouth and say, "Do you like that? Are you close? You want me to keep going?" Then look up at him and slowly stroke his cock—not fast enough to get him off, but not so slowly that you'll have to start that blowjob all over again—and wait for his response. When he says something, his dick goes back in your mouth. When he stops talking, his dick comes back out. Or if he's fucking you and he's getting close, wrap your legs around his ass and pull him in and hold him there so he can't thrust. Then say, "Feel good? Getting close? Wanna finish?" Don't let him budge until he talks; don't let him continue if he stops talking.

Be playfully, sexily confrontational, WNITL, and you'll be able to extract the feedback you want during sex while helping him get over his insecurities about how men are supposed to act during sex.

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Aubrey

FORM OF ALBERICH
The Lakeview Gusher__California, 1910


River Shay,13, stands in the front yard of his camp with his dog "Smash", while his father Patrick Shay, a seafood business owner from River Ridge, Louisiana, digs grave sites "In Memory of all that is lost courtesy of BP and our Federal Government," at their fish camp in Grand Isle, La, on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31.

Oil Disaster (Part 1)
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The Worst Oil Disasters in US History: How You Can Help
COMMENT
"This is Casey Kasem counting down your Top 11 oil disasters.

Coming in at #11 a treat from the Great White North: The Odyssey Oil Spill of 1988 spilling 40 million gallons 700 nautical miles off the cost of Nova Scotia.

At #10 a spicy Italian meatball from 1991 when 45 million gallons were spilled when a tanker exploded and sank off the coast of Italy and continued leaking it's oil into the ocean for years later.

Coming to you at #9 a rumble off the coast of some jungle in Angola, in 1991 more than 51 million gallons. The tanker exploded, and the exact quantity of spill is unknown.

Oui Oui Oui, that's right at #8 the 1978, 69 million gallon classic about a young tanker's rudder that was broken in a severe storm, where despite several ships responding to its distress call, the ship ran aground and broke in two. It's entire payload was dumped into the English Channel off the coast of France.

At #7, another hit from South Africa in 1983, when 79 million gallons were spilled when a tanker caught fire and was abandoned before sinking 25 miles off the coast of Saldanha Bay.

At #6 in the Persian Gulf way back in 1983, 80 million gallons flowed out when a tanker collided with a drilling platform which, eventually, collapsed into the sea. The well continued to spill oil into the ocean for seven months before it was repaired.

At #5 From out Comrades in Mother Russia back in 1994 when 84 million gallons gushed forth from a broken pipeline in Russia, which leaked for eight months before it was noticed and repaired.

At #4 from 1979 those terrible twins Trinidad and Tobago where 90 million
During a tropical storm off the coast , a Greek oil tanker collided with another ship, and lost nearly its entire cargo.

Coming in at #3 making a run for border a hot tamale of a spill from Mexico in 1980. An accident in an oil well caused an explosion which then caused the well to collapse. The well remained open, spilling 30,000 gallons a day into the ocean for a full year for a total of 100 million gallons.

Coming in at #2 a true American tale It took place 100 years ago and was much bigger than the current BP spill [though it still needs to be totally played out.] It is known as the "The Lakeview Gusher" and began in 1910 when an oil line in California failed and exploded releasing a geyser of 90-100,000 barrels of oil a day and lasted for a year. releasing an estimated total of 378 million gallons.

And your #1 oil spill of all time.
Kuwait, during the 1991 Desert Storm Conflict, that Sad man Saddam the Iraqi Despot ordered his forces to open the valves of several oil tankers in order to slow the invasion of American troops. The oil slick was four inches thick and covered 4000 square miles of ocean. for a total of 520 Million Gallon, making it the #1 Oil Spill of all time."

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Comments of the Day: Teen Sweethearts
COMMENT
"I love young love.

I was in love when I was 16 - he was 17. We kissed and humped the year away and when summer came, I missed his call (he was going to visit his dad for the summer) and my mom, thinking that I had seen the message, threw it out.

So we ended up breaking up.

Flash forward 3 years and we run into each other again. We decide that since we had never slept together, that it was a perfect time to do so. So we got a motel room, got naked and couldn't stop laughing. Fun but awkward.

Flash forward another 15 years and I run into a friend of his on the bus to work. He takes my number, gives it to my ex and voila! Yet another call and it turns out that we worked across the street from each other for years.

We spent 4 weeks meeting at lunch and having drinks and once again humping and kissing.

The night we were finally going to make love for the very first time - his dad died.

So yeah - we never did the deed.

Its been 11 years since I've seen him. He's married now with a kid. Almost immediately after our "lost moment", I met my current BF who I love dearly (11years and counting!!) but to this day, nobody ever made me tingle they way that guy did."

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Melanie

"BLACK, DARK"
Two More Gulf Spills?
COMMENTS
"I TRAVELED down to the Gulf to work on the spill in the first half of May, and it was amazing to me to see how much oil and gas development there is down there. When you get out of the mouths of the "passes" (channels) and into the actual Gulf, the near-shore (~1 mile out) area is lined with platforms like beads on a necklace. Spills happen all the time down there. I think that most of them (especially those that are leaking more than a sheen) are reported-- if not by the operators, then by one of the MANY people who are out there-- shrimpers, oyster harvesters, sport-fisherpeople, etc. There is a very good response infrastructure down there for these spills, which are much smaller in scope than the BP spill, and they get stopped and cleaned up pretty fast. The biological productivity of the area (lots of brackish water, sunlight, warm temperatures and nutrients) is able to "keep up" with this kind of low-level release-- in fact there is a pretty good ecosystem community (primarily oil-eating bacteria) that has evolved in response to it. The big difference with the BP spill (of course) is its scale and magnitude. Nothing can keep up with millions of gallons of oil hitting a wetland or shoreline to the point that inches or feet of oil collect in one place. A bay that is facing the right (or wrong) direction with respect to winds and currents essentially becomes a "catchers' mitt" and the oil just keeps coming in unless it is intercepted by booms and skimmers, or some other response effort. In my opinion, I think that this is still a very weak part of the response effort, and as lava-lamp blobs of oil will continue to surface and then smear random pieces of habitat (for a long time, and over who knows what kind of geographic extent), BP needs to be pressured to develop this response capability MUCH better.

Just FYI (and as an example), the Delta National Wildlife Refuge, which is about 10 miles down the Mississippi Channel from Venice, LA, had a spill of about 100,000 gallons (approx) of crude oil the week before the Deepwater Horizon blew up. This happened when someone who was dredging a channel hit an old pipeline (between an off-shore platform and an on-shore collection facility) that wasn't marked on the map (a universal problem with pipelines in areas that have been under development for a long time). Response crews started cleaning up before the owner was identified (it turned out to be Chevron).

I am most definitely not saying that this is "alright" or "no big deal", but I guess I am saying that if anything, this spill is shining some light on what is actually involved (in terms of damage but also in terms of response-ability and infrastructure) in oil and gas production on the Gulf of Mexico, and (perhaps) will cause people to more fully evaluate the risks inherent in the benefit we get with domestic oil production. And then when you start looking at Canada (tar sands), Azerbaijan, Niger, Ecuador, etc., etc., you have to realize that as bad as it is here (and it could- and needs to-- be a hell of a lot better), it can be a lot worse. We DO have to do better, and my only "hope" from this whole event is that it will become the trigger for a transformative reevaluation of what we (as a society- both within the US and globally) are going to do for energy for the NEXT 100 or 200 years."

"TRUST AN oil company worth billions of dollars or more to report their smaller spills? While we're at it, let's trust china to clearly label the percentages of lead or cadmium in all exports. Or we can just trust all motorists not to speed. Yeah, thats a good Idea.

Check it out, folks. I did the Army thing for awhile. We knew that if you spilled fuel or oil in the dirt, there was gonna be a major cleanup directed by german authorities(stationed there) that involved everyone digging a Really Big Hole to move all the contaminated dirt. So we faithfully reported every spill and leaking vehicle...YEAH RIGHT! If we could get away with it, we did.

Dont think about the oil companies; for just a second forget the massive finances backing each operation. Think down to the lowest-ranking worker on a rig(or for that matter, on a ground well). Now, each worked has recieved a briefing about reporting spills, how much consitutes a spill. That was possibly a few hours worth of instruction, presented at least partly as a formality.
Balance that against being the guy who actually reports a spill. What does a worked at the bottom of a food chain think will happen to him(or her) if he or she happens to be the one who brings the EPA to the site?
At the very least, it will mean extra work for everyone, plus the threat of attracting the attention and anger of corporate higher ups....
The official rule is, 'report all leaks and spills' (over some small amount)
Unofficially, though? 'If no one else notices, no one else needs to know.'"

Pemex-operated oil rigs in the Bay of Campeche, Gulf of Mexico. Natural gas is being flared off because there were no facilities to recover it, while Mexico purchased most of its natural gas from the US. [Mexico, March 2001©National Post/Peter Redman]

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Phoebe

Don't Look Down
COMMENT
I'm resigned to the fact that our modern lifestyle negatively impacts the earth's ecosystem. I don't, however, accept careless disregard for it and its inhabitants. Some acts are avoidable, and cause unnecessary harm.

Shall I put this in more relatable terms?

Fine.

You go to the doctor and he diagnoses you with a fatal disease. Do you a)prolong and enhance the quality of your life by correcting bad habits or b)smoke, snort and swallow every harmful substance you can find?

I mean - what the hell - you're going to die anyway, right? What does it matter if you live two weeks or two years? What does it matter if your final hours are spent in pain or relatively unburdened? Why should you care about the quality of your existence? After all, your body's simply paying the price for all the years you indulged your every whim. Que sera sera; what will be, will be.

Out of all of this, I'm getting the sense that you don't value the finer things in life, and you don't care that others have to suffer due to industry's "mistakes" and profiteering. This indicates to me a disturbing disconnect from your surroundings and your community.

Or, do you believe that as long as the sludge stays off your property line, you'll be ok? Are you really that delusional?

Maybe a week in Louisiana would change your tune, but right now I'm wondering what kind of safety and environmental violations you've incurred in the sand and gravel business in order to pad your bottom line. Has this entire thread been an attempt to justify your own unconscionable acts?

Are you, [redacted], the enemy?

BP Failures Mounting as Gulf Oil Spill Worsens
"In the six weeks since the British oil giant's offshore rig exploded near the Louisiana coast, igniting what has become the worst oil spill in U.S. history, its efforts, have been nothing short of a disaster...
Meanwhile, BP's tab is approaching $1 billion to stop the spill and its stock is plummeting.

Much like the oil-coated wildlife dying across the region, one oil analyst said the company's finances reek with 'the real smell of death.'"

BP's History of Oil Spills and Accidents: Same Strategy, Different Day
"An Alaskan pipeline burst, a fatal refinery explosion and now a 210,000-gallon-a-day oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. And there’s BP, right smack dab in the middle of all three. This isn’t a case of bad luck. The only surprising conclusion — based on reports of other near misses — is that BP hasn’t had more accidents."

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Political Ponerology
"Evil requires a truly modern and scientific approach to lay bare its secrets. This approach is called "ponerology", the study of evil, from the Greek "poneros" = evil...Political Ponerology is shocking in its clinically spare descriptions of the true nature of evil. It is poignant in its more literary passages revealing the immense suffering experienced by the researchers contaminated or destroyed by the disease they were studying.

Political Ponerology is a study of the founders and supporters of oppressive political regimes."

Emma

Jon Stewart Goes After Obama for Lazy Response to Oil Spill
COMMENT
"D'ahh, big deal. Let 'em. That's how you know you're hitting a nerve. Nobody ever said it was going to be easy being one of the few people living with their eyes wide open. Don't forget how much shit hit the fan when Martin Luther King gave his famous Vietnam sermon. He knew people were going to piss themselves, but he also knew that speaking the truth out loud was more important than what people would think of him.

Besides, it's not like you owe anything to all those Obamabots in your class. You're not on this Earth to be their goddamn' sweethearts. They're the ones who -- despite knowing better -- were so goddamn' desperate and scared that they knowingly helped elect and continue to support a corporate tool who's done nothing but continue what George W. Bush was doing for the eight previous years. Let it rip, man. Screw 'em if they can't deal with it. I can't begin to tell you how liberating it was, back in the '90s, when I finally realized that I didn't have to give a shit what a bunch of geezing old Liberals thought when I called bullshit on Bill Clinton and the Democrats. In fact, I think you'll find it rather fun, poking Liberals with a stick.

Sure as hell doesn't bother me any, what Liberals think of what I have to say; it's no different from when all the Bushites were calling me a "terrorist" and an "America hater" for speaking out against the destruction of the Bill Of Rights, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the torture being committed at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. It's basically the same kind of ignorant mentality that's causing Liberals and "progressives" to tag you with epithets like "teabagger" or "Bircher" when you're the only one who's wide awake enough to call bullshit on Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Clinton and the rest of the Democrats.

Actually, I've found that it's a great gauge of whether or not some "progressive" really believes in doing something to bring about real change, or just wants somebody in office with a little "D" after his name doing the warmongering, scaremongering, warrantless spying and torturing -- call out Obama and the Democrats in front of their faces, and watch how badly they bluster and fume and shit themselves. It's actually rather entertaining to me, really, watching Liberals crap their drawers when I do something as simple as blurt out the straight raw truth to them.

I've been involved in social-justice activism and independent media for thirty-odd years, and I've always tried to live by the old axiom about comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable.

I think it was Mao who said something to the effect that if you're not enraging your adversaries, you're not doing your job."


"Do Not Be a Goddamned Liar", from Sh*t My Dad Says: The Book
COMMENT
"I'm going to be on your ass every step of the way. You will have the greatest science experiment that school has ever seen, or you will fucking die trying.

Wow.

Dad's a textbook definition of a "tyrant".

Halpern's portrait says it all: slouched shoulders, resigned expression - this isn't a guy who's confident or proud in his own skin. You'll see the same demeaned expression on animals who've been beaten repeatedly. They jump at loud noises and scuttle away like roaches at the slightest provocation - nervous wrecks the whole lot of them.

If you raise your kids with fear, they live in fear as adults. Meanwhile, Dad's a coward and a bully who was never challenged to question the source of his incredible anger. No one ever stood up to him, so he continues to believe it's "his way or the highway", even when his way is wrong.

I grew up with this guy (my father), and the only way to assert myself was to get as far-the-fuck-away from him as I could. My grandfather was this guy too. Guess where his kids are now? Nowhere near him, I can tell you that.

When you see lonely elderly parents and wonder why their kids will have nothing to do with them, think of this guy.

Mystery solved."

Nadja

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"Pac-Man’s 30th birthday was marred by the sudden deportation of the Super Mario Bros. What were those fools doing in Arizona?"

"I'm in Minneapolis for a show. Couldn't figure out why I've felt so aroused all day; then I realized that Prince lives here."

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Honeybees Dying; Scientists Wonder Why, and Worry About Food Supply
"Almonds and apples, soybeans and strawberries - as well as animals that feed on pollinated crops - may all be a bit more expensive this year because of a shortage of bees to pollinate the trees or vines."

"The 98 pesticides and metabolites detected in mixtures up to 214 ppm [parts per million] in bee pollen alone represents a remarkably high level for toxicants in the brood and adult food of this primary pollinator."

"In many ways we view honeybees as an indicator species, like the proverbial canary in the coal mine."

Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Keepers in Peril
"Every third bite we consume in our diet is dependent on a honeybee to pollinate that food."

Give Bees a Chance
"In 2006, a Cornell University study found that in the U.S., bees annually pollinate more than $14 billion worth of seeds and crops—mostly fruit, vegetables and nuts. In the UK, they are responsible for the pollination of $420 million worth of food crops."

The Buzz Over Disappearing Bees
"Honeybees, which are different from bumblebees, are not native to the Americas - they came here with the European settlers (Dr. Buchmann says some first nations tribes referred to them as "white men's flies")."

"The world would be a desolate place without our pollinating friends, devoid of flowers, flowering plants and many of our favourite foods."

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"Most of the people in this country have no idea what it takes to put the food on their table."

Bayer, Monsanto Killing Bees with Patented Chemicals, Process
"In July, 2007, the German corn crop was infested with the rootworm. The German government ordered that every possible method should be used to eradicate this pest, including the use of clothianidin. Shortly after the seeds were planted, in May of 2008, some 330-million bees abruptly died."

"We have been pointing out the risks of neonicotinoids for almost 10 years now. This proves without a doubt that the chemicals can come into contact with bees and kill them. These pesticides shouldn’t be on the market."

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"This post is about a campaign that I've been thinking about for the last little while, one that I started out hating but have increasingly grown to love. That campaign, of course, is from Koodo."

Edie

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The Salt Book
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The Hard Sell on Salt
"I think this is a case where we are our own worst enemy. I spent twenty five years in the food service industry as a chef (fifteen as an executive chef) which included three years with General Foods as a product development chef. Twenty years ago at the Culinary Institute of America I was taught that salt is a flavor enhancer, not a flavor. My experience is that the American palate has been corrupted to the point where everything must taste of salt. I use more salt to refill the shakers on the table than I do when cooking in the kitchen. Salt is an acquired taste and we can be weaned from it by simply not adding more to what we eat.

A simple rule that I follow is if you can taste the salt there is too much. (I do like to over salt my eggs, corn and potatoes, but I do that at the table, not in the kitchen.) We can reduce our taste for salt by using less. When dining out, taste your food before you add salt. When cooking at home don't add salt during cooking, reduction will increase the concentration, and something that tastes fine will turn out too salty after cooking for even a short time. Wait until the dish is ready to be served, taste it, and then determine if a pinch of salt will help or hurt. Don't add salt to pre-prepared foods.

It takes a little time to adjust your palate, so give it a try for a week or two and you will notice the difference. Acids like lemon or lime juice and vinegar (lots of flavored vinegars out there) can fool the taste buds. Use less as a rule and your taste buds will thank you. Your health may improve also."

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