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I have become more radical in the last 5 years than in all my days at college, law school, and 41 years of practicing law. They say one gets more conservative as they grow older, and I say, not if you’re paying attention. ~ Sandra Blue

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Believe It Or Not…

Believe it or not, I once dated a porn star. Okay…a “male adult model.” He wasn’t a top-tier or well-known by any means. He didn’t do any films (that I know of), and only appeared in one issue of Advocate Men, but from the moment I first saw him on the cover of that magazine in June 1986, I knew our paths would eventually cross—even though at the time I had no idea where or when that might happen. The bio in the magazine said “Justin Banks” was a landscape architect who lived in San Francisco. I was still living in Tucson, and while the cogs were definitely in motion for my eventual relation to SF, nothing was yet firmly in place.

Of course all that changed in the blink of an eye and I found myself a resident of The City two months later…and not six weeks after that “Justin” and I passed on the street as he and some friends were leaving the Midnight Sun. Our eyes locked. I smiled. He smiled back. I stopped and glanced back over my shoulder, but he kept walking down the street with his buddies. And that was the end of it.

Or so I thought.

The following February a friend and I were at a toy store in Corta Madera called The Imaginarium, where we spotted “Justin” working behind the counter. So much for being a landscape architect…

His eyes lit up when he saw me and immeidately came over. He definitely remembered our two-ships-passing moment, telling me that after he’d dropped his friends at their car that night he came back to try and find me, but I’d already disappeared into the night. He introduced himself with his real name (Michael Rose) and gave me his phone number. “Call me.”

The rest is now ancient history, but we ended up dating for a few months. And all I can say about that is Michael taught me a valuable life lesson: NEVER date porn stars—excuse me, “male adult models”—not even the B-Listers.

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Words of Wisdom

From Doug at Mostly Words:

Chatting with a friend whose father is completely in the clutches of Fox News, and believes Donald Trump will go down in history as America’s greatest President, I could only offer condolences.

My mother was at that point a few years ago, and I’m glad that she came back from the brink, recognized the insanity, and did not vote for Trump again in 2020. I’m pretty sure my brother is still Fox-zombified, but I can’t verify that since I refuse to broach the subject with him again.

I almost typed “I don’t know what the solution is,” but I do know. It’s difficult saying it, because I spent decades as a free-speech absolutist, and I don’t know how you’d go about it beyond “very carefully,” but the plain fact is that democracy doesn’t survive if mass media and social media are allowed to lie with impunity about the facts of public discourse.

Any idiot should be free to speak any idiocies, of course. It should be illegal, though, for companies to broadcast those idiocies, unchallenged and uncorrected, to an audience of millions.

Yeah, that’s a rerun—what I just said, I’ve said before. I’m still waiting for someone to explain that I’m wrong.

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Raise your hand if you’d like to see rotting gasbag Steve Bannon testify under oath in front of Congress on live television for 11 straight hours to explain why he shouldn’t be thrown straight the fuck into prison right now for openly plotting to overthrow our government.”  ~ Jeff Tiedrich

He does it because he knows there are no consequences for anything these days.

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The civil war in 1861 happened when the South said we are leaving the Union and the North then waged a war to keep them. Today If Red states wanted to leave the North would say ‘check out time is 1pm'” ~ Dean Obeidallah

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