I stayed with some friends a few years ago who lived around the corner from the Eagle. There was, indeed, gay male sex outside their house that night. My friends' attitude was mild amusement.

All of which is completely tangential.

I think the Eagle's management is doing stupid, illegal things (sex in public is AGAINST THE LAW)...but I also think the police's response was a HUGE over-reaction. HUGE.

This.

They're gone now. (The one on Sherman Ave.)

Aw, man! Things should stay exactly the same in my college town until at LEAST my ten-year reunion!

Downtown Evanston has changed a lot since I started working here. Luxury condos were springing up like mushrooms. There's still plans to build a 35-ish story condo on the 1600 block of Sherman/Orrington, but with the economy I think the plan is on hold.

21 police officers to serve a "noise complaint"?

My friend Joshua went to one of the city council meetings that's happened since the raid took place; people identifying themselves as straight neighbors of the Eagle have questioned the police response. According to him (caveat: huge block of salt, since he and I have the same on-a-soapbox response to this situation) one of the people actually asked, "Why were you all in that bar, even if they're having sex in there - when drug deals by gun-toting thugs are happening 100 yards away, in front of my house...and my kids?"

Meh. Again: humans.

Somehow, 1/3 of the way through that kissing photo essay I knew Usain Bolt would be in it. And I was not disappointed. Go, yardie!

Too much animal kissing, otherwise charming.

Funny Glee cartoon [link]

If the guy on the right had had a piercing, I would have thought he was SH.

Ha ha! Connie Rhodes "Birther" Challenge Thrown Out, Taitz Scolded

U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land has thrown out a complaint questioning the president's birth from an Army captain fighting deployment to Iraq and gave a warning to her lawyer, birther maven Orly Taitz.

Land also put attorney Orly Taitz, who represents Capt. Connie Rhodes and is a leader in the national "birther" movement, on notice by stating that she could face sanctions if she ever files a similar "frivolous" lawsuit in his court.

"(Rhodes) has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture that President Obama is ineligible to serve as president of the United States," Land states in his order. "Instead, she uses her complaint as a platform for spouting political rhetoric, such as her claims that the president is 'an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter.'"

how long does one need to hang on to old bank statements/bills, etc?

Awww....

George Takei & Partner Are First Gay Couple On 'Newlywed Game'

I have a horrible weakness for Chinese fake-meat dishes;

This is likely as not where they get their meat*: [link]

There have been vegan problems since they only translate the first 5 or 10 ingredients and sometimes egg white or milk solids come later but I've heard no of no vegetarian issues. The citrus rib tips are TO DIE FOR.

* Well, maybe not in SF, but they do ship all over the country.