I'm not getting why male homosexual = vagina squeamish, but more important to me is the "openly" bit, for a guy who positions himself as a voice of reason about sex and sexuality, I'm not sure why +50% of the population would go to him for any, if he's going to be publicly negative about their sex organs.

Dan Savage is the voice of reason about sex and sexuality for gay men like him. He ranges from mild cluelessness to outright bitchery about anyone else. I appreciate some of the things he's done, but I also have too many friends who've had to put up with him being a bitchy, mean-spirited ass.

(See also: why I will never be comfortable with people holding up Courtney Love as a Feminist Rock Icon.)

Really minor Scandal comment: there is NO WAY the President goes running down a hallway without a secret service person behind him. I realize that's the least of it.

Dan Savage is the voice of reason about sex and sexuality for gay men like him

Skimming seems to indicate that "like him" is also important. But the column I was reading he's being solicited for advice by women too, and I guess I just don't know how he got to the position he's in to be giving advice to women, straight or not, then.

God, this movie is depressing. One of those verite efforts where no one who's nice is happy or vice versa. I am totally in support of teen abstinence, now. Makes perfect sense. Sure, it's impossible, but that doesn't mean it's not a good idea. You should just be handed all the masturbation material you need and then sexually walled off from anyone you're attracted to until hormones are no longer surprising you.

Selena Gomez is adorable in The Wizards of Waverly Place, but I'm only measuring against other Nick and Disney shows, so that may not mean much. She's not going to look old enough to be in grownup movies for another ten years, though, if you ask me.

Unfortunatly, the 90's were full of floral dresses and rompers for me.

For a while, my dream look was Julia Roberts in Sleeping With the Enemy. After she moved to Iowa, though.

Jesse,

the episode furthers "Scandal" as an entry into the area of Science Fiction. Without mentioning specifics for those who don't want to be spoiled, there is a character who sustained a severe head injury. 10 months after such head injury would not even be close to the amount of time the person could fully recover - even if that were possible.

I keep waiting for the episode that will feature robot overlords or zombies.

God, this movie is depressing. One of those verite efforts where no one who's nice is happy or vice versa. I am totally in support of teen abstinence, now. Makes perfect sense. Sure, it's impossible, but that doesn't mean it's not a good idea. You should just be handed all the masturbation material you need and then sexually walled off from anyone you're attracted to until hormones are no longer surprising you.

Tell me you are not still watching that Selena Gomez movie.

So I am having Arduino problems and the Arduino web page is down.

C'mon, it's Saturday night! Don't they know a lot of us geeks are sitting at home programming our lasers?

the episode furthers "Scandal" as an entry into the area of Science Fiction. Without mentioning specifics for those who don't want to be spoiled, there is a character who sustained a severe head injury. 10 months after such head injury would not even be close to the amount of time the person could fully recover - even if that were possible.

Well, that, sure. But that just seems like regular tv stuff.

So I saw this pattern in a pane in the french door and was all oh my god. My window is so filthy. And I'm such a catlady, cause I see a cat in it!

And as I'm musing on pattern recognition, it moves and I pratically jump out of my skin.

It was a gray cat staring in the window at us. Pretty sure I know which one too.

Head injuries are pretty whack to begin with - they can go a lot of different ways.

But the column I was reading he's being solicited for advice by women too, and I guess I just don't know how he got to the position he's in to be giving advice to women, straight or not, then.

I think you have to take the long view to get it. Back when he was making his name, it's not like there were a ton of places for frank sex advice. His column would run in the back pages of those free weekly papers you see around, and it was pretty groundbreaking to see that kind of shit in print. Also, the quoted bits are things that came up in columns over a long span of years, not week to week.

[That's meant as explanation of why it might not register with a lot of people, not in a "don't beat up on the guy just because of a few bad posts".] It feels to me like he's gotten a lot worse on this shit, personally, but that might just be that there's more daylight on it the past couple of years. It seems like his animus to women and a few other groups is a lot more pronounced, but it might just be that over time he gets more ropes with which to hang that just hadn't come up before.

Eta: he was always an asshole and a bit of a bully, I mean, but it read more like stchick than it does anymore.