New Artwork: Muscle Makeovers and Maxxed Out Muscle (Registered users only).

Stories I'm reading: Sleepy Saturday

• Derek Moves In (coll)
• Pretending to Sleep (hs)
• Sleeping Eddie and Me (tb)

Lexington school calls cops on dad irate over gay book [c/o TBogg]

GOP memo reveals tactics to discredit Democrats in Ethics debacle--Geez, who writes this stuff? Oh, I know! [c/o BuzzFlash]

15-year-old boy joins synchronized swimming team--"He likes the girls, too," coach Chris Carver said. [c/o Fark.com]

Fan Tattoos--Showing the love. [c/o Boing Boing]

Post a Secret--Shhh..

Stories I'm reading:

• Cousin Rob
• Identical Desires
• Oversleeping (tb inc)

Cardinal compares gay marriage to Nazism [c/o AMERICABlog]

An Illegal Government [c/o Bush Out]

Bush's Sinking Popularity Salon

Republicans, the Douchebags of Democracy--Amending amendments no way to make amends. [c/o Atrios]

Spider-Man and Capt. America team up with... Donald Rumsfeld?--It's for the troops, but still... OMG.

From Fark.com

• "The Scream" ends in anguish--Art thieves destroy precious works of arts.
• Unsinkable Idol unsavory to some--I don't follow American Idol all that much, but wouldn't it be a hoot it Savol won?
• Pink Plates Proposed For Sex Offenders--Let's bring back the Scarlet Letter for adulterers while we're at it.

LA Times: Pedophilia Linked with Star Trek?

Stories I'm reading: Sins of Youth

• Getting Kevin
• Randy
• Sugar is So Sweet

Microsoft to add 'black box' to Windows--Now with built-in spyware!

MS Follies

• Microsoft paying Religious Right leader Ralph Reed $20,000 a month retainer
• Microsoft Draws Fire for Shift on Gay Rights Bill
• Deliver us from bullies

Iraq'd

• Iraq WMD... the finale
• CIA’s final report: No WMD found in Iraq
• 50% of Americans Now Say Bush Deliberately Misled Them on WMDs
• Proof: Blair Sexed Up Legal Advice on War--Here's to the Brits kicking him out on May 5th.
• U.S. officials: Troops nearly caught al-Zarqawi--At least they got his laptop, which ought to have some important information stored inside.

Gay Republicans Soldier On, One Skirmish at a Time NYT [c/o towleroad]

Woman shocked by passport sex change--Now she has to be prove she's really a woman. [c/o Fark.com]

New Morph: It ain't a morph movie, but you may still be interested in seeing Brandon Routh fitting in his Superman costume just a little bit better. (Registered users only)

Stories I'm reading:

• Sperm Bank
• To Catch A Thief
• Wet and Wild

Top Army Officials in Prison Torture Scandal Cleared... by Army--Haven't we seen this before?

The Education of Paul Wolfowitz--Here in the West, poverty means a bad life. But poverty in the Third World means death.

Public Hedonism and Private Restraint--Sully comments NYT

Office Space Reunited--Damn preview. I would have loved reading the rest of this article. Oh well..

Skeletons in your hard drive--Your data doesn't really all go away. If you're giving your computer away, make sure your hard drives are wiped clean.

New Artwork: More Muscle Makoevers (Registered users only).

Stories I'm reading:

• Beloved
• Phalen
• Warm Me Up

'No Moral Sense'--A Jesuit bioethicist believes the religious right is exploiting Terri Schiavo and that there is no moral or legal obligation to keep her alive.

Microsoft's Ballmer speaks--And John opines. Let the games begin.

Spin-a-win--Republicans are trying to rename the "nuclear option"" as the "constitutional option" and seemingly forgetting who came up with it in the first place.

Jesus-Speaks-To-Me dolls--I can't wait for the "Tickle Me Jesus", "Walking on Waterskis Jesus" and the "Jesus Chainsaw Massacre" limited edition action figures.

"My God can kick your god's butt" [c/o Fark.com]

That Thing Jew Do--Benjamin Grimm discovers his Hassidic roots [c/o Boing Boing]

First Look: Superman Returns--What's with the funky belt?

Stories I'm reading:

• Infomercial
• Just My Luck
• Unforgettable Massage

Big gay rights bill loses in Washington State by one vote - Where was Microsoft?--They're now "under fire" for "bowing to pressure from a prominent evangelical church in Redmond, Washington." NYT

John "Ann Coulter's Fluff Boy" Cloud--Read more about him

From Fark.com

• US Weather Info could go dark--"The bill, introduced last week by Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., would prohibit federal meteorologists from competing with companies such as AccuWeather and The Weather Channel, which offer their own forecasts through paid services and free ad-supported Web sites."
• San Antonio mayoral candidate uses twin brother as decoy-- "He was standing in the River Parade, because I had to host a neighborhood leaders meeting in District Seven."
• Russian astrologist sues NASA over plans to destroy comet

Diehard sports fans can take team spirit to the grave

Mailboxes that fight back [c/o Boing Boing]

Stories I'm reading: The Men in the Family

• Alone with My Son (mm oral anal inc)
• My Brother's Wedding
• My Drunk Uncle Garry (mt anal inc)

Has Microsoft caved in to the religious right?--Gay rights bill may be in jeopardy.

FucksNews's John Gibson asks "Was Iraq Behind the Oklahoma City Bombing?"--Jeebus.

Bolton Blogging--Why John Bolton is a bad choice for the U.N.

The Daily Show on Town Hall Meetings

From towleroad

• Separated at Birth: The Catholic Edition--I was being disingenuous yesterday calling Ratzinger a 'Nazi' in the Third Reich sense, but when it comes to his stand on homosexuality, I have to call a spade a spade.
• Johnny Damon Bats for Puma--We need more ads like this.
• Mr. Sparklepants takes on New York

An uncloggable toilet? No shit! [c/o Fark]

Realistic punchlines for old jokes [c/o Boing Boing]

New Artwork: In this edition of "Queer Eye for the Muscle Guy", watch me do some makeovers of MuscleGrowth members (Registered users only).

New Morphs: Two new morphs, one real and the other I wish it were real

Stories I'm reading:

• Mack and JD
• Nobody Talked
• Welcome to My World (tt oral)

Pope Benedict XVI--After reading about his track record, I'm not sure how I can give Cardinal "Nazinger" the benefit of the doubt on what his plans are for the Catholic Church. Salon

Debriefing Scalia--An NYU law student asks a Supreme Court Justice, "Do you sodomize your wife?"

USDA's new pyramid schemes--I hope this helps combat the obesity epidemic.

Il Divo--When I was channelsurfing a couple of weeks back, I caught the tail-end of a commercial with a terribly familiar song sung in Italian by four men, but I wasn't quick enough to get any pertinent info. I tracked these guys down by Googling for "four tenors" and found out about their self-titled CD, which I bought as soon as it came out last weekend, and man, now I'm in loooove. Not only do they have great pipes, they're all cute to boot, and "Unbreak My Heart" (which was the song I heard) never sounded better as "Regresa A Mi".

The Future of Advertising [c/o Boing Boing]

New Artwork: Royal Muscle

Stories I'm reading:

• College Days
• In More Senses Than One: 1 | 2 | 3 YahooGroup
• The Jocking: Halftime
• Mayan Miracle Man (fant)
• Secret of the Super-Physique! (cb)

Oregon court voids same-sex marriage licenses

Growing Up Too Fat Salon

Roy Ronquillo--The Hawaiian Sting-Rey

RetroMuscle--Celebrating 100 Years of Physical Culture

End "Beg the Question" Abuse Now!--Linguaphiles unite!

New Artwork: Hanna Barbera Muscle

Stories I'm reading:

• Butch's Buddy
• Ben's Obsession
• Jake Joins the Polo Club
• Little Brother
• My Brother's Friend Nico

Energy Crisis? What Energy Crisis? [c/o Political Animal]

What's a little revisionist history between friends?--Are people's memories really so short?

Indeceny Wars Salon

Andreas Frey--Whatta gott!

Bodybuilderstellensichvor--A gallery for up-and-coming bodybuilders

Unfit by Mike Belkin--"Set in a gym and starring a personal trainer, Unfit pokes a flabby finger at our obsession with body image and the lengths people will go to avoid getting in shape."

"Tough Guys Wear Pink" [c/o Fark.com]

New Artwork: Even more Cartoon Muscle

Stories I'm reading:

• Amazing Transformations
• Big Beef
• The Magic Posing Strap
• Prep School Muscle
• Workshift

"If someone tells you that at least the Republicans have a plan [to save Social Security] and the Democrats don't, laugh in their faces."--Starving the beast, by feeding the extremely wealthy. Those campaign contributors are sure cashing in.

Wimbledon--Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst serve up a sweet and saucy love match that spice up the age-old game of tennis. Watch for Jon Favreau's excellent turn as the endearingly Machiavellian PR agent. After a couple of rewatchings, this movie is quickly becoming my quintessential "tennis" movie the way Tin Cup is for golf and Major League is for baseball. Salon

Raffaele Morandini--Bello Bodybuilderio.

'My evil twin did it!' [c/o Fark.com]

Unintentionally sexual comic book covers [c/o Boing Boing]

New Artwork: Video Game Muscle

Stories I'm reading:

• The Egyptian
• Fat Camp
• Guess the Wish
• Taking Pride
• True Muscle God

Bill Clinton: Gay GOPer 'self-loathing'--Arthur J. Finkelstein has been called a 'hypocrite', and rightly so. [c/o AMERICABlog]

DeLay Urges GOP to Blame Dems Over Ethics--When things get really hot, he'll blame Canada next.

All Your IDs are Belong To Us--Then again, maybe not LAT.

The Man Date--"Simply defined a man date is two heterosexual men socializing without the crutch of business or sports. It is two guys meeting for the kind of outing a straight man might reasonably arrange with a woman." NYT

Size Matters--What happens when you spend all your time jelqing off. Salon

John Hansen--Natural olympian.

Cell Phone Users Interrupt Sex for Phone Calls--I can just imagine one such conversation: "Ma, stop... uh... calling me-aaaaah!" [c/o Boing Boing]

New Artwork: More Cartoon Muscle requests

Stories I'm reading:

• Backfire
• Infinite Possibilities
• The Long Slow Road to Hugeness
• Too Big
• Ultimate Fucker

Gay U.S. Army Sergeant Fights to Save Career [c/o BuzzFlash]

A Foray Into Gay and Lesbian Networks--Mainstreaming homosexuality on the airwaves NYT

Evan Farmer--From TLC's While You Were Out

British Bodybuilding--Nothing like a helping of eggs and soldiers to wake up to in the morning

Russian surgeons 'grow' penis on man's forearm [c/o Boing Boing]

New Artwork:

• Ty plays a prank on Peter in Growing in the sun by scriptboy
• Yu-Gi-Oh's Joey Wheeler gets an upgrade...
• That Hulking feeling

Stories I'm reading:

• A Chance Encounter
• The Bodybuilding Bug
• MassX 5: Halftime at the X'dFL
• Playing with Max Mann's Toys: A Mass X Tale (mm musc inc)
• Project Atlas

White cops win $2.2 million on reverse discrimination case--Claim they were passed over for promotions by "less-qualified women and members of ethnic minorities."

Republicans like Lieberman more than Dems--They can have 'im along with Zell Miller.

John Xuere--A beautiful body in motion

Meet the Turminator--Schwarzenegger on a slump.

Indiana Man Wins 'Village Idiot' Award [c/o Fark.com]

Stories I'm reading:

• B and G
• Living in the Breaks
• Vacation Experiment

A Culture of Death, Not Life NYT

The Daily Show on Political Opportunism--Let's not talk about the Pope's view on the death penalty and the Iraq war when we're promoting the Culture of Life, shall we? A little respect, please.

The many flavors of Christ--What's next? A carb-free communion? [c/o Fark.com]

"Remove your bills the Christian way"--Thanks to the Christian Bill Removers, my debts have been forgiven. Amen. (Damn spam. )

From the Best of Craig's List

• Fifteen Men from Craig's List
• I love you, Average Boyfriend
• Yes, You Can Bury Your Face in My "Sweet Titties"
• Mom, I know you're there
• Jesus wants you to fuck me

Stories I'm reading:

• Extra Credit Video
• The Hike: 1 | 2
• The Sauna

"Citizen journalists"? Try partisan hacks--Even when they're wrong, they're right. Salon

Meet Mel "Memo Maestro" Martinez--The beleaguered senator insists on passing the buck yet again.

Dear Mainstream Media...

Judging the judges--"There does seem to be this misunderstanding out there that our system was created with a completely independent judiciary." Whoo-boy, the Executive and Legislative branches have control of the board, the balance is in check.

From Fark.com

• Fans are Daft Vaders--"Diehard Star Wars fans queuing to see the new movie which does not even open for 43 days have discovered they are waiting outside the wrong cinema."
• Smoking outlawed in 'Marlboro Country'
• Japan's virgin wives turn to sex volunteers--Not only that, "the sexless marriage is one of several reasons why experts fear Japan is on the verge of a demographic disaster." So where are the men getting their sex from then? Hmm...

From Boing Boing

• Starbucks Delocator--Finding alternative coffee houses in your area. Wonder if this can go worldwide.
• 25 favorite Sesame Street moments--See if yours made it to this guy's list
• 'C' is for kooky-- "A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food"??? Cookie Monster, you pathetic sellout!

Spammer gets NINE years in prison

Stories I'm reading:

• I'm Better Than She Is!
• The Introduction
• Unknowing Cock Whore

Court upholds teen's right to rant--School learns the hard way that students have First Amendment rights too.

From Atrios

• Wingnuts go apeshit over AP's Pulitzer Prize winning photos--They claim the Associated Press was complicit with Iraqi insurgents and didn't show enough American heroism in their photographs. "The AP's crime? In so many words, they are guilty of showing the conflict in Iraq the way that it is, and not the way that the conservative blogosphere wishes that it were."
• DeLay's Lavish Island Getaway--Ok, all these "scandals" cropping up this week is just too weird. Somebody (Rove, most likely) is really out to get him.
• Get paid and a free camcorder for documenting your kids's exposure to pesticides!--Whoops, too late. They've suspended the CHEERS program. (Gee, I wonder why?) Darn, the t-shirt would have a been cool to have.
• The Gannon-Guckert-Gosch Conspiracy--I think somebody missed his April 1 article deadline.

Seven-point-eight treee-llion dollars in debt--After spending close to $2 billion the past four years, is it finally time to raise taxes?

Phil A. Buster--What kind of stupid bullcrap is this?! File this under "ineffectual instruments of influence" like this hokey one-million signature petition drive to protect the judiciary. Ugh, no wonder the Bushies are still around. [c/o AMERICABlog]

Taiwanese man commits suicide when girlfiriend dumps him for his online alter ego [c/o Fark.com]

Stories I'm reading:

• Easing His Grief: 1 | 2
• If You Choose Not to Decide: 1 | 2
• Online Awakening: 1 | 2

The End for DeLay?

• DeLay Russian trip paid for by firm lobbying Russian gov't [c/o The Raw Story]
• Political Groups Paid Two Relatives of House Leader NYT

Sensenbrenner Wants to Criminalize TV Indecency--Holy fuckshit, Batman!

45% approval for "popular" president--There's that liberal bias in the media again.

How To Do Things With Extremists--What's the deal with John Cornyn?

Parents object to use of red ink on grading test papers--"Red writing, they said, was 'stressful.'" Quick, somebody call the waaahmbulance! [c/o Fark.com]

Spectrum Wars--Or "How HDTV killed firefighters, birthed the Broadcast Flag, and screwed America" [c/o Boing Boing]

Pope John Paul II: 1920-2005--I'm really wondering who the next Pope is going to be. For those who want a fictionalized glimpse of the selection process, watch The Shoes of the Fisherman starring Anthony Quinn and Sir Laurence Olivier.

Stories I'm reading:

• Becoming a Cock Slave: 1 | 2 | 3
• Fun with Belts: 1 | 2 | 3
• The Wingman: 1 | 2

A Tale Told By An Idiot--"Wildly overplaying the Schiavo protesters, ignoring facts and giving Bush a free ride, the press was full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Salon

"The coverage of the Schiavo tragedy is just the latest example of how conservatives have established a permanent media infrastructure that lets them push a button to start a public furor over virtually any issue of their choosing." [c/o BuzzFlash]

Florida Election official quits amid criticism--Oh, now somebody is held accountable for a recent botched-up election. Why didn't this happen four years ago?

Plan for gay festival roils Israelis--"We can't permit anybody to come and make the Holy City dirty. This is very ugly and very nasty to have these people come to Jerusalem." Ugh... look who's "dirty", "ugly", and "nasty".

Are you horny? [c/o Boing Boing]

From the Best of Craig's List

• Straight man searching for straight men
• The Craig's List M4M Dictionary
• How I became Bisexual
• Attention Rebel Spies...
• My Boyfriend Thinks You're Hot, So You Must Die

Video-Iron Crotch-99 Power Practice--I've heard of "buns of steel", but this is ridiculous. [c/o Fark.com]

Terri Schiavo dies--May she finally rest in peace

Republicans: Distracted by Religion

Conservative judge blasts Bush, Congress for role in Schiavo case [c/o BuzzFlash]

Will the GOP need life support? Salon

Militias were set to "rescue" Schiavo in "Operation Resurrection"--I only wish this was an April Fool's joke

"God told me to come and juggle."--Ditto to this.