Some of you may remember last year I setup a searchable database of the stories I've featured on my site, but a few months later the free hosting provider took it down without notice (probably because it got too popular). Also lost a lot of user feedback saved in the system that I didn't get to back up.

Anyway, last week I decided to restore part of the database and, unfortunately, without the search function because Pridesites doesn't offer PHP/MySQL. Even so, the Topics and Authors sections ought to work well enough for most everyone. Check 'em out.

New stories: Please welcome age progression authors Aardvark and Leminnes as the site's newest contributors.

• The Circle of Heroes: 1 | 2 | 3
• Hit the Showers
• HunkNet
• News Flash
• Playing with Chemicals
• A Big Hawaiian Change and Photoshop BE 3 by Leminnes

The Cure for Gayness (Thanks Randy!)

Rehnquist Dies--The other shoe has finally dropped.

My Pet Goat--The Sequel

Blogs

• We told you so--"Ever wonder why New Yorkers detest George Bush?"
• Behind the Curtain--Operation Photo Op is alive and well
• "I've considered myself a socially libertarian, fiscally conservative Republican for a very long time. [...] But after watching what's happening in New Orleans [...] I can't ever vote for these people again."

New York Times

• United States of Shame
• A Can't Do Government
• Katrina's Assault on Washington
• Falluja Floods the Superdome
• Across US, Outrage at Response

Framing Iraq's Constitution--"It is deeply self-contradictory and makes no provision for adjudicating the legal conflicts it sets up."

Katrina

• I'd never thought I'd say this but: Kudos to Geraldo and Shep--I caught this clip on cable, and they really stepped up to the plate over this atrocious decision by the authorities of locking citizens inside the convention center. O'Reilly and Hannity (whom I was so glad to be see pw3nd by Shep on live TV) can go fuck themselves.
• The big disconnect on New Orleans--FEMA's Brown should be fired for his lies, but just you wait for him to be rewarded by Bush.
• Kanye West: George Bush doesn't care about black people--He said that during the Concert for Hurricane Relief telethon, and his remarks were later censored by NBC for the west coast feed.
• Silicon Insider: Katrina and the Webs--How blogs are helping
• "US dealing with one of worst natural disasters: Bush"--No truer words spoken (however Freudian).

Gay Cable's Like Straight, Except for Nervous Jokes NYT

"I was fired for eating pizza"--Read the other "winners" of the Simply Fired contest

Viagra unlikely to trigger heart attack -- study--"The study was funded by Pfizer, Inc., maker of Viagra."

New story: The Mission 3 by Randy Dragon.

California Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill [c/o The Huffington Post ]

Salt Lake Tribune [c/o Fark.com]

• You a eunuch? Prove it!
• When bigger isn't always better
• Forest Service asks for help spotting marijuana

Nick Fichter--Freelance model

Clever whale uses fish to catch seagulls--Are the huuumans next?

So much for my break... I knew this was going to happen. Ah well, there's always tomorrow...

Iraqi officials see 1,000 dead in stampede--People "panicked by rumors a suicide bomber was about to blow himself up." Feeling any safer yet?

US must prevent oil fields from falling into hands of terrorists--The "noble cause" revealed

Bushwhacked

• Hurricane Politics
• Bush and Katrina: A time for action, not aloofness
• Waiting for a Leader

New Orleans

• Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen?
• How New Orleans was Lost [c/o BuzzFlash]
• "No one can say they didn't see it coming" Salon

"Failure to pay [your phone bill] will result in you being hospitalised." [c/o Fark.com]