New stories: The Shy Guy 4 by GoodFortune, High School Bully 4 by BBMSN and Walking Home by Magus

New stories:

• The Shy Guy 4: Justin by GoodFortune
• High School Bully 4 by BBMSN
• Walking Home by Magus

Lego...

• Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon--500 frickin' bucks!
• Millennium Falcon Stop Motion
• Dragon
• Endless
• Skyscrapers
• Nicorette
• Wii Zapper
• Guns and Catapults
• Iron Man

New story: The Barber Holiday Special: A War on Christmas Carol by Texzilla

New story: The Barber Holiday Special: A War on Christmas Carol by Texzilla

'Healthy' Santa spurns fat suit

Animal activists' anger after aquarium puts Santa hats on whales

Maury Christmas!--So evil.

New stories: High School Bully 3 by BBMSN, Kingdom Come by dymondbolt and The Office Boy by John D.

New stories:

• High School Bully 3 by BBMSN
• Kingdom Come by dymondbolt
• The Office Boy by John D.

FISA Confusion and Correction--Joe Klein fesses up while Time Magazine digs itself deeper into the hole they got themselves in.

Facebook caves in to Beacon criticism--Thanks to Slashdot's jnadke for collating a list of sites participating in Beacon: eBay, Fandango, College Humor, Busted Tees, iWon, Citysearch, Pronto.com, echomusic, Travelocity, Allposters.com, Blockbuster, Bluefly.com, CBS Sports, Dotspotter, ExpoTV, Gamefly, Hotwire, Joost, Kiva, Kongregate, LiveJournal, Live Nation, Mercantila, The NBA, The New York Times, Overstock.com, (RED), Redlight, Seamless Web, Sony Online Entertainment, Sony Pictures, STA Travel, TheKnot, TripAdvisor, Travel Ticker, Typepad, viagogo, Vox, Yelp, WeddingChannel.com, and Zappos.

Amazon Kindle a fraud?--Apparently the Whispernet network used for wireless downloads isn't available everywhere in the US as people are initially led to believe. Amazon should try better to rectify this misconception by making this info more prominent rather than burying it under all the marketing hoopla.

New story: My Roommate's Body 12 by Londonboy

New story: My Roommate's Body 12 by Londonboy

Blog Readers Out Anonymous Adults that Newspaper Refused to Identify--These adults who were responsible for a girl's suicide won't be facing criminal charges, but a civil lawsuit is certainly likely.

Facebook

• Facebook's Beacon just the tip of the privacy iceberg
• A Well-Deserved Court Loss For Facebook
• Bank intern busted by Facebook

Your rights online

• Wikipedia wins landmark privacy lawsuit in France
• Blogger Fights for Free Speech in New Jersey
• In global precedent, Google to hand over blogger's IP address

Amazon's Kindle--Will this new e-Book usher in a reading revolution?

• The Good
• The Bad
• The Ugly

New stories by Londonboy

New stories: Londonboy

• Flip, This House!
• Meanwhile, Across Town
• My Roommate's Body 11

Time Magazine's Joe Klein spreading FISA falsehoods--Glen Greenwald's masterful takedown of this pundit who has "neither the time nor legal background to figure out who's right". Salon

Sunday schooled

• 'More believe in devil than Darwin'
• Christians seek right to sue BBC for blasphemy
• 'Golden Compass' incenses both Christians and atheists--"Neither [William Donohue, head of the Catholic League nor Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists] has yet seen the film, which opens Dec. 7." Whoop-fucking-doo.

TSA screeners order soldiers accompanying body of their fallen comrade home to strip to their skivvies--Oh, I'm sure they were just doing their job... looking busy.

New stories by dymondbolt: Hard Questions 2, Innocence on the Wind: Prolog, Monkey Meat 6, Only Skin Deep 13 and Polywog 7

New stories: dymondbolt

• Hard Questions 2
• Innocence on the Wind: Prolog
• Monkey Meat 6
• Only Skin Deep 13
• Polywog 7

Not The Daily Show with Not Jon Stewart--Breaking not news update to the WGA strike.

Birth deflects

• Bush Administration Launches National Ad Campaign Promoting Abstinence
• No-sex programmes 'not working'--No duh
• Contraceptive Controversy, Advocates Of Plan B Contraceptive Pill Want Age Restriction Removed
• Teen sells virginity for $25,000
• School Board allows Middle Schools to Birth Control after 17 pregnancies

Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians--Wait, what?

New story: Revisionist History by Lloyd311

New story: Revisionist History by Lloyd311 (mm hypno musc tf oral inc)

Stories I'm Reading: Oh, Brother

• Getting to Know My Hot Big Brother
• Hot Night With Bro
• My Older Brother - Grounded, Horny, and With a Broken Leg

Good judgements

• U.S. Judge Strikes Mich. Breath Tests For Pedestrians
• US judge says two provisions of Patriot Act unconstitutional
• Judge Spanks Jack Thompson for Including Gay Porn with Court Filing

Bad judgements

• "The mere fact that the judge was asleep for periods of the trial does not demonstrate that the trial had been unfair or that there had been a miscarriage of justice".
• Judge bars use of partial prints in murder trial
• Curtain lowered on age of fearless food critic

New story: My Roommate's Body 10 by Londonboy

New story: My Roommate's Body 10 by Londonboy

Why We Fight--See why the Writer's Guild of America has gone on strike.

Privacy

• "Privacy no longer can mean anonymity"--Welcome to 1984.
• Dianne Feinstein -- Bush's key ally in the Senate -- to support telecom amnesty--When Democrats sell out Salon
• Ex-AT&T employee: NSA snooping Internet traffic too

Music

• Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends
• Sony BMG's chief anti-piracy lawyer: "Copying" music you own is "stealing"
• The Home Video Prince Doesn't Want You to See--Universal says, "Prince believes it is wrong for YouTube, or any user-generated site, to appropriate his music without his consent."
• How to stop worrying and learn to live with piracy
• What's the Future of the Music Industry?
• Radiohead generation believes music is free
• Calling All Recording Gurus: I've Got Nothing to Prove, but I Still Need Your Help (See My Video!)

New story: The Bully Magnet by muscl4life

New story: The Bully Magnet by muscl4life

Stories I'm Reading: High School life

• High School Passion
• Most Popular Guy
• One Things Leads to Another
• Peter Cross
• Unbroken Bond

Telecom troubles

• AT&T wiretapping: Your two-minute guide
• Judge forces telcos to retain data in NSA spy case--So easy to "lose" data these days, ain't it?
• AT&T Whistleblower: Telecom Immunity Is A Cover-Up--Interesting that Ashcroft is arguing to absolve them and the Senate Judiciary Committee is delaying the vote on it.

Creationist crap

• Reclaiming the bookshelves for reason
• Greetings From Idiot America--Perfect example of this attitude is this cockamamie proclamation from Kentucky to publicly display historically inaccurate documents just so they can jam in the 10 Commandments there.
• New term for creationists: “cdesign proponentsists”

The 10 Worst U.S Natural Disasters--This one goes to 11.

New story: Eternal Bloom by Clarence591

New story: Eternal Bloom by Clarence591 (muscle theft)

Major League Baseball rips off fans who bought DRM videos--Looks like they've been embarrassed enough to do the right thing, but thanks to this debacle, the idiocy of DRM has been made plain and clear. These corporations are trying to shove the idea down our throats that we only rent or license and not own the stuff we buy.

Amazon's MP3 store rips off your fair use rights--They're asking you to "agree that you will not redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, sub-license or otherwise transfer or use the Digital Content."

Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law

Start 'em young: WIPO unviels children's copyright law workbook

Mark Twain's plans to compete with copyright "pirates" (in 1906)

New story: High School Bully 2 by BBMSN

New story: High School Bully 2 by BBMSN

Stories I'm Reading: Sleepy Saturday (inc)

• Go Wake Up Your Brother
• Sleepwalker
• Taking Advantage

Fox News faces wrath from right and left over debate footage stance--Wingers and MoveOn.org join forces.

Dog day afternoon

• Dog taken off voter rolls - after three elections
• Meet Lucy, the most vicious of attack dogs--The guy who sued was a being a pussy.
• Grassed-off hound dodges diet

Funeral war pickets lose verdict--Hope these sanctimonious Westboro assholes lose all their appeals.

New stories: Monkey Meat and Un-Corked by dymondbolt, My Father's Child by Clarence591 and The Bulkery: White Bread by Redkage

New stories:

• Monkey Meat and Un-Corked by dymondbolt
• My Father's Child by Clarence591 with alternate ending by Corwin
• The Bulkery: White Bread and Inner Demon 21 by Redkage
• High School Bully by BBMSN

New morph: Here's how you can break into wrestling.

Stories I'm Reading: Sci-Fi

• All in Good Time
• The Atavist
• Boys of Lady Lex
• Cody's Alien Adventure
• Life Long Conversion
• Orgasmia
• Pleasure Island
• Undercover Cops

Halloweeners

• Escape from Fire Island!--Toxic waste transforms resort residents into zombie drag queens in this Choose-Your-Own-Adventure type book.
• Journey: The Absolution--A bordering-on-bad B-movie with big-bodied beefcakes, bulging biceps, and baloneys in boxer briefs. And whom do we have to thank for this awesome display of flesh? Why, David DeCoteau of course!
• A "First Goatse" flickr photoset--A gallery of fear. (If you don't know what a "goatse" is, I suggest avoiding it at all costs. )
• Freddy vs. Ghostbusters--One fun fan flick.
• Skull-A-Day

Done to death

• Man's plot to kill girlfriend ends with his death
• Man died as friends danced
• Man bleeds to death during burglary
• Man drives off with dead motorcyclist
• Woman killed boyfriend over porn

New stories: Learning to Share and Polywog by dymondbolt, Destiny Rewound by Clarence591 and Goody Two-Boots by Purplebootsgywr

New stories:

• Learning to Share and Polywog by dymondbolt
• Destiny Rewound by Clarence591
• Goody Two-Boots by Purplebootsgywr

Stories I'm Reading: Fantasy

• The Devil in Me
• Died and In Fag Heaven
• Dreamweaver
• Leprechaun's Gold
• The Sexorcist (mb fant)
• Taking Possession
• Young Wizard

There's Something About Harry

• 'Hallow' be thy Name--This last book of the series was the first one I've ever read, and despite missing out on some stuff covered in the previous books, I quite enjoyed how Rowling wrapped things up. I had a feeling there was more to that certain someone than was let on, but I didn't realize just by how much.
• Harried Potter--Damn, that movie was dark, and Dolores Umbridge was a great character to hate. Too bad her comeuppance came up short. She deserved worse.
• J. K. Rowling at Carnegie Hall Reveals Dumbledore is Gay; Neville Marries Hannah--What does the public really think?
• Harry Potter and the art of screenwriting Salon
• Potter teen who translated Deathly Hallows to French will not face charges
• Harry Potter fan, 3, freed by six firefighters from traffic cone 'wizard hat'--I'm guessing he didn't put on his robe.
• The last word on Harry Potter by Stephen King

Misgovernance

• AP: U.S. gave immunity to Blackwater bodyguards--Why doesn't the government just pay these guys who seem to do anything with impunity anyway to run Iraq and send the troops home?
• Public affairs official loses job over FEMA scandal--Heckuva job, Philbin.
• Court nixes man's suit claiming torture by CIA
• Senate passes intelligence bill after Democrats back down on presidential briefings--See how the idiots are blowing it.
• Habeas Schmabeas 2007--A Peabody Award-winning winning episode

New stories: Hackers at the Womb Wall and Monumental by dymondbolt, A Man Like You by Clarence591 and The Diver by John D.

New stories:

• Hackers at the Womb Wall and Monumental by dymondbolt
• A Man Like You by Clarence591
• The Diver by John D. (musc)

Stories I'm Reading: Shrinking@CYOC (Copy the links and paste them in another window/tab to directly view the stories.)

• A Changing Passion
• Interesting Drug
• Miniaturization: 1 | 2 | 3

Size matters

• The Height Gap--Why Europeans are getting taller and taller... and Americans aren't.
• 7-Foot, 9-Inch Herdsman Is World's Tallest Human
• How tall can a human grow?
• Giant Men Rule--Adult verification required. Bummer.
• Big Don's Boys--Free tall man galleries

The Gay Stuff

• Freshman Democrats kill transgender amendment
• Gay Group Protests as Rev. Donnie McClurkin Takes Obama's Stage
• Georgia students defend right to express anti-gay opinions
• Gen. Pace: Homosexual Acts Immoral--Says the idiot leading those men and women to slaughter
• Craig Ethics Complaint Backfires on GOP
• Philadelphia Raises Boy Scouts' Rent $199,999 Over Gay Ban
• Scientists alter sexual orientation in worms

  "University of Utah biologists genetically manipulated nematode worms so the animals were attracted to worms of the same sex – part of a study that shows sexual orientation is wired in the creatures' brains." [...] "We cannot say what this means for human sexual orientation, but it raises the possibility that sexual preference is wired in the brain."

New stories: Only Skin Deep and Then He Screwed Himself by dymondbolt, A God Created in Seven Days by Clarence591 and Tessaract by wbhulk

New stories:

• Only Skin Deep and Then He Screwed Himelf by dymondbolt
• A God Created in Seven Days by Clarence591
• Tessaract by wbhulk (mm musc cb)

Stories I'm Reading: More ASFR

• Another Satisfied Customer (shrinking)
• A Damn Fine Robot
• HRO-3498
• The Kiss (fd mc fant)
• Si-C (asfr)

Sci-fi magic

• Physics professor's course corrects movie mayhem
• In a university not far away, sci-fi heaven
• The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Cliches

Math wizardry

• What's Special About This Number?
• Strange but True: Infinity Comes in Different Sizes
• Cracking the Cube

Government gimmicks

• FEMA sorry for fake news story--They had staffers masquerading as reporters.
• EPA refused to warn of asbestos dangers
• FCC won't probe disclosure of phone records

Airline shenanigans

• Taser death at Vancouver airport
• Latest TSA alert: remote-control toys
• Southwest Airlines makes man change T-shirt

School antics

• 'Hitler' halts Halloween
• School probes racism claim against boy, four
• School ban on 911 calls "for any reason" may have led to student's disability

New stories: Ray of Light and Searching for My Angel by dymondbolt, Desperate Husbands by Clarence591 and From F-Baller to T-Girlie by Texzilla

New stories:

• Ray of Light and Searching for My Angel by dymondbolt
• Desperate Husbands by Clarence591
• From F-Baller to T-Girlie by Texzilla

Stories I'm Reading: ASFR

• Fantasies Revisited (fant)
• Frozen in Time (hypno)
• The Mannequin (fant)
• Midas and the Nude Male Statues (fant)
• Toy Story (musc)

Transfomered

• Pranksters Give Sculpture A Makeover
• MIT Hackers Prank Harvard Statue With Master Chief Helmet, Assault Rifle
• Classical art assimilated--Or Rennaisance is futile [c/o Boing Boing]
• Rejected Transformers
• Dancing Car

War stories

• Plame's CIA job was to stop Iran from obtaining nukes--We know whom to blame for leaking her covert status.
• Fitzgerald Again Points to Cheney
• Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets--Here we go again.
• Shifting Targets: The Administration's plan for Iran
• President Bush on the War--A visual timeline

New stories: Smoking Club and Stability by dymondbolt, The Wishing Jar by Clarence591, Buyer Beware by zulator

New stories:

• The Smoking Club and Stability by dymondbolt
• The Wishing Jar by Clarence591
• Buyer Beware by zulator

Stories I'm Reading: Body Swap@CYOC (Copy the links and paste them in another window/tab to directly view the stories .)

• A Christmas Switch
• A Long Day's Journey Into...
• Matt's Life as Jeff
• My Brother and His Roommate
• Max Out Your Week!
• Money for the Poor
• Tie

Star Trek

• Original Star Trek Getting a CGI Makeover--Check out also TrekEnhanced.com
• Star Trek thesis wins Melbourne Univeristy's Chancellor's Prize for Excellence
• Takei & Wheaton On Presidential Qualities of Kirk and Picard
• Voyager-themed apartment sells for £425,000
• Star Trek Inspirational Posters --My fave: "Captain James T. Kirk: I'm Sorry I Can't Hear You Over The Sound of How Awesome I Am"
• Group Renames Asteroid for George Takei
• If Trekkies Ruled the Earth...
• Star Trek: New Voyages--The five-year mission continues

Ars Technica

• Leaked Media Defender e-mails reveal secret government project
• FBI accused of using illegal letters for illegal information requests
• Telcos seek wiretapping immunity as legal pressure mounts
• Telecom companies refuse to reveal NSA wiretap details to Congress
• Congress caves on telecom immunity, but Senator Dodd to block bill--Guess I shouldn't have been surprised that the one who sold out was a Democrat, newly flush with telco cash, something he, of course, denies.

Happy Hallo-Week 2007! New stories by dymondbolt, Clarence591 and Rough Master

New stories: For this year's Halloween celebration, I've enlisted the aid of my three new contributors--dymondbolt, Clarence591 and Rough Master--to provide some fun reading for the week.

• Alterations (mm fant musc tf) and Hard Questions (hs) by dymondbolt
• Taking the Good by Clarence591 (muscle theft)
• New Master in the County by Rough Master (mm mc oral anal rape nc)

Stories I'm Reading: TF@CYOC (Copy the links and paste them in another window/tab to directly view the stories .)

• Be Careful What You Wish For
• Becoming Black
• Demons Who Ride the Wind
• Formula 52962
• In For a Change
• Lifting
• Project Epsilon
• Sweet Guy Says Goodbye

Star Wars

• Star Wars: The Comic Book That Saved Marvel
• Boba Fett disrupts wedding
• Star Wars fan encased in carbonite

How To...

• Write Faster, Better, and Easier
• Make People Buy Books
• Write Sex Scenes: The 12-Step Program
• Ask Questions The Smart Way
• Survive a Plane Accident

New story: Outrageous Fortune by stimle

New story: Outrageous Fortune by stimle

Unprecedented Muslim call for peace with Christians

Oral Roberts President Exits Amid Scandal--Follow the money.

Thou Shalt Not Kill, Except in a Popular Video Game at Church

Is this Pope John Paul II waving from beyond the grave? Vatican TV director says yes--Holy burning bushes, Batman.

LOLBible--"And Invisible Man sayz, i can has light, and teh light wuz..."

New story: Invisible: The Story of Nameless Tommy by muscl4life

New story: Invisible: The Story of Nameless Tommy by muscl4life

Stories I'm Reading: Family fun

• Double Trouble
• Oh Danny Boy (tt inc)
• Nate and Danny
• Sacked
• Walking on Water

Teacher: I was fired, said Bible isn't literal--So, the creationist crackpots are fighting back.

Lawyer admits destroying church porn evidence--Pretty unforgivable, I'd say.

Christianity's Image Problem--Causing division in society fails to make them multiply

What if you spent one year following every rule in the Bible?--Asked and answered.

Papal stargazers reach for heaven--Science and religion can mix.

New stories: My Roommate's Body 9 by Londonboy and Swapping Revenge by Peircedskin

New stories: My Roommate's Body 9 by Londonboy and Swapping Revenge by Peircedskin

Gay rights groups angered by weaker antidiscrimination bill--Yet another example of the Democrat's weakness at governing.

For Gay Press, 'Good Old Days' Are Here

Pew Research Center: Four-in-Ten Americans Have Close Friends or Relatives Who are Gay [c/o Andrew Sullivan]

Gay adoption: A new take on the American family--Can't get any simpler than this.

Why Marriage Matters

Gay Civil Unions Sanctioned in Medieval Europe

Mayor reverses opposition to gay marriage; daughter says she's gay

New stories by stimle, Glaucon55, Texzilla, Londonboy and John D.

New stories: It gives me great pleasure--in more ways than one--in welcoming stimle aboard. For the past 5 years, I've been enjoying and been able to link to his authoritarian stories, apparently save for one.

• Marcus by stimle
• The Masturbation Chronicles, Tale No. 3 -- Bailey Stimson's Big Mistake by Glaucon55
• Full Moon and Muscle 4 by Texzilla
• My Roommate's Body 8 by Londonboy
• The Muscle Club by John D.

Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA

Fair Use Worth More to Economy Than Copyright, CCIA Says

Fair use is not a consumer right--I call shenanigans.

Know Your Rights: How does fair use work?

Do-It-Yourself Counter Notification Letter

New stories by Wrestlr

New stories: Wrestlr

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• The Seduction Engine
• What We Did That Summer

:)=25--But its roots go deeper than that.

iPhone & iPod: Contain or Disengage?--Ever since the iPhone came out, Apple appears to be losing its touch. The company ain't the underdog no more.

Identity

• Man Arrested in Online ID Theft Scheme--Make sure to keep your PC clear of spyware
• Cyber cheats married... to each other--In other news, spying on your spouse gets digital.
• How to Un-Google Yourself
• Controlling Your Public Appearance
• The Threat of Reputation-Based Attacks

Americans Can Go Without Sex Longer Than The Internet, Study Finds

New stories by VA23456, cicero, Wrestltr and Eigh

New stories: Project SEAL Trance by VA23456 and Wrestlr, Turnabout by cicero and Wrestlr and Tobias 801 by Eigh

Artist, promote thyself--Music labels can be bypassed through services like CDBaby, Amie Street and TuneCore.

Royalties

• Music licensing companies come calling for royalties
• Music suit creates discord
• YouTube Guitar Lessons Pulled in Copyright Spat

Elton John wants to "close down the Internet."

Nine Inche Nails' Trent Raznor on music: "Steal it!"

Ars Technica

• DRM advocates getting nervous about consumer backlash--One of my biggest beefs with DRM is that it prevents material from entering the public domain after its restrictions has expired.
• MPAA head wants deeper relationship (read: content filtering) with ISPs
• Researcher: Optimal copyright term is 14 years

Dinosaurs with Jetpacks--Why Universal's plan to sell DRM-free music is a sham

New stories by John D., Wrestlr and Eigh

New stories:

• Young Thugz, The Punching Bag (SNUFF) and The Gang Exterminator (SNUFF) by John D.
• Adytum Documentary Project and True Life by Wrestlr
• Tobias 701 by Eigh

Stories I'm reading:

• Equipment Manager
• A Little Extra on the Hustle
• Paul's Pants

Roman Catholic families get option to refuse HPV vaccine--Whom will they sue if their oh-so-innocent daughters get cervical cancer?

Abstinence-based sex education in Alabama county leads to three times the rate of STDs infection in New York City.

State Sen. Ernie Chambers Sues God--God claims he's 'immune from some earthly laws and the court lacks jurisdiction.'

Muhammed cartoonist forced from home--This simplemindedness is the fodder for religious extermism.

The Atheist Delusion

New stories by Londonboy, chester, BrockJr, Wrestlr and Eigh

New stories:

• Changed for Good by Londonboy
• Beauty in the Beast by chester and Wrestlr and Thorne in His Side by BrockJr and Wrestlr
• Tobias 601 by Eigh

Stories I'm reading: High School Jocks

• A Befuddled Jock
• Defeating the School Jock
• Used by Russian Jock

Bushies

• DNI McConnell: I Lied To The Senate
• The General as Salesman
• Alan Greenspan: GOP 'swapped principle for power'--He backtracked on his comments pretty quick.

Big Brother is watching

• Point, Click ... Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates
• State dept. won't say why UK music scholar is barred from US
• U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read--They deny it, but they're still "going to be mindful of whether there is anything that suggests there could be possible violations of a law."

It's Caturday

• I Can Has Cheezburger
• LOLCats
• CatCam
• Oscar the Cat: Furry Harbinger of Death
• Wake up, kitty cat

New stories: The Black Room and Yes S.I.R.! by Wrestlr and Tobias 501 by Eigh

New stories: The Black Room and Yes S.I.R.! by Wrestlr and Tobias 501 by Eigh

Stories I'm reading: Rugby

• Accommodating the Rugby Men
• Rugby Balls
• Rugby Coach and Player
• Rugby Men Fill My Virgin Ass
• Rugby Thug
• The Valley Boys Rugby Tour
• Virginity Lost in the Rugby Club

Spell heck

• Bush court denies appeal of life sentence because of a judge's "inexplicable" typo
• No Quick Fix for $100 Million Goof
• Misspelling Costs eBay Seller $500,000--What a difference one "p" makes.

Paint job

• Safe toys to cost more — but not this Christmas
• In Europe, Some Toy Makers Shun the China Label
• Rampant corruption is eating into the vitals of the Chinese economy

HOA, there pardner

• Grass must be green, HOA decrees--Drought, schmout.
• Mesa HOA vote to build $8.5M luxury center tossed out by judge
• Homeowners wave victory flag after accord in pole flap

New stories by zulator, Wrestlr and Eigh

New stories:

• Coach Sweet the Succubus by zulator (ar)
• Flashes and Coupling by Wrestlr
• Tobias 401 by Eigh

Stories I'm reading: Football

• Football Coach
• The Football team
• Operation College Quarterback
• NFL Physical Therapist
• Trick and Treating the Quarterback

First Look: Beowulf--I've been had. I really thought (and hoped) Ray Winstone really got buff for this role.

'Those things weren't mine'--Keira Knightley on her "boobs".

Photoshop Of Horrors

Did Andy Roddick get a Photoshop workout?

Nicolas Sarkozy love handles 'airbrushed'

New stories: Aleph and On the Couch by Wrestlr and Tobias 301 by Eigh

New stories: Aleph and On the Couch by Wrestlr and Tobias 301 by Eigh

Stories I'm reading: Soccer

• Italian Soccer Coach (mt)
• Jamie and the Soccer Physio
• Soccer Camp
• Soccer Team Goes Bisexual
• Two Soccer Boys

Homophobic homebrew on the DS

Gays in the military

• 79% of Americans don’t want “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
• Exhibit puts history of gay veterans on view
• Hearing Sought Over Linguists' Discharge
• Gay Bomb: The Porno Flick--Sometimes, truth is really stranger than fiction

All about Jim "$250K robo-potty" Naugle

Why men like Larry Craig continue to to court danger in public places--Let's see how well the ACLU defends him in court

The Onion

• Closeted Father Lives Vicariously Through Gay Son
• Gay Marriage Could Be Profitable
• Where Do Homosexuals Get All Their Energy?
• 'Gays Too Precious To Risk In Combat,' Says General

Gay or straight? Watch his walk

New stories by John D., Wrestlr and Eigh

New stories:

• The Bully and the Freak by John D.
• Assignment: Contact and Spark by Wrestlr
• Tobias 201 by Eigh

Stories I'm reading: Wrestling

• Singlet
• Wrestler's Awakening (mf inc)
• Wrestler's Tail (mm anal coll)
• Wrestling Brendan
• Wrestling Drew
• Wrestling Team
• Wrestling Tournament Locker Room Adventures

Recording Industry vs. The People

Ars Technica

• Oklahoma State students attack RIAA's expert witness
• Analysis: RIAA wants universities to do its dirty work
• Defendant: RIAA abusing courts to shore up "failing business model"

RIAA says lawsuits cannot be the complete answer to music piracy

Ring-a-ling-ding

• Know Your Rights: Is it illegal to make my own ringtones?
• Apple’s Ringtones and Copyright Law
• Record Industry Proves Again How Much They’ve Lost The Plot

RIAA sues man for humming own copyrighted song--Hey, it could happen.

New stories: Decompression and The Hike by Wrestlr and Tobias 101 by Eigh

New stories: Decompression and The Hike by Wrestlr and Tobias 101 by Eigh

Stories I'm reading: Baseball

• College Baseball Slut (mm mt oral anal inc)
• Baseball Boys and Other Toys
• Baseball Teammate
• Brocker
• Playing Ball

For pornographers, Internet is now a curse--Mostly due the stiff competition and rampant piracy

Former addict targets pay-per-view hotel porn

Australia's porn-blocking plan unveiled

Porn Peddlers Won't Bare It All--The good times didn't last

Innovation Lessons from Adult and Gaming Sites

Discovering Porn (On Your Boyfriend's Computer)

Professional Porn Sales Down

New stories by Eigh, Wrestlr, Braun1 and muscl4life, AbsMan420 and BBMSN

New stories: I am very proud to welcome two of my favorite hypnosis authors--Eigh and Wrestlr. I would've welcomed them sooner, but I ran out of server space for their stories.

• The Mysterious Amulet of Palukahn by Eigh
• Team Entrancement and Fraternity Induction by Wrestlr
• The New Supermen by AbsMan420
• Stranger Within by Braun1 and muscl4life
• Goth Valley by BBMSN

Stories I'm reading: Jocks

• Fratbrats Whip Out A Ruler
• Sleeping with the Enemy
• Spanish Gym

Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA--With fake takedown requests at that.

Teen Christians campaign against pop culture

2,000 Years Later: Jesus Gets His Day in Court

What would Jesus do? He'd probably tell them all to shut the hell up.

Prison Libraries Pulling Books On Faith

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Brain Study: Concussions Caused Benoit's Rage--Unfortunately, he'll forever be associated with steriods.

We win some...

• FEC Won't Regulate Political Blogging--Conservative pundit John Bambanek's pathetic gambit backfires.
• Judge Rules Provisions of Patriot Act Unconstitutional--Says no FBI's National Security Letters.
• Bremer Provides Letters to 'NYT' To Dispute Bush Claim--Nobody likes being thrown under a bus.

We lose some...

• "All I could think of was 9/11."--And with that, the terrorists have won. Heckuva job, Bushie. Too bad for anyone caught speaking Arabic.
• Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction Salon
• Feds OK Fee for Priority Web Traffic--The Department of Justice says, 'Trust us.'

National Security Archive Sues to Recover 5 Million Missing White House E-mails--It's sad that it even has to come to this point.

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New story: My Roommate's Body 7 by Londonboy

Pavarotti dies at 71--Here's to you big guy.

Blitz Craig

• Craig steps up efforts to stay in Senate
• GOP touts swift action on Craig--Still got blindedsided.
• Craig reversal angers GOP colleagues

Republican Culture of Corruption: 2007 So Far--Anybody got the goods on the Dems?

Respect mah authoritah!

• Annapolis Police Raid Wrong Apartment
• He called cops - they beat, cuffed him
• Nailed-in-the-head man nailed in the ass for speeding to hospital

If I Blog It They Will Come--Online experiment to get Kevin Costner to visit his blog a success.

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New story: Jason Love by Aardvark

Call to regulate the net rejected

The Web is killing the TV star

• An Open Letter to NBC re: Leaving Apple’s iTunes Store
• "It's over now. Your business model was a historical anomaly built on scarcity of a valuable resource and the willingness of a small group of network operators to not slit each other's throats and to collaborate in exploiting the content producers."--A look at why TV video doesn't stand a chance against web video
• Don't Break the Internet: NBC's Bad Idea Gets Worse When You Look at It

Viacom: Fair Use Is What We Say It Is

Doney Kong vs. King Kong

If you thought software patents were bad...--Can movie scripts be patented?

New story: An American Muscleman in London 16 by Londonboy

New story: An American Muscleman in London 16 by Londonboy

Creationist brainwashing--It scares me that an entire generation of kids is growing up believing this shit.

LA Times religious reporter loses faith--The truth shall set you free?

Century Village unit criticized for spending $11,000 to alter elevator for Sabbath--How does pressing a button constitute work when walking up a flight of stairs doesn't?

Megachurch founding pastors to seek divorce--Do as we say, not as we do.

Mother: Dress Code Unfairly Targets Religion--Uh, no it doesn't. "The policy states there are to be no logos or slogans on a shirt."

Malaysia paper apologizes over Jesus photo--Interesting turnabout.

It's praying men, Alleluia! It's praying men. Amen!--Never thought I see a hot priest calendar, but then it's probably too good to be true.

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New story: My Roommate's Body 6 by Londonboy

Gay Ol' Party

• Craig announcing resignation today
• Iowa court rules same-sex couples can marry--It got shut down quick but not quick enough.
• The Family Research Council's Back To School Kit (No, Really)

Report Finds Little Progress On Iraq Goals

Iraq'd

• The Great Iraq Swindle--How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury
• Iraq corruption whistleblowers face penalties
• Who's profiting from the Iraq war?
• Officer's 2005 Suicide A Painful Reminder of Corruption in Iraq
• Witnesses in Army trial killed in crash

Soldiers pen a jaw-dropping NYT op-ed about the war in Iraq

Soldier answers a new call to battle

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Free Kenneth Foster--He's sentenced to die for not killing a person. UPDATE: Gov. Perry grants him a reprieve.

Craig's dissed--Still absolutely, unequivocally and emphatically 'not gay'

• Top Republicans want pol in toilet tempest to quit
• "I wish Craig's voting record and political positions were such that he was not helping to damn other people to the same sort of fate."
• Olbermann Re-Enacts Senator Craig Bathroom Scene

Tips for tricks

• Some advice for those who tell stall tales
• Tapping Into The Secrets Of the Stall
• Secret Signals: How Gay Men Cruise for Sex

15 Unfortunately Placed Ads

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New story: My Roommate's Body 5 by Londonboy

Going, going, Gonzo...--So long, "Fredo"

• Why did Gonzales resign? Salon
• Fired attorney: Rove, Gonzales resignations 'absolutely linked'
• Justice Department Resignation Roll Call

The Dorks Behind Penny Arcade, an Obscure Webcomic Turned Vidgame Empire

Are you who you say you are?

• Police Blotter: Fake gay Hotornot profile draws suit
• Student's fake profile of principal no reason for ouster, court rules
• An IM Infatuation Turned to Romance. Then the Truth Came Out.

BarMonkey v5.0--I, for one, welcome our new bartending overlords.

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New story: Kegger! by Purplebootsgywr

Front Line: Drug Wars

ACLU sues DEA on behalf of truck whose money was seized--So this is how they're funding the Drug War now.

Florida prosecutor refuses to drop drug charges against man with legal prescriptions even after appeals courts overturned his conviction--What a jerk.

Man Suffering From Pain Might Be Granted Clemency--"The sad irony is that while Paey is allowed to self-medicate in prison, it was his self-medicating that got him there."

DrugWarRant

New story: Making a Fool of Himself by Purplebootsgywr

New story: Making a Fool of Himself by Purplebootsgywr

Vendor Arrested For 'Impeach Him' Buttons--"A 74-year-old retired mathematician who sells anti-Bush buttons at a Maryland farmers' market has become a symbol of free speech to some people. Others say Alan McConnell is a nuisance."

Feds Pay $80,000 Over Anti-Bush T-Shirts

Feelin' safer yet?

• White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters
• "When Democratic leaders follow along with Bush's plan to eavesdrop on Americans, it's BAAAAAAD."
• Why is the Democratic Congress so unpopular? Salon
• FISA: U.S. must release surveillance records
• Alarm at US right to highly personal data
• CREW sues White House over refusal to respond
• Report: Loss of White House Emails "Most Serious Breach" in Record Law's History
• Justice argues for withholding Bush records

Faux News--Speaks true.

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New story: The Biggest Man of Them All by muscl4life

The Artful Seducer--Meet Erik Von Markovik, master pick-up artist. Salon

For better, no, just worse

• Woman fired for DNA test on hubby's skivvies
• Woman stabs estranged husband during sex
• Woman sets fire to ex-husband's penis

The battle of the blab is a draw, psychologists say in new study

"I may not be Fred Flintstone, but I bet I can make your bed rock."

Who Sleeps Around? Scientists Know

New stories by BBMSN, Londonboy and zulator

New stories:

• Andy 11: Andy and the Goths by BBMSN
• My Roommate's Body 4 by Londonboy
• My Senior Year by zulator

Your Favorite Tech Gadgets Exposed!

The Joy of Tech

• Parental Controls
• A Green Home Gym
• Obesity Loves Company

3D Mailbox: Worst. App. Ever.

Medium well laptop

Friends don't let friends smash bottles of WD-40

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How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties--He's a salt of the earth.

Iraq'd

• What Every American Should Know About Iraq
• Surge of Suicide Bombers: Iraq's 'Martyr' Factory
• Weapons Given to Iraq Are Missing
• Saudis' role in Iraq insurgency outlined
• Jailed for upholding law at Guantánamo

Missing Soldier's Wife Faces Deportation--The judge has put off the hearings until her husband returns.

New stories: Old Man Stevens 4 by Londonboy and Return of the Barber Part 15: Up To Code by Texzilla

New stories: Old Man Stevens 4 by Londonboy and Return of the Barber Part 15: Up To Code by Texzilla

"My first blow job was from a man, but I didn’t know it was a man. That’s where that comes from. It’s based on personal experience. It happens to a lot of people."

Transgender

• Pakistani Husband Accused of Being Woman
• Sex change official among 6 Sarasota city manager finalists--Though she was seriously considerd, Susan Stanton didn't get the job."It's just too soon. It's too soon for a transgendered city manager. ... I just don't think the world is ready just yet."
• Chinese-made gender-bent dolls confuse Russian children

Singapore bans photo exhibition on gays, lesbians kissing

Kissing can go to the dogs, most North Americans say

Alimony provides a same-sex union test

New story: Surfer Kid by John D.

New story: Surfer Kid by John D.

GayGamer.net offline following hate attack

AT&T blocks Pearl Jam's Bush slam--They admit to having censored other bands too.

The Neutral Net

• Is network neutrality a fake issue? Not if you want to watch the BBC
• This Anti-Net Neutrality Report Would Not Be Possible Without Generous Underwriting From AT&T--Lyin' lobbyists
• AT&T Censors Pearl Jam: Nothing to do with Net Neutrality--But everything to do with money despite their claims at stupidity

A Gateway for Hackers: The Security Threat in the New Wiretapping Law

The $200 Billion Rip-Off: The US's broadband future was stolen