From comments in Gay South Florida.

Why is it always the Republicans who like the underage kids? At least Monica was an adult.

The closet sure can be stifling. This also is a classic case of a repressed gay man going through “male menopause” where he longs to live out his fantasies of “the good ol’ days” hanging out with young studs. Very, very sad.

From the Miami Herald

As somebody who has met Mark Foley personally and has mutual friends, I am sad for Mark and I hope he doesn’t go to jail. The last time I saw Mark, he was 19 years into a relationship. That was sad that it had to be hidden. I hope the Republican Party continues to evolve so it’s not so difficult to be an openly gay Republican. Will this play into the fears that all gay people are pedophiles? I hope not. There are heterosexual situations as well. Everybody decries this kind of situation. Even Mark Foley did, but he couldn’t control it.

Finance writer Andrew Tobias, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee.

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This is what the neocons are defending as ‘not torture.’

As predicted, the Democrats didn’t put up much of a fight. They are too complicit for that. This is torture we’re talking about. It should be opposed totally and completely. If the Dems really want to convince they are opposed to torture, then they should shut down Congress with filibusters and protests. They should take it to the people. Call for millions in the streets. But they aren’t, are they?

Too many progressives are sleepwalking now, waiting for the election, hoping for a Democratic takeover of one or both houses. They’ve deluded themselves into thinking that somehow a Dem victory will make everything right. Ain’t going to happen. These are the same Democrats who voted for the war, erosion of civil rights, and didn’t block torture.

The neocon and the Bush agendas are crumbling. Imperialism is gasping. It’s all gone quite wrong for them, hasn’t it? Now is the time to increase the pressure and the protests, while they are crumbling, and not wait for someone else (quite unreliable) to do it for you.

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She’s much improved, but still has a ways to go. Save Dassi.

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The new version of Google Reader is one of the best RSS readers I’ve seen, online or desktop. The previous version was kludgy, this one is intuitive and powerful. They’ve done a stellar job on this, check it out.

Me, I prefer to use bookmarks to read blogs, with the bookmarks open in the left side. I’ve got about 50 blogs there and scan through them a couple of times a day. No RSS reader can give you the same look and feel as being on the actual site. Plus, bookmarks are faster. I use Foxmarks to keep my bookmarks in sync across computers. Thus, changing a bookmark on one of my desktop computers automatically gets updated  on the laptop. Plus, you can log onto FoxMarks when using someone else’s computer and access all your bookmarks there. So, in a way, this works like an RSS reader.

But I will be using Google Reader more, and look forward to what they will be doing next version.

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