Month: March 2005
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Abercrombie and Fitch: Rumble on the Beach
Sunday consisted of a nice walk to the beach with Jeff and Ron and then sitting in the grass and watching the world go by. Jeff’s roommate came by. His name is TJ and he is a manager for a local Abercrombie and Fitch store. He and some gal were out ‘recruiting’. The A & […]
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Volcano Circuit Party Hawai'i
(from Sunday morning) I am happy to report I attended my first circuit party last night. The Maui AIDS Foundation’s Volcano weekend where 100% of the proceeds go directly to caring for HIV+ people in Hawai’i. Their promo brouchure also detailed that they felt the circuit scene needed a reboot of spirituality and focusing on […]
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Miss Saigon at Hawai'i's Army Community Theatre (Plus Revisionism)
While in Hawai’i, I read this review of Miss Saigon – the first local production of the musical in Hawai’i: An expendable Asian woman’s timely suicide gets an American Vietnam vet and his wife out of an awkward situation — that is the apparently intended, albeit unconventional, subtext of Army Community Theatre’s otherwise enjoyable “Miss […]
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FDA Panel Stacked with Big Pharma
From Stephanie on the Coach Outlaws list: Ten of the 32 government drug advisers who last week endorsed continued marketing of the huge-selling pain pills Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx have consulted in recent years for the drugs’ makers, according to disclosures in medical journals and other public records. Eight of the 10 members said in […]
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Gay Men Read Maps Like Women
The hypothesis is that homosexual people shift in the direction of the opposite sex in other aspects of their psychology other than sexual preference. That is, gay men may take on aspects of female psychology, and lesbians acquire aspects of male psychology. Gay men employ the same strategies for navigating as women – using landmarks […]
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ACLU Sues Rumsfeld Over Torture
The American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First charged … a top U.S. official in the ongoing torture scandal in Iraq and Afghanistan that has tarnished America’s reputation. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Illinois on behalf of eight men who were subject to torture and abuse at the hands of U.S. […]
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Home Safe
Back home from our Hawai’i adventure. Further details upon my slumber. Kitty is so happy to see me.