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We Love (He)L(l).A: We (Used To) Love It!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT7aFLAS4ZI *... or at least we used to love L.A., given a recent news article describing the economic exodus from the City of Angels... Thanks Mayor Antonio "Failure" Villaraigosa…
The Semantics of "Performance Enhanced" (in a Peter Pan age)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEmEHRRR21A Some of you (stateside at least) may have seen this recent PSA by The Partnership For A Drug-Free America, the steroids variation (apart from the usual marijuana/crack/heroine …
The End of (Graphic Sex) & Violence

*in homage to Wim Wenders... A recent surge of epiphanies once again never fails to amaze me, regarding how I not only view sex and violence in movies (literally as it is figuratively), but likewise with film sex…
The First Casualties of Romance Are Always Children...

Since Valentine's Day is just a few weeks away, I've been channeling in my inner Kinji Fukasaku, regarding some old tabloid, news story I heard once back in the last decade, when Bridges of Madison County became the …
Romance & Friends With Benefits, In A Welfare State

When I was watching a classic episode of History Channel's, Tales of The Gun (The Guns of The Third Reich episode), I was reminded of this little-known/appreciated fact that in spite of the fact that we won against Hitle…
Straight Talk on Same-Sex Marriage, Revisited... (1000 pardons for the pun again) =-/

WARNING: this is a follow-up to my last blog, so once again--if it's your first time reading any of my blogs--be aware that for the easily offended, skip this read, or at least read my prior blog, so as to understand the…
Some Straight Talk (Express) On Same-Sex Marriage... (sorry about the political pun) =-/

WARNING: the following blog could or can be dangerous at best; offensive at worst, so while I'm trying to be as delicately diplomatic with this subject matter as much as possible, I advise for those who are easily agitat…