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I can only shake my head when I see those white posters with the iconic red crosses at the campus where I work.
Give blood? Sure.
Except that my blood is not the right kind of blood. My donation, after completing the form in which I am asked point-blank about my sex life, will be summarily thrown away–despite the fact that this blood could save another life.
Senator John Kerry wrote an eloquent, reasoned editorial calling for an end to this discriminatory practice in Boston’s local gay newspaper, Bay Windows. The distinguished statesman from my home state debunks the reasons that gay men are legally banned from donating blood in the United States.
Among the reasoned arguments: Read more
Area romantic seeks videographer to create "a stop motion video in a creative and romantic fashion:"
My spouse is mad at me (to be discussed when you get the job) and I want to apologize in a fun, creative, and interesting way. Once we make a deal, I will give you more background on what I did, so you can come up with an interesting concept.
Willing to pay up to $97.
Via Chad Capellman.
This missed connection ad on Craigslist reads like a modern day love poem. Bearded men of Boston...pull your faces out of the PBR pitcher, it looks like someone has their eye on you...
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/mis/1567745744.html
Karin reports some guy just canceled a date with her so he can watch the World Series with his roommate tonight.
Annelise reports some chick in Atlanta who can't actually say no to the boys who want the digits is giving out her phone number up here in the Boston area. Like Lil' B and his crew:
... I'm keeping my phone on at night because my sister is extremely pregnant and I want to be woken up if she goes into labor. I do not appreciate Lil' B texting and calling me all night long. ...
The Tech reports 42% of MIT students considers themselves virgins (way higher than the national average), with chem majors the least likely to have had themselves deflowered. The report also discloses that 52% of non-virgin seniors have committed floorcest, or sex with dorm mates.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today a lower-court judge was wrong to permanently bar a man from contact with a former lover and her daughter, because there is no evidence he is still barraging her with "thousands" of phone calls and that if she begins to feel physically threatened, she can always file for a new temporary protective order. Read more
Tufts Daily reports Jumbo U. has a new policy that prohibits students from having sex in their dorm rooms if their roommate is present. Seems Tufts doesn't have many places for couples in lust to be alone, because there were "a significant number of complaints" about roomie sex last year. College officials emphasize the rule is meant to foster open communication between roommates, to try to head off formal complaints to the school.
Via Wicked Local Somerville.
Sean Sullivan stays up late at the Hong Kong at Faneuil Hall.
Copyright Sean Sullivan. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Cleary Squared writes the anti-PETA publicists running the local zoos need to be taught a lesson after their killing-fields stunt over the weekend.
The Outraged Liberal doesn't go that far but writes legislators need to take a step back and carefully consider what to do about this latest plea from Zoo New England - which has been on the brink for a couple decades now - before simply giving them everything they want.
David Bernstein considers what might happen if other organizations adopted Zoo New England's tactic:
... Administrators of the Greater Boston Food Bank now say that, despite earlier predictions, they are now "reasonably confident" that state lawmakers will be spared the sight of the Charles River running thick with the corpses of Massachusetts's emaciated children this summer. In a statement released today, the Food Bank says that they can probably keep the state's most vulnerable children fed for two months on the meat from euthanized zoo animals.
What better place for them to get married than in a peace garden?
Not just any sneakers, of course, but fancy-shmancy sneakers named after a rare lobster. Fun and Fearless in Boston reports on how she hooked her boyfriend up with a pair.
Tom Menino will be walking up and down Centre Street in West Roxbury this afternoon cutting ribbons at new stores and restaurants.
Bobby Finstock goes for broke, makes eight dates with women from Match.com in ten days, reports on the experience:
... Boston is filled with bandwagon sports fans. Never in my life have I met so many people in a week that are all excited about the Celtics playoff games but never watched a regular season game. I wonder if this is just a women thing or a Boston thing or some odd combination of the two. ...
A couple who met on a Worcester Line train are getting married on the train today, the Globe reports:
... Richey, 36, and Miller, 40, will exchange vows on the inbound P556 between Southborough and Wellesley Farms as the train rolls along on its normal schedule. ...
Lisa is waiting at the Green Dragon for a friend she hasn't seen in ages when a woman walks up to the bar and strikes up a conversation with her. Turns out she's a hooker, just in from the Coast, and she's there to meet one of her friends, too:
... He's tall. Wavy brown hair that is very styled. Lots of product. His shirt looks like it's made of gauze. This is comforting, should we need first aid supplies.
He drops a bottle on the ground and picks it up, turning to my new friend, "Is this yours?" The bottle reads: Colon Prep. She (and I don’t know if this is part of Escort 101) doesn't even bat an eye and says, no, someone else must have dropped it. ...
Phish really is playing Fenway Park.
May 31, 2009
"I am bouncing around the Green Monster..."
http://phish.com/fp/
It is, perhaps, a measure of how far East Boston has come in culinary matters that one can now go down to a local bistro and observe cougars on the prowl:
1. Cougars often wear fur. If real or not, they are fur wearing creatures which TOTALLY makes sense.
2. They hunt in packs. TOTALLY makes sense too! Are you taking notes? Where there is one cougar, there are more cougars. ...
Namely, that the best a man can get does a very good job at eliminating stubble. Marcy raves about her hubby's Mach 3s:
... I have seen the light and I will not go back. The Venus razor has nothing on this Mach 3. And I don't need my shaving cream to smell like raspberries or mango or mountain rain - I just want to be razor burn and sliced-skin free. And I am. ...
Mike Mennonno reports on his experience signing up for that dating service advertised on the T that offers to rub out unqualified daters:
... They don't pull any punches. You know how Match.com will put a nice spin on your personality profile. Like you could be a serial killer, and your profile will say something like "you only kill the ones who deserve it!" Not at PoF. ...
Insemination fight ends in wife's arrest
Berkshire Eagle
Thursday, March 12
PITTSFIELD — A woman who allegedly intended to artificially inseminate her wife with her brother's semen has been charged with domestic assault and battery.
...
Left unmentioned in the article is how a woman happened to be carrying around a turkey baster filled with her brother's semen.
Read the whole thing
Nearly half blame her for getting herself beaten up.
In addition, a significant number of males and females in the survey said Rihanna was destroying Chris Brown's career, and females were no less likely than males to come to Rihanna's defense.
The commission says it did the survey as part of a new initiative to combat teen dating violence in the city, under a four-year, $1-million grant it received last year.
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