The newest $1 coin, bearing the likeness of George Washington, was rolled out Thursday, with the U.S. Mint hoping Americans will want to buy George.

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"I think it's cool because we get to see a coin with the first president on it," said 7-year-old Jack Garbus, an avid coin collector and second-grader from Valhalla, N.Y., who was taking advantage of a school snow delay to be at the event.

But, of course, *I* would prove so captivating a captive that the killer would keep me, not kill me.

After all, it's sufficient to know that this thing will be replaced by some bitchin' cool Wicked Witch of the East feet -- just as soon as someone gives them to me.

Are you SURE they aren't way bitchin' cool and you've just momentarily mistaken them for whimsy?

Number of sexual partners

# Globally, people have had an average number of nine sexual partners

# Men have had more sexual partners than women - 10.2 compared with 6.9

# The Turks have had more partners than any other country (14.5), compared with Australians (13.3), New Zealanders (13.2) and Icelanders (13)

# Indians have had the fewest sexual partners (3) compared with the Chinese (3.1), the Vietnamese (3.2) and those from Hong Kong (3.7)

# Almost two thirds (65%) of people in Hong Kong have had just one sexual partner, compared to 12% in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Greece

Titusville police say they have arrested Florida State Rep. Robert "Bob" Allen, of Merrit Island, on second degree misdemeanor charges for soliciation for prostiution.

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Officers say they noticed Allen acting suspicious as he went in and out of the men's restroom 3 times. Minutes later, he solicited an undercover male officer inside the restroom, offering to perform oral sex for $20. Officers realized he was a public figure after the arrest.

Washroom Sex Bust Blow To McCain Campaign

(Titusville, Florida) A co-chair of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign in Florida has been busted for trying to pick up an undercover male police officer.

Overheard on Fire Island...

That's not the look I'm going for anyway, but whatever.

My husband and I raised our two sons and two daughters. One son and both daughters married well. Our other son, "Neil," is gay. He and his partner, "Ron," have been together 15 years, but Neil's father and I never wanted to know Ron because we disapproved of their lifestyle.

When I was 74, my husband died, leaving me in ill health and nearly penniless. No longer able to live alone, I asked my married son and two daughters if I could "visit" each of them for four months a year. (I didn't want to burden any one family, and thought living out of a suitcase would be best for everyone.) All three turned me down. Feeling unwanted, I wanted to die.

When Neil and Ron heard what had happened, they invited me to move across country and live with them. They welcomed me into their home, and even removed a wall between two rooms so I'd have a bedroom with a private bath and sitting room -- although we spend most of our time together.

They also include me in many of their plans. Since I moved in with them, I have traveled more than I have my whole life and seen places I only read about in books. They never mention the fact that they are supporting me, or that I ignored them in the past.

When old friends ask how it feels living with my gay son, I tell them I hope they're lucky enough to have one who will take them in one day. Please continue urging your readers to accept their children as they are. My only regret is that I wasted 15 years.

Grateful Mom

Allen has been charged with solicitation for prostitution, which has a maximum penalty of one year in jail. [..] Ironically in the last session of the Florida legislature he sponsored a failed bill that would have tightened the state's prohibition on public sex. He also has been a supporter of amending the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage and has opposed a bill to curb bullying of gay students.

Dear Abby:

Well, never mind he is an ass, one year in prison for asking someone to suck his dick? The maximum penalty should be some spanking for him for his crimes against the Gay people, plus reparation payments on behalf of some homeless youth accomodation.

It's not really a random fact, but an interesting observation that all of the attractive people on NameMyVote are Democrats, and the ugly ones are more likely to be Republicans. Just saying.

1. Toyota Yaris
2. Saab 9-3 (sedan and convertible)
3. Mazda MX-5
4. Volkswagen Jetta
5. VW EOS
6. Dodge Caliber
7. Toyota Camry
8. Audi A3
9. VW Rabbit
10. Infiniti FX

P.S. I think it's hilarious how the rest of the world thinks PB&J is disgusting. I was once in England and got a bunch of Swedish boys to eat PB&J, and they hemmed and hawed for a while, but ended up loving it. So, don't knock it until you've tried it!

So what say you, Rest-of-the-world, about peanut butter (with, of course, jelly -- peanut butter is not meant to be eaten without jelly)?

The www.socialsecurity.gov Web site allows searching their database of names for "Popular Baby Names" sorted by year.

In the past, I've noticed that the first names chosen for characters in gay porno have tracked the most popular baby names of about 10 to 20 years earlier. This makes sense because gay porno stories usually involve 18 to twenty-something year-old boys. The occasional "daddy" characters will typically have an older and more butch sounding name.

To confirm my observation, I recently checked the Social Security "Popular Baby Names" database from 1946 to 2006 and correlated it with gay porno stories written over the last fifty years

MADISON, Wis. -- Three men who dug up a young woman's corpse to have sex with it after seeing her obituary photo cannot be charged with attempted sexual assault because Wisconsin has no law against necrophilia, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

A judge was correct to dismiss the charges against twin brothers Nicholas and Alexander Grunke and Dustin Radke, all 21, because lawmakers never intended to criminalize sex with a corpse, the District 4 Court of Appeals said in a 3-0 ruling.

Levi's has created a new ad for 501 jeans with both straight and gay versions. The straight version, in which a man pulls up his jeans and causes the street below, along with an attractive woman, to crash through the floor of his apartment, is appearing on major networks. The gay version, exactly the same except that the woman is replaced by a man, is running on LOGO.

In both ads, the main actor runs away with his new romantic interest.

Liza Minnelli is a familiar sight shopping in the East 60s, but someone at the neighborhood Gap could use a refresher course in recognizing local legends.

A Gatecrasher pal reports this recent sighting of her at the E. 66th and Third Ave. store, where she was being helped by a sales assistant.

"The employee asked her, 'Has anyone ever told you you look like Judy Garland?'" says the snitch. "She coldly answered, 'No!'"

You'd leave it alone after that, right?

"The confused employee went on to say, 'Oh my God! You're her! You are Judy Garland!'"

Oh. No. She. Didn't.

A well-built man was forced to take a drugs test in Stockholm recently after a police officer assumed that muscles like his could only have been developed with the help of illegal substances.

The female assistant police officer got into a conversation with Tomislav Boduljak and his friend late at night in central Stockholm.

According to Boduljak, 27, the police officer was pleasant at first, but changed her attitude when he said he worked out. Saying his muscles were 'abnormal', she said he must have used drugs.

"I asked if she didn't think it possible that I work out a lot and eat well. She said that if someone looks like me, she assumes they have taken drugs," he told Metro.

He has been known to intercept sweaters at Christmas (though I do the same thing at times -- battles over chenille sweaters can be quite fierce, if brief).

New Levi's 501 Jeans Commercial Goes Both Ways

It's appropriate that a gay character would be hawking Special K, a breakfast cereal that shares its name with a recreational drug. At least I think he's gay; that, or he's really in touch with his feminine side for a straight guy.

There are two versions of the ad. In one, what I can only assume is a gay admin and his BFF, prance in on their prettier co-worker who is eating Special K and having an orgasm. The pair grill the skinny bitch about her figure.

"Who is he?" the gay admin teases. In real life he would have been like, "Vomiting? Diet Pills?"

My first impulse was to hate the ads. Why do they always have to rely on stereotypes to illustrate a person is gay? Like the Secret deodorant ad with the bitchy gay boss; his smarmy assistant gets him the right material and he practically tears her a new hole. Again, I'm only assuming the boss is gay, but if he's straight, then he's a pair of earrings away from becoming a drag queen.

Then I thought about it. How else do you imply a person is gay without resorting to stereotypes?

That these ads aren't preceded by a parental warning is progress in and of itself, but when it's two straight guys asking the homo which hot guy inspired his switch to Special K, then I'll know we've arrived.

It's appropriate that a gay character would be hawking Special K, a breakfast cereal that shares its name with a recreational drug.

"Holy crap," I said to my BFF, "I'm the homo from the Special K commercial!"

"I thought so too," she said, "but I was afraid to say anything."

The truth hurts but sometimes it's painfully funny.

State Rep. Bob Allen (R) has pleaded not guilty to charges he offered an undercover police officer cash for sex.

Allen, a longtime foe of LGBT rights in Florida, was not in court - opting instead to submit his plea in writing.

His attorney is expected to ask a judge on Monday to dismiss the case. If that is unsuccessful, the lawyer said he will submit a motion to have an audio take recording suppressed of an interview Allen gave to police following his arrest.

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If convicted of solicitation Allen could face as much as one year in jail.

but it would be an understatement to say that some gay-themed blogs were abuzz like agitated hives of Africanized honeybees over the whole deal after it was learned that Kocis had been the victim of a homicide.

The 26 year old “kid” ran a gay escort and porn business in Virginia Beach and may have had several Republican clients–Drake being one.

Ummm.... I don't get that one...

But... but... why a *cat*...?

Psychologists have some theories about how the experience of racism plays out in the brain—and what that means today compared to before. All human beings are driven by a few core needs, including the need to understand the world around us. When people do things to us, we must know why, and if we are uncertain we will spend whatever cognitive power we have available to diagnose the situation.

The problem is that we have limited cognitive resources, so when we are solving one problem, we have difficulty focusing on another at the same time. Some psychologists reason from this that subtle racism might actually be more, not less, damaging than the plain antipathy of yesterday, sapping more mental energy. Old-fashioned racism—a “No Negroes Allowed” sign, for example—is hateful and hurtful, but it’s not vague or confusing. It doesn’t require much cognitive work to get it. But if you’re the most qualified candidate for a job, and know it, and still don’t get the job for some undisclosed reason—that demands some processing.

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As reported in the September issue of Psychological Science, black volunteers who had witnessed unfair but ambiguous hiring decisions did much less well on the Stroop test, suggesting that they were using all their mental resources to make sense of the unfairness. Interestingly, white volunteers were more impaired by overt racism than by the more ambiguous discrimination. Salvatore and Shelton figure this is because whites rarely experience any racism; they do not even notice the subtle forms of racism, and are thrown off balance when they are hit over the head by overt acts. Many blacks, by contrast, have developed coping strategies for the most hateful kinds of racism; it’s the constant, vague, just-below-the-surface acts of racism that impair performance, day in and day out.

An Israeli man arrested in Lebanon on suspicion of involvement in murder and espionage owes his plight to his fascination with the Arab world and his trusting nature, relatives and acquaintances said Sunday.
Daniel Sharon, 32, who holds German and Israeli citizenship, converted to Islam years ago and had a special passion for Lebanon _ an enemy country where Israelis have been kidnapped and held in the past, they said.

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Sharon, who entered Lebanon on his German passport, told police his visits to Lebanon were for tourism and that he was a homosexual who had relationships with Lebanese men, according to the report.
Because Israelis are not allowed to visit Lebanon, Sharon was immediately suspect and was transferred to military police.
A friend of Sharon's, Maram Hamud, an Israeli Arab lawyer, dismissed the possibility that Sharon was spying for Israel.
Hamud described Sharon as someone who «loves Arabic and Islamic culture very much» and spends most of his time outside of Israel, mainly in the Gulf nation of Dubai.
Hamud said Sharon was the son of divorced parents, a homosexual who «feels comfortable» in Lebanon and who recently started going by the last name «Trabilsi» _ meaning someone who hails from the Lebanese city of Tripoli.
«There is something childlike about him,» Hamud said, explaining that children «do what they like to do, without giving it much thought. They're not calculated.

Popular homosexual musician Elton John, who regularly promotes homosexuality and has said he would ban Christianity, may be in hot water as police have seized one of his pieces of "art" on suspicion of breaching child pornography laws. According to media reports police seized the photographic image from an art gallery in Tyneside.

Apart from promoting homosexuality, John has expressed his contempt for Christianity. In an August 2006 interview Elton John said, "I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many Christian people I know who are gay and love their religion . . ."

Dave Quist, executive director of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, said Thursday he has become less concerned about same-sex marriage since census figures released earlier this month demonstrated how rare gay marriage is.

What? This guy thought maybe all the straight boys were going to run out and grab themselves a beau hunk and tie the knot just because they could?