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John Mayer: Some Guys Are Sexy

By Advocate.com Editors
In the cover story in Rolling Stone, crooning rocker John Mayer reveals what he does in his alone time and how he feels about confining his options to just one gender.

“I am the new generation of masturbator,” he said of his top pastime. “I’ve seen it all. Before I make coffee, I’ve seen more butt holes than a proctologist does in a week … I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life. The phone doesn’t pick up because I’m masturbating. And I have excused myself at the oddest times so as to not make mistakes. If Tiger Woods only knew when to jerk off. It has a true market value, like gold bullion.”

Mayer also admitted that his quest to find his life partner is difficult, but he’s open to some options.

“I don’t care about anything other than energy,” Mayer said. Though he hasn’t quite slept with another man, he sees the appeal: “I’ve seen pictures of men on the Internet that are sexier than pictures of most women.”

Robots for space exploration, vehicle production

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NASA, GM show robot to help in both fields

Well, I knew this was coming, but somwhow I never thought I would live to see it. GM for years has had robotics in their plants. Every car, SUV, truck and van that is produced there is painted by robotic arms with nozzels attached. But this is only the beginning of replacing every worker there with mechanical creatures that dont need healthcare, don’t need lunch breaks, don’t even need to stop production at all except when they break down, which in my experience is quite often while I was working there. Some how, I can’t see myself cowtowing to a mechanical being barking orders in my face. But it’s coming. I’m just glad I didn’t have to grow up with this thinking it was normal.From the Detroit Free Press:

Robonaut R2, developed by General Motors and NASA, is to work with people. (General Motors)

BY TIM HIGGINS
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER

Robots for space exploration, vehicle production
NASA, GM show robot to help in both fields
BY TIM HIGGINS
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER

Robonaut2 — or R2 — appears in a video to be a sleek humanoid robot and is shown writing, shaking hands and performing tasks, such as lifting weights and picking up an envelope.
The two organizations say the partnership is about creating technologies that will help both the automotive and aerospace industries.
“For GM, this is about safer cars and safer plants. When it comes to future vehicles, the advancements in controls, sensors and vision technology can be used to develop advanced vehicle safety systems,” Alan Taub, GM’s vice president for global research and development, said in a statement. “The partnership’s vision is to explore advanced robots working together in harmony with people, building better, higher-quality vehicles in a safer, more competitive manufacturing environment.”
GM said it can see using the technology in the assembly plants where it already uses robotic technology. The Detroit automaker also sees potential applications in vehicle safety systems.
Meanwhile, NASA wants to build machines that help people work and explore space.
“Working side-by-side with humans, or going where the risks are too great for people, machines like Robonaut will expand our ability for construction and discovery,” Mike Coats, NASA’s Johnson Space Center director, said in a statement.
The humanoid robot, Robonaut, was first designed and built by NASA in an effort with the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency a decade ago.
R2 has hands that do work beyond the earlier version.
GM and NASA have a long history together, including working on the development of the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on the moon.

Technorati Tags: assembly, business, General Motors, NASA, robotics, space

NFL’s Scott Fujita Speaks Out for Gay Rights

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Scott Fujita

In an interview with Dave Zirin in the Huffington Post:
“By and large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore. For me, in my small platform as a professional football player, I understand that my time in the spotlight is probably limited. The more times you have to lend your name to a cause you believe in, you should do that…A year ago or two years ago, I remember reading about an initiative that was proposed in the state of Arkansas. It was some kind of measure that was aimed at preventing adoptions by single parents. Now, the way I read that and the way that I translated that language was that only heterosexual, married couples could adopt children. As an adopted child that really bothered me. I asked myself, what that is really saying is that the concern with one’s sexual orientation or one’s sexual preference outweighs what’s really important, and that’s finding safe homes for children, for our children. It’s also saying that we’d rather have kids bounce around from foster home to foster home throughout the course of their childhood, than end up in a permanent home, where the parent, whether that person’s single or not, gay or straight. Either way, it doesn’t matter. It’s a home that’s going to be provided for a kid who desperately needs a home. As an adopted child, that measure really bothered me. It just boggles my mind because good, loving homes for any child are the most important thing.”

Fujita, who is straight, married, and has kids, also discusses homophobia in the locker room and whether or not his views on gay rights make him a target for mockery among teammates.

Dave Zirin is the author of “A People’s History of Sports in the United States” (The New Press
Read the entire interview here

Technorati Tags: civil rights, football, gay marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Scott Fujita

In To Be Out: Gay Celebrities

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Here’s a look at some stars
who are living openly gay lives,
and realizing that it is “in to be out.”

View the slideshow here

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Colin Powell says he supports repealing DADT

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Press release from HRC:
(Washington) Today, the effort to repeal the discriminatory Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law received a monumental boost of support from General Colin Powell. The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the 1990’s, who supported the laws passage back in 1993, changed his position in a statement sent out today saying, “attitudes and circumstances have changed.” In voicing his support for the law’s repeal, Gen. Powell threw his full support behind the, “the new approach presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee this week by Secretary of Defense Gates and Admiral Mullen.”
“General Powell has made clear that his position is about effectiveness in the military,” said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. “His powerful voice for ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is a tipping point in favor of the brave men and women who are serving our nation in silence. The support of respected present and former military leaders brings us closer to repeal, signaling that we’re moving forward and will get there soon. Opposing repeal now means second-guessing some of our nation’s top military leaders, including the Joint Chiefs chairman who opposed open service in the 1990’s when Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell became law.” Read more

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