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1. Have you ever been attracted to someone of your same sex?It has been the driving force in my life. Oh yeah, thank gawd!
2. How old were you when you lost your virginity?14 years old. He was about 40. I totally seduced him.
3. Do you still keep in touch with that person?D'oh! His name! I knew I forgot to ask him something important!
4. Best music to have sex to?Anything unobtrusive that covers some of the squishy noises.
5. Best sexual experience? I'm gonna lose my Captain Pig lifetime membership, but....several instances with querrelle come to mind
6. Worst sexual experience? Blowbuddies during IBR in '96 or '97. Hot daddy, shirtless, strides over to me. As we play with each other's nipples, he takes out his cock, and starts to piss on me.Good news: I was mostly nude. Bad news: cowboy boots. And all of sudden I understood why the room had drains in the floor and plastic curtains.
7. Ever faked an orgasm?Ah....aH......AH....no. I mean, yes. yeS. yES. YES! YETH!!!!
8. Ever thought about someone else while having sex? Oh yeah, often several at once. "Are you guys all on the same team?"
9. How do you feel about one night stands? They can be magical, they can suck, they can be OK, there's certainly value to them if I seek them for the right reasons. But don't drink my fookin' orange juice, puke in the bathtub and leave before I can say goodbye properly. I hate when that happens.
10. Where's the most interesting place that you've had sex? Tough one. Maybe the Museum of Natural History in NYC (see (#2 above)
11. Do you own any porn? Some solo nudes, but from "friends." Hasn't really turned my crank since the mid 80s (when the guys were as into each other as they were into being "spokesmodels"), and I've never bought or rented a video or DVD. I'm a baaaad fag.
12. Have you ever walked in on your parents? My parents had 4 kids, of which I'm the youngest. All evidence points to them never having sex again. Because Catlicks only have sex to procreate--since that wasn't gonna happen, celibacy right? Eh? Seriously?Never.
13. Have you ever been walked in on? Friends, roommates, the other guy's boyfriend...standard stuff
14. Drunk or sober sex? Sober since 18/03/90...though I use poppers regularly. Fook awf if you can't deal.
15. Lights on or lights off? On, but not a spotlight thanks
16. Cuddling afterwards? With querrelle and selected sexual friends, sure. But during recreational sex, not much.
17. Foreplay? Sometimes lots, sometimes get-it-out/up/in/off. Top or bottom.
18. Would you rather have sex with someone stupid or ugly? Stoopid.
19. Are you a member of the mile high club? No--and that's just wrong, given how often I fly.
20. Would you be abstinent for a million dollars? If I had a million dollars, I'd buy you a 'ho, but not real 'ho 'cause that's cruel

We spend less, we get more, it takes longer

Findings from a recent Harvard University study of health care administrative spending in the US and Canada

[Woolhandler, S., Campbell, D. & Himmelstein, D.U. (2003). Costs of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada.New England Journal of Medicine 349(8),768-775 ]

" In 1999, health administration costs totaled at least $294.3 billion in the United States, or $1,059 per capita, as compared with $307 per capita in Canada. After exclusions, administration accounted for 31.0 percent of health care expenditures in the United States and 16.7 percent of health care expenditures in Canada. Canada's national health insurance program had overhead of 1.3 percent; the overhead among Canada's private insurers was higher than that in the United States (13.2 percent vs. 11.7 percent). Providers' administrative costs were far lower in Canada.

Between 1969 and 1999, the share of the U.S. health care labor force accounted for by administrative workers grew from 18.2 percent to 27.3 percent. In Canada, it grew from 16.0 percent in 1971 to 19.1 percent in 1996. (Both nations' figures exclude insurance-industry personnel.)

Conclusions The gap between U.S. and Canadian spending on health care administration has grown to $752 per capita. A large sum might be saved in the United States if administrative costs could be trimmed by implementing a Canadian-style health care system."

Canada spends much less on administering health care, and the benefit of bulking administration means significant cost savings, but waitlists are too common.

Funny, whenever I see images of overcrowded hospitals on the CBC it's Montreal or Toronot. I've never been in emerge in Vancouver when its chaotic. Busy ouais, but not chaotic. Hmmmmm