(Community Matters) Joe Jervis posting on his Joe.My.God that Geo (a male prostitute) was hired by Dr. George Rekers, the “virulently anti-gay NARTH* board member and Family Research Council co-founder.  Miami New Times article

It’s *almost always* about some deep, dark secret (closet), about self-loathing.  #Hypocrisy

(Community Matters) I was just at dinner with Michael Mitchell.  We’d run into Kathy Negrel who told us she’d spent the day with Tana Christie, looking over maps of Paris, making certain recommendations.

I mentioned to Michael that Tana was looking for French made objects while we’re in Paris.  He heard French Maid and got a really big smile on his face.  I hated to burst his bubble, though hell, maybe I heard wrong and she does mean maid . . .

(Community Matters) From the Watson Wire

My Really True Secret … Involving Guns and Kittens

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

I have a secret that I’ve been keeping under wraps.  I haven’t disclosed it to anyone – not in public, not in private, not in this weekly email newsletter that’s posted on my web site, Twitter, and Facebook. Not to any of the thousands of people I come in contact with each week.

How could I know that it would actually improve my chances of getting on a Presidential ticket?

Two months ago, I was out for an early-morning run.  As usual, I was carrying a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum (that’s right; the kind that Dirty Harry carried).  I was fully loaded with steel-piercing shells and a sight I designed myself using GPS technology (I’d tell you more about it, but it’s classified). Continue reading →

(Community Matters) Like most Americans, I’ve long been a fan of Warren Buffett and appreciate his colloquial style – even as I’ve come to realize it’s, at least in part, shrewd PR.  He’s the earnest billionaire who’s long lived in the same, modest home in Omaha, with well-raised children and a story-book wife who died in 2004.  And, the story is complicated by the simultaneously same man who spent as much time in his billionaire’s abode near/in Pebble Beach, mostly traveled in this Bombardier Challenger 600 (The Indefensible), and lived apart from Susan Buffett at least half their marriage – the latter years with his now wife, Astrid Menks.

I don’t say all this to challenge Mr Buffett’s revered place in America; it gives me great comfort and satisfaction that he’s a close confidant to our President.  And, I do mean to convey he’s a complicated man, with more dimensions than his public narrative reminds – his $5B investment in Goldman Sachs no doubt influencing his position defending Goldman Sachs and their CDS transactions.  We now know his comments about derivatives constituting financial weapons of mass destruction and how he doesn’t invest in anything requiring more than a calculator to analyze, more metaphorical  than literate in light of $60B plus into derivatives he’s purchased.

NYT Dealbook Column – From Buffett, Thought-Out Support for Goldman

(Community Matters) certainly not making light of the spill underway – just another bit of information from NYTimes article Bad, but How Bad? which helps with perspective

The ruptured well, currently pouring an estimated 210,000 gallons of oil a day into the gulf, could flow for years and still not begin to approach the 36 billion gallons of oil spilled by retreating Iraqi forces when they left Kuwait in 1991. It is not yet close to the magnitude of the Istox I blowout in the Bay of Campeche in Mexico in 1979, which spilled an estimated 140 million gallons of crude before the gusher could be stopped.

(Community Matters)  Arianna in to Austin to speak at the Texas Freedom Network’s 15th anniversary celebration.

TFN ED Kathy Miller, Arianna & State Rep. Elliott Nashitat

She gave a super presentation at Agudas Achim, then we co-hosted dinner with Suzanne & David Booth at our place including Arianna, Jeanne & MIckey Klein, Evan & Julia Smith, Alexa Wesner, Luke Hayes and John Thornton – a group of many opinions, perspectives and voices.