Columns Aug 27, 2009 at 4:00 am

Thank You

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DAN, love you!
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Why would someone only hire a hooker "every few months"? I totally understand this guy's mojo but if so why not once a week, or twice a week?
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@99: "Oh, go ahead and admit it, we do recruit. Two more and I get a toaster oven!!!!"

That's why I'm trying to get more people to be gay, even though they only give rechargeable LED flashlights to hetero recruiters (prejudice hurts!)
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what is GGG ?
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what is "GGG" ?
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Great contribution on Keith Olbermann.
I was impressed by you depth of commentary and witty comebacks.
You definitely vibed with Keith.
I hope you become a regular on MSNBC news programming.
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@92 Richard T?
Your post sounded like you are speaking from experience.

Did YOU or someone you were close to have a little "rash whim" at age 13 and then feel later you/they were then trapped into being forever gay by this "outing experiment"?

Because that's how your post sounds, Richard. Sounds like your/their experiment became known to others who went on to make you/them feel like shit about it and suicidal.

Sounds like you (or some fictional other) can't get over or get past something that happened a long time ago. Now you need to blame this all on the "flypaper" lure of evil, cool gays?

Sadly, you can't even see that the guilt, the so-called "entrapment" of your "made up" scenario wouldn't even be the fault of any youthful experimenting, Richard T.

It would be the direct fault of the very ignorance Dan tries to dispel.

This is why Dan is important, Richard. He's not perfect - nobody is. But nobody else is stepping up to do what is so sorely needed. What YOU or that 13 year old so sorely needed.

Had you had the benefit of this education at 13, perhaps you wouldn't now equate honesty and truth with "flypaper".
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Dan---We just saw you on Countdown and were profoundly impressed with the perfect tenor of your remarks and how helpful your insights were. We certainly look forward to seeing alot more of you in future.

Rebecca and Charles Rannells
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Sarah in Olympia @ 98,

That may be just the case. My other thought is that they focus on forms of penetrative sex because it's taught as part of the health curriculum, and the focus is prevention not healthy sexuality. To teach non-penetrative sex, there must be an acknowledgement that teens are minors who reside in biologically adult bodies. They would have to acknowledge their sexuality, sexual needs, and desires to express themselves sexually and be intimate. Living in a first world nation we live a lot longer, but often in third world countries the average life span is 30-40s. If you think about it from that perspective, teens all over the world are having midlife crises and maybe that is why the teen years are filled with such turmoil and so full of sexual energy.
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Dan---I also saw you on Countdown tonight and was blown away with political insight. You helped me see a reason why these Republicans are going against their own best interests with this healthcare debate. I am fan.
Thanks,
Don Bradt
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I saw Dan on Countdown. The right is planning on killing Obama. Give me a brake. Like the people on the left that had dummys with Bush's face hanging by a rope in fron of their yard were just about to kill Bush. It almost seems like the OJ Simpson race card (on your part). On health care reform - I am all for a public option, but let's face a couple of truths. Obama and the democratic majority that was won in congress had nothing to do with health care and/or "Change we can believe it". The most effective slogan was "Do you want another 4 years of George Bush". All the talk of health care was nice but the swing vote (Obama won 52% of the vote) was anti-Bush (and I also voted that way). So you have a lot of democrats that won elections in conservative districts - that need to come up with an answer that makes their people happy. It does not matter what the democratic platform says - it is all about staying in power. Stop trying to grab a couple of cheap headlines for yourself and forget this "the right wants Obama dead" stuff. I know it feels nice to get all this PR but it is all hype and b.s..
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I just saw Dan on Keith Oberman. Dan was completely ignorant about Christianity. Yes, Christ talked about feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, etc. He didn't however say it was the government's responsibility. This where Liberals miss the boat. They believe everything should be done by the government at the expense of all taxpayers. Why don't they move to a country that practices socialism and see how long it takes before coming back. Finally, name one social democratic program that is not bankrupt,
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Christ doesn't exist fucktard. All he talked about were his Birkenstocks.
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Mitch In Indiana:
Dan's column breaks ground in giving advice in areas that have not been addressed in newspaper columns. Even advice columns in adult publications is predictable and cliche. There are plenty of sex advice books available on the market, "Get to really know your partner well and have open, honest communication..." Bla bla bla...
A book on sex education would have to be as groundbreaking as the concept of the article to stand out from the mountains of published, but not useful sex manuals.
This is not an easy task to accomplish. Especially in a time when we are realizing that the old presumptions about sexual identification, gender identification, marriage and domestic partnerships, range of kinks and alternatives don't hold up in todays world. What we dont need is another new age manual about how sex is such a spiritual experience, complete with soft-edge pencil drawings of smiling couples in various positions, ew!
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Had no idea who you were, had NO idea you were a gay sex columnist, and after hearing you on Countdown w/ Keith last night, I say where in the hell have you been? Sophisticated, intelligent, thoughtful and very clever commentary on important issues. You ANSWERED the questions when Keith asked, you REMAINED on topic, you used LOGIC and REASONING!!! (Any more of THAT kind of behavior and we'll see no more of you on television, that's for sure.) I am your newest fan, that was the finest 6 minutes I've seen on TV in a long time. Hopefully Keith and Rachel will use you often. I'm writing both shows to tell them the same. Thanks sir, for being an thoughtful, intelligent person, and speaking to me like I'm one, too.
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Hey liberator, the people are the government. Tony Perkins was just on Schultz peedling your argument. Christians pick and choose from the Bible like it was a deli menu, and now they are desperately splitting scriptural hairs because they're afraid of an enormous blow about to be dealt to their beloved BIG 'C'........capitalism.
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Ah, Rich "Flypaper" T is an Eagles fan. That explains it.
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Thanks from me as well, Dan. For being a voice of reason in an illogical and twisted world, for endorsing the things most people won't even talk about with their spouses, for giving solid advice on a consistent basis.

You do good work.
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Hey Dan. I just want to say that I love your column/podcasts and with it I gained the courage to come out to one of my friends. It felt really good telling someone else and its mostly because of you that I could. Thank you.
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In no way do I think God hates you (or anyone), but it's disappointing that you compared believing in God to believing in fairies.

You can believe in a higher power and still have great sex, without judgment of others. Wish you'd figure that out, Dan.
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actually, you can check out of Hotel California any time you want, but you can never leave.
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'cause they stab it with their steely knives, but they just-can't-kill the beast!!
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NESTER THE LONG-EARED DONKEY! Holy shit, what a memory. :)

yes, I'll ride in the handbasket with dan. We can hum the scary tune from Wizard of Oz and pretend we're Toto, being taken off to puritanical hell for our lusty thoughts. :)

Dan, I am a sex camel, and in a dry spell. I'm also a secret perv, I'm sure of it, and when I find the right person to tap my resource, I'm gonna be GGG all over his/her ass! (open about that!) I will say what I want, how I want it, ask them the same, and then go for 99.99% of it!! You are smart and sarcastic, which basically means that I adore you and want us to get busy!! lol...keep up the fantastic work!
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Liberator @ 144; for a nation run along 'socialist' lines - that is to say, the concepts of supporting the citizens who are in need of medical and financial aid, which seems to send certain Americans screaming for the hills, you can take New Zealand as an example.

We just quietly go along, encouraging people who can afford it to pay for private health care, but with a public option that means treatment is available even for those who cannot afford premiums.

We have an unemployment benefit that guarantees survival for those who are between jobs, but we still have independent charities operating in special areas which are reasonably well subscribed.

We quietly legalized prostitution, and created civil unions that are for heterosexual and homosexual couples who do not consider a church-blessed wedding important. These unions actually grant the same rights and responsibilities are marriage.

We're a small country, but a fairly sane one, and we can certainly balance socialism and capitalism. Of course, none of us would consider our government a socialist one, but in the US, this seems to be the term being used for any system that isn't 100% user-pays.

It sounds like I'm boasting, but I'm just trying to point out that it's not an either/or situation. There's room for individual achievement and compassion in the same country - surly in a country the size of the US!

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