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MIDI - MANDY (Barry Manilow) Last week while we were in bed "Let's get Karl Rove," you said We can pull it off...the press will play What we start, I know, won't go away Together we'd be helping Hillary We'd set it up easily Wilson will comply...and so will his wife For the RNC, we'd cause so much strife Oh, Mandy...you must put on that leather pink burqa It's not my fault, you know Oh, Mandy...even with Viagra, it won't work-a If you let your face show...oh, Mandy True believers, that we are We'll be following her star We'll...

Gay Men Respond Differently to Pheromones By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Gay men's brains respond differently from those of heterosexual males when exposed to a sexual stimulus, researchers have found. The homosexual men's brains responded more like those of women when the men sniffed a chemical from the male hormone testosterone. "It is one more piece of evidence ... that is showing that sexual orientation is not all learned," said Sandra Witelson, an expert on brain anatomy and sexual orientation at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Witelson, who...

MIDI - IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE West Virginia...California...we have been a perfect team We've been Senate colleagues...for several years now Every day he...drinks Jim Beam...drinks Jim Beam He's so old, but I don't care...not at all The love of my life...that is Robert Byrd The love of my life...I know that sounds absurd The love of my life...that is Robert Byrd My panties are wet when his sweet voice is heard In his condo after dinner, I will let him rub my feet He goes to the closet...and presto change-o He's appearing in a sheet He is so...

Jim McGreevey is out - and about. The former New Jersey governor crossed the river the other night to sway to dance music upstairs at Meatpacking District hot spot Aer with a group of male friends ...

The unending 50-year war over Alfred Kinsey and his sex research is about to flare up once again, thanks to the new movie Kinsey. The film manages to be fairly faithful to the biographies of Kinsey while sliding by or simply omitting a lot of negative material that might interfere with a heroic view of the man. Kinsey was a highly intelligent, fearless man and an unusually skilled interviewer whose question-and-answer techniques heavily influenced the way polls and surveys are done today. Conservatives seem quaint when they argue that Kinsey’s two reports, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and...

THE CENTRAL question facing the John Kerry campaign is whether to tilt left or go down the middle this week at the Democratic national convention in Boston. While American political conventions do not make any important decisions — everything is arranged in advance — they amount to a four-day opportunity to showcase the party programme on prime-time television. Even though the broadcast networks constantly cut back on their coverage of the conventions, cable news channels more than pick up the slack. In 2000 half of all American voters watched more than four hours of convention coverage and a quarter, the...

UNDER five feet tall and with a head too big for his body, Issei Sagawa makes the most unlikely of cannibals. Stepping inside his apartment, where images of Snow White and Diana, Princess of Wales, are juxtaposed with his own explicit pastel drawings and an extensive collection of pornography, offers a better insight into his twisted mind. He comes close to tears twice during the two hours it takes to show me his pictures of naked women with slices taken out of their buttocks and thighs. Sagawa, 55, claims that he is lonely and no longer able to earn a...

Senator and now Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards of North Carolina had always been on the 'A' list of VP Candidates for Democratic nominee in waiting John ‘Heinz’ Kerry. It was finally made official Tuesday morning, shortly before Senator Kerry made the public announcement at a rally in Pittsburgh. The Massachusetts' patrician choose Edwards in order to infuse some energy into his often uninspiring campaign, by putting a good ol’ boy with a populist message from down South on the ticket. Kerry’s choice won’t help the Democrats win one deep Southern State. However, it may cause the GOP to...

We can allow Madonna her self-healing quest to "discover her inner light" in the wisdom of the Kaballah, but such a mission seems a little painful when set out in the memoirs of the former leader of the free world. Bill Clinton's descriptions in his forthcoming autobiography, My Life, of his inner "demons", and his teenage terror at his first sexual urges, might have been better left to the "relationship therapy" sessions he attended in 1998 with his wife, Hillary. The ex-president's psychological self-portrait of a man leading "parallel lives" – outward confidence masking inner turmoil and weakness – is...

MIDI - AMERICAN GIGOLO Sit down, I have a...long way to go Just watch, I'm gonna...put on a show Off to Nam I went...is that evident? My wife's ketchup money I will blow I will sleep with her...if I must I'll say what I need to grab that big tru-ust I will sleep with her...but I swear that I will not like it Omigosh, what's that!...her old naval ring has mold Omigosh, I've been grossed out...her old naval ring has mold Mold covers the gold I'm as good as Clinton...I'll fool 'em all Just where he left off, I'll...

Caption the Photo- John Kerry and Teresa at the victory rallyafter the narrow win in the Wisconsin primary because of his Kenyan Connection.

Gay news wasn’t just made in the courts in 2003. Apart from the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning sodomy laws and rulings on same-sex marriage in Massachusetts and Canada that brought hard fought victories for gay rights proponents, there was big news out of Hollywood, New Hampshire and on the presidential campaign trail. Five gay guys turned television on its head as “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” became TV’s most talked about show. Rev. V. Gene Robinson was consecrated in New Hampshire as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, and Democratic presidential candidates campaigned hard for...

MIDI - WE GOTTA GET OUTTA THIS PLACE 'Cause world leaders will soon be in Bangkok...they must know we're disease free I don't think I like what they've planned for me They have said every last food server...must bend over and then spread We're so angry that we're turning red...yes, we are Get the phone...make the call...where have our union bosses gone? NOOOOOOOOOO...I say NO, NO, NO, NO Do not put your swab near that place...or it's the last thing you'll ever do Do not put your swab near that place...this is no idle threat...I'm warning you NO, NO,...

MIDI - END OF THE WORLD Some say that gays ought to marry...two extra gonads we see Some may proclaim that it won’t end the world But it may end our society Though parts don’t fit as intended…they still can play he and he Some may proclaim that it won’t end the world But it may end society We look around and sometimes we must wonder When some guy might unite with a skunk Some say it’s okay…it is really okay But people, look how low we’ve sunk Some things, we know, shouldn’t happen…even though they make a plea...

MIDI - CABARET Khalid Mohammed is in our control…he'll talk, you're gonna see To get the info right away…make him do Hillary Sleep deprivation, I guess, is okay…but if it's up to me I wouldn't waste a moment, friends…make him do Hillary He'll spot her rear…you'll see his fear He'll realize that he's not dreaming…very soon we'll hear him screaming Though some may claim that it's too inhumane...there'll be no apology To get the info right away…make him do Hillary He'll spot her rear…you'll see his fear He'll realize that he's not dreaming…very soon we'll hear him screaming We'll...

MIDI - PRETTY WOMAN Naked women…as you're protesting Naked women…I gotta say one thing Naked women…Upland is a friendly town To pull your tops and pants down Naked women…winter's mild here Naked women…and the sky is clear Naked women…here on Euclid Avenue It is such a pretty view Naked women…we'll await You'll find your trip will be great We'll be gracious and we all will wave We'll have coffee if you like Come ride naked on my bike Upland men have said they will behave…we'll behave How exciting…we'll have such fun Tell us what you need…and it is done...

As delegates excitedly awaited Bill Clinton in the packed and sweltering hall, word went around that, the night before, he had visited one of the charming little restaurants specialising in Blackpool cuisine (McDonald's). In the eyes of a Labour conference, this would normally make him a symbol of American corporate exploitation of the developing world (Blackpool).But, for some irrational reason, delegates had decided that Mr Clinton was one of their own. The great figures of New Labour stood near the platform waiting to be presented when Mr Clinton entered - like maharajahs awaiting the arrival of the King-Emperor in another...

It was all kind of fun, Bill Clinton said as he held Labour delegates in awe in the Winter Gardens. "I don't get to do this anymore."Praise God from whom all blessings flow and get out of here Bill - Ivan President Clinton had breezed into Blackpool, grabbed a burger and then schmoozed a starstruck Labour conference with his Hollywood pal Kevin Spacey. How things change. Where once Labour conference would have come to life via a screaming contribution from a protest badge-clad delegate, now they whoop and cheer the arrival of a movie superstar. Yes they love reward without...

Charles Kennedy tapped into growing anti-Americanism in his party yesterday by accusing President Bush of "imperialism" in the build-up to war against Iraq.In case you're wondering what spawn of JFK this is, he's not - he's a Scot, and the leader of the Liberal Democrat Party in the UK, the 3rd largest party. Still, the Kennedy name seems to bring deranged leftism - Ivan On the eve of the emergency recall of Parliament, he warned Tony Blair that he could not count on Liberal Democrat support in a Commons vote for military action. Making an emergency statement to his party...

Never normally at a loss for words, New Yorkers are ridiculing their leaders for relying on oratory from the past rather than writing their own speeches for next week's anniversary of September 11. The ceremony to mark the destruction of the Twin Towers features the mayor and the state governor but, instead of delivering new addresses, they will perform a medley of "greatest hits" from American rhetorical history. New York's day will resound with renditions of the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Franklin D Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech. While reaffirming America's pride in its heritage, the selection also...