Showing posts with label Gay Sex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gay Sex. Show all posts

Thursday, June 02, 2016

Random Musings

Another year and another Cinco de Never survived.

It was a nice party — good friends, both old and new — with great food and plenty of alcohol — margaritas, sangria, cerveza, wine and an open bar — to satisfy anyone.

We served chips and my Aunt Norma’s Salsa—which is so easy to make and is always a hit—and guacamole; we had Roasted Lime Chipotle Peanuts to nibble on and Chorizo-stuffed Sopes — little masa boats topped with cheese and cilantro. For dinner, we offered homemade Tamales stuffed with Pork, along with Carlos’ Pasilla Pepper Salsa; we had Shrimp Ceviche with Capers, Green Olives and Avocado; Pinto Bean and Corn Salad; Cilantro Lime Rice and Refried Beans.

The weather was kind of iffy, but the rain stayed away until well after the last guests left, at which time Carlos and I cleaned up the house and then collapsed, vowing not to do this again and yet already making changes to the menu for next year.

It’s just 360 days away … time to get moving.
So, over there to Ghana, where violence and harassment of gays and lesbians is way up, a Muslim cleric has announced that he believes he has a new reason to hate The Gays.

Mallam Abass Mahmud, said “Allah gets annoyed when males engage in sexual encounter and such disgusting encounter causes earthquake.”

Yes, The Gay Sex causes earthquakes. And, well, I have felt the earth move a time or two hundred so maybe there’s some truth to his statement?
In Arkansas, Mitchell McCoy is a reporter for both KARK and FOX16 News. Not a big deal, except for the note he received from a viewer:
“Dear Mitch,
I watched KARK before you joined and it was a reputable broad cast until now. I have been holding back for months but I can’t stand your gayness. You are on television every night and our children should not be watching people like you. You are a disgrace to Arkansas and I will be asking your boss to take you off. Do not be offended but society is not ready for gay men reading news.
Sincerely, kark Channel 4 fan”
McCoy shared the note to his Twitter feed with this response:
“I get many emails but this tops it. I’ve dreamt of being a reporter since I was 9 and I won’t stop on your behalf. With that said, no matter who you are or what you believe in – dream loudly and don’t let anyone get in your way. The minute you stop…is the minute you stop being who you are. It’s not worth it.
#DreamOn #StepUpStopBullying
Hats off to Mitchell McCoy for gay-reading the news … whatever that means!
Okay, I will confess that Dutch actor Michiel Huisman has been a Random Musings Hottie before when he appeared early in the series run of Nashville. But over the weekend, whilst channel surfing, I came across a film called The Age of Adeline which co-starred Huisman.

He is all kinds of dreamy but when he appeared onscreen, fresh from a shower, wrapped in a towel, I felt he just oozed sexiness.

It took Carlos about ten minutes to get me to stop licking the TV screen. Just sayin’.
Ali Chaney, a thirteen-year-old Texas student was sent home by her school for wearing a t-shirt that read:
“Some people are gay. Get over it.”
Ali was told by school administrators that her shirt was “disruptive” to other students and when she refused to change into a school-provided shirt, she was sent home. Her mother, Cassie Watson, said Ali called her crying because she felt school leaders were discriminating against her for being gay:
“I would never, ever have expected it from the administration. I would think that the administration would be the first ones there to support her.”
They should support her, but then again, this is Texas and, well, they hate The Gays.

District Spokeswoman Wendy Sledd released this statement:
“Our purpose at CCISD is to educate children, first and foremost. According to CCISD’s dress code in the student handbook and code of conduct, clothing that is disruptive to the learning environment based on reactions by other students is prohibited. The student was offered a school shirt to wear and declined.”
I guess if other students don’t like your clothes, you have to change; not the students with the tiny bigoted minds. And Ali did point out that one student wore a shirt that said President Obama is a communist Muslim and he was not forced to change.

But again … Texas.
Victor Gutiérrez, member of the Spanish water polo team, and an Olympic hopeful, has come out as gay:
 “I’m out of the closet in my environment. My family knows I’m gay, my friends too. And I’m living in such a positive way with my sexuality that I felt a responsibility to share it with others.”
And one reason Gutiérrez chose to come out now is because of a rise in gay bashings in Spain:
“There have been more than 70 homophobic attacks in Madrid so far this year. It is a reality that we live in. And there are almost no athletes who are out of the closet. But in my experience, people have changed. As an athlete, my experience has been absolutely positive.”
The best part of all is that Victor says he didn’t sit his teammates down and tell them he was gay; he simply introduced them to his boyfriend like anybody else would.
“I never sat down with the president of my club, the coach or teammates. In the end, it is my life and I do what I want. I hope my coming out serves to break a taboo within the sport. You have to be judged not by your sexuality but by your sporting merit.”
Welcome out, Victor, and please accept as our gift the Official Coming Out Toaster Oven and a copy of The Gay Agenda. The toaster oven is perfect for warming your Empanadas!

And for those of you who don’t know, an empanada is a beef turnover so get your minds out of the gutter!
Last month Time ran a story about the fight over transgender persons suing the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity. It was a good article, but …

Time used the rainbow flag on the cover to promote their article and some people — I was one — were annoyed that they used that flag and not the one that represents transgender pride. I mean, the rainbow flag is widely considered representative of the LGBT community but there is a separate flag solely for the trans community.

Luckily, Rachel Sharp, an author from New York, re-created Time’s front cover with the right flag, the transgender flag:



Monday, May 11, 2015

Cat Fight! Andy and Lance

So last week, on his What Watch Happens Bravo chat show, Andy Cohen revealed that the most famous person he’d ever done the nasty with was boy bander Lance Bass.

Truthfully, I don’t care about this, although I can’t help but feel that Andy Cohen is kinda skeevy and wish that, if this did happen, and really that whenever Andy Cohen has sex, it’s done while wearing a full body condom in a room made entirely of latex.

But that’s just me … and maybe Lance Bass, too.

See, Lance is now denying that he and Andy ever slept together and while on his SiriusFM radio show Dirty Pop, Lance said, and I kinda love this:
“First of all, I’m not going to tell you what I do in the bedroom. Sex is a broad term. I can just tell you right now, there was no Andy D going in my B.”
He elaborated further:
“It was so nice and romantic and it was just a nice time. It was one of those things where I needed someone to hold onto. I’m not going to tell you what went down…but it’s not what people are thinking.”
Who do you believe? Or, more importantly, does anyone other than Andy Cohen really care?

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Rub-A-Dub-Dub ... Escorts In A Tub

One night, after partying together at a South Carolina gay bar—and yes, there are gay bars in South Carolina … or there is gay bar … I digress—three men went out for a little, um, hot tub fun.

Eighteen-year-old Austin Adams [below right] and 33-year-old Michael Gordon [below center] went together to that Spartanburg nightclub, where they met 21-year-old Douglas Tench [below left], who had come down from Charlotte to go to that club in Spartanburg.

After several drinks Tench left  with Adams and Gordon, for a home in Boiling Springs—and the hot tub in Boling Springs … you cannot make this stuff up—where Gordon was dog sitting; the three men began to, ahem, “enjoy each other’s company” in said hot tub. But the party ended when the three men started to quarrel … over which one was the higher paid escort.

Oh, but they did. Adams told the arresting deputy that he “lost control” when Tench “stated he got paid more for his escort services than Adams.” Adams admitted to hitting and kicking Tench while they were in the hot tub before Tench jumped out of the hot tub and ran to a house across the street, where he called a friend who, in turn, dialed 911.

After confessing to assaulting Tench, Adams asked the deputy to “just arrest him and get it done with,” and so he was charged with simple assault; Gordon and Tench were also arrested for providing alcohol to a minor escort.

Lesson to be learned: don’t brag about your escort coins in a hot tub with other escorts?

That’s all I got.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

AFA's Ray Rooney: The ‘Problem’ With The Gays Is We Like To Talk About Our Sex Lives

It’s pretty safe to assume that I am not a fan of homophobic, anti-gay American Family Association [AFA] and its spokesbigot Bryan Fischer, but sometimes, sometimes, you gotta look at them, and him, and just laugh. I mean, no one, not even LGBT rights groups, spend more of their and effort talking about The Gays and sex than the AFA, so either they’re really interested, or they’re taking lessons.

But the part that makes me laugh about the AFA today is a blog post by one of their minions, Ray Rooney, who says the problem with The Gays is that we want to talk about how we have sex, and with whom, and how we do it, and how often.

That came as news to me, but I’ll ask you, dear readers, to take a moment — and you may need more time — to peruse this blog thingy for all the times I’ve discussed how I have sex with Carlos, the, um, in-and-outs, as it were, of our sexual relationship. I’d say I’ll wait, but there’s no need to look for I have never discussed our sex life because it’s nunya bidness, as they say. And then head over to the Human Rights Campaign or Freedom To Marry or GLAAD or any other LGBT rights group and see how often they mention gay sex.

Still, this week AFA blogger Ray Rooney Jr. penned a column entitled “The Real Problem With Homosexuality” in which he says that the real reason homosexuality is wrong is because The Gays want everyone to know that they have sex with someone of the same sex:
“What I find perverse about homosexuality is the insistence from the gay community that I should know about their sexual proclivities. Normal people understand that sex is an extremely intimate and therefore private act. I would find it troubling, if not disgusting, for anyone to talk publicly about what kind of sex they like to practice. Normal people do not want to broadcast to the world the details of their sex lives. There is something wrong with those who want complete strangers to know who they like to have sex with.
Medical statistics tell me homosexuality is unhealthy. My Christian faith teaches me it is unrighteous. Common sense tells me it is unfruitful and unnatural. But none of that is why I am fed up with the gay community. I’m just sick of hearing about how one group of people demand that everyone in the world accept who they want to have sex with!
I wonder if all the stories making the news today about bakers and florists being forced to cater to homosexuals would be stories but for people announcing who they like to have sex with? I mean, did the offended customers come in and ask for a wedding cake or flowers for their wedding and were denied service because they looked like homosexuals? Or did the customer come in and announce their sexual preference and then demand service? I suspect the latter.
I believe homosexuality is wrong. Just like I believe adultery and sex outside of marriage is wrong. But even though I believe I have good reasons for opposing homosexuality as a normative lifestyle based on science, medicine, and faith, that is not why I strongly oppose it. I believe anyone who insists everyone know what they do in their bedroom and with whom is perverse. Normal people do not define themselves solely on the basis of who they are sexually attracted to.”
Wow, what a delusional asshat, because, if I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard or seen straight folks having sex — like nearly every night on my TV — I’d be rich as Donald Freaking Trump, only with better, real, hair.

Sure some gay folks talk about their sex lives, and even discuss it in detail, but so do straight people, and, for the record, Ray Rooney, being gay isn’t just sex, it’s about attraction, and compatibility and love and togetherness and sex; the same exact things as being straight, except we’re attracted to people of our own gender. We actually aren’t any different from straight folks, except in one key area: we are attracted to members of our own sex.

And that’s that. The people who seem to want to discuss The Gays and how they have sex, and why they have sex, and with whom, really seem to be those anti-gay groups. They seem to think that if they discuss what we do—or at least what they imagine we do when they are home alone, under the covers, with a jar of hand lotion and a c*m rag—that straight people will join their fight.

The Gays don't demand that you accept the people with whom we have sex, we actually could give a rat's behind about acceptance; we'd just like to be treated equally. It's not about sex for us, it's about equality, but people like Rooney and Fischer and the AFA don't get that. They'd rather talk about sex than equal rights, even though most straight people could care less what we do behind closed doors, just like we could care less what they do.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

In Baton Rouge Consensual Gay Sex Can Still Get You Arrested

Sid Gautreaux
You know how folks make jokes about the South and how backwards it all seems? Turns out, sometimes, hell, a lot of the time, it’s true. Like this story from down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where it appears that the Sheriff’s Office has been conducting stings to find men willing to have consensual gay sex and then arresting them for, ahem, crimes against nature.

Now, there isn’t a hint that any money changed hands, so these crimes cannot be considered prostitution; these are men, adult men, consenting to have sex with other adult men in the privacy of one of the men’s homes. And yet, for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, that warrants arrest after arrest; at least a dozen since 2011, with the most recent occurring about two weeks ago.

These men arrested for the crimes of consensual sex, have never been prosecuted because they have committed no crime; consensual sex between two adults, two adult males, is not a crime, even in Louisiana. But still, men are being arrested and jailed and paying fines for doing nothing wrong.  

Casey Rayborn Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Office, released a statement, and she and the department clearly do not realize that they aren’t arresting criminals:
“This is a law that is currently on the Louisiana books, and the sheriff is charged with enforcing the laws passed by our Louisiana Legislature. Whether the law is valid is something for the courts to determine, but the sheriff will enforce the laws that are enacted. … The issue here is not the nature of the relationship but the location.
These are not bars. These are parks. These are family environments. Manchac Park, where the stings have largely taken place, has been known as a place where “cruising” for anonymous sex takes place, but neither talking about sex nor agreeing to sex are violations of obscenity laws.”
But the men are not having sex in the park, or in any other public place; after being propositioned by the undercover officers, the men go to their own homes, and that is where they are arrested. Apparently just having sex violates the law in Louisiana.

Except it’s not supposed to violate the law. When Lawrence v Texas—a landmark decision by the Supreme Court striking down sodomy laws in Texas, and thirteen other states, including Louisiana—then-Louisiana Attorney General Richard Ieyoub issued a statement asserting that the state’s anti-sodomy law could not be enforced, except in cases of prostitution and bestiality.

And yet, in backwards Louisiana the law stayed on the books for a sheriff, Sid Gautreaux,  who has nothing better to do than to troll parks asking men to have sex with undercover officers, to use as a weapon. And is now claiming ignorance as his excuse, with his office releasing a new statement: 
"To our knowledge, the Sheriff’s office was never contacted or told that the law was not enforceable or prosecutable."
And that lame explanation, the excuse of ignorance of the law, isn’t sitting too well with at least one Louisiana lawmaker, Baton Rouge Metro Councilman John Delgado:
“Does [Gautreaux] know that slavery is no longer around? Does he know that we have cars and no longer horse and buggies?”
Delgado is demanding apologies be issued to the 12 men who were arrested.

Gautreaux's office is now saying they will no longer enforce the out-dated law, and will work with state legislators to have it removed from the books. But that doesn’t explain the hows and whys that the sheriff’s office targeted these men, nor does it explain their strange explanation for doing so:
“The Sheriff’s Office has not, nor will it ever, set out with the intent to target or embarrass any part of our law-abiding community. Our goal is to Protect and Serve the public. When we receive calls from the public about lewd activity near our children, we have to respond. Our park operations, conducted at the specific request of the BREC Park’s Ranger, were an attempt to deter or stop lewd activity occurring in the park near children.
The deputies in the cases were acting in good faith using a statute that was still on the books of the Louisiana criminal code. The deputies used a statute that they felt fit the situation in order to remedy the concerns of the parents and park officials. The deputies presented sworn affidavits of probable cause, a set of circumstances that would lead a normal person to believe that a crime has been committed or will be committed, to judges for review. In the cases we have reviewed, the judges set bond, in effect concurring that there was probable cause for arrest. To our knowledge, the Sheriff’s office was never contacted or told that the law was not enforceable or prosecutable.
In hindsight, however, we feel we should have taken a different approach. We will consult with others in the legislative and judicial branches to see what can be done to remove this law from the criminal code that each deputy receives and to also find alternative ways to deter sexual and lewd activity from our parks.
We want to reiterate our intent in these cases. It was NEVER to target a certain segment of our population. It was only in response to parents, park officials and members of the public concerned that our parks were not safe. When we receive reports of public masturbation, sex and other lewd activity in a park where children are playing, me MUST take these concerns seriously. Our intent was honorable, our approach, however, is something we must evaluate and change.
The Sheriff’s Office is not concerned with what consenting adults do in private residences. We are concerned with what is going on in public, especially a public place frequented by children. In light of new information, we feel that we need to work with our deputies to provide them with better resources and training to deal with these issues in more appropriate ways. It is very important to us that the public understands our intent and agenda was safety and never prejudiced toward any group.”
They never intended to target gay men, they just approached gay men and asked if they wanted to have sex, went back to the man’s apartment with him, and then placed him under arrest using a law that has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.


Back.Wards. And this is why the South gets a bad rap.


Thursday, April 11, 2013

Random Musings

It's keeping on ... four more democrats have come out for equality!

#51: Bill Nelson, Democratic Senator from Florida:
"If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by Gays and Lesbians? Simply put, if The Lord made homosexuals as well as heterosexuals, why should I discriminate against their civil marriage? I shouldn't, and I won't."
#52: Heidi Heitkamp, Democratic Senator from North Dakota:
"I have concluded the federal government should no longer discriminate against people who want to make lifelong, loving commitments to each other or interfere in personal, private, and intimate relationships. I view the ability of anyone to marry as a logical extension of this belief. The makeup of families is changing, but the importance of family is enduring."
#53: Joe Donnelly, Democratic Senator from Indiana:
"I oppose amending either Indiana’s or our nation’s constitution to enshrine in those documents an ‘us’ and a ‘them,’ instead of a ‘we.’ With the recent Supreme Court arguments and accompanying public discussion of same-sex marriage, I have been thinking about my past positions and votes. In doing so, I have concluded that the right thing to do is to support marriage equality for all."
#54: Tim Johnson, Democratic Senator from South Dakota:
"After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom."
That leaves Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana as the only Democrats not endorsing marriage equality. Manchin reaffirmed his opposition last week and Landrieu says she supports same-sex marriage but won’t endorse it because her constituents do not.
Around here folks don't call it Walmart, they call it The Walmart. However, I call it The Place To Avoid At All Costs Because They Treat Their Employees Like Crap And Everything They Sell Is Made In China. It's long-winded, yes, but you get the idea. 

But that picture is a funny reason I don't shop at that place. Someone bought loads of those shirts to sell and not one person in the corporation thought it might be slightly off? Proves that no gays work at The Walmart.


h/t to BosGuy for the photo.
Look! Here's a Democrat whose against marriage equality; what a rare and stupid breed.
Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor:
“I am opposed to gay marriage ... I also discussed whether gay couples should receive benefits if they work for the federal government. On the benefits issue, I said to ‘put me down in the undecided category.’  By that I meant that, depending on what the U.S. Supreme Court decides, I will evaluate whether federal benefits should be available to gay couples. Of course, I will consider the impact any extension of benefits would have on the federal budget.”
Ass.Hat.
Then we have Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, who thinks Civil Unions are the answer:
"I’ll say this, I do believe this could be solved greatly by a civil-union law that would give gay people the same rights as married people. I think we can solve this problem without undermining the very basis of marital law in our country."
But then you have a very clear case of Separate But Equal; all the same rights, but let’s call it something different. No.
After tiny Bisbee City in Arizona approved Civil unions for same-sex couples, it looks like a larger Arizona city might follow suit.

The Tempe City Council will be getting legal advice on civil unions. Councilman Kolby Granville requested the executive-session discussion and plans to ask for council action on civil unions in coming weeks. Granville says it’s an issue of civil rights and that civil unions would be the next best thing to same-sex marriage. Well, it's the less than next best thing.

In the case of Bisbee City, though, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne will be taking the case to court to block Bisbee’s new ordinance because he said the town council acted outside its legal authority because state laws control things such as community property.
The Oklahoma House approved, by a vote of 84-0, a resolution reaffirming marriage as between one man and one woman, and also reaffirming Oklahoma’s support of DOMA, which prohibits recognition of same-sex marriages.

Not such big news considering that it’s Oklahoma, but what was surprising was that all 29 House Democrats, including House Democratic Leader Scott Inman and openly gay Congressman Kay Floyd, walked out of the chamber in protest instead of voting.

The resolution doesn't carry the weight of law, and is just intended as a message to the Supreme Court, which recently heard arguments in cases concerning same-sex marriage. It now heads to the state Senate.

Here’s a message from me Oklahoma Republicans: Bugger off.
So, Margaret Thatcher died this week and there was praise for her, and there was also rejoicing in her passing; Thatcher was nothing, if not divisive. But, on a funny note, when the story broke of her death on Twitter folks began Tweeting and Hash-tagging about it like this:
#nowthatchersdead
I see it. But, without the use of spacing--which cannot be used in a proper hashtag, y'all--and without the use of any capital letters, many people read the hashtag like this:
#now that chers dead
And Twitter went cray-cray.
Silly Tweeters, if Cher had actually did, and you know she never will, Twitter would have literally exploded.
On the marriage front: interior designer Nate Berkus and former Rachel Zoe assistant Jeremiah Brent are engaged. They have been dating about 9 months and Berkus proposed atop Machu Picchu in Peru.

Also getting married are musician, songwriter and record producer Linda Perry and actress and The Talk host, Sara Gilbert, who told of the engagement on TV this week:
"We go to a park, we have food and we're eating it, it's really sweet and there's this guy sitting playing guitar, like a street musician ... He starts playing this song that we love. I'm like, 'Oh, that's so weird, this is so magical and amazing.' ... Suddenly the people picnicking next to us pull out string instruments from under the blanket and walk over and they start playing 'Love Song'."
Perry then popped the question, spelled out on five different t-shirts, before pulling out an engagement ring.

Congratulations to both couples, and let’s hope this starts a trend of congratulating same-sex couples all across the country.
I recently found out that, when commenting on other blogs that have the captcha, that I don’t need to put in the numbers—which are sometimes impossible to read—but I can get by with just typing the letters. Am I the first to find this out, or the last?
This just in: Uruguay gave final approval to marriage equality when its House voted 71-21 to pass the bill. President José Mujica says he intends to sign it.

Uruguay now joins The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Iceland, Argentina, and Denmark as the 12th nation to offer its citizens nationwide marriage equality.

Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. offer it in parts of the country. Funny, how all these other countries can so easily adopt and adapt to marriage equality across their entire land, yet here in the ‘progressive’ US we stutter and stammer along.
Ah, the GOP, in the weeks and months after losing the White House again began spewing nonsense about rebranding the party, becoming more inclusive.

Yeah, not so much. See, this weekend the Republican National Committee will be meeting to discuss their goals and aspirations for the future, and one of those discussions is to vote that marriage always and ever be a One Man and One Woman deal.

Rebranding themselves as the same old losers. Not so smart.
When Turtle, er, Mitch McConnell learned that actress Ashley Judd might run against him for his seat in Congress, he got his big boy pants all in a twist and vowed to spend every dime he had to defeat her. But, since he is Turtle, er, Mitchy, he decided to play as unfair as possible.

Some secret recordings of meetings between McConnell and his strategists reveal that they had planned—and I say planned because Ashley Judd recently announced that she would not run for office—to destroy Ashley Judd by playing her up as mentally ill.

Nice. Don’t run on the issues, Mitchy, run on rumor. But, now that the tapes have been released and people are all up in arms about McConnell’s underhanded ways, is he trying to back-pedal and apologize?

Of course not, Mitchy is complaining that he’s the victim because he was recorded being a dick and no one told him.

That’s because Ya ‘are a dick, Mitch. Ya ’are a dick.
The Montana House is moving forward with a measure to repeal an obsolete state law that criminalizes gay sex, despite a committee's decision to table it.

Openly gay Congressman Bryce Bennett [that's him up there] made the motion to take Senate Bill 107 out of the House Judiciary Committee and place it on the agenda for a House vote. Bennett says the law emphasizes inequality and pointed to the 1997 Montana Supreme Court case that ruled the language criminalizing gay sex was unconstitutional.

"Under this law, I am considered a felon," Bennett said. "I am not your equal."

Yeah, in Montana being gay and having consensual sex makes you a criminal. And, in the eyes of the Fear-Baiting GOP, legalizing gay sex would lead to societal degradation and gay sex being taught in schools' sex education classes; like this: Insert Tab A into Slot B. Or something. Grow up.


UPDATE: the vote is in, and gay sex is no longer a crime in Montana! The vote was 64-36, with 25 Republicans crossing the aisle to vote with all 39 Democrats!
UPDATE: Ben Carson is out. No, not the closet, silly, though that wouldn’t be a surprise given how virulently homophobic he is. No, Dr. Ben has stepped down as this year's Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine commencement speaker because he didn’t want to “distract from the celebratory nature of the day."

Funny how he voluntarily withdraws and makes it look like his decision when many at the school students and staff, wanted him uninvited long ago.

Take a seat Dr. Ben you’re no longer needed.
I am loving Nashville because I loves me some Connie Britton and I loves me some hot men singing to me. Chris Carmack--wearing a lot of tight t-shirts--and hot Latino Jay Hernandez just joined the show, and look good with Sam Palladio and Charles Esten.
TWEET OF THE WEEK: