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Humpday is that movie: the one about a pair of guy friends who decide they're going to make an "artistic" pornographic movie, starring themselves as two straight guys having sex. If those words make you feel the compulsion to go check your fantasy-baseball status or Google some images of Gisele Bündchen in underwear rather than read on, please, stay with me. No heterosexual males were compromised in the making of this movie, nor is there any actual pornography in Humpday. This Sundance prizewinner from director Lynn Shelton is an undeniably titillating movie, but ultimately, its provocation...
...productive, fulfilled people ... choosing to wisely utilize precious time." A lot of conservative politicians stop wanting smaller government the minute the government is them. Then they discover that they like the trappings, earmarks and junkets, the plums for friends. For Palin, the job offered little more than "lame-duck status - hit the road, draw the paycheck and milk...
These residents’ status as indigenous, even, seems dubious. Although the Galapagos were discovered in the sixteenth century, the islands were left abandoned and uninhabited until 1832, when Ecuador, the nearest mainland nation, claimed possession. Settlement before some 30 years ago was on a piecemeal scale. Several plantations cropped up, but they were fueled mostly by forced and temporary convict labor...
While Mexico's midterm malaise has definitely bruised the PAN, Calderon may still be able to salvage enough personal popularity to forestall the early onset of lame-duck status. But he has a sierra-full of voter disillusionment to overcome: this year's election may be best known for the campaign waged by democracy activists urging voters to cast blank "nulo" or "none" votes as a way to register their disgust with Mexico's politicos. After the election, Calderon asked Mexicans to "put the race behind us" and "focus all our efforts on finding common ground." But Mexicans made...
...Indonesia's success at the ballot box has silenced skeptics who doubted whether Indonesia - with its diversity of islands, religions and ethnicities - could mature into a democratic state. Indeed, compared to countries such as Malaysia and Thailand, where democratic institutions are stagnating if not backsliding, Indonesia has cemented its status as Southeast Asia's political role model...