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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Fair Game (2010) rating: 7/10

A good reminder of the Bush era hard ball where administration officials Cheney, Rove, and Libby played fast and loose and didn't think of the possibility of getting caught, but were assured of a pardon anyway.

Penn was excellent. I thought Watts could have been a bit better, although the screenplay actually doesn't make Valerie Plame out to be as heroic as I thought she should be.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

A Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, rating: 7/10

These guys studied online searches for porn and combined this with recent psychology findings to delve in detail about what people like about their preferred partners, straight or gay. They discuss all kinds of stuff, but...

I skipped to the section about gay males and was kind of surprised about one part. They claim that most gay males are 'bottoms'. But I wonder if this is somehow self selection. I would think that most bottoms are more willing to be out, and so thus skew the numbers. Maybe I'm not right about this though.

Other findings in the very short gay chapter are unsurprising to me, but might be stunning for others: most gay males like male acting/appearing guys, and not the effeminate types. The authors here refer to the preferred type as just straight guys, but I think that's essentially wrong. Gays don't specifically go after straight guys, but to the point that gaydar cannot distinguish between them, gays like typically male acting/appearing guys -- gay or straight. (By terming it straight, I think they're latching onto something which might, perhaps purposely, alarm straight men, like they have a target on their back or something, which is not true at all. Heh, yeah, one doth protest too much.)