March 29, 2008 by p00ky.

Recently a post was removed from this blog due to objectionable material.  The author will be named by nick only on his approval.  The poster is a fellow-chatter, influential in the direction of #gayportland, an articulate and thoughtful individual, and one whom i consider a friend…. One of whom i expected more on this occasion. 

I went to some length in chat to express to him my opinion that the youtube post was a page out of the right-wing play book, a hatchet job typical of rove-esque tactics, and the kind of anti-intellectual sleaze promoted on any random obama-bashing site in the blogosphere.  When the request for deletion of the youtube link was declined, it was removed by management (yeah, in this case, me).  On suggestion of the poster, the post was then removed.

He was encouraged to express his anti-Obama position in original words, which he is eminently capable of doing, in lieu of using our fair blog to promote a mindless video guffawed over by good ol’ boys on return from their saturday night dog fight.  He declined again.

Authorship (the ability to post in addition to add comment) on this blog, is granted with the same consideration that ops is extended on #gayportland.  Both are held to a higher standard…. with power, if you must, comes responsibility.  And both are retained by the author in question.

I am well aware of the slippery slope potential that looms in the discussion and reality of “censorship.”  Tomes have been written on the matter, and i will not attempt to expand the literature in this post.  Suffice it to say that this blog will maintain its identity as a forum for free-expression within the context of the gay “community” and a furtherance of the dalliances enchatted on #gayportland.  It will not become a venue for the recycling of right-wing propaganda videos that proliferate on lesser if more popular blogs whose purpose is not to stimulate thought, but to fester ignorance in a pustule of fear.

Cheered I am by the knowledge that he is capable of better, as witnessed by his fine libertarian blog at http://nwfreethinker.blogspot.com/ , which includes his thoughts on the subject at hand.  No, dear, you are not a bad person:)

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July 14, 2006 by p00ky.

Now you can read a #GayPortlandBlog Post list (up to ten most recent) and summary of Post text via RSS feed directly from #GayPortland on IRC!  Simply type “!rss *” to get a private of the current topics, and type “!rss {topic #}” to view the text of the topic you select.

This is a significant development why?  Well, if you have to ask yer no fun at all

Thanx to demond for a pretty nifty script, and thanx to SamBach for some very nice TCL tweaking!…  It IS GNU, after all!

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July 10, 2006 by p00ky.

A German inventor says he’s found a way to make cheap diesel fuel out of dead cats…http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1534821.html

NO… not that cat …

This is just an introductory post to a new category called, for now: “gay life… from rants to raves”. I have taken the liberty of pasting (in comments) some comments on a gay pride topic that were entered on a former blog. Of course everyone is welcome to comment on this post, but it is really meant to launch a new category with the real message being to encourage YOU to REGISTER with the blog so that you can be given “author” status to publish your OWN posts… on which others can comment. Nor do your posts have to be associated with any current category (the defult is UNcat)… the categories are merely for house-keeping, and to help satisfy sambach’s penchant for organization:). Registration takes only a second, and is totally non-compromising.

More people posting will encourage even more to comment and to post!… like organisims feeding and breeding on/with one another… well, edit that but you know what i mean…. and greater participation will contribute to a more relaxed environment where stuff posted does not stand out like blood in the snow… like a turd in the fog:)

Soooo… Register now… and happy posting/commenting!

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July 7, 2006 by p00ky.

Yeah, thanks for your patience thru the trial blogs…  this one has pretensions of being around for awhile:)  You can comment freely upon entry… but please take a second to “Register” (NO ordeal at all) for the purpose of authoring posts. Soon we will have a team blog flourishing when more posters and commenters step up to the urinal.

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