"Men Are Only As Loyal As Their Options" Bill Maher

The Husband’s friend, fellow designer & sometime collaborator- the talented & lovely KJ & her husband D, treated us to a delicious & special dinner at Portabella last night. While sipping coffee & sharing dessert, KJ leaned across the table & shared- “your problem, Stephen, is that you fall in love too easily”. I think she was referring to remarks I had written in my blog posts. But wow, is it that transparent? Just last week, I asked the Musical 8 Ball what the future would hold for me, & the answer was Frank Sinatra singing- You Fall In Love Too Easily. This morning I was surmising what sorts of men catch my attention: talented, funny, a bit dangerous… & mature. I am offering 3 men, over 50, who easily hold my attention:

"Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides."  Scott Bakula

“`cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run” 

 Bruce Sprinsteen

"New Rule: Politics is about compromises. Really stupid compromises.


That's how we got such laws as... Blacks are 3/5 of a person. Slaves are property, unless they make it to Ohio. Interning the Japanese, but not the Germans. Slaughtering the Indians, but letting the ones who survive run the Keno parlors. Porn, but not hardcore porn. Booze, and then no booze, and then booze again. But no pot. Except medical marijuana. Which is legal to possess, but illegal to obtain. And my favorite; you can't have stem cells, except the ones we already have.
Now in this spirit, I would like to offer a few compromise suggestions for the knotty issue we face today: same sex marriage.
Why not this? It's okay to be gay, if you're already gay, but no new gays. We'll grandfather you in if you're already an organ grinder, but that's it. Or, how about, let gays marry, but come out against gay mortgages?
Or, maybe the answer to this is as plain as the nose in my lap. With both sides so set, one being all for gay marriage, and the other completely against it, how about we just let the lesbians marry?
I mean, come on, marriage is a chick thing, anyway. It is. Monogamy and marriage were invented by women and the church as a way to address female insecurity, and to stamp out oral sex as we know it. And don't give me some line about how two women can't reproduce. As long as David Crosby is alive and can swallow a Viagra, that's not a problem.
Plus, let's face it. When people talk about homosexuality being unnatural, and abomination, they're not talking about the women.
No, no, they're talking about the men. Nobody seems to find anything so abominable about Britney Spears tonguing Madonna. Or Gina Gershon in bed with Jennifer Tilly. Or anything else on the third shelf of my "library."
No, in America, when a man puts something in another man, it had better be a bullet.
So isn't it time both sides compromised a little on this issue? The statistics tell us that anywhere from 2-10% of people in America are gay. Although it seems higher at my bath house.
So look, conservatives, I know you're sincere. I know you think you're doing God's work. But in a hundred years, people traveling by jet pack to Mars are not going to be tripping on gay marriage. The whole issue is just going to be a joke. On you.

So my advice is simple: They're here, they're queer, get bored with it."
Bill Maher