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My office window faces the new Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York City. One of the new tenants, the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, has taken several of the top floors of the building and moved their people in a few weeks ago.

The other day I happened to be looking out the window while listening to a conference call when, to my great surprise, a female Akin lawyer caught my eye when she stood up from her desk, closed the door to her office (but not any of the shades on her windows) and proceeded to hike her sweater up in order to put a bra on.

There was no nudity -- she seemed like a pro at doing this. But it was pretty clear that she wasn't wearing a bra that day.

Maybe see if those window shades work?

What about the gays, Obie?

I just re-watched Barack Obama's election night victory speech and the same thing stood out to me today as it did on November 4, 2008 when I watched it live.

Obama made mention of the "young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled" as not being merely "a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states" but, as Obama said, "[w]e are, and always will be, the United States of America."

It was a great speech. And that passage was particularly memorable.

But one thing stands out to me . . . one of these things is not like the others. In the list of "people" that make up the United States of America, there is only one in which Obama believes should be treated differently than the others.

Gays.

Obama is against gay marriage: "Personally, I do believe that marriage is between a man and a woman."

But he's also said that the U.S. should recognize gays "with full equality under the law."

I guess that's full equality under the law except for marriage.

He does support civil unions, having said that they would suffice to protect partners' rights.

Didn't we try "separate but equal" once?

Dinner with Derek

Last week when I was in Toronto for a work-related event, me and a few people from the office had a late dinner at ONE Restaurant, which just so happened to be connected to The Hazelton Hotel  -- our home while in town.  It's quite a Toronto hot spot, or so we were told by several people, including the cute young woman at the hotel who gave me my "room orientation" (they feel the need to show you how to work the automatic curtains).

It just so happened that the New York Yankees were in town playing the Toronto Blue Jays.  The game ended in time for Derek Jeter and some unnamed male to sit down at the table next to us for a somewhat lengthy dinner.  He was no more than 3 feet away from me for the next 2 hours.

Towards the end of the night, when it was just my table and his table left, in walked Jason Giambi and a few members of his posse.  They sat down for a drink or two (and we decided to stay a little longer hoping that we'd hit the trifecta . . . A-Rod). 

Jeter looks the exact same in person as he does on TV.  Except he had bigger feet than I would have thought.

Giambi looked a little older in person than on TV, but the guy is built like a brick shithouse.  The moustache was big, bushy and very dark in color.  Jason also has a big ass that looked pretty hot in the jeans he was wearing.

They left for the Hilton, and we all went to bed (in a much better hotel).

Is it just me . . .

or is Kenley from this season's Project Runway absolutely hateful?

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