A small group of cavers and the owners of the land managed to keep the Kartchner Caverns secret for a long number of years while they negotiated with the state to set it up as a special park & reserve -- this included taking the governor on a Sekrit Tour, which must have been fun. Having seen some of the cave rooms, I'm not at all surprised that he was impressed.

Ooh, I never knew that one of the perks of being a govenor is secret spelunking....

There's a waterfall in the canyon where Kat took me hiking a couple months back. It's not secret except for the bit where "Waterfall? LA?"

Pretty freaking cool, except mosquitoes.

Plei, I just read this post this morning, and you want to know the freaky thing? I painted my toenails last night. Really.

HA! Awesome. That's totally funny.

The Kartchner secret was awesome. I think my parents got to go see it, but I can't remember.

I can totally buy a secret waterfall. When I lived up in the mountains, we did a lot of off-trail exploring with some folk who'd been there and hiking around since the fifties and were always running across some formation or grotto that made them go huh.

Attention parents: James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family (a right-wing Christian group) has advice on how to tell if your child is becoming homosexual: [link]

Based on that, I think I was supposed to be gay.

And some commentary on the article: [link] and [link]

from the last link:

Dunk your son into a deep pool of water. If he floats to the top, he is full of buoyant gaymotrons (identified by physicists as the gay particle) and therefore gay. If he sinks to the bottom and drowns, he is a poor swimmer and unathletic and therefore gay. If he begins to sink and then just sorta hangs there, the water is gay.

A male friend once got "If there's anything you need to talk about..." because he carried The Bell Jar in school. He's not gay. Just well-read and metrosexual, which does mark him as a pinko in these parts.

My favorite FotF article is "Preventing Homosexuality".

[link]

Especially point 6.

6. Psychologist Robert Stoller said, “Masculinity is an achievement.” In other words, “growing up straight isn’t something that happens. It requires good parenting. It requires societal support. And it takes time.”

I snigger over the implication that all boys would grow up gay if not for parental and societal support. Also, the article doesn't seem very concerned about gay girls despite the title.

Oh, and I totally forgot that Wednesday was National Underwear Day

I snigger over the implication that all boys would grow up gay if not for parental and societal support.

Yes, and if your child is gay it's all your fault.