NY Times columnist Frank Rich thinks its time to let the Rick Warren thing go and prepare to judge Barack Obama by his deeds. By the historical standards of presidential hubris, Obama’s disingenuous defense of his tone-deaf invitation to Warren is nonetheless a relatively tiny infraction. It’s no Bay of Pigs. But it does add an asterisk to the joyous …

On what is supposed to be one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year, a few blocks from my mother’s house in Orlando I found this brand new and massive SuperTarget nearly deserted, with only two of two dozen checkout lanes open. RELATED: This SuperTarget is in a development cringingly called “SoDO“, the “South of Downtown Orlando” area. Eeesh.

I think this video pretty much says it all – a prog-rock version of O’ Little Town Of Bethlehem set to 40,000 computerized Xmas lights. More videos here, including a freestyle version of Jingle Bell Rock.

The shockwaves of writer (and frequent JMG commenter) David Ehrenstein’s Magic Negro column continue to reverberate, this time causing a little bit of Christmas trouble for a Republican National Committee candidate. RNC candidate Chip Saltsman’s Christmas greeting to committee members includes a music CD with lyrics from a song called “Barack the Magic Negro,” first played on Rush Limbaugh’s popular …

When everything in Grandma’s kitchen is set up to serve 5 year-olds, you eat the mini-waffles and shut up about it.

“Some bloggers and others have suggested that the ‘Stonewall 2.0’ phenomenon is petering out. ‘Join the (diminishing) Impact,’ said Peter Staley. Dan Savage jumped in saying Join The Impact’s followup events to Nov. 15th’s massive national demos have been weak. Everyone involved in the Stonewall 2.0 phenomenon should read both critiques (click the bolded names above). But Stonewall 2.0 isn’t …

A Gallup poll shows Barack Obama as the most admired living American man. Hillary Clinton is the most admired living woman. A month before his inauguration, Americans choose Barack Obama as the man they admire most in the world, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. It’s the first time a president-elect has topped the annual survey in more than …

Gonna hit 80 today.

Eartha Kitt, the bawdy, sexy, sultry performer whose name will forever live in the pantheon of gay icons, died today at 81. Actress and “Santa Baby” singer Eartha Kitt has died. Kitt, 81, died Thursday in New York City, her publicist confirmed to CNN, after being treated there for colon cancer. Her daughter Kitt Shapiro was by her side. Known …

Yeah, it’s seems pretty obvious, even 42 years ago.

This story makes its fifth annual appearance on JMG….Grand Central Terminal functions as the mechanical heart of midtown New York City, pumping out several thousand workers and tourists on one beat, then sucking in several thousand more on the next. The rhythms of the terminal are fascinating. Beat. Four thousand, inbound from New Haven. Beat. Three thousand, outbound to Westchester. …

Shepard Fairey, the creator of the Obama campaign’s most iconic image also drew the cover of this week’s TIME Magazine Person Of The Year issue. But Fairey has mixed feelings over the honor. From last Friday: “Tomorrow my illustration for Time Magazine’s “Person of The Year” hits the newsstands. While I’m very honored to be validated by a periodical that …

Here we go again. The Campbell Soup Company booked an ad in The Advocate depicting a two-mom family and right on cue, the American Family Association crawled out their sewer. “Not only did the ads cost Campbell’s a chunk of money,” writes AFA Chairman Donald Wildmon in an email alert, “but they also sent a message that homosexual parents constitute …

Seriously. Sort of. A long time from now, in a galaxy far, far away…the Star Wars money machine will still be cranking. Not content with seven feature films or myriad TV spinoffs ranging from the current Clone Wars cartoon series to the dreaded Star Wars Holiday Special, the Jedi masterminds are readying a stage show. George Lucas has signed off …

Equal Rep, a grassroots group founded by Join The Impact co-founder Paul Sousa, is calling for support in their bid to get Barack Obama to nominate William White as the first openly gay Secretary of the Navy. In a short amount of time, White has already earned some impressive endorsements. Retired general Hugh Shelton, a former chairman of the Joint …

From last night’s episode of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on MSNBC: JOSEPH LOWERY: “Well, I’ve never said I support gay marriage. I support gay rights and I support civil unions. Like a whole lot of people, I have some difficulty with the term gay marriage. Because deep in my heart, deeply rooted in my heart and mind, marriage is associated with …

You must embiggen to enjoy – the whole thing is a riot: the IM box, the subject lines, even the status messages. (Via – Someone In A Tree)

“Momentum is a bitch. It’s probably the hardest thing to maintain in any activist movement. Join The Impact, the new web-based group that organized the remarkable nationwide anti-Prop 8 rallies on November 15th, is learning this hard truth pretty quickly. Their three actions since then – a postcard campaign, “Day Without A Gay”, and Saturday night’s nationwide “Light Up The …

Via Christianist “news site” One News Now: The group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) is outraged that even though government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac went broke and received a federal bailout, they still managed to give thousands of dollars this year to homosexual activist groups. PFOX executive director Regina Griggs says Freddie Mac shelled …