At last night’s U2 concert at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, Bono praised Mayor Bloomberg and urged the crowd to “give it up” for him. Bloomberg’s campaign rushed the clip onto their website, noting without irony that the next song was I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.

What did you think of last night’s debut episode of FlashForward? I tend to love sort of cataclysmic sci-fi and thought the special effects were excellent, but with all those Ghost Of Christmas Future visions, I have a feeling we might be headed into Lost-style plot madness. On the upside, we get Joseph Fiennes.

Back in March we learned of the church in Connecticut that had posted YouTube clips of its bizarre “homosexuality exorcism” rituals. It took a few months, but eventually the mainstream media picked up on the story, prompting Connecticut to investigate the church for abusing children. This week the 16 year-old focus of the inquiry, who was seen flopping around on …

After born-again child star Kirk Cameron discovered that the rights to Charles Darwin’s Origin Of Species were in the public domain, Cameron decided to republish the book with a deranged 50-page foreword. Cameron has printed 50,000 copies of his altered book and is distributing them to the “top elite universities” of the country. According to Cameron, if you believe in …

On the same day that the Westboro Baptist Church staged an anti-Semitic rally in Brooklyn, a federal appeals court overturned a $5M judgment against them won by the father of a soldier whose funeral they had picketed. The judge ruled that even “distasteful and repugnant” speech is protected by the First Amendment. Last June a lien was placed on Westboro’s …

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, Maine is encouraging the state’s Catholics to take part in a 40-day “prayer and fasting” campaign to convince God to stop gay marriage. I guess they don’t really believe that God so adamantly hates queers and needs a little nudge.

As I’ve mentioned here, the right wing is losing their shit over the coming 2010 census, claiming that Obama plans to use the information to round up dissidents. Unsurprisingly, Rep. Michele Bachmann is leading the crazies. Via Right Wing Watch:

The moran who founded some outfit calling themselves California’s Crusaders, has launched a petition drive in California to stop Wells Fargo from advertising in Spanish. “It is incumbent upon all Americans that when you see a decadence arise that will threaten our language and culture, our national identity, to rise to the occasion and push the awareness button and alert …

Saturday 9PM: Dance 208, Fire Island Classics with DJ Michael Fierman at NYC’s LGBT Community Center. $10 at the door.

The Liberty Counsel, the Christianist outfit behind any lawsuit for Jeebus, has launched an “Adopt A Liberal” campaign, asking for prayers for people they judge to be working for Satan. Since the landmark 2008 general election, there can be no doubt that a very large percentage of our Nation’s leaders have a liberal mindset. The undeniable fact is that the …

This is my 10,000th post. Unfuckingreal.

From 2001-2007 my company was on the 16th floor of the center building. My office windows are circled. I miss that place.

Police used a sonic weapon to drive back the protesters at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh on Thursday afternoon. It’s believed to be the first time such a weapon was used on a crowd in the United States.

The just-installed Libyan president of the United Nations, Ali Abdusalam Treki, told reporters at a press conference that he considers homosexuality to be “not really acceptable” after being asked about the recent UN resolution calling for its global decriminalization. Treki said: “That matter is very sensitive, very touchy. As a Muslim, I am not in favour of it . . …

Hugh Masekela, Don’t Go Lose It, Baby, 1984. Yesterday’s post about Mory Kante reminded me of this huge hit from South Africa’s Hugh Masekela, who first charted in 1968 with his Grammy-winning #1 pop instrumental smash Grazing In The Grass, one of my favorite tracks from that era. Cowbells! The next year Friends Of Distinction covered Grazing and their almost-as-good …

NOM has subpoenaed Californians Against Hate’s Fred Karger, demanding that he submit “any and all financial records” from his campaign to unearth their financing. That’s something that they themselves have refused to provide to the IRS and state groups as required by law. Karger writes in the Huffington Post: By subpoenaing me, they are forcing me to spend lots of …

Andrew Sullivan points us to this piece by the Kreskin of politics, Nate Silver, who says that the GOP stands a decent shot at retaking the majority in the U.S. House in 2010. The current state of the generic polls gives the Democrats .412/(.412+.377) = 52% of the two-party vote. Going to the graph, we see, first, that 52% for …

The coalition of California groups working for a repeal of Prop 8 in 2010 has filed the language to appear on the ballot, should their petition drive be successful. “Starting today, there is new hope for committed gay and lesbian couples who want to get married,” said John Henning, Executive Director of Love Honor Cherish, a grassroots group that is …

UPDATE: Good As You’s Jeremy Hopper digs further into Stand For Marriage’s new liar icon.