Monthly Archives: September 2010

Craigslist Pulls Hooker Ads

Following a complaint filed by seventeen state Attorneys General last week, Craigslist has pulled its Adult Services section. Craigslist did not announce the move and its blog was not updated as of Saturday morning. Craigslist did not immediately respond to email and voice mail messages seeking comment. The change comes as the service faces growing pressure in the U.S. over …

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Eccentric Robbery Witness Song

The Gregory Brothers have their usual fun, this time with the witness to a convenience store robbery. The original news clip is first. BTW, their last such effort, the Bed Intruder Song, actually made the Billboard charts and topped iTunes.

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First Medical Marijuana Ad Airs In CA

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Cue Veruca Salt

Want, want, want. (Tipped by JMG reader Daddy Ray)

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New York Times Outs Christwire

Today the New York Times does what numerous other publications have tried and failed to do, they’ve gotten the guys behind Christwire to come clean. Christwire has lately reached new levels of popularity, in part thanks to an Aug. 14 column, “Is My Husband Gay?” Written by Stephenson Billings, the piece is a 15-point checklist to help wives diagnose possibly …

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Sam Seder At Whitestock 2010

Racists? Where? Oh, I see them.

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Michael Luongo Returns To Baghdad

This week Gay City News launches a four-part series from Michael Luongo in which he examines “what changed and what didn’t” since he last investigated gay life in Iraq in 2007. Here’s an excerpt from the first installment: This visit would be full of stark contrasts. It was as if there were two different Baghdads — at least. I would …

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Pitchfork’s Top 20 Singles Of The ’90s

The Stranger points us to Pitchfork Magazine’s top 20 tracks of the 1990’s. The only entry I’d agree with is Mazzy Star, but then again I’ve never even heard of half of this list. The full Top 200 list and Pitchfork’s reasoning on each can be found here.

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DNC Issues Attack On Hooker Patron GOP Sen. David “Diaper Boy” Vitter

Last week Sen. David “Diaper Boy” Vitter easily won the GOP primary in Louisiana despite having been named in 2007 as a regular patron of the famed DC Madam. Vitter later admitted to patronizing prostitutes and committing adultery, but since he’s a hard-right conservative “sanctity of marriage” defender, the GOP has given him a pass. Watch the DNC’s “suspense thriller” …

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Sen. Gillibrand On DADT Repeal

Good As You tips us to this In The Life segment in which Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand talks to two victims of DADT. Gillibrand remains one of the staunchest Senate proponents of the repeal of DADT.

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Sirius XM At 2pm: Michelangelo Signorile Hosts Special Panel On Ethics Of Outing

On SiriusOutQ at 2pm today, Michelangelo Signorile hosts a special discussion on the ethics of outing. The show will be broadcast live from the convention of the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association, which is taking place this week in San Francisco. Our panel includes Mike Rogers of Blogactive, who was at the forefront of reporting on Senator Larry Craig, …

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Massive Quake Rocks New Zealand

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake centered near Christchurch rocked New Zealand today. The quake hit at 4:30am Saturday morning local time and initial press reports are light on details so far. Aftershocks are continuing. As is the case for breaking news these days, Twitter users are providing the most information. It appears that tsunami warnings have not been issued.

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CALIFORNIA: Meg Whitman Dismissed As Juror In Child Molestation Case

California GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has been dismissed as a potential juror in a child molestation case after telling the court that she could not give the case her “100% best” due to the campaign. The accused man is alleged to have molested several boys, leading attorneys to ridiculously ask the potential jurors if they feel that homosexuality is …

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Scissor Sisters To Open For Lady Gaga

Scissor Sisters have been tapped to open for Lady Gaga during the second leg of her U.S. tour, which launches in February. Dates include two nights at Madison Square Garden. Get tickets here.

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Röyksopp – The Drug

Filmed in the ruins of Detroit. Strange even by their standards.

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Gay-Baiting, Not Gay-Baiting

The Advocate wonders if Sarah Palin’s blow-up at Vanity Fair over their hit piece on her wasn’t deliberately loaded with words meant to attack the sexuality of its author. Is Sarah Palin using code words to slam gay journalist Michael Joseph Gross, a frequent Advocate contributor who wrote the much-buzzed-about profile of the former vice presidential nominee in this month’s …

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Backstage At The Jan Brewer Debate

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Tweet Of The Day – Louis CK

Comedian Louis CK got his in-flight drunk on and went a little crazy on Twitter. Bravely, he has not (yet) deleted all the hilarious messiness about Sarah Palin, although the tweets in which he claimed to have blown 32 cops are now gone.

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9/11 Truthers Launch TV Campaign

The so-called 9/11 Truthers, who believe that the U.S. government secretly plotted the attack on New York City, have launched a fundraising campaign to place the below ad on national television.

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Fans Brawl At U.S. Open

Fans descended on a young man at the U.S. Open yesterday after he argued with a woman seated near him. Watch what happens after the woman’s elderly father comes to her defense. Huffington Post has the incident from another angle. Apparently it all started because the younger man was shouting obscenities at the players.

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