Monthly Archives: December 2011

Morning View – Watch For Gators

I’m in Fort Lauderdale, where I usually stay with Father Tony over on the beach. But since my ex and his husband have just returned from their five-year exile to Pennsyltucky, I’m spending a couple of days at their condo in a sprawling complex wrapped around an inland golf course. I’m told the above sign serves to remind residents to …

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VIRGINIA: State Board Allows Adoption Agencies To Discriminate Against Gays

The Virginia Board of Social Services has voted 5-1 to allow adoption agencies to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and political beliefs. Board chairwoman Bela Sood noted before the decision that while society considers a mother and a father “a normal parenting unit,” scientific evidence doesn’t support some religious and conservative groups’ claims that they make better parents …

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Donald Trump: An Online Candidate?

Donald Trump now says he’s considering running as an independent with the help of a group that will choose its candidate online rather than in a national convention. “Thousands of e-mails from folks urging me to seek the Americans Elect Presidential nomination,” Trump tweeted from his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account Wednesday morning. Americans Elect is the first online, independent presidential nominating …

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Today In Creepy Robots

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U.S. Forces Flag Lowered Over Iraq

Mission accomplished, right?

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Cardinal Sin: New Banksy Sculpture References Catholic Molestation Scandals

Famed pop artist Banksy references the ongoing molestation scandals in the Catholic Church with a new sculpture on display in a London museum. Cardinal Sin is a bust with its face sawn off and replaced by blank tiles, designed as a response to the child abuse scandal in the Catholic church. In a statement, Banksy said: “I’m never sure who …

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Fox News Host: I Can’t Let You Denigrate The Name Of Jesus On My Show

Of course we hear from whackjob Rep. Louie Gohmert.

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Headline Of The Day

As I predicted, the repulsive Duggars are already exploiting the miscarriage of what would have been their 20th child. Stand by for the above image to appear on coffee mugs and mousepads.

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New From Newt Gingrich

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Open Thread Thursday

Yesterday TIME named “the protester” as their 2011 Person Of The Year. Who is the LGBT Person Of The Year for 2011?

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Notice Anything?

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Defining The Oblivious

Clip description: “In a culture of chaos, one little girl seeks to define a politically correct word while competing in her school spelling bee. Is truth relative? Can foundational words like marriage and person be redefined?”

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Chris Barron Steps Down At GOProud

After a week of relentlessly bad publicity for the organization he co-founded in 2009, Chris Barron is stepping down as chairman at GOProud. Here’s the spin from their press release. Today GOProud, an organization of gay and straight Americans seeking to promote freedom by supporting free markets, limited government, and a respect for individual rights, announced that they were restructuring …

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Strictly For Pastafarians

Let the Flying Spaghetti Monster tree topper embrace your holiday with His noodly appendages. Only $8.50. Includes adjustable eyes so that He may watch over you. (Via – Friendly Atheist)

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iBle – The New Bible

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No Takers For Todd Palin’s Reality Show

Media watchers are chortling over the lack of interest in a reality series based on Todd Palin’s career in snowmobile racing. Which is an actual sport, apparently. As exciting, ahem, as the show’s storyline sounds, sources told Hollywood Reporter that both TLC and A&E aren’t interested. Those were the same networks that battled over Palin’s other reality show, “Alaska.” It …

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NORTH CAROLINA: Winston-Salem Firing Range Promises “Pansies Converted Daily”

On the Facebook page of Equality North Carolina we find this comment from one of their readers: “The Pansies Converted Daily billboard is quite possibly the most offensive advertisement I’ve ever seen. Congratulations. According to dictionary.com, the slang meaning of the word pansy is a) a male homosexual, b) a weak, effeminate, and often cowardly man.” Either way, it is …

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Seal Uses Cat Door, Sacks Out On Couch

The most unlikely headline I’ve written this year? Probably, but who could resist that punim? New Zealand JMG reader Brenton sends us the cute story.

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Tweet Of The Day – Ricky Gervais

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Help Stop Voter Suppression

Watch this clip and learn how to help fight the GOP and Tea Party campaign to stop minorities from voting. Millions may be stopped at the polling station door if we do nothing.

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