Tag Archives: celibacy

A Day On Fire Island

Yesterday the Farmboyz and my visiting pal from LA, Jerry, joined me in a lovely trip out to Fire Island. The Farmboyz, strangely enough, had never been, and Jerry hadn’t been in 27 years. And although I’ve spent nine summers in NYC, this was only my third visit. We started the morning with a tour around the houses in the …

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This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days… Minnesota: Pastor John Kameron Erbele busted in prostitution sting.Nevada: Pastor Ladislao Morales charged with molesting a 10 year-old girl.Florida: Pastor Robert Riddle charged with defrauding his church of $200K. Riddle was previously convicted of stealing $70K from a 91 year-old congregant.Wisconsin: Father James Blume charged with sexually assaulting a 12 year-old boy in 1978. Blume …

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Budapest Pride Incident-Free Under Heavy Protection From Hungarian Riot Police

Last year Budapest Pride was marred by violence and arrests as neo-Nazis pelted marchers with stones and eggs and threw fire bombs at police. Yesterday’s parade went off much better, as riot police were fully prepared and did not allow the hundreds of anti-gay protesters anywhere near the parade route. Rowdy protestors did their best to interrupt a gay pride …

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Olbermann On Public Option Back-off

Keith Olbermann reports that the White House is asking progressives to “be good soldiers” and play along as the public option back-off continues.

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Educashun Iz Soshlist!

(Via – AatomBomb)

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WaPo Ombudsman Apologizes For Puff Piece On NOM’s Brian Brown

The ombudsman for the Washington Post has posted an apology for last week’s glowing profile of NOM’s executive director, Brian Brown. [I]t deprived readers of hearing from others who have battled Brown and find him uncivil and bigoted. To them, he represents injustice. They should have been heard, at length. “In a profile piece, for a controversial figure like that …

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It’s International Bacon Day

How will you celebrate?

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Moths, She Had Heard, Are Delicious

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Maddow Show Takes On WorldNetDaily

Guest host Ana Marie Cox takes on the world’s craziest conservative site.

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SC Gov. Mark Sanford Accused Of Being Behind Bauer “Gay Smear” Campaign

SC GOP state Sen. Jake Knotts claims that Gov. Mark Sanford, angered over Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer’s calls for his resignation, is the person behind Bauer’s recent outing by gay blogger Mike Rogers. “As a former target of a false rumor started by the Sanford Camp I can tell you with absolute certainty this attack was orchestrated on behalf of …

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San Franciscans Trapped! Sort Of!

The Bay Bridge is closed for the next four days as workers connect a new segment as work continues on a portion of the bridge damaged in 1989’s Loma Prieta earthquake. During the closure, a 300-foot-long portion of the original East Span will be cut and moved out. A new double-deck section will be put in place. It will link …

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80’s Flashback

West India Company, Ave Maria (Om Ganesha), 1984. Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle teamed up with Erasure’s Vince Clarke and Blancmange’s Stephen Luscombe to create what I consider one of the all-time classics of 80’s club music. (On the 12″, Clarke is credited with “pyrotechnics.” Indeed.) This is easily one of the most obscure of these posts, but if you …

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HomoQuotable – Johnny Weir

“I don’t think turning figure skating into some kind of X-Games event will promote figure skating to the male population of especially North America, but also the world. This kind of talk has been going around for some time, about making the men more masculine and the women more feminine. But it’s not figure skating if you don’t have the …

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Sen. Franken Handles Teabaggers

JMG reader Tony in the UK tips us to the thoughtful, intelligent way that Sen. Al Franken handled a group of constituents opposed to “ObamaCare.”

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German World AIDS Day PSA

Copyranter reports that a German organization called Das Comitee is using the images of Hitler, Mussolini, and Saddam Hussein to promote the upcoming World AIDS Day. Go here for their possibly NSFW videos. (YouTube has removed them.) Opinions?

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Quebec: Schools Must Teach About ALL Religions! Christians: Stop Oppressing Us!

A Quebec provincial judge has ruled against a group of Christian parents who were outraged that their children were being taught about all of the world’s major religions as well as aboriginal Canadian faiths. Quebec Superior Court Justice Jean-Guy Dubois dismissed a bid by parents in Drummondville, Que., who said the course on ethics and religious culture introduced across the …

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Maddow: Divorce Rates Plummet In MA, Despite Sinful Gay Marriages

Rachel Maddow reports that after five years of legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, the state’s divorce rate has plummeted to “pre-WWII levels.” Kinda sticks a fork in the argument that homo marriage destroys opposite marriage, dunnit? Oh, but don’t you dare expect our enemies to squawk a peep about this.

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Another Preacher Prays For Obama’s Death

Joining the ignominious ranks of Pastor Steven Anderson and Pastor Wiley Drake, infamous white supremacist, anti-Semite, and anti-gay Pastor Pete Peters is praying for President Obama’s death. A third, and perhaps even more menacing anti-Obama “death prayer pastor” is Peter Peters of the LaPorte, Colorado Church of Christ. During the 1980’s, members of the white supremacist militia group The Order …

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Broadway Friday

– A revival of Angels In America will come to Off Broadway’s Signature Theater next year as part of their year-long tribute to its Pulitzer-winning playwright, Tony Kushner. – World premiere: A musical version of Green Day’s landmark album, American Idiot, has its first preview at the Roda Theater in Berkeley tonight. Get tickets here. – The annual free Broadway …

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Wingnuts To Keep Kids Out Of School During Obama’s Speech To Students

Next Tuesday, President Obama is scheduled to make a televised speech to the nation’s schoolchildren. But the wingnuts of America don’t want their precious snowflakes exposed to our fascist/socialist/communist leader and have launched a campaign to keep good Christian children home that day. Stephanie Klick, Tarrant County Republican Party chairwoman, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that many Texas families are …

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