Tag Archives: celibacy

Free Cat Week At NYC ASPCA

Sixteen months ago I adopted my beloved Shelley at the wonderful East Harlem ASPCA, so I must mention that this week they are waiving their adoption fees on all adult cats over three years old. Free Cats! For a limited time only, we’re making an offer you can’t refuse. From September 20 to 28, the ASPCA is hosting “Free Over …

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FrankenBarbie Evita Palin

In case your level of doom and panic wasn’t high enough, check out Naomi Wolf’s take on Sarah Palin in the Huffington Post. Her shit’s right out of the X-Files. Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah “Evita” Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state. You have to …

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Mark Buse: McCain’s Lobbyist Insider

It certainly didn’t turn out to be the biggest story of his day, but yesterday PBS ran an interview with John McCain’s gay chief of staff Mark Buse. From the transcript: JUDY WOODRUFF: Just to recap quickly the evolution of your time working for him [John McCain]. You started in 1984 as an intern when he was a member of …

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Alex Ross, Gay Genius

Openly gay New Yorker music critic Alex Ross, 40, has won a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. From the Foundation: Alex Ross is a critic whose writing captures the often-elusive aesthetic and technical aspects of classical and contemporary music with clarity, grace, and wit. A staff writer for the New Yorker, his frequent essays display an expansive knowledge of music and …

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Fake Sarah Palin Tours Manhattan

As Sarah Palin is in town (despite being disinvited from yesterday’s anti-Iran/pro-Israel rally at the UN), the Daily News dressed up comedian Kristy Webb as a fake Palin and toured her around town. Fake Sarah was mobbed by deceived Gothamites in Times Square, in front of Lehman Brothers, and was even taken by the Stonewall Inn. Photo slideshow here. News …

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McCain Press Watch

Almost 25 days since Palin was picked and they still don’t trust her to speak off the cuff. I imagine she’s sitting in a hotel conference room while staffers drill her with flash cards. “Um….is that Kim Jong-il?” No, Governor. This is Angela Merkel. Next card.

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Carthage, USA

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Keep The Ferry Free?

With the city’s economy taking a major beating from lost banking taxes (10% of the city’s revenues come from Wall Street), some are suggesting that it’s time to start charging for the Staten Island Ferry again. Currently the city is giving about 20 million “free” rides a year. Taxpayers shelled out a record $5.69 last year for every “free” ride …

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Orlando Sentinel Says “No” To Hate

My erstwhile hometown paper, the Orlando Sentinel, has come out against the Florida ballot amendment to ban gay marriage. The state’s voters will face an array of six questions on the Nov. 4 ballot, the most notable of which is Amendment 2 — the cleverly labeled “Florida Marriage Protection Amendment.” Who wouldn’t want to protect marriage? Trouble is, this amendment …

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The 2nd Annual Miller Beer Boycott Has Begun (It Must Be Folsom Time!)

I must confess that I got a chuckle over this graphic I found in an OUTRAGED Freeper post about Miller beer again sponsoring Folsom Street Fair. You may recall that the Christers got in a major snit last year over the official Folsom poster, which was a leather take on the Last Supper. The poster brouhaha turned into a boycott …

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Who’s The Elitist?

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The First TV Ad From No On 8

I guess the earlier ads were net only. I really like this one.

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Spielbergs Donate $100K To No On 8

Famed director Steven Spielberg and his actress wife Kate Capshaw have followed Brad Pitt onto the straight-celebrities-do-right list. By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless of sexual orientation. Such discrimination has NO place in California’s constitution, or any other. We’re still waiting …

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Morning View – Tavern On The Green

Central Park’s Tavern On The Green is the second highest grossing restaurant in the United States, serving 500,000 meals last year to the tune of $38M. Originally a sheep barn built in 1870, it became a restaurant in 1934. And since it’s Bette Midler day, I must mention that scene in Stella where she doesn’t want to ruin her estranged …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of her promoters, today’s Swag Tuesday booty is Jackpot: The Best Bette, a 19-track collection of Bette Midler’s greatest hits which hits stores and online retailers nationwide today. Rhino’s new career-spanning compilation from the “Divine Miss M” features nineteen tracks including hits and favorites culled from her Atlantic, Warner Bros. and Columbia Records years. The disc also serves up …

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OUTED! McCain Chief Of Staff Mark Buse

In what they are calling a “hypocrisy bombshell”, today SiriusXM radio host Michelangelo Signorile and DC-based LGBT activist Mike Rogers jointly revealed that Mark Buse, John McCain’s chief of staff, is a gay man. From a story just posted on Signorile’s blog: Over the past month I’ve been contacted by three different individuals (two of them members of the Log …

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UN General Assembly Locks Down Manhattan

Gotham is on super-extra-deluxe security lockdown today for the 63rd annual United Nations General Assembly. All of your favorite whackjobs are in town: Mugabe, Imadinnerjacket, Chavez, and Dubya. Mubage speaks today, tomorrow our ignoble leader makes his final (!!!) speech to the Assembly. Right now the streets of the East Side are crawling with cops, feds, Secret Service, and the …

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Proud Parenting Says “No On 8”

From Proud Parenting, here’s a lovely “No On 8” ad featuring the children of gay parents. It’s a simple and humanizing message to have kids say “I have two moms.”

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Sarah Palin Is Ready For The Rapture

Sarah Palin is ready for the believers of the world to be lifted up to Jeebus. Via Newsweek: Palin’s spiritual colleagues describe themselves as part of “the final generation,” engaged in “spiritual warfare” to purge the earth of “demonic strongholds.” Palin has spent her entire adult life immersed in this apocalyptic hysteria. Ask yourself: Is it a good idea to …

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Closing: Xanadu & [title of show]

This weekend brought word that both Xanadu and [title of show] will be closing in a few weeks. [title of show], which only opened on July 5th, will close on October 12th after 13 previews and 102 performances. Xanadu, which opened on June 26th last year, also closes on October 12th, after 49 previews and 528 performances. Both shows have …

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