Tag Archives: dumbassery

All the networks have been breathlessly reporting on “magician” David Blaine’s three-days-upside-down stunt in Central Park. “He could go blind!!! He could get brain damage!!!” However, Gotham’s blogs have been lighting up for the last day with photos of Blaine taking a break every hour to stand on his feet for ten minutes. Check out the gallery at Mollygood’s post: …

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 …

According to a new play from a North Carolina minister, you can pray the gay AND the AIDS away! A play featuring anti-gay and “ex-gay” religious themes will be showcased at Winston-Salem State University by a traveling, Atlanta, Ga.-based Christian production company headed by an African-American minister and his wife. The duo claims a person can be healed of HIV/AIDS …

The things I do for you people, getting up at the asscrack of the Lord’s Day to trek out to Brooklyn’s Crown Heights for the much-hyped Straight Pride Parade. As you can see, however, I found the corner of Flatbush and Church, the parade’s supposed 10am starting point, completely deserted. Damn, and here I wanted a Straight Pride t-shirt. I …

More dumbassery from the McCain camp as they pander to Florida’s powerful Cuban vote. The truth is, there’s no love between Obama and Castro. The Castro advertisement actually uses the foreign leader’s words against Obama. But the quote is misleading in regards to the actual political dynamics in play. For starters, since Obama became the de facto nominee, Castro has …

Those unhappy Lesbians began their court case yesterday. Three islanders from Lesbos told a court Tuesday that gay women insult their home’s identity by calling themselves lesbians. The plaintiffs – two women and a man – are seeking to ban a Greek gay rights group from using the word “lesbian” in its name. Also known as Mytilini, Lesbos was the …

A little excitement in midtown today: A French stunt man known as Spiderman used only his bare hands to scale his way to the top of the 52-story New York Times building in Midtown before being apprehended by authorities around 12:20. Alain Robert, 46, who has scaled the Eiffel Tower among other towering structures, got a boost from 10 cohorts …

Regarding this story from Fox News… As gay couples celebrate their newfound right to marry in California and opposition groups rally to fight the ruling, many struggle with this question: Is homosexuality natural? On this issue, Nature has spoken: Same-sex lovin’ is common in hundreds of species, scientists say. The Freepers respond: – “Dogs eat feces but it’s not something …

Via SFGate.com: GOP Rep. Sam Graves unveiled an ad this week using the money phrase to disparage his Democratic challenger Kay Barnes, aka the “Big City Mayor” (formerly that is, of Kansas City.) Barnes’ sin: She attended a fundraiser thrown by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and she shares Pelosi’s “San Francisco Values.” You know what that means. Or at least …

NYC-based fashion designer Doron Braunschtein has launched a line of “Jews Against Obama” shirts. From his press release: “I am a true anti-Obama New York Jew. The word on the street is that New York Jews will vote for McCain anyhow. The majority of the Jews – at least the ones that are proud of their religion and practice it …

Slate discusses Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s charge that the U.S. government invented AIDS to kill blacks. Barack Obama rebuked his former pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday for giving sermons in which he blamed the government for creating a racist state and “inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color.” Wright isn’t the first to …

According to WingNutDaily, liberals are a clinically insane. Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder. “Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” …

Via Think Progress: Florida state Rep. Donald Brown (R) introduced a bill last week to create a “Confederate Heritage” license plate for the state. Saying “it would give motorists a way to show pride in their heritage,” Brown proposes a $25 charge for motorists to purchase a plate with “a shield displaying the rebel battle flag symbol surrounded by several …

Gadzooks, the New York chapter of NOW has completely lost their shit over Ted Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama. NY NOW’s statement, via Politico.com: Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, …

The son of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) is selling “Don’t Drop The Soap“, a prison-themed board game in which players try to not be raped. John Sebelius, 23, is selling the game from the Kansas governor’s mansion where he lives with his parents. From the game’s site: Fight your way through 6 different exciting locations in hopes of being …

OK, so it’s not that bad. But still. City officials revealed yesterday that they want to sell naming rights to popular Parks Department attractions to major corporations. Officials have not said which particular locations are ready to be sold yet, but almost any major attraction in the city’s parks and recreation system could be up for grabs. That group includes …

“It’s not a TV crazed race. Frankly you can’t buy your way into it. You can’t shuck and jive at a press conference. All those moves you can make with the press don’t work when you’re in someone’s living room.” -Clinton supporter New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, during a radio interview. The stronger Obama gets, the more we’ll …

Larry Craig’s new defense is two-pronged. 1. The cop started it. 2. It can’t have been disorderly conduct because the law requires two or more victims for a disorderly conduct charge. The undercover police officer who busted U.S. Sen. Larry Craig in a gay-sex sting in an airport bathroom stall couldn’t have been offended by the senator’s notorious foot-tapping – …

A front-row heckler interrupted Hillary Clinton’s speech to supporters in New Hampshire last night, shouting “Iron my shirt!” and waving a sign with the same message. An unseen man in the rear of the auditorium did the same. Clinton handled the man with aplomb and sent him off with, “If there’s anybody left in the auditorium who wants to learn …

Remember last year when Pat Robertson said that Jeebus told him that a terrorist attack on the U.S. involving a nuclear weapon would occur in 2007? Now he says, “All I can think is that somehow the people of God prayed and God in his mercy spared us.” Whew! That was close! According to Robertson’s latest chat with the Flying …