Monthly Archives: November 2007

Morning View – Taxi GPS

This is the new seatback GPS screen that has Gotham cabbies so upset, claiming the device is an invasion of privacy. Dr. Jeff was riding with me and he looked at the screen and said, “If this was Tron, we’d be dead in one block.” By the way, that red line isn’t only our trip, we’d just gotten in.

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Broadway Friday

-Broadway’s lights were dimmed on Wednesday in honor of Grammy and Tony Award winner Robert Goulet, who died on Tuesday of lung disease. In 1968 Goulet won the Tony for Best Actor In A Musical in The Happy Times. He last appeared on Broadway in 2005 in La Cage Aux Folles. -Maxwell Caulfield and Jeff McCarthy will be the next …

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Perfected: The Ann Coulter Song

From Barely Political, the people who brought us I Got A Crush On Obama, comes Perfected, a musical rip on Ann Coulter’s recent remarks that Jews need to be “perfected” by becoming Christians. (Via- Queerty.)

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HomoQuotable – Claudia Contrada

“I am a lesbian, which my mom still does not get. She just says that I am confused. I realized in around eighth grade, but I was in denial for quite some time because I was scared due to my mother constantly saying that homosexuality is wrong. How can it ever be wrong to love though? That’s what I’d like …

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Double Fission

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was elected president of Argentina a few days ago. She’s a Senator and the wife of a still-popular former president. Sounding familiar? Some in Argentina are concerned that Kirchner and her husband plan on alternating presidencies – Argentina has no term-limit law but does not allow consecutive terms. Here in Ammurrica, we only alternate families. With …

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Whiskerino 2007 Starts Today

Today is the first day of Whiskerino, the bi-annual beard growing contest. You must begin by being clean-shaven and trimming/sculpting is “highly frowned upon” during the growing season. The contest ends on February 29th, 2008. Here’s the Flickr group for the 2005 contest. I’d probably play along, but I haven’t been clean-shaven in about 10 years and I don’t wanna …

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Wingnuts Ditching GOP?

A new survey of evangelicals shows that 55% would consider a third-party candidate if Giuliani becomes the Republican nominee. The finding, in a survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, was the latest reading of discontent among one of the GOP’s cornerstone voting blocs. Giuliani, the leading Republican contender in most national polls, is a former New York mayor whose …

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Little Beach Littler

Tropical Storm Noel is causing waves to crash over Fort Lauderdale’s meager little sea wall, covering A1A with sand. There’s going to be significant erosion of LaDeDa’s already narrow beach. Up in Palm Beach County, beachfront structures are losing their foundations. But in the spring, the sand machines will dredge up some new beach somewhere. Still, it seems like the …

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Castro Halloween: DOA

San Francisco’s campaign to end the Castro Halloween party was surprisingly effective. “People are behaving well. We’re happy,” Neville Gittens, a police spokesman, said late Wednesday evening. “All of the city’s planning and notification is paying off.” By midnight, city workers had taken away the metal police barricades that had lined parts of Castro and Market streets and the crowds …

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Morning View – Daniel Webster

Created by sculptor Thomas Ball, this statue of Daniel Webster stands near the W. 72th Street entrance to Central Park, where it was dedicated in 1876. The original plan was to put the statue on Central Park’s Mall, but it was too big. Webster served as a Senator, Congressman, and as U.S. Secretary of State to two presidents.

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Open Thread Thursday

What’s your damage?.

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