Monthly Archives: December 2007

Vladmir Putin: Person Of The Year 2007

Russia president Vladimir Putin has been named Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year. Putin is not a boy scout. He is not a democrat in any way that the West would define it. He is not a paragon of free speech. He stands, above all, for stability—stability before freedom, stability before choice, stability in a country that has hardly seen …

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Another Book We’ll Never See

Britney Spears’ mother’s book on parenting (fo’ realz) has been pulled “indefinitely” now that Britney’s kid sis has been knocked-up at age 16. Insert your new title in the comments..

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Where Will Law & Order
Find New Stories?

Manhattan is headed for the lowest annual number of murders since records first began being kept in 1937. District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced that this year’s 65 murders (so far) represent a 40% drop from last year alone. When Morgenthau first became DA in 1975, there were 648 murders in Manhattan. With more time on their hands, Manhattan’s 500 prosecutors …

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DC Pride To Be Run By Religious Group?

In what’s being described as a first for the country, a non-profit group affliated with the Presbyterian Church is one of three organizations competing to take over Washington DC’s Capital Pride, which puts on that city’s gay pride events every year. The Whitman-Walker Clinic is the current controllig organization of Capital Pride. From Lou Chibbaro in the Washington Blade: The …

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Bifid, Propitiary, Coriaceous

Thanks to my vocabulary-lovin’ mother, last night I spent a couple of hours wasting time at FreeRice.com, where for every three correct word definitions you move up one level. Each wrong answer knocks you back a level. Supposedly there’s a 50th level and no one can get past 48. I could only manage a brief stay at 45, but it …

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Morning View – Chinatown Sweets

The Tai Pan Bakery in Chinatown is an overwhelming madhouse – people are shouting in Cantonese and you have to be alert or you’ll miss your turn. But the pastries are great, if suspiciously inexpensive. Aaron and I got foamy mini chocolate layer cakes – 90 cents each.

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Magic Johnson: Obama’s A Rookie

I’ve been thinking that the Clinton campaign was going to answer the Obama-Oprah combo with an endorsement from a major black celeb of their own. Yesterday the Clintons toured with HIV+ former NBA star Magic Johnson, who compared Obama to a rookie basketball player, saying, “You don’t want somebody in there that is young or a rookie at politics. We …

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Seven Year Old Beaten For Pink Nail Polish

Disgusting story in Orlando: A man was arrested on child abuse charges after he beat a 7-year-old boy with a belt because the child put pink fingernail polish on his own nails, according to Orange County sheriff’s deputies. Aundre Jermaine Hill, 25, was arrested on Saturday at about 5:19 p.m. after sheriff’s deputies responded to a home in reference to …

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WWJE?

Who would Jesus endorse? Hilarious.

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The City And County Of San Fran-Nanny

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to place a municipal tax on soda because it causes obesity and strains the public health system. Newsom is asking his staff to draft a law that would tax large grocery stores for stocking Coke, Pepsi and other drinks sweetened with high fructose corn syrup. A spokesman for the mayor says the details are …

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Huckabee On Larry King: Takes On AIDS Comment, DADT, Creationism

Huckabee’s comment on AIDS and DADT start about four minutes into the clip. Huckabee agreed to meet Ryan White’s mother last week, but so far she hasn’t heard from him. In the next segment of the show, Huckabee shillster Chuck Norris chimes in. (Via – HRC Back Story.)

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Princeton Student Faked Own Attack

Last week Francisco Nava, a conservative and anti-gay Princeton student, told police and campus officials that he’d been roughed up by “men in black ski masks” and received hate mail after writing a column in the student newspaper criticizing the school for giving out free condoms. Other members of Princeton’s Anscombe Society, a conservative student organization, who have spoken out …

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PhoboQuotable – Matt Barber

“The military is no place for such radical San Francisco-style social experimentation, especially during a time of war. It’s been the Department of Defense’s long-standing position that to allow open homosexual behavior and other immoral conduct harms unit cohesion and troop morale. I know this to be true from personal experience. I served 12 years in the military. During basic …

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Susan Leal Struck By Car

Susan Leal, the head of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the highest ranked lesbian in that city’s government, was struck by a car and thrown 30 feet yesterday. Miraculously, Leal remained conscious and appears to have no broken bones or internal injuries. Leal has been making headlines lately as rumors abound that Mayor Gavin Newsom has asked her …

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Time Magazine:
Top Ten Awkward Moments Of 2007

10. Facebook profile reveals Giuliani’s daughter supports Obama. 9. Miss South Carolina talks about geography. 8. Sally Field gets bleeped during the Emmys. 7. Rosie calls out Elizabeth on The View. 6. Britney Spears sleep-clomps the MTV Awards. 5. Sen. David Vitter’s name found on DC Madam’s list. 4. David Hasselhoff’s daughter films him hammered. 3. Alec Baldwin rips into …

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Morning View – Buddha

Aaron and I stopped in at a Canal Street temple to say hey to Buddha. I’d never been in a Buddhist temple before, it very much reminded me of my visit to the Stonecutters temple in Chelsea, only this one had a gift shop.

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the author, this week’s Swag Tuesday item is Fruit Cocktail, the new novel by Arthur Wooten. Fruit Cocktail is published by Alyson Books. Wooten has written for theater, film, and television. Fruit Cocktail is the sequel to On Picking Fruit, also published by Alyson. His short story, Stroke Of Luck is in their collection Best Gay Love Stories: …

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New Jersey Kills Death Sentence

New Jersey, which has not executed a prisoner since 1963, officially abolished the death sentence today. The first state to ban capital punishment since the Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976, New Jersey joins 13 others states and the District of Columbia with their ban. Earlier this year a New Jersey study concluded that the cost of defending death penalty …

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Manhattan Monday

– Manhattan’s famed 2nd Avenue Deli has reopened – on Third Avenue. The restaurant family’s patriach, Abe Lebewohl, was murdered in 1996 in a robbery that remains unsolved. His nephew Jeremy is the co-owner of the new location. I can personally vouch for their spectacular corned beef and pastrami sandwich. – Cabbies are continuing to thwart the new credit card …

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Explosion At News Corp Building

Several floors of the News Corp headquarters near Rockefeller Center have been evacuated after a chemical explosion on the 45th floor. Firefighters are reporting that “30 gallons of hazardous materials” may be the source of the explosion. There are no offices on the 45th floor, only machinery. The NY Post is on the 10th floor and Fox News is in …

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