Monthly Archives: January 2008

Larry Craig: The Cop Started It

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 – …

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Hillary Upsets Obama In New Hampshire, McCain Trounces Field

Defying pollsters and pundits who had all but crowned Barack Obama, yesterday Hillary Clinton pulled off a stunning upset in the New Hampshire primary, winning narrowly with 39% of the vote to Obama’s 37%. McCain repeated his 2000 win in NH, besting Mitt Romney by 5%. Clinton’s own team had been prepared for a loss. It appears that Obama actually …

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Ron Paul Is Finished

The New Republic today dug up more of Ron Paul’s loathsome old newsletters. They are almost unimaginably offensive and no one is immune as the newsletters attack gays, blacks and Jews with equal relish. From the lengthy New Republic post: The newsletters were particularly obsessed with AIDS, “a politically protected disease thanks to payola and the influence of the homosexual …

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Dykes On Bikes® Wins Trademark Case

The U.S. Supreme Court today turned away a challenge to the trademark application by Dykes On Bikes, the traditional lead group at gay pride parades nationwide. The trademark was challenged by a men’s rights advocacy lawyer who claimed the term denigrated men and was “scandalous and immoral” – grounds for denying a trademark. Dykes On Bikes applied for a trademark …

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Julian Bond Joins Florida’s
Marriage Equality Fight

NAACP head Julian Bond has joined the fight against Florida’s coming statewide ballot on marriage equality. Julian Bond, an icon in the civil rights movement for nearly 50 years and longtime national Chairman of the NAACP, has stepped into a leadership role with the Fairness for All Families Campaign the statewide coalition effort to defeat the deceptively named “Florida Marriage …

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JMG & The SF Gay Men’s Chorus

Well, sorta kinda. Ish. Very ish. Years ago I belonged to an online chat forum populated by aspiring writers, artsy types, and other regular mo’s. One of the forum members I befriended was Steve Schalchlin, the award-winning musical theater writer and performer that I have mentioned here many times. Some of you know Steve from his hit Off Broadway shows …

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Alycia Lane Fired

Alycia Lane, the Philadelphia CBS newscaster arrested last month during a traffic altercation in which she called a female cop a “dyke bitch” has been fired. From the KWY-TV president: “After assessing the overall impact of a series of incidents resulting from judgments she has made, we have concluded that it would be impossible for Alycia to continue to report …

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NYC Mulls Closing Bathhouses, Sex Clubs

Via Duncan Osbourne at Gay City News comes word of a six-page internal memo from the NYC Department of Health which explores the city’s options in closing down bathhouses, sex clubs, and commercial sex parties. After saying for years that new HIV infections among gay and bisexual men are high, but stable, a city health department memo given to Gay …

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Heckler To Clinton: Iron My Shirt!

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 …

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Swag Tuesday

In a switch from our usual media giveaways, today’s Swag Tuesday booty (heh) is Boy Butter, the popular lube from the company owned by friend-of-JMG Eyal Feldman. Boy Butter has made quite a name for itself in the few years since Eyal created it. History was made in December of 2005 when Boy Butter’s chemists created an industry first; the …

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(Don’t) $top The Presses

Yesterday 400 newspapers around the country arrived with Parade Magazine’s cover story on Benazir Bhutto which asks, “Is Benazir Bhutto America’s best hope against al-Qaeda?” Parade is printed several weeks in advance and the publishers decided the interview was “important enough” to distribute even though her assassination had already occurred. And totally not because it would have cost them a …

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Manhattan Monday

– Last year almost 2000 NY’ers responded to the MTA’s “If you see something, say something” anti-terrorism campaign. One repeated theme was callers reporting Muslim men seen using counting devices, presumably to find the most crowded trains. Turns out the men were using prayer-counters as they mentally recited the “many names of God.” The counters are sold in Islamic shops …

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Pat Robertson: We Prayed Away The Nuke!

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 …

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Another Words List

Last month Merriam-Webster picked “w00t” as their word of the year for 2007. Now the American Dialect Society has waded in with their own list. Number one for the ADS: “subprime”. Runners-up were “Facebook,” “green,” “Googleganger” and “waterboarding”. A Googleganger is somebody else with your name that shows up when you self-Google. My Googleganger is a teenaged British chess prodigy. …

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Now I Know Where Those
Smudges Are Coming From

I’ve learned that Shelley cannot be left alone with nature programs. Or plastic bags, as last night I was woken up when she climbed into a bag I’d left on the sink and went berserk when she got her head stuck through the handle loops. I’m thinking I might need to cut back on how much I feed her. She’s …

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George McGovern Calls For
Impeachment Of Bush And Cheney

In a Washington Post op-ed piece, yesterday former Senator and 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern called for the impeachments of George Bush and Dick Cheney. Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. Their conduct …

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Skatebears And Weaves

LEFT: Alex and Eric outside the Dugout. I’m somewhat amused that I know people who ride their skateboards to the bear bar. And speaking of other things I’m too old for, last night I mentioned to somebody that I was thinking about getting Wii. He gave me an odd look and said, “I don’t think you really have enough hair …

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Blu-Ray Trumps HD DVD

Well, this news is right on time, considering I finally broke down and bought a HD DVD player last month. It figures I’d bet on the wrong horse. The high-definition DVD war is all but over. Hollywood’s squabble over which of two technologies will replace standard DVDs skewed in the direction of the Sony Corporation on Friday, with Warner Brothers …

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Longtime Pozzers Face Senior Years With Lengthy List Of Debilitating Illnesses

As more people living with HIV/AIDS move into their senior years, the toll of the medications and unforeseen damage from the virus is beginning to surface. Today the New York Times has published a grim article depicting life for some long-term AIDS survivors. This should be required reading for young gay men who think that seroconverting merely means a lifetime …

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Yoko Ono Scores Third #1 Dance Hit

A month shy of her 75th birthday, a remix of Yoko Ono’s 1981 single No, No, No has hit #1 on the Billboard dance chart. It’s Yoko’s third #1 dance hit and her 11th appearance on the dance chart, beginning with her 1981 #13 hit, Walking On Thin Ice, a remix of which hit #1 in 2003. Several months ago, …

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