Monthly Archives: February 2008

Ass Wednesday

Karl Rove started his new gig at Fox News yesterday. Rove has been contributing opinion pieces to The Wall Street Journal, which also belongs to Murdoch’s NewsCorp, and will debut on the television network with live coverage on Tuesday of the biggest day of the presidential primary election season, Fox said on Monday. Talking Points Memo described Rove’s new job …

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Bad Day For The Tabloids

The New York City medical examiner has just ruled that Heath Ledger’s death was due to “accidental overdose of prescription drugs.” Not a suicide. Not a heroin or cocaine overdose. The tabloids weep.

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan, October 30th: “Allowing this guy [Donnie McClurkin] to preach strikes me as a step far too far. [snip] I don’t blame any gay American for jumping the Obama ship over it.” Andrew Sullivan, February 6th: “They [California gays] go for Clinton by 2 to 1 in the exit polls. Will they never learn?” Well, which is it, Andrew? …

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The Donnie McClurkin Effect?
Hillary Wins CA Gay Vote 2-1

As expected, yesterday’s Super Tuesday primary did little to reveal a clear Democratic frontrunner. Hillary Clinton took eight states including the biggest: California and New York. Barack Obama took 13 states, including Illinois, his home state. CLINTON: AR, AZ, CA, MA, NY, NJ, OK, TNOBAMA: AK, AL, CT, CO, DE, GA, ID, IL, KS, MN, MO, ND, UT Clinton’s big …

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Haggard Quits Re-Straightifying Program

The new pastor at Denver’s New Life Church, former home to Ted Haggard, has issued a press release announcing that Haggard has requested to leave the team created to “restore” him as a Jeebus-fearing breeder and that as Haggard’s restoration is “incomplete”, he is not welcome to return to New Life. It appears that the best brainwashers in the business …

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Broadway Backwards 3

In which my journey towards full-blown theater queenapproaches Platinum Level…. Last night I attended the fantastic Broadway Backwards 3, the annual benefit for the NYC LGBT Community Center in which Broadway stars perform classic musical theater numbers from a gay perspective – changing pronouns or singing numbers written for characters of the opposite sex. The cast (and the audience!) was …

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Paper Trail

Watching the New York Giants roll through the Canyon of Heroes in this morning’s ticker-tape parade, the first such NYC event since 9/11, it’s more than a little disquieting to watch thousands of pieces of paper tumble from lower Manhattan’s skyscrapers. That image is so vividly seared into the brains of New Yorkers (and the rest of the world), it’s …

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DOJ Approves Gay Employee Group

A fascinating change of policy at the Department Of Justice: Five years after a gay advocacy group was told that it could no longer use the e-mail, bulletin boards and meeting rooms at the Justice Department, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey has reversed that decision and issued a revised equal-employment-opportunity policy barring discrimination against any group. Mukasey informed leaders of …

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Hillary Guest Posts On LGBT Blog

Hillary Clinton has guest posted on The Bilerico Project, the country’s largest group LBGT blog where dozens of prominent gay activists contribute. An excerpt: “As I have traveled around the country these past twelve months, what I sensed in my heart has been confirmed – America is embracing its LGBT sons and daughters with an acceptance and understanding as never …

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Morning View – Upper East Side

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Caption This

(Photo via Princess Sparkle Pony.)

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Yes We Can Can

In reference to the clip below this one, I’m surprised that the Obama campaign hasn’t co-opted the Pointer Sisters’ 1973 classic first single, Yes We Can Can, from before they became a trio and veered into largely forgettable (but enormously successful) pop-disco. Yes We Can Can was originally recorded by Lee Dorsey in 1970 and the Pointers took it to …

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Obamarock: Yes We Can

More candidate rock, this one produced by Will.I.Am of Black Eyed Peas. Of the two dozen or so performers, I only recognized Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Herbie Hancock, and the wheelchair guy from Oz. Shows how I keep up. This is compelling bit of art and I have to admit it gave me goosebumps.

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HomoQuotable – Bob Mould

“I have a very small life now. Literally, this street, down ten blocks, then two streets each way, it’s a box, and that’s my whole life. Inside this box, I’m comfortable and safe. I have a room I work in at home that’s a special place to me. But the rest of D.C. is weird, because both the military and …

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Huckabee’s Girl

“Riding on a Jesus-horse, you and me.” Is this same chick that did Obama Girl? This is the best so far of the increasingly large genre of candidate-rock. (Via – By The Bayou.)

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New Demographic: Gay Grandparents

The Philadelphia Inquirer published a sweet story about gay grandparents yesterday. “Lesbian grandmother” or “gay grandpa” used to sound like a contradiction in terms. But now gay grandfolk are a quietly emerging demographic – men and women who married in the 1960s and ’70s, had children, and came out later, sometimes only after their children were grown. There’s still no …

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Do You Double Dip?

If yesterday’s Super Bowl party has left your gut in distress, a Clemson professor says you might blame the double-dippers. Last year the food microbiologist’s undergraduate students examined the effects of double dipping using volunteers, wheat crackers and several sample dips. They found that three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from an eater’s mouth to the remaining …

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Operation Frozen Grand Central

Improv Everywhere struck again, this time with a couple of hundred “agents” who, on cue, froze in place for five minutes at Grand Central Terminal. One of their more amusing pranks. I seriously gotta do the next one.

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Toss-Up

According to the latest Gallup national poll, Clinton and Obama are effectively tied going into tomorrow’s primary. You gotta admit, this has been quite the exciting primary season.

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Gay Couples Advance In NY, Oregon
Florida Haters Make Ballot

A state appellate court has ruled that all public and private employers in New York must now recognize same-sex couples legally married elsewhere. A New York appellate court ruled Friday that valid out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples must be legally recognized in New York, just as the law recognizes those of heterosexual couples solemnized elsewhere. Lawyers for both sides said …

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