Monthly Archives: September 2008

Cheating With Mike Rowe

Via Gawker: Dirty Jobs host, Deadliest Catch narrator, and former opera singer Mike Rowe has yet another accomplishment to add to his already impressive resume. Readers at Gay.com have voted him the number one dude they’d like to cheat on their boyfriends and husbands with. Poor old silver fox Anderson Cooper’s stock is on the decline, as he came in …

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Paul Newman Dead At 83

Paul Newman died of lung cancer yesterday at age 83, leaving behind one of the greatest acting legacies in history. For many, however, Newman will be more fondly remembered for a lifetime spent as a generous philanthropist. Newman’s line of natural food products has donated over $250 million to numerous charities since he first came up with the idea of …

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What Did You Think?

It wasn’t the most stirring of debates, no single line jumped out at me right off the bat. Maybe something will come up during the coming endless analysis. But I wasn’t too happy to hear Obama say over and over “John is exactly right,” knowing that McCain’s flacks would jump all over that. Sure enough, the ad is already out, …

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Google Comes Out Against Prop 8

From Google co-founder Sergey Brin: As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions — Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, all religions and no religion, straight and gay — we do not generally take a position on issues outside …

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Palin Unknowingly Accepts Book About Killed Openly Gay Priest, Mychal Judge

Yesterday when Sarah Palin visited a downtown 9/11 memorial, author Michael Daly was there signing copies of his book about Father Mychal Judge, the quietly gay yet celibate priest who was killed by falling debris outside the Twin Towers. When Palin approached Daly’s table, his handlers suggested inscribing a copy for her. In the photo at left, Daly’s book is …

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Fallout From Lawrence King?

In Hamilton, Ohio, an 8th grade boy is getting grief for wearing makeup to school. I’m guessing that this is only a story because schools are now terrified of having their own Lawrence King tragedy. A Garfield Middle School student and his family are challenging the Hamilton City School District over his right to wear black eyeliner and lipstick to …

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The South Shall Drink Again

Dan Savage unearthed this clip of a smashed Hillary supporter in Kentucky railing against Obama. “Black got nothin’ to do with it. These A-rabs are trying to sneak this guy into our country.” This clip hits ALL the redneck talking points, including a couple of uses of the n-word. With Democrats like this…

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McCain Wins Debate!
And Invents Time Travel!

Via Washington Post: Although the fate of tonight’s presidential debate in Mississippi remains very much up in the air, John McCain has apparently already won it — if you believe an Internet ad an astute reader spotted next to this piece in the online edition of the Wall Street Journal this morning. “McCain Wins Debate!” declares the ad which features …

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Is Wachovia Next?

Now Wachovia is wobbling. The seizure of Washington Mutual Inc. (WM) is quickly becoming a problem for Wachovia Corp. After federal regulators on Thursday night seized the West Coast thrift and its bloated book of failing home loans, investors have trained their focus on Wachovia, which itself holds piles of risky mortgages. Wachovia shares recently traded down 23% to $10.58, …

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We Call It “Maize”

Some Ohio farmer sacrificed 16 acres of farmland to draw Sarah Palin in corn. Later he mowed down a field of Metamucil to draw McCain.

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Gaying Up The Tube

Here’s CNN assessment of the rise of LGBT characters on television this season, with some soundbites from GLAAD’s Neil Giuliano and the Family Research Council’s Peter Spriggs, who of course says it’s all part of the gay propaganda agenda. CNN’s conclusion: “Things are changing in the right direction.”

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Letterman Rips McCain For Second Night

David Letterman did not let up on John McCain last night, devoting the first ten minutes of the show to again rip McCain for ditching his show and “suspending” his campaign.

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CNN: Tonight’s Debate Will Happen

CNN is reporting that University of Mississippi officials have received word that both candidates will appear for tonight’s debate.

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Broadway Friday

– Creepy, kooky, ooky. Workshops for The Addams Family: The Musical begin in January. Music by openly gay (and gay married) composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa (left), book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth have done a rehearsal as Gomez and Morticia. The show is an “original musical” and will not draw upon the TV or movie …

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Do Not Pass Congress, Go Directly To Jail

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More Tragedy For Iraq’s Gays

The Baghdad coordinator of Iraqi LGBT, the group that organizes underground safe houses for gays in Iraq, was machine-gunned to death yesterday in a Baghdad barber shop. The announcement was made by UK-based activist Peter Tatchell. This morning, I received news from Iraq that the coordinator of Iraqi LGBT in Baghdad, Bashar, aged 27, a university student, has been assassinated …

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Obama Mama

This is writer/comedian Greg Scarnici and SNL musical director Katreese Barnes, who debuted her smash club hit Alright, Alright at this year’s Black Party. Does this remind anyone else of Gwen Guthrie’s Ain’t Nothing Going On But The Rent?

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Catholic League Defends Sarah Palin’s Church: Witches Are REAL, People!

The Catholic League’s Vice President of Spooky Things, Bill Donahue, rushed out a press release yesterday to defend Sarah Palin’s church after a 2005 video surfaced showing a minister performing an anti-witchcraft incantation over her bowed head. “Witchcraft is a sad reality in many parts of Africa, resulting in scores of deaths in Kenya over the past two decades. Bishop …

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G-A-Y’s In Heaven

The owners of London’s famous G-A-Y nightclub, which closed in July, have purchased the possibly more famous Heaven. “MAMA Group Plc is pleased to announce that through its jointly owned subsidiary, G-A-Y Group Limited, it has acquired Heaven, the company which owns the leasehold of Heaven Nightclub and owns, operates and manages the business of promoting events at the venue,” …

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Morning View – Starret-Lehigh Building

It may not look like much from this angle, but this is the home of Martha Stewart Omnimedia. In 1931 the block-sized Starret-Lehigh was built on West 26th Street as an innovative “modernist experiment in industrial architecture” because it featured train tracks so that freight cars brought by boat from New Jersey could be driven into the building and lifted …

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