Monthly Archives: February 2009

Best Super Bowl Ad: Hulu.com

I’ve got to agree with Gawker that Hulu.com gave us the best Super Bowl ad. Then again, just about anything with Alec Baldwin in it works for me. It’s also kinda funny that Hulu makes you watch an ad before you can watch their ad.

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Massachusetts To Allow Trans Residents To Self-Select Gender On Driver’s Licenses

Hysteria has ensued in Wingnutistan over the word that Massachusetts is now allowing transgender residents to more easily change their gender on driver’s licenses. From a letter from the state Registrar of Motor Vehicles to the LGBT rights group MassEquality: The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles has amended its policy to enable transgendered individuals to more easily change the gender …

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Spaceman Sullenberger?

US Airways Flight 1549 pilot Chesley Sullenberger, who with his crew was honored on the field before yesterday’s Super Bowl, has a high-flying offer from Richard Branson. U.S. Airways better guard Capt. Chesley Sullenberger 3rd. Virgin Air billionaire Richard Branson wants to poach the “Miracle on the Hudson” pilot. “I’d like him to come fly for us,” Branson tell us. …

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Exposed: Mormon Church Spent Almost 100X More Money On Prop 8 Than Claimed

A lawsuit filed by Fred Karger of Californians Against Hate has forced the Mormon Church to disclose almost $200K in money it spent in support of Proposition 8, almost 100 times more than they previously claimed. Mormon church officials, facing an ongoing investigation by the state Fair Political Practices Commission, Friday reported nearly $190,000 in previously unlisted assistance to the …

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HomoQuotable – Jared Polis

“To date, I am the first openly gay male elected to Congress as a freshman. One change I will never get used to is that everyone keeps calling me “congressman.” It’s ridiculous to hear someone shout ‘congressman’ and watch each of the 435 members of Congress within earshot turn their heads. Seriously, for my sanity, just call me Jared. [snip] …

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Obama To Ask For Assessment On Military Discipline Regarding Repeal of DADT

The Obama administration is telling the Pentagon and gay activists that he intends to move slowly on repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, and is asking top military brass for an assessment on how the repeal may affect discipline in the ranks. At the Pentagon, officials say they have been told not to expect the administration to seek to lift the …

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Activists Ask EU To Suspend Funding To Nigeria Over Anti-Gay Marriage Vote

Important note: The following story has been published on several Christianist sites I follow, but I can’t yet find confirmation in the secular press. From the Christianist site One News Now: A division of the European Union that deals with “gay” rights has demanded that all foreign aid to Nigeria be suspended after the government voted not to recognize homosexual …

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Spain: Parents May Not Remove Their Children From Gay Rights Lessons

A Spanish court has ruled that parents will not be allowed to have their children opt out of civics classes that mention gay rights. Parents in Spain who do not want their children to attend civics classes that include lessons on gay rights do not have the right to conscientiously object, a court has ruled. The Roman Catholic church is …

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The Second Crash Of Flight 1549

Jersey City residents were startled to see the fuselage of US Airways Flight 1549 being towed through city streets this weekend. [T]he fuselage, which had been brought to Weeks Marine Inc. in Jersey City for the federal investigation after it crash landed in the Hudson River, was supposed to head to Newark via the Officers Shawn Carson and Robert Nguyen …

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Unnamed Source Says Breedlove Was 17 When Sex With Sam Adams Began

Ugh. The Sam Adams story just won’t go away. An unnamed friend of Beau Breedlove is now telling the Portland press that Breedlove told him that he’d had sex with Sam Adams before turned 18. New details are emerging every day as the pieces of the scandal surrounding Portland’s embattled mayor continue to unfold and people come forward. A longtime …

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#1 This Week In 1966

This week in February 1966, Loretta Lynn scored her first of eleven #1 songs on Billboard’s country chart with Don’t Come Home A’Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind). Her album of the same title went on to be the first by a female country artist to be certified gold. Although Lynn hit the country Top 40 almost fifty times in …

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Jennifer Hudson “Sings” At Sporting Event

There was some kind of game tonight. Lots of guys in crimson and goldenrod blouses running around in pedal pushers. Anyway, Jennifer Hudson came out of her tragedy-spawned seclusion to deliver a stunning example of lip-syncing. Yo-Yo Ma was seen miming wild applause from his sky box. I love J-Hud, live or not, and thought her version was one of …

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ESPN Launches Homophobic Commercial

In a new ESPN commercial for their NBA coverage, Shaquille O’Neal reacts to Mike Breen’s request for a “fist kiss” by moving away from him, calling it “weird” and “disgusting”, and then mimicking Breen in an effeminate voice. Via John Aravosis at AmericaBlog: One simple question. If the ad called a show of affection between blacks and whites “weird” and …

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Ashes

Fort Lauderdale, April 1993 On a sunny morning in 1993, my 13 year old cat Boris jumped into my lap, stretched luxuriously, curled into a ball, and went to sleep forever. It wasn’t totally out of the blue, he’d been suffering from urinary blockages, a chronic problem with neutered males. He’d been in a coma once, with a little kitty …

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Michael Phelps Photographed With Bong

British tabloid News Of The World has published a photo of Olympian Michael Phelps smoking from a bong and claims that Phelps’ handlers offered them “extraordinary incentives” not to run the story. THIS is the astonishing picture which could destroy the career of the greatest competitor in Olympic history. In our exclusive photo Michael Phelps, who won a record EIGHT …

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PhoboQuotable – Peter Hitchens

“We cringe to the new Thought Police, like the subjects of some insane, sex-obsessed Stalinist state, compelled to wave our little rainbow flags as the ‘Gay Pride’ parade passes by. And that’s another thing. We can’t even call homosexuals ‘homosexuals’ any more. This neutral word is not considered enthusiastic enough. We have to say ‘gay’. Which is exactly why I …

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