The creator of the Kenyan birth certificate that Orly Taitz ran to the press with has come forward. It’s looking more and more like the forged “Kenyan birth certificate” released by Orly Taitz on Sunday was a prank by a supporter of President Obama. Politijab points to an anonymous blogger at FearlessBlogging, who has uploaded four photos of the original …

In what is becoming a national epidemic of assholism, a health care reform town hall meeting held last night in Tampa by Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) erupted into screaming, pushing, and violence. Things get worse as the clip goes on. According to a detailed report on Daily Kos, the protesters were organized by Glenn Beck.

RELATED: Beck’s douchenozzelry is losing him advertisers. Three companies who had run ads during Glenn Beck’s Fox News show have distanced themselves from Beck, including LexisNexis-owned Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble and Progressive Insurance. We’re told a P&G spot inadvertently aired during a weekend Beck broadcast, but that the company never had a regular buy for the show. The group ColorofChange.org …

Less than a week after filing a complaint alleging that he’d been demoted for “acting too gay,” Miami ABC newsman Charles Perez has been fired. The drama all began in June, when Perez was “demoted” from the local ABC nightly evening newscast to the weekend edition — and Perez claims it was because the station felt he was “becoming too …

The king of teen comedies, director John Hughes, died today of a heart attack while taking a walk in Manhattan The 59-year-old was taking a morning walk in New York when he went into cardiac arrest, according to Michelle Bega. He was in Manhattan visiting his family. Hughes was famous for his countless hit movies in the 1980s including “Sixteen …

Judge Piers Morgan on drag troupe Diva League after their performance on America’s Got Talent: “There’s no easy way of putting this. We are trying to find an act that can represent America on the world stage From where I sit, a bunch of lip-synching old drag queens who can’t dance is not what America needs right now. It’s not …

Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice today in a partisan vote of 68-31. All Democrats approved, as well as nine Republicans. Sen. Ted Kennedy was too ill to be in the chamber. The GOP’s ugly smear campaign against Sotomayor may have repercussions in the next election. From the moment Mr. Obama chose her in May, many …

Today No On 1/Protect Maine Equality (formerly Maine Freedom To Marry) issued a call to its anti-gay opponents, asking them to endorse a standard of ethics in the battle to repeal same-same marriage. The Maine Code Of Campaign Practices is routinely signed by candidate for public office and No On 1 has sent a copy to the local Catholic diocese …

Cafe FiGo, First & 68th, 1:30pm Woman 1: After the meeting, the VP of sales told me that I made two of the junior clerks cry because they didn’t make their targets. And then he smiled. Woman 2: You are SO getting promoted.

As some of you have noticed by now, this morning JS-Kit began moving some of its customers over to their new ECHO system, including this here website thingy. Most of the JS-Kit features remain: you can embed YouTube clips, upload photos and gravatars, and link to your Facebook profile. Upgrades include being able to post your comments directly to your …

Lois Bromfield, Sorority Girls From Hell, 1985. Arguably the most popular gay video bar clip of its day, this film by the openly lesbian Bromfield first appeared in former Monkees member Mike Nesmith’s short-lived summer replacement show Television Parts. Ah, the stampede to the monitors at Fort Lauderdale’s Cathode Ray when this was on. Picture two hundred gay men shouting …

Researchers at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill report that they have successfully decoded the entire HIV genome, a breakthrough that may lead to new antiviral therapy. “We are beginning to understand tricks the genome uses to help the virus escape detection by the human host,” said Kevin Weeks, a professor at the University of North Carolina at …

You’re probably actually being productive at work today, as Twitter is down in a hacker attack. Twitter co founder Biz Stone: “We are currently defending against a Denial of Service attack on this otherwise happy Thursday morning. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and …

Tomorrow the movie Julie & Julia opens, starring Meryl Streep as famed chef Julia Child. The premise of the flick seems cute enough, but I thought I’d remind folks about the real Julia Child, whose casual homophobia was so famous, she was sued in 1992 for blocking a gay chef from an executive position with the American Institute for Wine …

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site of the shooting at a Tel Aviv LGBT center today, saying the attack had “the markings of terrorism.” Netanyahu said that while all murders were shocking, Saturday night’s killings were particularly so. “The idea of someone entering a youth club and beginning to commit serial murder – it bears the markings of …

Another winner from Edward Current.

Washington state auditors report that the percentage of bad signatures on the petition drive to repeal domestic partners legislation is increasing. “Overall, 23,457 signatures have been processed, with a cumulative error rate of 13.31 percent. Sponsors need to get 120,577 of their signatures declared valid in order to secure a ballot spot. They turned in 137,689 signatures back on July …

Rupert Murdoch, the largest owner of newspapers worldwide, says he plans to begin charging for access to all of their websites by next year. Stung by a collapse in advertising revenue as the recession shredded Fleet Street’s traditional business model, Murdoch declared that the era of a free-for-all in online news was over. “Quality journalism is not cheap,” said Murdoch. …

True Blood’s serodiscordant couple Bill and Sookie are getting married in real life. It’s true love for “True Blood” couple Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer. The two are engaged to be married, reps for both actors on the HBO vampire series confirm to PEOPLE exclusively. No further details were available. The two have been together since February 24 of this …