On display in the lobby of an Orlando Sports Authority are these safes for storing your rifles and automatic weapons in advance of the coming teabagger-led revolution.

Likely every social phenomenon in history, the flash mob was long ago co-opted by marketing and advertising firms. Here’s how Fox is promoting GLEE in Italy.

Pope Palpatine says he forgives the woman that attacked him on Christmas Eve. Appearing for his Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” blessing to tens of thousands of congregants in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope made an appeal to “abandon all logic of violence and revenge” and lead with “generosity” on “the path of peaceful coexistence.” The plea came less than a …

Is that what’s next at airport security checkpoints? During 19 hours of travel, aboard two flights across three continents, law enforcement officials said, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab bided his time. Then, just as Northwest Flight 253 finally began its final approach to Detroit around noon on Friday, he tried to ignite the incendiary powder mixture he had taped to his leg, …

The Cross-Eyed Iguana’s pay tribute to America’s #1 homobigot, Peter Labarbera. Like Petey’s blog, this clip is possibly NSFW. (Via – Wayne Besen)

This story makes its sixth annual appearance on JMG….Grand Central Terminal functions as the mechanical heart of midtown New York City, pumping out several thousand workers and tourists on one beat, then sucking in several thousand more on the next. The rhythms of the terminal are fascinating. Beat. Four thousand, inbound from New Haven. Beat. Three thousand, outbound to Westchester. …

Last night Darlene Love made her 23rd annual holiday appearance on the David Letterman show to sing her classic Christmas (Baby Please Come Home). It’s really hard to believe that her first hit record, 1962’s #1 smash He’s A Rebel, was 47 years ago.

A group of gay protesters crashed the holiday party of NY Sen. Hiram “Slasher” Monserrate last night on the one year anniversary of his assault on his girlfriend. Monserrate is still not allowed to see her, you may recall his recent insanely hypocritical complaint about that: “Two adults who are consenting and who are like-minded and within their mental capacities …

It’s definitely not the bill we wanted, but this morning the Senate voted 60-39 to approve its version of health care reform. The Senate voted Thursday to reinvent the nation’s health care system, passing a bill to guarantee access to health insurance for tens of millions of Americans and to rein in health costs as proposed by President Obama. The …

From frightful to delightful, as the song goes.

Everybody’s favorite Clowns For Jeebus will be picketing a Lady Gaga concert next month. Although there is “nothing new or different” about her. OK then. Also on the Westboro picket tour are stops at a couple of synagogues, Joel Osteen’s megachurch, and a hockey game in New Hampshire. Because hockey in the winter is “lazy and unimaginative.” They are seriously …

Today a portable Subway sandwich shop was attached to a crane at Ground Zero where it will rise with the Freedom Tower, ultimately feeding the hardhats at more than 100 stories. Pretty cool.

It may take a few years, but the Iowa Family Policy Council is laying the groundwork to repeal same-sex marriage. The Iowa Family Policy Council’s Bryan English told the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier that the group is asking 150 state lawmakers where they stand on a ballot measure similar to California’s Proposition 8 and Maine’s Question 1 — both of which …

(Tipped by JMG reader Ted)

The woes of queer print media appear unending. Staffers of the long-running LGBT paper Chicago Free Press have quit because their salaries weren’t being paid. The art director, graphic designer and most of the writers at the Chicago Free Press left the gay publication Monday after the company stopped paying its employees, according to Matt Simonette, who also left his …

Good As You points out the lamest thing to lame out of Lametown, since like, ever.

DaddyHunt.com writes to tip us to their depiction of Santa getting home after a day on the streets of NYC. As ads for social networking/hook-up sites go, this is pretty sweet.

Strange and lovely electro-pop from Sweden’s Miike Snow. You might remember lead singer Andrew Wyatt as one half of the Funkraphiliacs, the other half formed The Bird And The Bee, who had a minor hit a couple of years ago with the fantastic Fucking Boyfriend. This is produced by Bloodshy & Avant (Madonna, Kylie) who won a Grammy for Britney …