Monthly Archives: January 2010

LA Times Profiles WND’s Joseph Farah

The Los Angeles Times yesterday published a lengthy profile of Joseph Farah, the founder and editor of World Net Daily, the most widely read wingnut site in the world. Reporting from Washington and Virginia – Sipping coffee in a strip mall, Joseph Farah looks like something out of a spy novel — suave, mysterious, bushy black mustache. He’s surprisingly relaxed, …

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Quote Of The Day – Lucy Lawless

“You know what’s nice about Spartacus is that they have a gladiator who was gay and manly and he has one of the few true love relationships [on the show] with a young man who also is in the same ludus — that’s a gladiator training camp. And it causes no problems for them whatsoever — the fact that they’re …

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eHarmony Settles Gay Lawsuit

Christian dating site eHarmony has finally settled the class action lawsuit which claimed that the company discriminated against gays in California by not letting them use the site. Under a proposed settlement filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, eHarmony will link its straight and gay Web sites and allow people to use both without paying double fees. Plaintiff’s attorney …

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Hasty Freeze

Rachel Maddow ticks off all the economic advances made in Obama’s first year. Yet here comes the Republicans’ favorite idea: the spending freeze.

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Rep. Alan Grayson To Christian Right:
What About YOUR Pact With Satan?

On the floor of Congress yesterday, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) called out the Christian right for the comments about Haiti and asked Pat Robertson, “What about your own pact with the devil? How’s that worked out for you?” Classic Grayson!

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David Blankenhorn: Protect Marriage’s Disastrous Final Witness

The haters’ final witness in Perry vs. Schwarzenegger yesterday was David Blankenhorn, the founder and president of the Institute for American Values, which bills itself as “devoted to contributing intellectually to the renewal of marriage and family life and the sources of competence, character, and citizenship in the United States.” By most accounts, Blankenhorn was a disastrous “expert witness” for …

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Canada Shaves Its Beaver

Canada’s National History Society has changed the name of its 90 year-old magazine because “vulgar internet meanings” of the original name were blocking the title from schools and libraries. So kids in Canada can’t even look up actual beavers on the internet? Isn’t the beaver the national animal, the Canuck version of the bald eagle? And of course, beaver meant …

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Whip It, Whip It Good

A new biography of Pope John Paul II reveals that he used to get into some serious self-whipping. Kinky! In the book, Oder wrote that John Paul frequently denied himself food — especially during the holy season of Lent — and “frequently spent the night on the bare floor,” messing up his bed in the morning so he wouldn’t draw …

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Zsa Zsa’s Hubby To Run For CA Gov!

Well, this will certainly spice things up. Prince Frederic Von Anhalt, 67, whose platform is “Return to the Good Life in California” unveilled a billboard on Sunset Boulevard at 11:00 a.m. He released the following statement: “When I came to California 26 years ago we had the ‘Good Life.’ We were prosperous; people had jobs, affordable homes and money to …

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Joy Behar: Gays Don’t Care About Monogamy Like Straights Do

Expanding on Dan Savage’s comments about monogamy on her HLN show last night, on today’s episode of The View Joy Behar suggested that gays in general are less concerned that their partners remain faithful. Both Whoopi and Elisabeth Hasselbeck (!) warned against such blanket statements. I imagine that many here will condemn Behar, but at least regarding gay men, in …

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Tony Kushner: Give Obama Time

Pulitzer Prize winning gay playwright Tony Kushner thinks we should give President Obama more time and that it’s would be “a huge mistake for the left to turn on him now.” (Tipped by JMG reader Hector in Miami)

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Prop 8 Defense Witness: Yes, Gays Suffer A Lot Of Discrimination At Work

The haters can’t catch a break at the Prop 8 trial. Four of their six witnesses bailed, they had tons of their internal hate documents entered into the record, and now Professor Kenneth Miller, their star witness, just admitted on the stand that he is sure gays suffer frequent workplace discrimination. Hey, wasn’t it yesterday that the same guy said …

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Clumsy Woman Costs Met $65M

This weekend at the Met a woman lost her balance and somehow fell into Pablo Picasso’s The Actor, tearing a small hole in the bottom of the painting. Today an art appraiser assessed the damage to the painting’s original $130M value. Conservators said they will be able to fix the 6-inch tear in “The Actor” (above), but appraiser Gerard van …

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Polyamory Is Wrong

(Via – Friendly Atheist)

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Avatar Now Biggest Movie Ever

Via Mashable: It’s official, Avatar has passed Titanic in terms of worldwide ticket box office sales, surpassing $1.8 billion. If you’ve been keeping up, that means that in just a little more than two weeks, the film took in another $500 million dollars. We’ve written before about the effect social media has had on Avatar’s box office success, but even …

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Tim Tebow Aborts His Shirt

I totally had to steal the above headline from TMZ. The actual story here is that women’s rights groups have joined the call for CBS to cancel the planned Super Bowl anti-abortion ad from Tebow and Focus On The Family. A national coalition of women’s groups called on CBS on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during …

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Westboro’s Gaga: The Video

Last month we had a lot of fun with Megan Phelps-Roper’s anti-gay parody of Lady Gaga. Today we learn from Towleroad, there’s now a video! Hooray! If we didn’t have the Phelps, we’d have to invent them.

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Better Off Ted Outtakes

Obviously, none of these bits aired. Very very NSFW.

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Ticketmaster To Merge With Live Nation

The country’s biggest ticket seller and biggest concert promoter have been granted permission to merge and create a single company that will run pretty much every bit of your concert experience. Once the merged is officially closed, the combined company will be called Live Nation Entertainment — a combination that would have control of nearly all aspects of the music …

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Schwarzenegger: California Should Build Prisons In Mexico

The Governator thinks it might be good idea for California to build prisons in Mexico and ship the state’s undocumented immigrant criminals there. “We can do so much better, in the prison system alone, if we can go and take inmates – for instance, the 20,000 inmates that are illegal immigrants that are here – and get them to Mexico,” …

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