Second City has some fun with Rahm Emanuel’s infamous penchant for strong language. Totally totally NSFFW. (The extra “F” is for “fucking.”)

I imagine some of you won’t like this. (Via JMG reader Maxime)

Tea Party candidate for New York governor Carl Paladino has sent voters a mailer that stinks. Literally. Via the New York Times: “Help Carl Paladino turn Albany upside down and take out the trash!” the mailer concludes. The mailer may be a bit much for some. Even before you open it, you notice an odor, according to a reporter who …

Teabagger candidate and “ex-gay” proponent Christine O’Donnell says she is targeting die-hard Hillary 2008 supporters in her Senate campaign. Maybe PUMAs don’t jerk off? Delaware’s primary is tomorrow and O’Donnell leads GOP candidate Mike Castle by three points.

“What if Obama is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together his actions? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior. This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result …

“I love giving my male friends advice. And when I need advice myself? I go to my gay guy friends. They’re very understanding and they are often coming from the same perspective. Who’s better at giving advice, gay or straight guys? Well, that depends on the advice you’re looking for. If it’s bedroom-related, my gay friends are the best. They …

Romania’s Senate has rejected a proposed bill that would have taxed the nation’s witches and fortune tellers and fined them for bad predictions. According to the bill’s sponsor, his fellow legislators voted against the bill because they feared being cursed. Senator Alin Popoviciu of Romania’s ruling Democratic Liberal Party drafted the legislation that also would have forced the country’s thousands …

Wait, did the president really say “bitch”?

Embiggens nicely!

Last night Lady Gaga took the DADT fight to millions of MTV viewers when she took her seat in the front row with four openly gay U.S. soldiers, all recently discharged from the military. The Washington Post reports: Gaga escorted former U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. David Hall, former Air Force Major Mike Almy, and former U.S. Army Sgt. First …

Trailing GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio by several points in the polls, FL Gov. Charlie Crist will today announce support for a long list of LGBT rights, but not marriage equality. On a list exclusively attained by Raw Story, Crist gives the thumbs-up to gay adoption, ENDA, civil unions, and repealing DADT. Crist’s announcement also includes the following: Federal Safe …

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More photos at Talking Points Memo.

A lesbian couple in rural Tennessee returned from a trip to Nashville to find their home burned to the ground and the word “QUEERS” spray-painted on their garage. The couple feels they’re victims of a hate crime, and were targeted because they’re gay. They’ve been together for more than 15 years. Carol Stutte has an adult daughter from a previous …

“Despite showing acres of pallid flesh in the fetish-bondage garb of urban prostitution, Gaga isn’t sexy at all – she’s like a gangly marionette or plasticised android. How could a figure so calculated and artificial, so clinical and strangely antiseptic, so stripped of genuine eroticism have become the icon of her generation? Can it be that Gaga represents the exhausted …

Saying that his life is in danger and that if he goes back to Saudi Arabia “they will kill me openly in broad daylight,” a gay Saudi diplomat has requested asylum in the United States. The diplomat, Ali Ahmad Asseri, the first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, has informed U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials that Saudi …