Monthly Archives: October 2010

NEVADA: Nate Silver Sees Harry Reid’s Chances Shrinking Against Sharron Angle

Grim, grim, grim. As much as we loathe Lady Racist, at least some of this has to be due to Reid’s somnolent performance in the debate. He makes Al Gore look like a manic game show host.

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We Are The Knights Who Say “Faggot”

I thought Earth, Wind & Fire broke up years ago!

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America By Movies

I don’t know what it means that so many of my favorite flicks (at least the ones set on Earth) are used here. (Source)

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Olbermann Talks To Stomping Victim

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Less Spam? Thank Russia

Russian authorities have shut down a single scamster who was estimated to be responsible for 20% of all the spam on the internet. You may not have noticed, but since late last month, the world supply of Viagra ads and other e-mail spam has dropped by an estimated one-fifth. With 200 billion spam messages in circulation each day, there is …

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NOM Supporter: Why Not Marry Goats?

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Matt Damon Has A Birthday Wish

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CALIFORNIA: Sen. Barbara Boxer Holding Decent Lead Over Carly Fiorina

It’s looking more and more like Sen. Barbara Boxer is going to be able to fend off Carly “Demon Sheep” Fiorina, who this week poured another million from her HP golden parachute into her campaign. Fiorina has spent $6.5M of her own money so far, but still lags far behind Boxer in overall fundraising.

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DNC Staffers – It Gets Better

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Lt. Dan Choi: The Bad Lieutenant

This week’s Village Voice cover story is an exhaustive look at the life and activism career of Lt. Dan Choi, whom author Steven Thrasher describes as personifying “the growing rift between gay-rights activists who want to cooperate with lobbyists and elected officials, and those who demand direct action.” An excerpt: There’s no doubt that when Choi came out last March …

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Olivia Kickin’ Chipotle Glazed Time-Warner, Rebel Fighter From The Future, Wants You To VOTE On Nov. 2nd

Don’t let Olivia and Alfonso Petfinder dot Flavorblast down!

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Kylie Minogue On DWTS

SORTA RELATED: This week Get Outta My Way becomes Kylie’s fifth #1 single on Billboard’s dance chart. Over in Britain, of course, her success has been far greater. To date she’s notched 32 UK top ten pop singles, including six #1s. Kylie has only reached the top ten of the U.S. pop chart twice, with 1988’s cover of Little Eva’s …

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NEBRASKA: Omaha Rejects LGBT Rights

Yesterday the city council of Omaha, Nebraska voted to continue to allow businesses to fire someone for being gay, to deny someone service in restaurants for being gay, and to deny housing to someone for being gay. The measure failed on a 3-3 vote. Councilman Franklin Thompson, who has called for a public vote on the issue, abstained. Councilmen Ben …

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ALASKA: Rachel Maddow Corners Teabagger Loon Joe Miller On Gay Issues

And the answers were (murkily) what you’d expect. Miller says if elected to the Senate, he’d support an constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. He is currently in a three-way tie with Democrat Sam McAdams and write-in GOP incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

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Glee Spoiler: Rocky Horror

Stay out of the comments if you haven’t seen tonight’s Rocky Horror tribute. Otherwise give yourselves over to absolute dishing.

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CNN Doesn’t Have A Closet?

I shouldn’t joke, pretty much everybody I know has had their bike stolen in the last year. Personally, I won’t buy a lock or a chain because that way I won’t be tempted to leave my bike on the street.

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Joy Behar’s Blowup About Sharron Angle

As I noted in a post early today, Joy Behar called Sharron Angle an “evil moron” and “bitch” for her racist ad about immigration. Tonight Behar is being digitally tarred-and-feathered by the teabaggers and is getting a bit of criticism from the left as well. Below is the original View clip. Not embeddable here but equally worth watching is Behar’s …

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Tony Perkins: Gay Kids Kill Themselves Because They Know They’re Abnormal

Tony Perkins appeared on NPR today to declare that the rate of suicides among LGBT youths is so high because those kids know they are freaks. And not because they’re taught every day of their hopeless lives that God hates them. Via Right Wing Watch: Tony Perkins, president of the evangelical Family Research Council, says gay activists are exploiting the …

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Obama Came To The DADT Meeting

The Advocate reports that President Obama stopped by today’s White House strategy meeting held with advocates for the repeal of DADT. “The President stopped by to directly convey to the participants his personal commitment on this issue,” said a White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The official declined to give any further details on the duration of …

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The Revenge Of Benny Hinn

From today’s inbox…. Hi Joe, You wrote: “Prosperity gospel televangelist and ‘faith healing’ scam artist Benny Hinn was unable to heal the desire of his wife to get the fuck away from him.” No one speaks against a man of God and be justified. God defends the righteous and will return in due time to reward the wicked. You still …

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