Monthly Archives: February 2011

Altruistic Punishment

It turns out there’s another name for that Manhattan phenomenon commonly called “sidewalk rage.” While it sounds like an oxymoron, altruistic punishment is basically how social norms get enforced. So when you expel a huffy “Excuse me!” to the rude sidewalk clogger in front of you who has stopped midstride to check his BlackBerry, you’re trying to discourage behavior that …

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Scott Walker Channels Charlie Sheen

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Tony Perkins: Obama Conspired With Ted Olson On Timing Of DOMA Decision

“The administration seems to be coordinating these efforts with the assault on marriage in the states. Yesterday, within two hours of the President’s statement, a document was quietly filed in the Proposition 8 lawsuit. And not just any document, but a 23-page motion that noted the Justice Department’s withdrawal from the DOMA case as a reason to lift the stay …

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Jennifer Hudson – Where You At

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #69

1952’s Singing In The Rain, starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, and Donald O’Connor.

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An Update Is Available

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Mike Huckabee: I Hate Everything In The Entire World To Do With Gay People

In so many words…

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MARYLAND: Senate Approves Marriage!

Moments ago the Maryland Senate approved its marriage equality bill by a vote of 25-21. The bill now moves to the Democrat-heavy House of Delegates where it is expected to pass easily before landing on the gay-friendly governor’s desk. We’re almost there, kiddos! Follow along on Twitter at the hashtag #Marryland. UPDATE: A reader emails to note that despite some …

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Shuttle Discovery Launches For Final Time

Today’s is the 39th and final launch of the space shuttle Discovery. I was there at the Cape for the Discovery’s first launch in 1984 as a lowly news assistant/gopher for WMFE-PBS in Orlando. It was a terrible gig and my first real post-college jobby-job, but I did get to attend three shuttle launches in the six months I lasted. …

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Sharpton Gets Abortion Billboard Yanked

Rev. Al Sharpton says he’s convinced an outdoor advertising company to pull the controversial anti-abortion billboard that went up in Soho earlier this week. Sharpton: “The billboard was offensive, especially during Black History Month, and I had intended to hold a press conference Friday in front of the billboard to protest the message of racial profiling and against a woman’s …

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Vampire Forecloses On Bank

Alternate headline: Bloodsucker Vs. Bloodsucker. (Via – Daily What)

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HATE GROUP ALERT: Family Research Council Launches DOMA Petition

The Family Research Council has just launched a DOMA petition, asking its millions of followers to demand that Congress do “what the president will not” and authorize intervention in DOMA litigation. The petition reads in part: Now that President Obama has tossed aside federal law, it is up to Congress to intervene and defend DOMA. Congress will be under political …

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NYC LGBT Center Israel Flap Continues

Earlier this week the NYC LGBT Center canceled a planned Israel Apartheid Week meeting after gay porn kingpin Michael Lucas threatened to have the Center’s wealthy donors pull their support. Immediately after the event’s cancellation, a petition went online with a demand that the Center not let “wealthy bigots censor free speech.” Among the petition’s sponsors are well-known activists Cleve …

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Rick Santorum Defends The Crusades

“The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American left who hates Christendom. They hate Western civilization at the core. That’s the problem.” – Former Sen. Rick “Frothy Mix” Santorum, who says that Christians have never persecuted …

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ILLINOIS: Bed & Breakfasts Turn Away Gay Couple’s Civil Union Ceremony

Two Illinois bed and breakfast hotels have turned away a gay couple’s request to hold their civil unions ceremony, with one lodging manager emailing the couple to tell them to repent. “We will never host same-sex civil unions. We will never host same-sex weddings even if they become legal in Illinois,” Timber Creek operators told [Todd] Wathen in an e-mail. …

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Open Thread Thursday

Oscar picks, let’s have ’em. Do you throw one of them there big fabulous gay Oscar watching parties?

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A Day Made Of Glass

Yeah I want pretty much everything in this ad. And a flying car. We were all promised flying cars, you know.

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Sign-Bombing CNN

The CNN reporter was unaware of the man parading back and forth behind her with his “Walker sucks Koch” sign. I had to dive for my camera and take a screen shot.

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Mandated Paid Holidays By Nation

The above chart depicts the number of paid holidays and vacation days legally mandated by the world’s 21 richest nations. The labor movement is completely out of control in America!

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HAWAII: Civil Unions Signing Ceremony

Towleroad points us to this clip of yesterday’s civil unions signing ceremony in Hawaii. Gov. Neil Abercrombie makes a great speech that you should enjoy.

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