Shortly after the below school board meeting, teacher Jerry Buell was reinstated. The KKK had threatened to picket the school board if Buell didn’t return to his classroom.

Pam Spaulding has the big scoop that longtime Human Rights Campaign head Joe Solmonese will be stepping down at the end of the year. His departure also signals, according to our source, the beginning of a larger staff shake-up in the HRC. The Blend can also report that a replacement executive director has been identified — it will be someone …

Puerto Rico’s Sen. Roberto Arango, who chaired the local 2004 campaign to reelect George W. Bush, has been found showing his anus (NSFW) on the gay hook-up site Grindr. Arango semi-acknowledges that the pics are of him, but says he was merely taking photos to show off his recent weight loss. IN HIS ANUS. Some images in the below clip, …

(Via – Gothamist)

From the openly gay former frontman for Savage Garden.

Without apology, the American Family Association has rescinded its ridiculous lie that the APA was considering “normalizing” pedophilia. This move follows a JMG post denouncing this lie and numerous JMG reader emails to the APA demanding action. However Matt Barber’s press release on this nonsense has also been picked up by virtually every wingnut outlet, including World Net Daily, Townhall …

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered the complete shutdown of mass transit beginning at noon tomorrow. He also activated the state National Guard. The Metropolitan Transit Authority, which provides transit services to New York City and its suburbs, will institute a system-wide shutdown starting after the final runs around noon on Saturday. The shutdown includes subways, buses, Long Island …

This is the second clip by the FRC on this topic today.

Right Wing Watch notes that Liberty Counsel spokesbigot Matt Barber has joined the very recent flood of high-profile Christianists denying any knowledge of the dominionist movement, which claims that only Christians are authorized by God to run America’s government, schools, and courts. Barber’s tweet is rather laughable, considering that just last year the Liberty Counsel themselves hosted a conference titled …

1955’s Giant starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson. Directed by George Stevens.

This is actually an improvement over what the sign used to say. The pastor of this church is a viciously anti-gay douchebag whose YouTube channel is filled with lies about LGBT people.

The above image is being gleefully posted on wingnut forums such as Free Republic and Rush Limbaugh’s equally fascist brother is tweeting it to all his followers. Nobody is mentioning that Obama’s photo was taken while he was a senior majoring in political science at Columbia University. That’s the Ivy League, teabaggers. And despite what the photo suggests, at age …

Just in from the ISS: From 230 miles above the Earth, cameras on the International Space Station captured new views of powerful Hurricane Irene as it churned over the Bahamas on August 26, 2011. Irene is moving to the northwest as a Category 3 hurricane, packing winds of 120 miles an hour. Irene is expected to strengthen to a Category …

According to Wikipedia, Russia Today is now the second-most watched foreign news network in the United States, behind the BBC. This is a good example why.

A maintenance worker at a Brooklyn housing project speared this three-foot rat after residents reported seeing several such behemoths darting around the complex. Rodent experts say these ROUS’s are the Gambian pouched rat, which was once a popular pet until being banned after having been found to carry the monkeypox virus. Despite what some residents believe, the Gambian rat is …

Statistics geek Nate Silver charts the rare history of hurricanes and tropical storms in the northeast. According to Silver, a direct hit from a Category 1 storm could cost New York City as much as $22 billion in economic damages.

“I am a man of God and I try to be like Jesus every day. I teach God’s truth, I make very few compromises. If you believe you may have a problem with that, get your schedule changed, ’cause I ain’t changing! I try to teach and lead my students as if Lake Co. Schools had hired Jesus Christ himself.” …

I have no idea how to characterize this wonderfully weird clip, so let’s just go with its YouTube description: A boy experiences new desires while watching a man at an indoor swimming pool. Forced up the diving platform by a rowdy gang, he receives unexpected help. Cold Star is a mixture of short and music video. A hybrid, that connects …

Last night Mayor Bloomberg said city residents should move their cars out of underground garages to “higher ground.” To which everybody responded, “Yeah? Like where?” Anyway, this morning I noticed a long line of people waiting to get their cars out of the underground garage across the street and decided to snap a photo of their new rates.