Led by anti-gay asshat Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s deeply conservative Popular Party scored a landslide victory in yesterday’s national elections. Rajoy has vowed to repeal same-sex marriage rights once he’s in power. The Socialist Party, which has governed Spain since 2004, has admitted defeat. Mr Rajoy, who is expected to tackle the country’s debts amid slow growth and high unemployment, said …

If you wanna be a clear gangsta, you bitches and hoes gots to get audited.

Pakistan’s blogosphere is having a field day over a new government directive ordering phone companies to block more than 1700 words from text messages. Among the banned words are gay, lesbian, and homosexual. Also: Jesus Christ. Operators have been directed to start blocking text messages containing these words from November 21. The move has been greeted with ridicule and derision, …

Those two brothers who protested against OWS? Turns out one of them is a Wall Street scam artist. Working as a broker in New York in the 1990s, Tabacco was barred from the industry, fined $50,000, and ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution after a misconduct incident, according to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) records. FINRA is not a government …

(Via JMG reader Craig and many others.)

Copyranter is calling this “Lesbian Barbie” because he thinks Ken looks like Ellen DeGeneres. But I got another impression entirely.

Two of my favorite musicians have collaborated for a new release. After 30 years working on their respective ongoing music projects, Vince Clarke (Erasure/Yazoo/Depeche Mode) and Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode) come together for the first time since 1981 as VCMG to release a brand new album preceded by a series of EPs. VCMG is the fruit of initially tentative …

Because being gay is against Islam, the state religion.

With the backing of their openly lesbian pastor, a Baptist church in Raleigh, North Carolina has voted to prohibit her from signing marriage certificates until gay couples can marry too. The congregants said in a formal statement that current North Carolina law – and the language proposed for a vote next year on an amendment to the state Constitution – …

Online swag merchandiser Cafe Press tracks the sales of items bearing the names of politicians. According to a press release issued this weekend, items branded with Herman Cain’s name are no longer selling well. Gingrich-related items (what would those be?) are seeing a slight uptick. Cafe Press says their sales tracking accurately predicted the 2008 election.

According to a leaked memo, a DC-based lobbying firm often hired by banks pitched its clients on how they could undermine Occupy Wall Street by planting unsavory news items about its participants, among other tactics. CLGC’s memo proposes that the ABA pay CLGC $850,000 to conduct “opposition research” on Occupy Wall Street in order to construct “negative narratives” about the …

Despite widespread condemnation for the pepper-spraying incident on her campus, the chancellor of UC Davis says she will not resign. Via Talking Points Memo: Two police officers involved in a pepper-spraying incident at the University of California-Davis have been placed on leave, and over the weekend, the university’s faculty association called for the chancellor’s resignation. But Chancellor Linda Katehi told …

Ron Paul has most of the non-religious.

Newt Gingrich has a plan to put America’s children back to work. Because child labor laws are outrageous. “You say to somebody, you shouldn’t go to work before you’re what, 14, 16 years of age, fine. You’re totally poor. You’re in a school that is failing with a teacher that is failing. I’ve tried for years to have a very …

World Net Daily says “experts” are predicting that Satan and Jesus will battle it out in a cage match next year. So put your affairs in order and all that. Oh, and it’s the Jews’ fault. “Given the rejection of Jesus by orthodox Jews as Messiah, this could herald the coming of Antichrist in 2012.”