Today AIDS activists will “occupy” the Foster City, California offices of drug giant Gilead in protest of the high cost of HIV medications. Press release: In the spirit of the “Occupy” movement, protestors hope to call attention to the severe AIDS drug crisis facing the nation’s ADAPs—a network of federal and state funded programs that provide life-saving HIV treatments to …

“This statement does nothing to advance the goals of the Tea Party movement and goes a long way towards offending people we need to be involved. Barney Frank is the worst congressman in the last century, but dumb comments like that tweet do not help our cause.” – Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips, responding to a Tennessee Tea Party …

If you don’t say “Christmas,” it’s boycott time.

From a new Mitt Romney attack site by the DNC.

Courtesy of the Karpel Group, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is Kylie Minogue’s new concert DVD, Aphrodite Les Folies: Live In London, which is available online and at video/music retailers nationwide beginning today. The ultra theatrical tour that was devised with Kylie’s creative director William Baker, concluded on July 14th, 2011 in South Africa after performing a total of 77 spectacular …

Wait, whut?

Rick Perry just can’t get anything right, can he? Perry, who during a recent Republican presidential debate struggled for nearly a minute to remember the third agency on a list of three federal departments that he said he wanted to eliminate, slipped up just as he was wrapping up his prepared remarks at his third of four events in the …

We must go forward not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

BREAKING! NOM has launched YET ANOTHER hysteria-laden plea for donations because Congress is THISCLOSE to repealing DOMA! Except…they AREN’T. Not in a million years. Or at least not until the Democrats regain control of both houses, whatever century that happens. NOM obviously has rilly rilly low regard for the intelligence of their followers since they feel so free to flagrantly …

Eugene Delgaudio has launched yet another petition drive to Congress. G’head and take part. But please don’t copy the infantile contact details shown in the example. Ahem.

Norway’s mass murderer, who was a reader of Pamela Geller’s anti-Islamic blog, has been found criminally insane and unable to stand trial.

A Los Angeles mom who describes herself as a gay-friendly, sex-positive feminist is unhappy with the above Manhunt billboard because her son sees it twice a day on his way to school. You try explaining the “Zero feet away MANHUNT MOBILE” phone application to your 9-year-old son. A 9-year-old who loves Army guys, and so noticed the dog tags right …

A spokesman for the Russian government has denounced the U.S. State Department for a statement made in opposition to St. Petersburg’s pending ban on all LGBT-related media and speech. “We view with bewilderment the American side’s attempts to interfere, what’s more, publicly, in the lawmaking process,” foreign ministry representative for human rights, Konstantin Dolgov, told the Interfax news agency. He …

Noooo! If Cain quits, things are going to get a LOT more boring. He’s been a blogger’s dream, a total gold mine of larfs. SRSLY!

Chestnuts roasting. Tree trimming. Taking the kids for a photo with Santa and his assault weapons. Sweet, sweet Christmas memories. More here.