The travel blog Jaunted was moved to tears. Ever just started crying in an airport? Until this week, we’d have answered “no”—and even this week, it wasn’t anything to do with our flight. No, it was the sheer power of the blocks of the AIDS Memorial Quilt currently on display at Washington Dulles, and in particular this block, “Sewn with …

The Senate GOP has once again blocked the Disclose Act, a bill which would not curtail unlimited campaign spending, but would at lease force the disclosure of who was donating all those millions. Huffington Post reports: The vote against the Disclose Act represented a remarkable turnaround for Republicans, who have long supported disclosure as an alternative to campaign donation limits. …

Denis Dison has the details at the Victory Fund’s Gay Politics blog: Dan Savage and the producing team behind the “It Gets Better” documentary specials for MTV and Logo have announced a new project that will examine openly LGBT political candidates and how they prepare to run for office. Filmmakers have been granted unprecedented access to the LGBT Candidate and …

All-time heat records are tumbling once again today, but Gothamites will see relief within 48 hours when (allegedly) we’ll see a 25-degree drop in the daily high. For now, Con Ed, whose union workers are still locked out in a contract dispute, is calling on customers to cut back on “unnecessary” power usage. (Via JMG reader Mike)

Not only are Bachmann’s typically nutbag claims “unwarranted and unfounded,” they were picked up by Egyptians who on Monday pelted Clinton’s motorcade with tomatoes and shoes. Good for McCain on this. UPDATE: MSNBC reports that Bachmann has responded flippantly to McCain’s statement, vowing that she “will not be silenced.”(Via Buzzfeed)

Taste the desperation in this email: Dear Joe, We are up against an onslaught of money from our opponents. But while they may have over $2 million in the bank, we have a strong leg up in the most important area: We have YOU. And we have a major donor who has challenged us to match their gift of $50,000. …

(Via Gothamist)

“I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say ‘we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage’ and I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about.” – Dan …

This clip was just posted to YouTube today but judging by the clothes and hair, it was made sometime in the late 70s, maybe the early 80s. Acting!Source.

Opposite-marriage supporters say they are deeply disappointed that Scotland’s government has rejected a call for a public referendum on same-sex marriage. Scotland for Marriage, a campaign supporting marriage as the union of one man and one woman which has the support of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Scotland as well as other religious and non-religious groups, had initiated a petition …

A new study out of Canada indicates that a recent spate of prosecutions for HIV status nondisclosure may lead some men to never get tested at all. Todd Heywood reports at the Advocate: [A] significant minority of men who have sex with men said that a series high-profile criminal prosecutions related to HIV nondisclosure had impacted their willingness to get …

Via the Los Angeles Times: Apple’s next iPhone is expected to have a bigger screen and now a new report says it will also have a thinner one. The Cupertino, Calif., tech giant is already mass-producing the screens, which will integrate touch capabilities into the LCD and thereby removing the need for a second layer used to make it a …

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Family Research Council They deserve a major pat on the back. They have defied the winds of political correctness and have said ‘no’ to a culture that wants us to accept as normative a pattern of sexual behavior which clearly violates God’s intended design for men and women. Concerned Women For America [The CWA] strongly supports the rights of the …

I’m loving this one.

Another laughable conspiracy theory from Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh has come under the impression that the villainous Bane, played by Tom Hardy in “The Dark Knight Rises” and Batman’s most destructive nemesis yet, is a dig at Bain Capital, the financial services company once headed by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that’s featuring prominently in President Barack Obama’s campaign ads. …

I posted this news as an update to yesterday’s post, but in case you didn’t return to that entry, here’s what Politico reports: “Contrary to reports on Pastor Rick Warren’s call yesterday, there will be no joint Mitt Romney-President Obama appearances anywhere before the debates, campaign officials tell POLITICO.”

It’s the 21st century version of that geek favorite, the calculator watch. And Gizmodo really hates it.

Country music legend Kitty Wells died Monday at the age of 92. In 1954 Wells became the first female artist to top the country chart with the below single, which was an answer record to Hank Thompson’s hit which contended that God did indeed make honky tonk angels. Many years ago Kitty’s greatest hits used to be my rainy day …