Here’s today service advisory from the MTA: Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that enhanced service will be available on Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad and the NYC Subway for this morning’s rush hour, providing commuters with additional travel options as the current transportation state of emergency continues. All commuter rail, bus and subway service is fare free until midnight. …

Two days ago polling prognosticator Nate Silver offered to make a $1000 election bet with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.  Silver’s overlords at the New York Times are taking a dim view. From their Public Editor Journal: Whatever the motivation behind it, the wager offer is a bad idea – giving ammunition to the critics who want to paint Mr. Silver …

Wingnuts are super upset about this. Hurray!

I’ve been posting these every Friday for almost a year. Raise your hand if Nate Silver has kept you sane these last couple of months.

The National Guard began handing out meals-ready-to-eat in downtown Manhattan today, where frustrated residents waited over three hours before the promised trucks finally appeared. Gothamist has more on the story and more photos.

Out Magazine is teasing out the names on their 18th annual ranking of the most 100 influential LGBT Americans. In the first batch of names is my pal and SiriusXM host, Michelangelo Signorile. Our congrats to Mike!  Hit the link for more names.

“If Barack Obama is re-elected Nov. 6 for a second term, he will declare a full-scale war on his domestic opposition. There may not be another free and fair election in America. I would expect due process to go the way of the horse and buggy. I think he will move to shut down and destroy all independent media. In …

And the sheeple drown him out with “USA! USA!”

“Dear Joe, If there are any Christians who continue to watch The New Normal,  then this past episode would be their last after it insulted any viewers of faith. The program has constantly ridiculed anyone who believes differently than its makers do and even mocks conservative values. It has crossed a line that no one should ever cross, and that …

“When I step into the voting booth, I think about the world I want to leave my two daughters, and the values that are required to guide us there. The two parties’ nominees for president offer different visions of where they want to lead America. One believes a woman’s right to choose should be protected for future generations; one does …

An upstate New York man is suing his church after a giant crucifix fell on him, costing him his leg. David Jimenez put all of his faith in a massive marble crucifix, praying to it every day that his wife would be cured of cancer. And she was. The 45-year-old pizza parlor worker was so grateful, he volunteered to clean …

If the above lie isn’t hilarious enough, check out how a Minnesota debate audience reacted this week to another outrageous lie.

NOM is funneling truckloads of jewel-encrusted Vatican money into the Minnesota marriage battle. The National Organization for Marriage has poured $1.65 million into Minnesota for Marriage, and nearly all of that came this month, new campaign finance records show. The group gave another $225,000 on Wednesday.  All told, Minnesota for Marriage raised more than $3.7 million so far this year, …

This does not appear to be a parody site. We Like Women Pride!—> We Like Women, We Are Proud To Like Women, and If They Do Not Like Women, They Are the Enemy! (Vote for straight, heterosexual men that like women!)—->Vote for Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan for president/vice president! We Like Women likes Romney/Ryan and asks that you vote for them …

Food relief is coming to Manhattan and other parts of NYC still without power.  Gothamist has the early details: Red Cross Communications Officer Michael de Vulpillieres emails us to say that 35 emergency response vehicles “stocked with food, snacks, water and clean up supplies” are headed to the city, and will fan out to serve communities affected by Sandy. “We …

Hoboken, New Jersey, which is just across the Hudson River from the West Village, remains heavily flooded and 90% of its residents may not see power restored for another week. Last night the National Guard began distributing food and water. Tempers flared Wednesday at a staging area outside City Hall, where a man screamed at emergency officials about why food …

Igor Volsky has the story at Think Progress.

A Minnesota couple doesn’t understand why people are so upset with their noose and chair reference to President Obama. After all, they got the idea from Fox News. Mulholland said she doesn’t consider the display a form of hate speech and doesn’t hold animosity toward blacks. She said the display isn’t meant as a direct threat to Obama. Perhaps it’s …