The popular online gambling site Intrade has told Americans to close their accounts after U.S. regulators charged it with “facilitating bets on future economic data, the price of gold and even acts of war.” Hours after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed a complaint in federal court, Intrade posted in its user forum and on its news page that it …

Angus T. Jones makes $350K per episode playing the kid on Two And A Half Men.  He now says: “If I am doing any harm, I don’t want to be here. I don’t want to be contributing to the enemy’s plan. You cannot be a true God-fearing person and be on a television show like that. I know I can’t. …

The entire annual operating budget for the MTA is $7B.

In an update to their style guide for reporters, today the Associated Press officially discouraged the usage of the word “homophobia.”  The update reads: phobia An irrational, uncontrollable fear, often a form of mental illness. Examples: acrophobia, a fear of heights, and claustrophobia, a fear of being in small, enclosed spaces. Do not use in political or social contexts: homophobia, …

As we well know, the One Million Moms pretty much hate everything.  Therefore they’ll claim victory whenever any show is canceled due to low ratings and shitty reviews. Via press  release: Dear Joe, Hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving! One more thing to be thankful for: “666 Park Avenue” has been canceled after only 7 episodes! ABC announced that “666 …

In addition to the people pictured above, among this year’s suggested names are Sheldon Adelson, Mitt Romney, Karl Rove, Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Sandra Fluke, and Chris Christie.  Last year’s TIME Person Of The Year was “the protester.”  Polling results so far are here.

Capital New York reports that anti-gay pastor and NOM supporter Erick Salgado may challenge openly lesbian City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the presumptive Democratic favorite for NYC mayor next year. As you’d expect, Sen. Ruben Diaz is backing him. State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr., an evangelical Christian and leader of the New York Hispanic Clergy, is encouraging a member of …

This just hit my inbox: On Monday, December 3rd, Jincey Lumpkin (founder of lesbian porn company, JUICY PINK BOX) will be speaking at a Silicon Alley convention in NYC where she will discuss how scientists are predicting by the year 2029, people will begin dating and having sex with robots! Jincey will talk about the history of robots in sex …

The executive director for the Toronto Salvation Army has been arrested for stealing more than $2M in toys from the organization. David Rennie, the Salvation Army executive fired in the midst of an investigation into donated goods that disappeared from a Toronto warehouse, has turned himself into police. CTV Toronto reporter Tamara Cherry was there when Rennie walked himself into …

Not only is hate group leader Tony Perkins cheering Uganda, he once denounced President Obama for objecting to their plan to execute homosexuals. Perkins has since deleted the text of that radio address, but the Wayback Machine is forever.

“In the 1850’s, Stephen Douglas proposed solving the dilemma of whether slavery should be permitted in new states by suggesting that they should just vote. What could be more American than submitting the question of slavery to the democratic process of each state? To this Abraham Lincoln observed: ‘God did not place good and evil before man telling him to …

Today the Supreme Court ordered the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to take another look at Liberty University’s anti-Obamacare lawsuit. The Supreme Court responded to a request from Liberty University, one of the groups that sued over the health care law’s individual mandate in 2010. When the court ruled in June that the mandate was constitutional, it dismissed Liberty’s entire …

Politico notes a little bit of election trivia regarding Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Dianne Feinstein is the most popular senator in U.S. history. If you measure by votes won, that is. The latest, semi-official tally from the California secretary of state reports the Democratic senator won nearly 7.3 million votes on Nov. 6, breaking the previous Senate record held by her …

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Today at 2:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT-related news items. The gays are on channel 108 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What are your top five gay news items of the last week?

Andy Towle tips us that Hot Chip’s new animated video features a soccer match that erupts into some on-field same-sex action. 

The Twitter account for controversial rapper/singer Chris Brown vanished yesterday after the on–again/off-again boyfriend of Rihanna launched into an ugly feud with comedian Jenny Johnson, who is now getting death threats from Brown’s fans.